Documents

1. Rational

2. Stakeholder Consultation

  • Stakeholder Consultation for the Development of the Canadian Height Reference System Modernization Implementation Plan
  • CGRSC (2006) Report to the Canadian Council on Geomatics (CCOG) on the Height Modernization Consultation Results (preliminary)

3. Publications and reports

  • Height Reference Systems in North America and Gravity
  • Referencing and Time Tagging Heights in Canada
  • Canadian Height Reference System Modernization: Rational, Status and Plans
  • A Gravimetric Geoid Model as a Vertical Datum in Canada
  • Demystifying the vertical datum in Canada: A Case Study in the Mackenzie Delta
  • Earth Gravity and Height Systems (Report)
  • The Canadian Gravimetric Geoid Model 2005 (CGG2005)

4. Other national height modernization discussions

  • USA
    • The NGS 10-year plan 2007-2017
    • Gravity for the Redefinition of the American Vertical Datum (GRAV-D)
    • Proceedings of the 2010 Federal Geospatial Summit on improving the National Spatial Reference System
  • New Zealand
  • Iceland

5. References

  • Heights
    • Burkholder, E. (2002) Elevations and the Global Spatial Data Model (GSDM).
    • Mäkinen, J. (2004) Some remarks and proposals on the re-definition of the EVRS and EVRF.
    • Meyer, T.H., D.R. Roman, and D.B. Zilkoski (2005) What Does Height Really Mean?  Part I: Introduction, Surveying and Land Information Science, Vol. 64, No.4, pp. 223-234.
    • Meyer, T.H., D.R. Roman, and D.B. Zilkoski (2005) What Does Height Really Mean?  Part II: Physics and Gravity, Surveying and Land Information Science, Vol. 65, No.1, pp. 5-15.
    • Meyer, T.H., D.R. Roman, and D.B. Zilkoski (2006) What Does Height Really Mean?  Part III: Height Systems, Surveying and Land Information Science, Vol. 66, No.2, pp. 149-160. 
    • Meyer, T.H., D.R. Roman, and D.B. Zilkoski (2006) What Does Height Really Mean?  Part IV: GPS Orthometric Heighting, Surveying and Land Information Science, Vol. 66, No.3, pp. 165-183. 
    • Smith, D.A. and D.R. Doyle (2006)  The Future Role of Geodetic Datums in Control Surveying in the United States, Surveying and Land Information Science, Vol. 66, No.2, pp. 101-106.
  • Global Vertical Datum
    • Bursa, M., S. Kenyon, J. Kouba, Z. Sima, V. Vatrt, and M. Vojtísková (2004) A Global Vertical Reference Frame Based on Four Regional Vertical Datums, Stud. Geophys. Geod., 48, pp. 493-502.
    • Bursa, M., J. Kouba, V. Vatrt, V. Vítek, and M. Vojtísková (1999)  Topex/Poseidon Altimetry and Dynamics of the Ocean-Atmosphere System, Studia geoph. et geod. 44, pp. 1-12.
    • Bursa, M., J. Kouba, M. Kumar, A. Müller, K. Radej, S.A. True, V. Vatrt, and M. Vojtísková (1999) Geoidal Geopotential and World Height System, Studia geoph. et geod. 43, pp. 327-337.
  • Geoid Modelling
    • Ellman, A. and P. Vanícek (2007) UNB application of Stokes-Helmert's approach to geoid computation, J. of Geodynamics, 43, pp. 200-213. (link)
    • Vanícek, P., J. Huang, P. Novak, S.D. Pagiatakis, M. Véronneau, Z. Martinec and W.E. Featherstone (1999) Determination of Boundary Values for the Stokes-Helmert Problem, J. of Geodesy, 73, pp. 180-192.
    • Martinec, Z. (1998) Boundary-Value Problems for Gravimetric Determination of a Precise Geoid, Lectures Notes in Earth Sciences, 73, Springer.
    • Vanícek, P. and Z. Martinec (1994) The Stokes-Helmert Scheme for the Evaluation of a Precise Geoid, Manus. Geod., 19, pp. 119-128.