Matthew Bryan Higgins
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Curriculum Vitae
Date of birth: 3 December 1960
Nationality: Australian
Status: Married to Jane with 3 children
Current Position: Senior Surveyor with the
Department of Natural Resources and Mines, Queensland,
Australia
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Qualifications
- Bachelor of Applied Science, Surveying (With Distinction),
Queensland University of Technology, 1983. Three prizes
including best academic record.
- Registered and Licensed, Surveyors Board of Queensland,
1985.
- Master of Surveying and Mapping Science, University of
Queensland, 1988.
- Presently a PhD Candidate (part time, external) at the
University of New South Wales.
Career Highlights
Recognized as Queensland expert on operational, physical and
satellite geodesy with extensive experience in Global Positioning
Systems (GPS) since 1985:
- Publication in 1987 of parameters for transformation between
Australian Geodetic Datum and World Geodetic System 1984
(WGS84) as used by GPS. The parameters have been widely used
in Australia since 1987 until their recent replacement as part
of the adoption of the Geocentric Datum of Australia.
- In 1988, completed a Masters Degree specializing in GPS and
geodetic datum issues.
- Six month study tour in 1989 of North American organizations
with major roles in the development of GPS surveying and
geodesy.
- Leader of GPS related research including involvement in
development of the first civilian application of GPS
Controlled Photogrammetry in Australia which, in 1994, was a
winner of the Institution of Surveyors Australia Excellence in
Surveying Award.
- Technical Advisor on development of Queensland's Geodetic
Infrastructure in support of Australia's move to a geocentric
datum and for Height Modernization and including the
Queensland 100km GPS Network.
- In 1999, awarded an Australia Day Achievement Medallion.
- Award for Continuing Professional Development from the
Institution of Surveyors Australia, Queensland Division in
2000.
- In 2001, led a Pilot Project to develop a GPS Network using
Trimble's Virtual Reference Station (VRS) concept. The network
supports real-time-kinematic surveying using GPS and Mobile
Telephone. This was the first VRS installation outside Europe.
- Elected a Fellow of the Institution of Surveyors Australia
in 2001.
Significant Representations
- Queensland representative on the Geodesy Group of the
Australia and New Zealand Intergovernmental Committee on
Surveying and Mapping (ICSM) working on issues such as
horizontal and vertical datum, development of standards and
practices for surveys (including GPS) and legal traceability
of EDME and GPS measurements.
- Member of the Geodesy Sub-Committee of the Australian
Academy of Sciences.
- Past Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the US based
magazine "GPS World".
- Chair of International Federation of Surveyors (FIG)
Commission 5 on Positioning and Measurement for the period
2002 to 2006.
- FIG representative to the UN Action Team on Global
Navigation Satellite Systems.
- Chairs the Queensland reference group for Australian GNSS
Coordination Committee.
Presentations
- Higgins,
M.B., 2002, Australia's Changing Surveying Infrastructure from
Marks in the Ground to Virtual Reference Stations, XXII
FIG International Congress, International Federation of
Surveyors (FIG), Washington, DC, USA, 19-26 April 2002.
- Higgins,
M.B., 2002, Commission 5 Activities in the Future: 2002-2006
Work Plan, XXII FIG International Congress, International
Federation of Surveyors (FIG), Washington, DC, USA, 19-26
April 2002.
- Higgins, M.B. and N. Talbot, 2001, Centimetres for Everyone:
Initial Results from an Australian Virtual Reference Station
Network Pilot Project, SatNav 2001, The 5th International
Symposium on Satellite Navigation Technology and Applications,
Canberra, Australia, 24 - 27 July 2001.
- Higgins,
M.B., 2001, An Australian Pilot Project for A Real Time
Kinematic GPS Network Using the Virtual Reference Station
Concept, FIG Working Week 2001, International Federation
of Surveyors (FIG), Seoul, Korea 6 - 11 May 2001.
- Higgins,
M.B., 2001, Guidelines for GPS Surveying in Australia, FIG
Working Week 2001, International Federation of Surveyors
(FIG), Seoul, Korea 6 - 11 May 2001.
- Foster,
R.W., M.B. Higgins and J. Ryttersgaard, 2001, Spatial
Information Management in the 21st Century, 7th United
Nations Regional Cartographic Conference for the Americas,
United Nations, New York, USA, 22 - 26 January 2001.
- Sproule, D.M., A.H.W. Kearsley and M.B. Higgins, 2000,
Impact of BRAGS'99 Airborne Gravimetric Data on Geoid
Computations in Australia, and Possibilities for Utilisation
of Bathymetric Information, Presented at: IAG Conference on
Gravity, Geoids and Geodynamics 2000 (GGG2000), Banff,
Alberta, 31 July - 4 August, 2000.
- Cross,
P.A., M.B. Higgins and R. Lott, 2000, Reference Frames in
Practice: The Role of Professional, Scientific, Standards and
Commercial Organisations, FIG Working Week 2000,
International Federation of Surveyors (FIG), Prague, Czech
Republic, 22 - 26 May 2000.
- Higgins, M.B., 2000, Heighting with GPS: Review of
Limitations and Possibilities, GIM International, Vol 14, No.
2, February 2000.
- Higgins,
M.B., 1999, Positioning and Measurement into the 21st Century,
A Keynote Paper at the 6th South East Asian Surveyors
Congress, Fremantle, Australia, 1 -6 November 1999.
- Higgins, M.B., 1999, The Use of GPS for the Maintenance and
Investigation of Tidal Datum, 6th South East Asian Surveyors
Congress, Fremantle, Australia, 1 -6 November 1999.
- Paul A. Cross, P.A., P. B. H. Davies, A. H. Dodson and M. B.
Higgins, 1999, Reference Frames In Practice - FIG Working
Group 5.5, FIG Working Week 1999, International Federation of
Surveyors (FIG), Sun City, South Africa, May 1999.
- Higgins, M.B., 1999,
Heighting with GPS: Possibilities and Limitations, In the
Proceedings of: Geodesy and Surveying in the Future: The
Importance of Heights, Jubilee Seminar: 25 Year of Motorised
Levelling, Sponsored by Commission 5 of the International
Federation of Surveyors (FIG), Gavle, Sweden, March 15-17
1999.
- Higgins, M.B., A.H. Dodson, R. Lott and R. Rodriquez, 1998,
Reference Systems and Heighting and the FIG, XXI International
Congress of the International Federation of Surveyors,
Brighton, United Kingdom, 19-25 July, Reigate Press.
- Higgins, M.B., G.J. Broadbent and R. Martin, 1998, The Use
of the Global Positioning System for the Maintenance and
Investigation of Tidal Datum: A Case Study in Queensland,
Australia, XXI International Congress of the International
Federation of Surveyors, Brighton, United Kingdom, 19-25 July,
Reigate Press.
- Higgins, M.B., R. Forsberg and A.H.W. Kearsley, 1998, The
Effects of Varying Cap Sizes on Geoid Computations:
Experiences with FFT and Ring Integration, in: R. Forsberg, M.
Feissl, and R. Deitrich (eds), Geodesy on the Move: Gravity,
Geoid, Geodynamics and Antartica, IAG Symposia Vol. 119,
Springer, Berlin Germany.
Contacts
Mr. Matt Higgins
Senior Surveyor
Dept of Natural Resources and Mines
Locked Bag 40
Coorparoo Delivery Centre
Brisbane Qld 4151
AUSTRALIA
Tel. + 61 7 3896 3754
Fax + 61 7 3891 5168
E-mail: matt.higgins@nrm.qld.gov.au
15 May 2002
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