Staff profiles
Neville PalmerTerrestrial and Seafloor Geodesy Specialist
Biography
Neville has been responsible for implementing the geodetic field program at GNS Science since 2003, both onshore and offshore New Zealand as well as projects around the Pacific, including Samoa, Tonga, Niue and Papua New Guinea. More recently he has led the development of GNS’s seafloor geodesy capabilities in absolute pressure instrumentation and GPS-Acoustic precise positioning. He is responsible for the maintenance of a nationally significant archive of GNSS survey campaign data and the ongoing development of electronic field data collection tools and their integration with a nationwide GIS database of GPS campaign sites.
Qualifications
- Bachelor of Surveying
Areas of expertise
- Technical: Surveying - Geodetic
- Technical: Surveying - Cadastral
- Technical: Surveying - Engineering & Topographic
- Geophysics: Geodetic data analysis
- Geophysics: GPS (NAVSTAR Global Positioning System)
- Geophysics: GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite Sys)
- Geophysics: Landslide monitoring
- Technical: Surveying - Deformation Monitoring
- Technical: Terrestrial Laser Scanning
- Geophysics: Offshore GNSS-Acoustic Surveys
- Geophysics: Site Selection - GPS Networks
- Geophysics: Seafloor Geodesy Instrumentation