Dr Bruce Harvey

Senior Lecturer in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Dr Bruce Harvey is a senior lecturer in Surveying in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Dr Harvey is highly regarded both in Australia and internationally as the author of two surveying textbooks widely adopted and accessible as teaching aids for surveying courses in universities around the world. Dr Harvey’s academic teaching career has coincided with stints as a practising surveyor enabling him to bring the real-life experience of the profession into the classroom with a unique depth and rigour.

Dr Harvey is a teacher who cares deeply about enriching his students’ learning experience and encouraging their ambition so that they can excel in a profession pivotal to all stages of planning and construction from creating legal land boundaries and sub-divisions to measuring deformation and potential risk in the post construction stage. His hands-on teaching approach extends to a custom-built software package, FIXIT that guides students through course content. The fact that Dr Harvey produced and coded the program himself allows for continual optimisation of the system taking into account student feedback, current trends and the latest technologies.

Acknowledging education as an ongoing process for both student and teacher, his ethos is best summed up in the following words, “Involve students. Involve yourself. Consider aims and objectives. Reflect. Evaluate. Respect each other. Be efficient. Know the technology and consider innovations.” Dr Harvey has been recognised for his teaching excellence having been selected in the first cohort of UNSW’s Education Focussed academics.

Education

Grad. Diploma in Higher Education, UNSW, 1993
PhD (Geodesy), UNSW, 1985
Former Registered Surveyor, NSW Board of Surveyors (1981)
BSurv (Hons.1) and University Medal, UNSW, 1980

Teaching

Dr Harvey has developed and taught more than 30 courses. The main courses cover the following topics:

Surveying Computations and CAD
Data Analysis by Least Squares
Surveying Applications and Design
Field Projects (includes survey camps)
Deformation Monitoring Surveys

Research Interests

Dr Harvey’s expertise and research interests include:

Least Square analysis of surveying measurements
Alternative surveying measurement analysis methods (L1 norm and grid searching)
Surveying education
3D laser scanning
High accuracy surveying
Surveying calculations and computing

Grants

B. Harvey; Computer Based Learning for B. Surveying students, CAUT National Teaching Development Project Grant, Committee for the Advancement of University Teaching, 1993.

Awards

Teaching Staff Excellence Award, Faculty of Engineering UNSW, 2010
Noel Svensson Faculty of Engineering Award for Teaching Excellence, UNSW, 1998
NASA Group Achievement Award - Southern Hemisphere VLBI, 1992

Professional Affiliations/Organisations

Member, Institution of Surveyors NSW
Member, Australasian Association for Engineering Education
Member, Surveying & Spatial Sciences Institute Australia

Phone

(+61 2) 9385 4178

E-mail

b.harvey@unsw.edu.au

Location

Civil Engineering Building (H20) Level 2, Room CE207 Kensington Campus

Books | 2016

Harvey BR, 2016, Survey Computations, Harvey BR, (ed.)

Books | 2009

Harvey BR, 2009, Practical Least Squares and Statistics for Surveyors, Third, revised with corrections, School of Surveying and Spatial Information Systems, UNSW, Sydney, Australia

Books | 1985

Harvey BR, 1985, The Combination of VLBI and Ground Data for Geodesy and Geophysics, 1, School of Surveying, University of NSW
Journal articles | 2019

Alamdari MM; Ge L; Kildashti K; Zhou Y; Harvey B; Du Z, 2019, 'Non-contact structural health monitoring of a cable-stayed bridge: case study', Structure and Infrastructure Engineering, 15, pp. 1119 - 1136, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15732479.2019.1609529

Journal articles | 2013

Harvey BR, 2013, 'Adjustment of survey networks by topological grid search', Journal of Applied Geodesy, 7, pp. 205 - 215, http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jag-2013-0006

Journal articles | 2009

Harvey BR, 2009, 'Constraint equations in cadastral modelling', Journal of Spatial Science, 54, pp. 115 - 125, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14498596.2009.9635182

Journal articles | 2004

Harvey BR, 2004, 'Registration and Transformation of Multiple Site Terrestrial Laser Scanning', Geomatics Research Aust., pp. 33 - 50

Journal articles | 2003

Harvey BR; Newsome G, 2003, 'GPS COORDINATE TRANSFORMATION PARAMETERS FOR JAMAICA', Survey Review, 37,, pp. 218 - 234

Journal articles | 2002

Lichti DD; Harvey BR, 2002, 'An Investigation into the Effects of Reflecting Surface Material Properties on Terrestrial Laser Scanner Measurements', Geomatics Research Aust., pp. 1 - 22

Journal articles | 2002

Lichti DD; Harvey BR, 2002, 'An Investigation into the Effects of Reflecting Surface Material Properties on Terrestrial Laser Scanner Measurements', Geomatics Research Australasia, 76, pp. 1 - 22

Journal articles | 2001

Harvey BR, 2001, 'Supervising Surveyors and their role in Professional Training Agreements', Trans Tasman Surveyor, 4, pp. 43 - 49

Journal articles | 1998

Harvey BR; Elford D; Turner C, 1998, 'Calculation of 3D control surveys', Australian Surveyor, 43, pp. 109 - 118, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00050326.1998.10441853

Journal articles | 1997

Harvey BR, 1997, 'Least Squares Treasure Hunt - An Educational Game', Geomatics Research Australasia, pp. 47 - 54

Journal articles | 1995

Harvey BR; Trinder JC, 1995, 'Content of the bachelor of engineering in geomatic engineering degree course at the University of New South Wales (UNSW)', Australian Surveyor, 40, pp. 14 - 18, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00050326.1995.10441702

Journal articles | 1995

Harvey BR; Trinder JC, 1995, 'Content of the bachelor of engineering in geomatic engineering degree course at the university of new south wales (Unsw)', Australian Surveyor, 40, pp. 14 - 18, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00050335.1995.10558576

Journal articles | 1994

Harvey BR, 1994, 'Computer Based Learning and Least Squares Analysis', Australian Journal of Geodesy Photogrammetry and Surveying, 60, pp. 21 - 32

Journal articles | 1993

Harvey BR; Coleman R, 1993, 'Surveying the deflection of an arch bridge to sub-millimetre precision', Australian Surveyor, 38, pp. 4 - 14, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00050326.1993.10438829

Journal articles | 1993

Harvey BR, 1993, 'Survey network adjustments by the L1 method', Australian Journal of Geodesy Photogrammetry and Surveying, 59, pp. 39 - 52

Journal articles | 1992

Harvey BR; Jauncey DL; White GL; Nothnagel A; Nicolson GD; Reynolds JE; Morabito DD; Bartel N, 1992, 'Accurate radio and optical positions for southern radio sources', The Astronomical Journal, 103, pp. 229 - 233, http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/116055

Journal articles | 1992

Harvey BR; Rüeger JM, 1992, 'Theodolite observations and least squares', Australian Surveyor, 37, pp. 120 - 128, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00050326.1992.10438785

Journal articles | 1992

Russell JL; Jauncey DL; Harvey BR; White GL; Reynolds JE; Ma C; Johnston KJ; Nothnagel A; Nicolson G; Kingham K; Hindsley R; de Vegt C; Zacharias N; Malin DF, 1992, 'A radio optical reference frame. III - Additional radio and optical positions in the Southern Hemisphere', The Astronomical Journal, 103, pp. 2090 - 2098, http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/116213

Journal articles | 1991

Harvey BR, 1991, 'Telescope Axes Surveys', Australian Journal of Geodesy Photogrammetry and Surveying, 54, pp. 1 - 18

Journal articles | 1991

White GL; Jauncey DL; Harvey BR; Savage A; Gulkis S; Preston RA; Peterson BA; Reynolds JE; Nicolson GD; Malin DF, 1991, 'Astrometry of Southern radio sources', Astrophysics and Space Science, 177, pp. 79 - 83, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00643657

Journal articles | 1989

Jauncey DL; Tzioumis AK; Preston RA; Meier DL; Batchelor R; Gates J; Hamilton PA; Harvey BR; Haynes RF; Johnson B; McCulloch P; Moorey G; Morabito DD; Nicolson GD; Niell AE; Robertson JG; Royle GWR; Skjerve L; Slade MA; Slee OB; Watkinson A; Wehrle AE; Wright AE, 1989, 'Radio structure at 8.4 GHz in Sagittarius A, the compact radio source at the Galactic center', The Astronomical Journal, 98, pp. 44 - 48, http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/115125

Journal articles | 1989

Jauncey DL; White GL; Preston RA; Niell AE; Harvey BR; Morabito DD; Meier DL; Slade MA; Stolz A; Tzioumis AK, 1989, 'A comparison between accurate radio and optical positions for six Southern Hemisphere extragalactic sources', The Astronomical Journal, 98, pp. 49 - 53, http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/115126

Journal articles | 1989

Meier DL; Jauncey DL; Preston RA; Tzioumis AK; Wehrle AE; Batchelor R; Gates J; Hamilton PA; Harvey BR; Haynes RF; Johnson B; McCulloch P; Moorey G; Morabito DD; Nicolson GD; Niell AE; Robertson JG; Royle GWR; Skjerve L; Slade MA; Slee OB; Watkinson A; Wright AE, 1989, 'The high-resolution structure of the Centaurus A nucleus at 2.3 and 8.4 GHz', The Astronomical Journal, 98, pp. 27 - 35, http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/115123

Journal articles | 1989

Preston RA; Jauncey DL; Meier DL; Tzioumis AK; Ables J; Batchelor R; Faulkner J; Gates J; Greene B; Hamilton PA; Harvey BR; Haynes RF; Johnson B; Lambeck K; Louie AP; McCulloch P; Moorey G; Morabito DD; Nicolson GD; Niell AE; Robertson JG; Royle GR; Skjerve L; Slade MA; Slee OB; Stolz A; Watkinson A; Wehrle AE; Wright AE, 1989, 'The Southern Hemisphere VLBI experiment', The Astronomical Journal, 98, pp. 1 - 26, http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/115122

Journal articles | 1989

Tzioumis AK; Jauncey DL; Preston RA; Meier DL; Nicolson GD; Batchelor R; Gates J; Hamilton PA; Harvey BR; Haynes RF; Johnson B; McCulloch P; Moorey G; Morabito DD; Niell AE; Robertson JG; Royle GWR; Skjerve L; Slade MA; Slee OB; Watkinson A; Wehrle AE; Wright AE, 1989, 'VLBI observations at 2.3 GHz of the compact galaxy 1934-638', The Astronomical Journal, 98, pp. 36 - 43, http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/115124

Journal articles | 1988

Jauncey DL; Kemball A; Bartel N; Whitney AR; Rogers AEE; Shapiro II; Preston RA; Clark TA; Harvey BR; Jones DL; Nicolson GD; Nothnagel A; Phillips RB; Reynolds JE; Webber JC, 1988, 'Supernova 1987A: radiosphere resolved with VLBI five days after the neutrino burst', Nature, 334, pp. 412 - 415, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/334412a0

Journal articles | 1987

Harvey BR, 1987, 'Degrees of freedom - Simplified', Australian Journal of Geodesy Photogrammetry and Surveying, 46-47, pp. 57 - 68

Journal articles | 1986

Harvey BR, 1986, 'Transformation of 3D Co-ordinates', Australian Surveyor, 33, pp. 105 - 125, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00050326.1986.10435216

Journal articles | 1986

Stolz A; Masters EG; Harvey BR, 1986, 'Use of Space Techniques to Measure Crustal Motions in the Australian Region', Bulletin Royal Society New Zealand, pp. 531 - 539

Journal articles | 1985

Harvey BR; Stolz A, 1985, 'On ground survey connections between VLBI and Laser Ranging sites', Australian Journal of Geodesy Photogrammetry and Surveying, 42, pp. 61 - 74

Journal articles | 1985

Harvey BR, 1985, 'Variances and Covariances of VLBI Observations', Australian Journal of Geodesy Photogrammetry and Surveying, 43, pp. 31 - 44

Journal articles | 1983

Harvey BR; Stolz A; Jauncey DL; Niell AE; Morabito DD; Preston RA, 1983, 'Results of the Australian Geodetic VLBI Experiment', Australian Journal of Geodesy Photogrammetry and Surveying, 38, pp. 39 - 51

Journal articles | 1983

Stolz A; Harvey BR; Jauncey DL; Neill A; Morabito D; Preston R; Greene B; Lambeck K; Tzioumis A; Watkinson A; Royle GWR; Johnson D, 1983, 'Geodetic Surveying with Quasar Radio Interferometry', Australian Surveyor, 31, pp. 305 - 314, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00050326.1983.10435010

Journal articles | 1983

Stolz A; Harvey BR; Jauncey DL; Niell AE; Morabito DD; Preston RA, 1983, 'Australian baselines measured by radio interferometry', Australian Surveyor, 31, pp. 563 - 566, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0005-0326.1983.10435065

Journal articles | 1982

Harvey BR; Stolz A, 1982, 'The Australian Geodetic VLBI Experiment (AGE)', Australian Journal of Geodesy Photogrammetry and Surveying, 36, pp. 31 - 46
Conference Papers | 2019

Choudhury M; Harvey B; Rizos C, 2019, 'Tropospheric Correction for Locata when Known Point ambiguity resolution technique is used in Static Survey-Is it required?', in Proceedings of the 2009 International Global Navigation Satellite Systems (IGNSS) Society, Surfers Paradise, Queensland, pp. 1 - 12, presented at International Global Navigation Satellite Systems Society IGNSS Symposium 2009, Surfers Paradise, Queensland, 01 March 2019 - 03 March 2019, http://dx.doi.org/10.26190/unsworks/26963

Conference Papers | 2013

Li B; Harvey B; Gallagher T, 2013, 'Using Barometers to Determine the Height for Indoor Positioning', in Proceedings IPIN2013 International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation (IPIN 2013), Montbeliard-Belfort, France, presented at IPIN 2013 - 4th International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation, Montbeliard-Belfort, France, 28 October 2013 - 31 October 2013

Conference Papers | 2011

Choudhury M; Harvey B; Rizos C, 2011, 'A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF DISPLACEMENT DETECTION METHODS USING LOCATA', University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia, presented at International Global Navigation Satellite Systems Society IGNSS Symposium 2011, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia, 15 November 2011 - 17 November 2011, https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/7466/feb84628caaf45b9ee78d0bda677202e44ab.pdf?_ga=2.194126062.218922074.1501725062-1101200719.1501725062

Conference Papers | 2010

Choudhury M; Harvey BR; Rizos C, 2010, 'Mathematical models and a case study of the Locata Deformation Monitoring System (LDMS)', in XXIV FIG Int. Congress" Facing the Challenges-Building the Capacity

Conference Papers | 2010

Harvey BR, 2010, 'Teaching surveying: What is important?', in Proc XXIV FIG Int. Congress, FIG, Sydney, Australia, presented at XXIV FIG Int. Congress "Facing the Challenges - Building the Capacity", Sydney, Australia, 11 April 2010 - 16 April 2010, http://www.fig.net/pub/fig2010/index.htm

Conference Papers | 2009

Choudhury MMUA; Rizos C; Harvey B, 2009, 'A survey of techniques and algorithms in deformation monitoring applications and the use of the Locata technology for such applications', in 22nd International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of the Institute of Navigation 2009, ION GNSS 2009, Institute of Navigation (ION), Savannah International Convention Center, Savannah, GA, pp. 668 - 678, presented at 22nd International Technical Meeting of The Satellite Division of the Institute of Navigation (ION GNSS 2009), Savannah International Convention Center, Savannah, GA, 22 September 2009 - 25 September 2009, https://www.ion.org/publications/abstract.cfm?articleID=8471

Conference Papers | 2002

Lichti DD; Harvey BR, 2002, 'The Effects of Reflecting Surface Properties on Time-of-Flight Laser Scanner Measurements', in Symposium on Geospatial Theory, Processing and Applications, Symposium on Geospatial Theory, Processing and Applications, Ottawa, Canada, presented at Symposium on Geospatial Theory, Processing and Applications, Ottawa, Canada, -

Conference Papers | 1998

Harvey BR, 1998, 'Future-proof education in surveying ?', in Sipison L (ed.), 33rd survey congress, 33rd survey congress, Madang, pp. 6.1 - 6.13, presented at 33rd survey congress, Madang, 08 July 1998 - 10 July 1998

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