Geology Bites: Tom Herring talks High-Precision Geodesy
Tom Herring in front of a dam near the DMZ in South Korea where the concern was to be prepared for North Korea to breach dams on their side of the border in an attempt to flood South Korean infrastructure. Image credit: Tom Herring
Improvements to satellite-based measurements like GPS have drastically reduced the cost of instruments and resolution has increased to millimeter-level accuracy. While this may make navigating your next road trip easier, scientists are also using this technology to accurately measure the Earth, a field known as geodesy.
EAPS Professor Tom Herring, a pioneer in high-precision geodetic analytical methods and applications for satellite-based navigation systems, sat down with Oliver Strimpel to discuss the improvements in the field of geodesy and its applications in earthquake research for the podcast Geology Bites. Give it a listen wherever you listen to podcasts.
