Rate My Professor Mick Filmer

Filmer's research interests center on geodesy, vertical datum unification, mean dynamic topography, and Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) for monitoring vertical land motion. Notable research includes studies on subsidence in the Perth metropolitan region and evaluations of ocean models against tide gauge data for vertical datum purposes. Key publications include 'The AUSGeoid09 model of the Australian Height Datum' (Featherstone et al., 2011), 'The north-south tilt in the Australian Height Datum is explained by the ocean’s mean dynamic topography' (Featherstone and Filmer, 2012), 'Comparison between geodetic and oceanographic approaches to estimate mean dynamic topography for vertical datum unification: evaluation at Australian tide gauges' (Filmer et al., 2018), and works on high-resolution InSAR deformation models and quasigeoid computations. He co-chairs the FIG Commission 4 on Hydrography for 2023–2026 and has presented at international conferences such as IEEE IGARSS on InSAR applications for Australian coastal cities. Filmer's contributions advance national and international efforts in spatial sciences and hydrography.