8-23 July 2008 - Samsung Lim and Yong Heo visited UTM (Johor Bahru, Malaysia), to conduct collaborative research with Dr. Tajul Musa (former SSIS PhD student) in relation to the use of CORS networks for tropical atmospheric studies. A visit was also made to NTU (Singapore) on 10 July. Chris Rizos also attended....
2-11 July 2008 - Linlin Ge and several of his students, Alex Ng, Michael Chang, Kui Zhang and Eugene Yu, attended the XXI Congress of the Int. Society for Photogrammetry & Remote Sensing (ISPRS2008), Beijing, P.R. China, and gave four presentations. Jinling Wang also attended and made one presentation...
15-19 June 2008 - Chris Rizos attended the FIG Working Week, Stockholm, Sweden, and made 3 presentations, and chaired two forums...
1-6 June 2008 - Chris Rizos attended the IGS Governing Board meeting (1 June) and the IGS Analysis Workshop, Miami, Florida...
20 May 2008 - 12 May Sichuan Earthquake mapped by SAR - Our team has worked around the clock as soon as the Japanese ALOS satellite successfully acquired imagery in the early morning of 20th May and released our results at noon on 21st May to the Chinese authorities. We are one of the first to get such results, thanks to the close collaboration with Japan's Earth Remote Sensing Data Analysis Center (ERSDAC) and Kochi Women’s University. Details of available from the webpage http://www.gmat.unsw.edu.au/LinlinGe/Earthquake/. See also news release...
12-15 May 2008 - Chris Rizos attended the 13th FIG Symp. on Deformation Measurement & Analysis, and the 4th IAG Symp. on Geodesy for Geotechnical & Structural Engineering - "Measuring the Changes", Lisbon, Portugal, gave the keynote address, and presented one other paper.
5-9 May 2008 - Andrew Dempster attended the Int. Symp. on Wireless Pervasive Computing, Santorini, Greece, and presented one paper. Yong Li and graduate student Anthony Cole attended the IEEE/PLANS (Position Location & Navigation) Symp.,
Monterey, California, USA, 6-8 May, where they presented 3 papers.
23 April 2008 - Two graduate students, Omer Mubarak & Anthony Cole, were selected winners
of the U.S. Institute of Navigation's student scholarship to attend
the world's premier GPS/GNSS conference, the 21st International Technical
Meeting of the Satellite Division of the US
Institute of Navigation, ION-GNSS2008, Savannah, Georgia, 16-19
September. These are the 24th & 25th US ION student prize/scholarships
awarded to members of the SNAP Lab (the first being in 1988 to Bertrand
Merminod, and the 2nd & 3rd to Shaowei Han in 1995 and again in
1996, the 4th to Lao-Sheng Lin in 1997, the 5th to Linlin Ge in 1999,
the 6th & 7th to Liwen Dai and Horng-Yue Chen in 2000, the 8th &
9th to Clement Ogaja and Chon Satirapod in 2001, the 10th & 11th
to Michael Moore and Hung-Kyu Lee in 2002, the 12th & 13th to Steve
Hewitson and Volker Janssen in 2003, the 14th, 15th & 16th to Ravi
Babu, Jean Li and Binghao Li in 2004, the 18th & 19th to Michael
Chang and Jack Wang in 2005, and the 20th to Asghar Tabatabaei in 2006, the 21st, 22nd & 23rd to Bilal Amin, Weidong Ding and Faisal Khan in 2007). 13 papers authored or co-authored by staff
or students of the SNAP Lab were accepted for either
oral presentations or as alternates within their sessions.
15-20 April 2008 - Chris Rizos attended the European Geoscience Union's General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, as well as the IAG's Executive Committee meeting....
21 March - 1 April 2008 - Chris Rizos visited the Faculty of Geoinformation Science & Eng., University of Technology Malaysia, and then participated in the GGOS Retreat and Steering Committee meeting, 24-28 March, Bologna, Italy, visited the Polytecnico de Torion, and visited the Faculty of Earth Science & Technology, Institute of Technology Bandung, Indonesia ....
2 March 2008 - The School welcomed Dr. Charles Toth, Center for Mapping, The Ohio State University, for a 2 week visit to conduct integrated GPS/INS/Locata navigation trials....
19-21 February 2008 - Chris Rizos attended the Munich
Satellite Navigation Summit, Munich, Germany, and made a presentation in Session 7 "GNSS Activities of the Asian Pacific Rim"....
30 January 2008 - The School welcomed Prof. Dorota Brzezinska, Center for Mapping, The Ohio State University, for a 6 month sabbatical visit....
30 January 2008 - The School received on loan from the DLR (German Aerospace Agency) a specially-designed Septentrio GeNeRx receiver for the tracking of the prototype Galileo satellite GIOVE-A. It was installed on the roof of the Electrical Engineering Building and started operating continuously on 4th February, streaming tracking data back to Germany and into the SydNet CORS database. This is the only GIOVE-A receiver in Australia operated by a university or Australian agency.....
14-18 January 2008 - The School hosted a 14 person delegation from China's State Bureau of Surveying & Mapping for the first annual workshop organised by A/Prof. Linlin Ge. The workshop included visits to Canberra and Wollongong....
5-7 January 2008 - Jinling Wang and Linlin Ge attended the 2nd CPGPS Forum on "Next Generation GNSS - Opportunities & Challenges", GuangZhou, China, and presented four
papers. Jinling also visited Wuhan University and gave some invited lectures...
6 December 2007 - a grant of approx. $1.1M to fund a 5-year series of research projects in imagery and spatial information was announced. The fund has contributions from the NSW Dept. of Lands, the CRC for Spatial Information, and the School of Surveying & SIS. Dr Linlin Ge has been appointed an Associate Professor to lead these projects.... see media release.
4-6 December 2007 - the School hosted the very successful IGNSS2007 Symposium on GPS/GNSS on the UNSW campus, with SNAP Lab researchers authoring 41 papers .... see photo gallery...
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