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SNAP Lab Background & Objectives
The Satellite Navigation & Positioning (SNAP) group within the School of Surveying & Spatial Information Systems, The University of New South Wales, since the early 1990s has established itself as the premier academic GPS research group in Australia.
Our NEWS pages provide a detailed account of the activities and achievements of the staff and graduate students that make up SNAP.
For many years the SNAP group has been the largest, and most productive, within the School of Surveying & SIS, in the last few years totalling over 20 staff and graduate students.
In 2004 some dramatic changes were made in the staffing of the School of Surveying & SIS. The following academic staff were appointed to contract or continuing positions: Dr. Andrew Dempster (Assoc. Prof.), Dr. Jinling Wang (Sen. Lecturer), Dr. Linlin Ge (Assoc. Prof.), Dr. Samsung Lim (Sen. Lecturer), Dr. Craig Roberts (Lecturer). These join several Research Associates and Research Assistants; as well as the original head of the SNAP group, Prof. Chris Rizos (Head of School from mid-2004).
Hence the SNAP group has evolved from being a large number of graduate students supervised by one or two academic staff, to the situation where almost all of the current academic staff of the School of Surveying & SIS have research interests in "Navigation and Earth Observation" (NEO)! Does it make sense to continue to talk about the SNAP group as a separate entity? Yes and No.
SNAP's original aim was to undertake world-class GPS-related research, address innovative applications, provide a high quality teaching and learning environment, and develop commercially-attractive products. In fact, SNAP's objectives are still valid to the expanded group:
(a) attract high quality students and research assistants;
(b) make our activities known to the specialist and wider community, both in Australia and internationally, through publications, conference presentations, etc;
(c) cultivate a network of industry and university partners;
(d) attract adequate funding to support staff, travel and projects;
(e) host prominent visitors, collaborators and postdoctoral fellows to work with SNAP students and staff;
(f) maintain and extend our international links with universities and organisations overseas;
(g) develop a program of advanced education and training in GPS; and
(h) maintain state-of-the-art facilities in our laboratories.
However, this expanded academic group will undertake research and teaching in areas beyond just "satellite navigation and positioning". Hence, on the one hand we will maintain the ethos of the original SNAP group, by continuing this web site as a portal for information on all activities of the Satellite Navigation and Positioning Laboratory.
Yet, to better describe the range of activities in the exciting fields of satellite and ground-based wireless positioning, our research projects will be grouped into several themes:
- Multi-Sensor Integration Algorithms & Applications
- New Positioning Technologies & Applications
- GNSS Receiver Design & Signal Processing
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