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News & Events in 2006
from the SNAP Laboratory

Research grants (2006+)
News
Comings and goings
Honours and awards
Visitors
Where we'll be in 2006
Publications
Lectures at conferences and workshops

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 and development group in Australia. For many years the SNAP group has been the largest within the School of Surveying & SIS, in the last few years totalling over 20 staff and graduate students.

During 2004 some dramatic changes have occurred in the staffing of the School of Surveying & SIS. The following academic staff were appointed: Dr. Andrew Dempster (Assoc. Prof.), Dr. Jinling Wang (Senior Lecturer), Dr. Linlin Ge (Senior Lecturer), Dr. Samsung Lim (Senior Lecturer), Dr. Craig Roberts (Lecturer). These join several Research Associates: Dr. Joel Barnes and Dr. Yong Li (CRC-funded); as well as the founder of the SNAP group, Prof. Chris Rizos (Head of School since 12 July 2004).

Hence the SNAP group has evolved from being a large number of graduate students supervised by one or two academic staff, to the current situation where almost all of the academic/research staff of the School of Surveying & SIS have research interests in the general field of "Satellite and Wireless Positioning". The SNAP web site is maintained as a portal for information on all activities of the Satellite Navigation and Positioning Laboratory, which is now organised along the lines of four major themes:

Several staff have important roles to play in the Cooperative Research Centre for Spatial Information.

 

 


Research grants for 2006+

The Australian Research Council (ARC) & other peer-reviewed grants that are active in 2006:

  • ARC-Linkage LP0349297 (2003.5-2006.5) (APA Industry PhD Scholarship, with QASCO Pty Ltd): "Integration of GPS/Pseudolite/INS to Geo-Reference Airborne Surveying and Mapping Sensors", Dr. J. Wang & Assoc. Prof. W. Kearsley.
  • ARC-Linkage LP0560910 (2005-2007) (APAI Industry PhD Scholarship, with Locata Corporation Pty Ltd): "Network Design and Management of a Pseudolite and GPS Based Positioning System", Prof. C. Rizos & Dr. J. Barnes.
  • ARC-Linkage LP0561096 (2005-2007) (APAI Industry PhD Scholarship, with the Dept. of Industry, Science & Resources): "Monitoring & Predicting Near Real Time Ionospheric Activities with Multi-Satellite Data", Dr. J. Wang.
  • ARC-Linkage LP0348394 (2003.5-2006.5) (The Australia Council and Sonic Objects): "Audio Nomad - A Location-Based Handheld Audio Device for Sound-Art Applications", Dr. D. Woo (School of Computer Science & Eng., UNSW) & Prof. C. Rizos.
  • ARC-Linkage LP0455170 (2004.5-2007.5) (RMIT lead institution) (Victorian Dept. of Sustainability & Environment & the NSW Dept. of Lands): "Real-time Atmospheric Modelling for Cm-level Positioning Based on Continuously Operating Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) Reference Station Networks". Assoc. Prof. K. Zhang (Dept. of Geospatial & Mathematical Sciences, RMIT), Dr. A. Kealy (Dept. of Geomatics, Univ. of Melbourne), Prof. C. Rizos, Dr. Craig Roberts & Dr. L. Ge.
  • ARC-Linkage LP0774828 (2007-2009) (APAI Industry PhD Scholarship, with Seeker Wireless Pty Ltd): "Safe Location at Home & Abroad", Assoc. Prof. A. Dempster.
  • ARC-Discovery DP0342867 (2003-2006): "Remote Sensing Based on Indirect GPS Signals", Prof. C. Rizos & Prof. K. Kubik (Univ. of Queensland).
  • ARC-Discovery DP0452630 (2004-2006): "Robust Positioning Based on Ultra-Tight Integration of GPS, Pseudolites and Inertial Sensors", Dr. J. Wang & Dr. J. Choi (School of Electrical Eng. & Telecommunications, UNSW).
  • ARC-Discovery DP0556848 (2005-2007): "Designing Next Generation GNSS Receivers Using the Software Approach", Prof. C. Rizos & Assoc. Prof. A. Dempster.
  • ARC-Discovery DP0773929 (2007-2009): "A Combined Inertial, Satellite & Terrestrial Signal Navigation Device for High Accuracy Positioning & Orientation of Underground Imaging Systems", Prof. C. Rizos.
  • ARC-Discovery DP0774565 (2007): "Robust Autonomous Integrity Monitoring for Next Generation GNSS Receivers", Dr. J. Wang.
  • ARC-Linkage LP0667730 (2006-2009) (Leica Geosystems Pty Ltd): "Sensor Integration for Low-Cost Robust Agricultural Machine Automation", Assoc. Prof. A. Dempster, Prof. C. Rizos & Dr. J. Wang. Details...
  • ARC-Linkage LP0668907 (2006.5-2009.5): "Structural Deformation Monitoring Integrating a New Wireless Positioning Technology with GPS", Dr. J. Barnes, Prof. C. Rizos, & Assoc. Prof. A. Dempster.
  • FRG (Faculty Research Grant) (2006): "SIREN: Satnav Interference Rejection ENgine, A Reconfigurable Satellite Navigation Receiver", Assoc. Prof. A. Dempster & Assoc. Prof. O. Diessel (School of Computer Science & Eng., UNSW).
  • FRG (Faculty Research Grant) (2006): "The Material Culture and Natural Environment of the Struma River Valley from Prehistory through the Middle Ages", Dr. S. Ross (School of History, UNSW) & Dr. S. Lim.
  • FRG (Faculty Research Grant) (2006): "GPS/GNSS for Cadastral Surveying", Dr. C. Roberts.
  • RIBG (Research Infrastructure Block Grant) (2006): "An Infrastructure for Investigating the Systems and Networking Challenges in Realizing Sensor Network Applications", Prof. S. Jha (CSE), Dr. V. Sivaraman (EET), Dr. L. Ge (SSIS), Dr. C.T. Chou (CSE), Dr. S. Kanhere (CSE), Dr. P. Paramesh (CSE).
  • RIBG (Research Infrastructure Block Grant) (2006): "Personnel Support for Emerging GNSS Receiver & Navigation Sensor Development Activity ", Assoc. Prof. A. Dempster.

Other news:

  • Andrew Dempster, Chris Rizos and Peter Mumford, with researchers from the Univ. of Westminster (U.K.) and Linkoping University (Sweden), an ARC-Linkage (International) grant application: "Software Radio Satellite Navigation Receivers: Analogue-to-Digital Conversion Strategies". Submitted to the ARC in October 2005. Unfortunately it was unsuccessful.
  • Andrew Dempster, an ARC-Linkage (APAI) grant application: "New Applications for Weak-Signal Satellite Navigation". Submitted to the ARC in November 2005. Unfortunately it was unsuccessful.
  • Andrew Dempster, an ARC-Linkage (APAI) grant application: "Safe Location at Home & Abroad". Submitted to the ARC in May. This was successful.
  • Joel Barnes, Chris Rizos and Andrew Dempster, an ARC-Linkage grant application: "Structural Deformation Monitoring Integrating a New Wireless Positioning Technology with GPS". Submitted to the ARC in November 2005. This was successful. Details... see also announcement of Leica-Locata agreement... PhD scholarships available for local students!
  • Yanming Feng, Miles Moody, Kerry Raymond (all from QUT), Yang Gao (Univ. of Calgary), and Chris Rizos, an ARC-Linkage grant application: "Enabling Next Generation Regional and Local GNSS Services Using Model-Driven Software Approaches". Submitted to the ARC in November 2005.Unfortunately it was unsuccessful.
  • Chris Rizos, an ARC-Discovery grant application: "A Combined Inertial, Satellite & Terrestrial Signal Navigation Device for High Accuracy Positioning & Orientation of Underground Imaging Systems". Submitted to the ARC in March. This was successful, but at a reduced level of funding.
  • Andrew Dempster and Oliver Diessel (School of Computer Sc. & Eng., UNSW), an ARC-Discovery grant application: "Dynamically Reconfigurable Satellite Navigation Receiver for Timing Applications". Submitted to the ARC in March. Unfortunately it was unsuccessful.
  • Linlin Ge and Megan Lewis (Univ. of Adelaide), an ARC-Discovery grant application: "Polarimetric Radar Interferometry for Vegetation Structure Mapping". Submitted to the ARC in March. Unfortunately it was unsuccessful.
  • Linlin Ge and others, an ARC-Linkage(LIEF) grant application: "Australian Wireless Mobile, Mesh and Sensor Research Network (AusWiMMS)". Submitted to the ARC in May. Unfortunately it was unsuccessful.
  • K Zhang and F Wu (both from RMIT), and Samsung Lim, an ARC-Discovery grant application: "Autonomous Centimetre Level Ubiquitous Positioning for the Future Global Navigation Satellite Systems". Submitted to the ARC in March. Unfortunately it was unsuccessful.
  • Jinling Wang, an ARC-Discovery grant application: "Robust Autonomous Integrity Monitoring for Next Generation GNSS Receivers". Submitted to the ARC in March. This was successful, but funded for one year only.
  • Yanming Feng (QUT) & Jinling Wang, an ARC-Linkage grant application: "Develop and Test an Airborne Ionosphere Sensing System". Submitted to the ARC in November.
  • Michael Chang, an ARC-Discovery (APD) grant application: "Integration of Radar Interferometry and Modelling for Mine Subsidence Monitoring". Submitted to the ARC in March. Unfortunately it was unsuccessful.
  • Jean Li, an ARC-Discovery (APD) grant application: "Optimal Integration of GPS and Accelerometer for Full-Scale Structural Deformation Monitoring Based on Advanced Signal Processing". Submitted to the ARC in March. Unfortunately it was unsuccessful.
  • Binghao Li, an ARC-Discovery (APD) grant application: "Indoor Positioning Based on Wireless LAN and Multisensor Integration". Submitted to the ARC in March. Unfortunately it was unsuccessful.
  • Andrew Dempster, Chris Rizos and Peter Mumford, with researchers from the Univ. of Westminster (U.K.) and Polytecnico di Torino (Italy), an ARC-Linkage (International) grant application: "FPGA-Based Solutions for Galileo Signal Processing". Submitted to the ARC in October.
  • Prof Peter Teunissen (Tech. Univ. of Delft), Chris Rizos and Will Featherstone (CUT), an ARC International Fellowship grant application: "Next Generation GNSS Ambiguity Resolution". Submitted to the ARC in July. This was successful.
  • SNAPlab is proud to announce the UNSW-SNAP designed GPS receiver "NAMURU" based on Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) technology. This is the first GPS receiver designed and built by an Australian academic department. This will support new research into GNSS receiver design. Version 2 multi-frequency design has been finalised and will be available soon.
  • SNAPlab has produced a Research Brochure that explains the range of research topics being undertaken within SNAP, identifying opportunities for potential graduate students and collaboration with external partners. Leica-Geosystems has sponsored the publication ...email us to receive a hardcopy, or download a PDF version here ...
  • SNAPlab hosted the inaugural 'Location Forum' on 7 November, where the PG students presented their research work, and selected companies who develop Location Determination Technologies discussed their products...click to see student presentations...photo gallery...
  • SNAPlab hosted a workshop on 21 November organised by the Galileo Joint Undertaking and FEAST to discuss opportunities for Australian GNSS researchers to participate in the EU's Framework 7 Programme.
  • The UNSW LocataLite test network is running continuously since Monday 27 November. A great milestone has been reached! See photographs at UNSW...

Comings & goings in 2006:

Visitors

  • 17 February: Prof Guo Huadong, Director of Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), and also Deputy Secretary-General of CAS, visited UNSW and commenced discussions about possible collaboration in the area of differentinal InSAR with Linlin Ge.
  • 23 February: the School farewelled a visitor, Dr. Fengrong Huang, an academic staff member of the School of City & Environment, Liaoning Normal University, P.R. China, after a 12month stay at UNSW.
  • 20 March: the School welcomed the president of Wuhan University, Prof. Jingnan Liu, to an official visit of UNSW to discuss a broad range of collaborative activities between the two universities.

    Mr Yanchu Hu, Prof Chris Rizos, Prof Jingnan Liu, Prof John Ingelson, A/Prof Tim Hesketh, Dr Linlin Ge

  • 7 April: Dr Shaowei Han, VP Engineering of Centrality Communications, and ex-staff and postgraduate student, visited SSIS and made a presentation on his current research work.

  • 15 May: Mr Junqiang Wang completed his 12 months stay as a Visiting Fellow.

  • 19 June: Mr Jan Weiss, a PhD student from the Dept. of Aerospace Engineering Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA, arrived for a 2 month NSF-funded visit to work within the SNAP Lab on multipath mitigation algorithms.

  • 22 June: Ms Beatrice Motello, a PhD student in Electronic and Communication Engineering at Politecnico di Torino, Italy, arrived for a 9 month visit to work with SNAP researchers on GPS interference.

  • 7 July: Dr Sungheuk Jung, on a 12 month sabbatical funded by KOSEF, to work within the SNAP InSAR group on the topic "Photo-realistic Modelling and Visualisation Using Digital Image Data in 3D GIS".

  • 4 September: Ms Suqin Wu & Mr Falin Wu, from RMIT University, visited SNAPlab for 2 days to be trained in the latest version of the SydNet network-RTK software by Thomas Yan, Binghao Li & Ed Yosardi.

  • 4 September: Dr Yanming Feng, QUT University, visiting for one week to have discussions with SNAPlab researchers.

  • 12-24 September: Assoc. Prof. Dorota Brzezinska, head of the Satellite Positioning and Inertial Navigation (SPIN) Laboratory at The Ohio State University, visiting to jointly develop the SNAPlab-SPIN research agenda.


    Andrew Dempster & Dorota Brzezinska at the Royal National Park (17 September)

  • 10 November: Dr Hiroshi Isshiki, Institute of Mathematical Analysis, Osaka, Japan, visiting for 10 days for discussions with SNAPlab researchers regarding carrier phase ambiguity algorithms.

  • 1 November: Dr Jian Wang, as 12 month Visiting Fellow to work with Jinling Wang on GNSS/INS QC and related research.

  • 29 November - 12 December: Mr Joel van Cranenbroeck, Leica Geosystems, visited to participate in first tests of the Locata technology on the UNSW campus.

  • 6 December: Dr Hua Wang, as 6 month Visiting Fellow to work with Linlin Ge.

Students

  • 2 March: the School welcomed a new PhD student, Mr Fabrizio Tappero, who will be working with Andrew Dempster.
  • 13-16 March: Binghao Li attend the 1st IEEE Int. Conf. on Wireless Broadband & Ultra Wideband Communications, Sydney, Australia, and made one presentation.
  • 24-26 May: Michael Chang, Linlin Ge & Y. Dong attended the 3rd Int. Symp. on Future Intelligent Earth Observing Satellites, Beijing, China, where 4 presentations were made.
  • 26 June: Ravi Babu returned from India, to spend one month working on his PhD thesis research in the SNAPlab. He submitted his thesis for examination on 25 July, and returned to India.
  • 25 July: Steve Hewitson submitted his PhD thesis for examination. 16 November was awarded his PhD. Congratulations!
  • 9 August: the School welcomed a new PhD student, Mr Sana Qaisar, who will be working with Andrew Dempster on FPGA receiver designs. Ms Jinghui Wu commenced her master by research studies on designing a Galileo receiver on the FPGA platform.
  • 23 November: the School welcomed a new PhD student, Mr Han (Gary) Ouyang, who will be working with Jinling Wang on an ARC-funded project into ionospheric studies.

Staff

  • 18-29 January: Jinling Wang attended the U.S. ION National Technical Meeting, Monterey, California, where he presented three papers and co-chaired a session. He then attended a 5-day INS workshop.
  • 18-24 January: Linlin Ge was a guest of the Taiwanese Academy of Science, and visited universities in Tainan and Taichung to discuss DInSAR projects.
  • 1-2 February: Chris Rizos & Samsung Lim attended the National Geospatial Reference Systems Workshop hosted by Geoscience Australia, ANU and the CRC-SI, Canberra, Australia.
  • 1-3 February: Craig Roberts & Thomas Yan travelled to Melbourne to undertake some tests using the Victorian GPSnet.
  • 14-15 February: Chris Rizos & Andrew Dempster attended the Galileo Information Forum, Brisbane, Australia.
  • 20-27 February: Andrew Dempster gave a GPS workshop for Astrium Industries, U.K., as well as visiting the IESSG at the University of Nottingham.
  • 21-23 February: Chris Rizos attended the Munich Satellite Navigation Summit, where he participated as a member of the panel in Session 4 "New Players in the Galileo Concert" ... download report ...
  • 24-28 April: Andrew Dempster and Jinling Wang attended the IEEE/ION PLANS, San Diego, California, and together presented 6 papers.
  • 8-12 May: Chris Rizos attended the IGS Workshop: Perpectives & Visions for 2010 & Beyond, Darmstadt, Germany, where he co-chaired the session "IGS Strategic Planning", and presented one paper. Chris also attended the meeting of the IGS Governing Board on 12 May ... download report ...
  • 22-24 May: Chris Rizos attended the Joint 3rd IAG Symposium Geodesy for Geotechnical and Structural Engineering and the 12th FIG Symposium Deformation Measurements & Analysis, Baden, Austria, where he made 4 presentations including the keynote address ... download report ...
  • 29 May - 2 June: Chris Rizos and Linlin Ge attended the VI Hotine-Marussi Symposium of Theoretical & Computational Geodesy: Challenge & Role of Modern Geodesy, Wuhan, P.R. China, where Chris made 2 presentations. He also visited and made presentations Teaching & Research at the School of Surveying & SIS, UNSW, to the Institute of Seismology, Chinese Earthquake Administration; the State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing (LIESMARS), Wuhan University; the School of Geodesy & Geomatics, Wuhan University; the China University of Geosciences; and the Institute of Geodesy & Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Science ... download report ...
  • 10-12 July: Chris Rizos attended the Asia Oceania Geosciences Society meeting, Singapore, where Chris made 1 presentation, and took the opportunity to also visit colleagues at the Nanyang Technological University.
  • 17-21 July: Staff, graduate students & vistors of SNAPlab (15 people attended) co-authored or presented 21 papers at the International GNSS Society Symposium, Surfers Paradise, Australia.
  • 23-27 July: Linlin Ge attended the Western Pacific Geophysics Meeting (WPGM), Beijing, P.R. China.
  • 28 August: A new research assistant, Mr Nonie Politi, joined the SNAPlab and will work with the "Locata" technology on several projects.
  • 12-13 September: Jinling Wang, Linlin Ge, Peter Mumford, Chris Rizos, Yong Li, Weidong Ding, Michael Chang, Asghar Tabatabaei attended the CRC for Spatial Information annual conference, Perth, Western Australia.
  • 19-21 September: Chris Rizos attended the International Symp. & Exhibition on Geoinformation, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and gave the keynote address.
  • 26-29 September: Chris Rizos, Andrew Dempster, Jinling Wang, Peter Mumford, Yong Li, Joel Barnes, Eamonn Glennon, Asghar Tabatabaei attended the 19th Int. Tech. Meeting of the Satellite Division of the U.S. Inst. of Navigation, Fort Worth, Texas, where they presented 11 papers.

     

    Andrew Dempster, Jan Weiss, Joel Barnes, Peter Mumford, Eamonn Glennon, Chris Rizos, Jinling Wang, Shaowei Han

     

    Jan Weiss, Peter Mumford, Andrew Dempster, Joel Barnes, Yong Li



  • 8-9 October: Chris Rizos attended the Global Geodetic Observing System Workshop 2006 "Towards a Consistent Geodetic Foundation for Earth Obervations", Munich, Germany, where he chaired Session 4 "Towards a Combined Analysis of Geodetic Observations Across the Three Pillars of Geodesy".
  • 9-13 October: Chris Rizos and Craig Roberts attended the FIG Congress and Intergeo Exhibit, Munich, Germany, and presented 3 papers.
  • 18-20 October: Chris Rizos, Jinling Wang, Andrew Dempster, Weidong Ding and Jack Wang attended the 12th IAIN Symposium in association with the Int. Symp. on GPS/GNSS, Jeju, Korea, and presented 6 papers.



    SNAPlab members, and friends (former students & visitors)

  • 13-24 November: Joel Barnes is in South Africa, helping with testing of the Locata technology in an opencut mine environment.
  • 15 November: A new research associate, Dr Jian Wang, from the China University of Mining and Technology, joined the SNAPlab and will work with Jinling Wang modelling and quality control for GPS and GPS/INS integration.
  • 17 November: A new research associate, Dr Yanrui (Gary) Geng, joined the SNAPlab and will work on an ARC-funded project in partnership with Leica-Geosystems.
  • 20-24 November: Linlin Ge, Michael Chang, Alex Ng and Eugene Yu attended the 13th Australasian Remote Sensing & Photogrammetry Conference, Canberra, Australia, and presented 7 papers.
  • 20 November: Jinling Wang, Junqiang Wang, Hiroshi Issiki and Jian Wang visited Geoscience Australia (Canberra) to discuss GPS data processing strategies for long baselines.
  • 5 December: Chris Rizos, keynote speaker in the Geodesy Session at the Australian Institute of Physics National Congress, Brisbane, Australia, 3-8 December.
  • 8-10 December: Chris Rizos attended the IGS Strategic Planning Meeting (8-9 Dec), and the 29th IGS Governing Board Meeting (10 Dec).
  • 21 December - 5 January: Jinling Wang visited several institutions in China & Hong Kong: HK Polytechnic University, Wuhan University, Institute of Geodesy & Geophysics (Chinese Academy of Sciences), Beijing Institute of Surveying & Mapping, Tsinghua University, Beijing University of Aerospace & Aeronautics, Chinese Academy of Surveying & Mapping; and met with many researchers in the field of GNSS/multi-sensor integration technology & applications, as well as making several presentations.

Honours & awards in 2006:

  • Chris Rizos was made an Honorary Professor of Wuhan University, China, on 1 June.

Prof. Jingnan Liu, President of Wuhan University, awarding the honorary professorship to Chris Rizos

  • Chris Rizos was an invited panellist in Session 4 "New Players in the Galileo Concert" for the Munich Satellite Navigation Summit, Munich, Germany, 21-23 February.
  • Chris Rizos was an invited speaker at "GIS Evolutions 2006", Sydney, Australia, 4-5 April.
  • Chris Rizos was a member of the Scientific Committee of the joint 3rd IAG Symposium on "Geodesy for Geotechnical and Structural Engineering" and the 12th FIG Symposium on "Deformation Measurements & Analysis", Baden, Austria, 22-24 May, where he also gave the keynote address.
  • Chris Rizos was a member of the Scientific Committee of the "VI Hotine-Marussi Symposium of Theoretical & Computational Geodesy: Challenge & Role of Modern Geodesy", Wuhan, P.R. China, 29 May - 2 June.
  • Chris Rizos & Andrew Dempster were members of the Technical Advisory Committee of the "IGNSS Symposium on GPS/GNSS", Surfers Paradise, Australia, 17-21 July.
  • Chris Rizos & Jinling Wang were members of the International Programme Committee of the "2006 Int. Symp. on GPS/GNSS & 12th IAIN World Congress", Jeju, Korea, 18-20 October.
  • Chris Rizos is a Session Co-chair at the National Technical Meeting of the U.S. Inst. of Navigation, San Diego, California, 22-24 January 2007.
  • Chris Rizos is a Session Co-chair at the 20th Int. Tech. Meeting of the Satellite Division of the U.S. Inst. of Navigation, Fort Worth, Texas, 25-28 September 2007.
  • Chris Rizos is a member of the Scientific Committee of the Symposium on LBS & TeleCartography, Hong Kong, 8-10 November 2007.
  • Chris Rizos was a Session Co-chair at the "2006 IGS Workshop: Perspectives & Visions for 2010 & Beyond", Darmstadt, Germany, 8-11 May.
  • Chris Rizos was Chair of Session 4 "Towards a Combined Analysis of Geodetic Observations Across the Three Pillars of Geodesy" at the GGOS Workshop, Munich, Germany, 8-9 October.
  • Chris Rizos was an invited speaker at the Australian Institute of Physics Congress, Brisbane, Australia, 3-8 December, presenting Modern Geodesy, its Capabilities and its Contribution to a Greater Understanding of ÒSystem EarthÓ.
  • Chris Rizos is a member of the Governing Board of the International GNSS Service (IGS), 2004-2007, and a member of the Executive Committee since mid-2006.
  • Chris Rizos was a member of the Australian GNSS Coordination Committee (AGCC). The AGCC wound up June 2006.
  • Chris Rizos is a member of the Geodesy Technical Sub-Committee of the Intergovernmental Committee on Surveying & Mapping (ICSM).
  • Chris Rizos is a member of the NSW Board of Surveying & Spatial Information (BOSSI) Spatial Information Committee.
  • Chris Rizos is a member of the Editorial Advisory Council of the new magazine "Inside GNSS", edited by Glen Gibbens (formerly editor of "GPS World").
  • Chris Rizos is an associate editor of the new journal "Journal of Location Based Services", to be published by Taylor & Francis commencing in 2007. The editor-in-chief is Jonathon Raper.
  • Chris Rizos is an editor-in-chief of the new journal "Journal of Applied Geodesy", to be published by de Gruyter commencing in 2007.
  • Chris Rizos was the Australia/Asia representative on the U.S. Institute of Navigation Satellite Division Executive, 2004.9-2006.9.
  • Chris Rizos is a member of the Scientific Committee of the " joint 4th IAG Symposium on "Geodesy for Geotechnical and Structural Engineering" and the 13th FIG Symposium on "Deformation Measurements & Analysis", Lisbon, Portugal, 12-15 May 2008.
  • Linlin Ge was a Session Co-convenor at the Western Pacific Geophysics Meeting (WPGM), Beijing, P.R. China, 24-27 July.
  • Linlin Ge has been appointed Guest Professor of the State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing (LIESMARS), P.R. China, in recognition of his contributions to radar interferometry research.
  • Jinling Wang was a Session Co-chair at the National Technical Meeting of the U.S. Inst. of Navigation, Monterey, California, 18-20 January.
  • Jinling Wang was a Session Co-chair at the 19th Int. Tech. Meeting of the Satellite Division of the U.S. Inst. of Navigation, Fort Worth, Texas, 26-29 September.
  • Jinling Wang has been appointed Guest Professor of the State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing (LIESMARS), P.R. China.
  • Jinling Wang is a member of the Scientific Committee of the "5th Int. Symp. on Mobile Mapping Technology", Padua, Italy, 29-31 May 2007.
  • Andrew Dempster was a Session Co-chair at the 19th Int. Tech. Meeting of the Satellite Division of the U.S. Inst. of Navigation, Fort Worth, Texas, 26-29 September.
  • SNAPlab researchers chaired several sessions at the IGNSS Symposium on GPS/GNSS, Surfers Paradise, Australia, 17-21 July. 20 papers authored or co-authored by staff or graduate students were presented as well as two tutorials.
  • In 2006 the graduate student, Asghar Tabatabaei, was selected winner of the U.S. Institute of Navigation's student scholarship to attend the world's premier GPS/GNSS conference, the 19th International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of the US Institute of Navigation, ION-GNSS2006, Fort Worth, Texas, 26-29 September. This is the 20th US Institute of Navigation student prize/scholarship 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, and 18th & 19th to Michael Chang and Jack Wang in 2005).

    Asghar with his certificate...

  • Eamonn Glennon won a Best Presentation Award ION-GNSS2006, Fort Worth, Texas, 26-29 September, for his paper "Cross correlation mitigation by adaptive orthogonalization using constraints - new results".
  • Binghao Li was awarded his PhD on 20 October. Congratulations!
  • Steve Hewitson was awarded his PhD on 16 November. Congratulations!
  • Ravi Babu was awarded his PhD on 13 December. Congratulations!

SNAP visitors in 2006:

Delegation from the Thai Dept. of Lands, Chulalongkorn University & King Mongkut's Univ. of Technology, January
Prof Guo Huadong, Director of Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, February
Mr Andrew Addy, Spirent Communications (U.K.), February
Prof Günter Nagel, President Bavarian Office of Surveying & Geoinformation, February
Prof Jingnan Liu, President Wuhan Univ. (China), Mr Yanchu Hu, Deputy Director Int. Office Wuhan Univ., March
Dr Shaowei Han, Centrality Communications (USA), April
Prof Baoping Han, Prof Kazhong Deng, Prof Yunjia Wang, Chinese Univ. of Mining & Tech., May
Dr Jimmy Lamance, Locata Corporation, June
Dr Toshiaki Iwata, AIST (Japan), July
Prof Bernd Eisfeller, University of the Federal Armed Forces (Germany), July
Prof Deren Li & Jianya Gong, Wuhan University (China), August
Ms Suqin Wu, Mr Falin Wu, RMIT University, September
Dr Yanming Feng, QUT University, September
Assoc Prof Dorota Brzezinska, OSU (USA), September
Dr Hiroshi Isshiki, Japan, November
Dr Neil Hamilton (FEAST, Canberra) & Lynne Hunter (EU Delegation, Canberra), Mr Bryan Jenkins (GJU), November
Mr Joel van Cranenbroeck (Leica Geosystems), November

Where we'll be in 2006:


SNAP publications (2006):

Click here for list of all SNAP publications according to author or year ...

Journals, Articles, Reports & Books

  • ARSANA, I.M.A., RIZOS, C., & SCHOFIELD, C., 2006. The application of GIS in maritime boundary delimitation: A case study on the Indonesia-East Timor maritime boundary delimitation. In ÒInnovations in 3D Geoinformation ScienceÓ, A. Abdul-Rahman, S. Zlatanova & V. Coors (eds.), Lecture Notes in Geoinformation & Cartography series, Springer-Verlag, ISBN 3-540-36997-X, 698-719. (Download PDF)
  • BABU, R., & WANG, J., 2006. Ultra-tight GPS/INS/PL integration: A system concept and performance analysis. Submitted to GPS Solutions. (Download PDF)
  • DEMPSTER, A.G., 2006. Dilution of Precision in angle-of-arrival positioning systems. Electronics Letters, 42(5), 291-292. (Enquire of author for a copy)
  • DEMPSTER, A.G., 2006. Correlators for L2C: Some considerations. Inside GNSS, 1(7), 32-37. (Download PDF)
  • DING, W., WANG, J., LI, Y., MUMFORD, P., & RIZOS, C., 2006. Time synchronisation error and calibration in integrated GPS/INS systems. Submitted to the Journal of ETRI (Electronics & Telecommunications Research Institute, Korea). (Download PDF)
  • DING, W., WANG, J., RIZOS, C., & KINLYSIDE, D., 2006. Improving adaptive Kalman estimation in GPS/INS integration. Submitted to the Journal of Navigation. (Download PDF)
  • ELY, W.S., 2006. GRAS development, approval and implementation in Australia. PhD thesis, School of Surveying & Spatial Information Systems, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. (Digital Thesis here...)
  • FENG, Y., & RIZOS, C., 2006. Distance-independent TCAR approaches and future global, regional and local GNSS positioning services: Performance perspectives. Submitted to the Journal of Navigation.
  • GE, L., CHANG, H.C., & RIZOS, C., 2006. Mine subsidence monitoring using multi-source satellite SAR images. Submitted to Journal of Photogrammetric Eng. & Remote Sensing. (Download PDF)
  • GLENNON, E.P., DEMPSTER, A.G.. & RIZOS, C., 2006. Feasibility of air target detection using GPS as a bistatic radar. Journal of Global Positioning Systems, 5(1-2), 119-126. (Download PDF)
  • GUSTAFSSON, O., DEMPSTER, A.G., JOHANSSON, K., MacLEOD, M.D., & WANHAMMAR, L., 2006. Simplified design of constant coefficient multipliers. Circuits, Systems, & Signal Processing, 25(2), 225-251.
  • HEWITSON, S., 2006.  Quality control for integrated GNSS and inertial navigation systems.  PhD thesis, School of Surveying & Spatial Information Systems, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. http://www.library.unsw.edu.au/~thesis/adt-NUN/public/adt-NUN20061124.115938/ (Digital Thesis here...)
  • HEWITSON, S., & WANG, J., 2006. GNSS Receiver Autonomous Integrity Monitoring (RAIM) performance analysis. GPS Solutions, 10(3), 155-170. (Download PDF)
  • HEWITSON, S., & WANG, J., 2006. GNSS Receiver Autonomous Integrity Monitoring (RAIM) with a dynamic model. Accepted for publication in the Journal of Navigation. (Download PDF)
  • HEWITSON, S., & WANG, J., 2006. GNSS Receiver Autonomous Integrity Monitoring (RAIM) for multiple outliers. European Journal of Navigation, 4(4), 47-57 . (Download PDF)
  • HU, Y.H., & GE, L., 2006. UNSW at GeoCLEF 2006. In C Peters, P Clough, FC Gey, J Karlgren, B Magnini, DW Oard, Md Rijke & M Stempfhuber (eds), Evaluation of Multilingual and Multi-modal Information Retrieval, Springer Berlin/Heidelberg, ISBN 978-3-540-74998-1, 905-912. (Download PDF)
  • HU, Y.H, LIM, S., & RIZOS, C., 2006. The design and development of a hypertext navigation system for geospatial web content. Submitted to Journal of Spatial Science. (Download PDF)
  • IWATA, T., TAPPERO, F., TAKASAKI, N., IWASAKI, A., IMAE, M., SUZUYAMA, T., MURAKAMI, H., KAWASKI, Y., & DEMPSTER, A.G., 2006. Simulation and ground experiments of remote synchronization system for on-board crystal oscillator of quasi-zenith satellite. Navigation, Journal of the U.S. ION, 53(4), 231-236. (Download PDF)
  • JIN, S.G., PARK, J.U., WANG, J., CHOI, B.K., & PARK, P.H., 2006. Electron density profiles derived from ground-based GPS observations. The Journal of Navigation, 59(3), 395-401. (Download PDF)
  • LEE, H.K., & RIZOS, C., 2006. Position-domain Hatch filter and its performance analysis. Submitted to the IEEE Transactions on Aerospace & Electronic Systems. (Download PDF)
  • LEE, H.K., & RIZOS, C., 2006. Position-domain Hatch filter for kinematic differential GNSS. Accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Aerospace & Electronic Systems. (Download PDF)
  • LEE, H.K., & RIZOS, C., 2006. Wireless-signal map-matching for advanced Location-Based Services. Submitted to the Journal of the Electronics & Telecommunications Research Institute. (Download PDF)
  • LEE, I.S., & GE, L., 2006. The performance of RTK-GPS for surveying under challenging environmental conditions. Earth, Planets and Space, 58(5), 515-522. (Download PDF)
  • LI, B., 2006. Terrestrial mobile user positioning using TDOA and fingerprinting techniques. PhD thesis, School of Surveying & Spatial Information Systems, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. (Digital Thesis here...)
  • LI, B., RIZOS, C., LEE, H.K., & LEE, H.K., 2006. A GPS-slaved time synchronization system for hybrid navigation. GPS Solutions, 10(3), 207-217. (Download PDF)
  • LI, D., WANG, J., & BABU, R., 2006. Enhancing the performance of ultra-tight integration of GPS/PL/INS: A federated filter approach. Journal of Global Positioning Systems, 5(1-2), 96-104. (Download PDF)
  • LI, X., RIZOS, C., GE, L., & AMBIKAIRAJAH, E., 2006. Application of 3D time-frequency analysis in monitoring full-scale structural response. Journal of Geospatial Eng., 8(1-2), 41-51. (Download PDF)
  • LI, X., RIZOS, C., GE, L., AMBIKAIRAJAH, E., TAMURA, Y., & YOSHIDA, A., 2006. Building monitors: The complementary characteristics of GPS and accelerometer for monitoring structural deformation. Inside GNSS, 1(2), 48-55. (Download PDF)
  • LI, Y., DEMPSTER, A.G., LI, B., WANG, J., & RIZOS, C., 2006. A low-cost attitude heading reference system by combination of GPS and magnetometers and MEMS inertial sensors for mobile applications. Journal of Global Positioning Systems, 5(1-2), 88-95. (Download PDF)
  • LI, X., GE, L., AMBIKAIRAJAH, E., RIZOS, C., TAMURA, Y., & YOSHIDA, A., 2006. Full-scale structural monitoring using an integrated GPS and accelerometer system. GPS Solutions, 10(4), 233-247.(Download PDF)
  • LI, Y., RIZOS, C., WANG, J., MUMFORD, P.J., & DING, W., 2006. Sigma-point Kalman filtering for tightly coupled GPS/INS integration. Submitted to Navigation. (Download PDF)
  • LI, Y., WANG, J., & RIZOS, C., 2006. Inertial sensor bias estimation in GPS/INS integration through nonlinear Kalman filtering. Submitted to the Journal of Navigation. (Download PDF)
  • MUMFORD, P.J., PARKINSON, K., & DEMPSTER, A.G., 2006. The ÔNamuruÕ open GNSS research receiver: An update. Coordinates, 2(10), 6-9. (Download PDF)
  • MUMFORD, P.J., PARKINSON, K., & ENGEL, F., 2006. An open GNSS receiver platform architecture. Coordinates, 2(1), 28-31. (Download PDF)
  • PARKINSON, K., DEMPSTER, A.G., MUMFORD, P.J., & RIZOS, C., 2006. FPGA based GPS receiver design considerations. Journal of Global Positioning Systems, 5(1-2), 70-75. (Download PDF)
  • RIZOS, C., 2006. New GNSS developments and their impact on the geospatial industry. GIS Development Asia-Pacific, 10(6), 34-36. (Download PDF)
  • RIZOS, C., 2006. Alternatives to current GPS-RTK services & some implications for CORS infrastructure and operations. Submitted to GPS Solutions. (Download PDF)
  • R†EGER, J.M., 2006. 75 years of change in survey technology. Survey Review, 38(300), 459-473.
  • SMITH, P., & HARVEY, B.R., 2006. Boat hull modelling using Terrestrial Laser Scanners. Submitted to Journal of Applied Geodesy. (Download PDF)
  • TAPPERO, F., DEMPSTER, A.G., & IWATA, T., 2006. Space-based positioning system with no on-board atomic clocks. Coordinates, 11(6), 26-28. (Download PDF)
  • TAPPERO, F., IWATA, T., DEMPSTER, A.G., IMAE, M., IKEGAMI, T., FUKUYAMA, K., IWASAKI, A., & HAGIMOTO, K., 2006. Proposal for a novel remote synchronization system for the on-board crystal oscillator of the Quasi-Zenith Satellite System. U.S Institute of Navigation's Journal of Navigation, 53(4), 219-229. (Download PDF)
  • WANG, H., GE, L., & XU, C., 2006. 3-D coseismic displacement field of 8 October 2005 Kashmir earthquake inferred from satellite radar imagery. Submitted to Earth & Planetary Science Letters. (Download PDF)
  • WANG, Z., RIZOS, C., & LIM, S., 2006. Single epoch algorithm based on Tikhonov regularization for deformation monitoring using single frequency GPS receivers. Survey Review, 38(302), 682-688. (Download PDF)
  • XU, C., WANG, H., GE, L., YONEZAWA, C., & CHENG, P., 2006. InSAR tropospheric delay mitigation by GPS observations: A case study in Tokyo area. Journal of Atmospheric & Solar Terrestrial Physics, 68, 629Ð638. (Download PDF)

Conference Papers

  • AMIN, B., & DEMPSTER, A.G., 2006. Sampling and jitter considerations for GNSS software receivers. Symp. on GPS/GNSS (IGNSS2006), Surfers Paradise, Australia, 17-21 July, CD-ROM procs. (Download PDF)
  • AMIN, B., & DEMPSTER, A.G., 2006. GNSS software receivers: Sampling and jitter considerations for multiple signals. 12th IAIN Congress & 2006 Int. Symp. on GPS/GNSS, Jeju, Korea, 18-20 October, 347-352. (Download PDF)
  • BABU, R., & WANG, J., 2006. Ultra-tight integration of pseudolites and INS. IEEE/ION PLANS, San Diego, California, 25-27 April, 705-714. (Download PDF)
  • BARNES, J., & CRANENBROECK, J.van, 2006. The potential of a ground based transceivers network for water dam deformation monitoring. ICOLD, Barcelona, Spain, 17-21 July. (Download PDF)
  • BARNES, J., RIZOS, C., KANLI, M., & PAHWA, A., 2006. A positioning technology for classically difficult GNSS environments from Locata. IEEE/ION PLANS, San Diego, California, 25-27 April, 715-721. (Download PDF)
  • BARNES, J., RIZOS, C., KANLI, M., & PAHWA, A., 2006. A solution to tough GNSS land applications using terrestrial-based transceivers (LocataLites). 19th Int. Tech. Meeting of the Satellite Division of the U.S. Inst. of Navigation, Fort Worth, Texas, 26-29 September, 1487-1493. (Download PDF)
  • BARNES, J., RIZOS, C., KANLI, M., & PAHWA, A., 2006. Locata: A new positioning technology for classically difficult GNSS environments. Symp. on GPS/GNSS (IGNSS2006), Surfers Paradise, Australia, 17-21 July, CD-ROM procs. (Download PDF)
  • CHANG, H.C., GE, L., & RIZOS, C., 2006. High resolution SAR imagery for surface deformation assessment. 13th Australasian Remote Sensing & Photogrammetry Conf., Canberra, Australia, 20-24 November, Paper No 112. (Download PDF)
  • DING, W., WANG, J., & RIZOS, C., 2006. Stochastic modelling strategies in GPS/INS data fusion process. Symp. on GPS/GNSS (IGNSS2006), Surfers Paradise, Australia, 17-21 July, CD-ROM procs. (Download PDF)
  • DING, W., WANG, J., & RIZOS, C., 2006. Improving covariance based adaptive estimation for GPS/INS integration. 12th IAIN Congress & 2006 Int. Symp. on GPS/GNSS, Jeju, Korea, 18-20 October, 259-264. (Download PDF)
  • DONG, Y., GE, L., & CHANG, H.C., 2006. Radar interferometry for mining subsidence monitoring. 13th Australasian Remote Sensing & Photogrammetry Conf., Canberra, Australia, 20-24 November, Paper No 116. (Download PDF)
  • FAN, S., & WANG, J., 2007. Integration of INS with GPS/Galileo/CNSS: Performance analysis. 5th Int. Symp. on Mobile Mapping Technology, Padau, Italy, 29-31 May.
  • FENG, Y., RIZOS, C., & MOODY, M., 2006. Exploring GNSS performance benefits from multiple satellite systems and multiple carrier signals using existing GPS constellation and measurements. Symp. on GPS/GNSS (IGNSS2006), Surfers Paradise, Australia, 17-21 July, CD-ROM procs. (Download PDF)
  • GE, L., CHANG, H.C., & RIZOS, C., 2006. Monitoring land subsidence using radar interferometry: The challenges. FIG Congress, Munich, Germany, 8-13 October, CD-ROM procs, paper TS29.6. (Download PDF)
  • GLENNON, E.P., & DEMPSTER, A.G., 2006. Cross correlation mitigation by adaptive orthogonalization using constraints - new results. 19th Int. Tech. Meeting of the Satellite Division of the U.S. Inst. of Navigation, Fort Worth, Texas, 26-29 September, 1811-1820. (Download PDF)
  • GLENNON, E.P., BRYANT, R.C., & DEMPSTER, A.G., 2006. Delayed parallel interference cancellation for GPS C/A code receivers. 12th IAIN Congress & 2006 Int. Symp. on GPS/GNSS, Jeju, Korea, 18-20 October, 261-266. (Download PDF)
  • IQBAL, M.U., & LIM, S., 2006. A privacy preserving GPS-based Pay-as-You-Drive insurance scheme. Symp. on GPS/GNSS (IGNSS2006), Surfers Paradise, Australia, 17-21 July, CD-ROM procs. (Download PDF)
  • IWATA, T., KAWASAKI, Y., IMAE, M., SUZUYAMA, T., MURAKAMI, H., TAPPERO, F., DEMPSTER, A.G., TAKASAKI, N., IWASAKI, A., FUKUSHIMA, S., TAKAHASHI, Y., & AMAGAI, J., 2006. Design of tools and plans for remote synchronization system for Quasi-Zenith Satellites. Symp. on GPS/GNSS (IGNSS2006), Surfers Paradise, Australia, 17-21 July, CD-ROM procs. (Download PDF)
  • KOORVARJEE, N., ZHENXIANG, P., HUANG, T.S., & DEMPSTER, A.G., 2006. A-GPS for firefighting. Symp. on GPS/GNSS (IGNSS2006), Surfers Paradise, Australia, 17-21 July, CD-ROM procs. (Download PDF)
  • LAU, W.Y., GE, L., & JIA, X., 2006. Integration of vegetation indices for automated landslide recognition. 13th Australasian Remote Sensing & Photogrammetry Conf., Canberra, Australia, 20-24 November, Paper No 114. (Download PDF)
  • LAU, W.Y., JIA, X., & GE, L., 2006. Landslide prediction using vegetation index, surface temperature and surface moisture content derived from Landsat data. 13th Australasian Remote Sensing & Photogrammetry Conf., Canberra, Australia, 20-24 November, Paper No 118. (Download PDF)
  • LI, B., DEMPSTER, A.G., RIZOS, C., & LEE, H.K., 2006. A database method to mitigate NLOS error in mobilephone positioning. IEEE/ION PLANS, San Diego, California, 25-27 April, 173-178. (Download PDF)
  • LI, B., LEE, H.K., DEMPSTER, A.G., RIZOS, C., & BARNES, J., 2006. Wireless signal map matching for NLOS error mitigation in mobile phone positioning. Symp. on GPS/GNSS (IGNSS2006), Surfers Paradise, Australia, 17-21 July, CD-ROM procs. (Download PDF)
  • LI, B., SALTER, J., DEMPSTER, A.G., & RIZOS, C., 2006. Indoor positioning techniques based on Wireless LAN. 1st IEEE Int. Conf. on Wireless Broadband & Ultra Wideband Communications, Sydney, Australia, 13-16 March, paper 113, CD-ROM procs. (Download PDF)
  • LI, D., & WANG, J., 2006. Kalman filter design strategies for code tracking loop in ultra-tight GPS/INS/PL integration. U.S. Institute of Navigation National Tech. Meeting, Monterey, California, 18-20 January, 984-992. (Download PDF)
  • LI, D., & WANG, J., 2006. A Kalman filter-based tracking loop design for the ultra-tight integration of GPS/INS. IEEE/ION PLANS, San Diego, California, 25-27 April, 291-299. (Download PDF)
  • LI, D., & WANG, J., 2006. Performance analysis of the ultra-tight GPS/INS integration based on an improved Kalman filter design for tracking loops. Symp. on GPS/GNSS (IGNSS2006), Surfers Paradise, Australia, 17-21 July, CD-ROM procs. (Download PDF)
  • LI, Y., MUMFORD, P.J., WANG, J., & RIZOS, C., 2006. Development of a GPS/INS integrated system on a Field Programmable Gate Array platform. 19th Int. Tech. Meeting of the Satellite Division of the U.S. Inst. of Navigation, Fort Worth, Texas, 26-29 September, 2222-2231. (Download PDF)
  • LI, Y., MUMFORD, P.J., WANG, J., RIZOS, C., & DING, W., 2006. Time synchronization analysis of an FPGA based GPS/INS integrated system. Symp. on GPS/GNSS (IGNSS2006), Surfers Paradise, Australia, 17-21 July, CD-ROM procs. (Download PDF)
  • LI, Y., WANG, J., & RIZOS, C., 2006. Comparison of the extended and sigma-point Kalman filters on inertial sensor bias estimation through tight integration of GPS and INS. 19th Int. Tech. Meeting of the Satellite Division of the U.S. Inst. of Navigation, Fort Worth, Texas, 26-29 September, 1625-1634. (Download PDF)
  • LI, Y., WANG, J., RIZOS, C., MUMFORD, P.J., & DING, W., 2006. Low-cost tightly coupled GPS/INS integration based on a nonlinear Kalman filter design. U.S. Institute of Navigation National Tech. Meeting, Monterey, California, 18-20 January, 958-966. (Download PDF)
  • MENG, D., AMBIKAIRAJAH, E., & GE, L., 2006. Use of multiple filters for noise reduction in InSAR images. 13th Australasian Remote Sensing & Photogrammetry Conf., Canberra, Australia, 20-24 November, Paper No 110. (Download PDF)
  • MITCHELL, A., GE, L., CHANG, H.C., HAZELL, L., & MILNE, T., 2006. Airborne laser scanning and radar interferometry for digital topographic modelling and flood risk assessment. 9th Int. High Mountain Remote Sensing Cartography Symp., Graz and Hohe Tauern National Park, Austria, 14-22 September. (Download PDF)
  • MUMFORD, P.J., PARKINSON, K., & DEMPSTER, A.G., 2006. Open GNSS receiver platform. IEEE/ION PLANS, San Diego, California, 25-27 April, 1108-1113. (Download PDF)
  • MUMFORD, P.J., PARKINSON, K., & DEMPSTER, A.G., 2006. Open GNSS receiver research platform. Symp. on GPS/GNSS (IGNSS2006), Surfers Paradise, Australia, 17-21 July, CD-ROM procs. (Download PDF)
  • MUMFORD, P.J., PARKINSON, K., & DEMPSTER, A.G., 2006. The Namuru Open GNSS Research Receiver. 19th Int. Tech. Meeting of the Satellite Division of the U.S. Inst. of Navigation, Fort Worth, Texas, 26-29 September, 2847-2855. (Download PDF)
  • MUMFORD, P.J., LI, Y., WANG, J., RIZOS, C., & DING, W., 2006. A time-synchronization device for tightly coupled GPS/INS integration. Symp. on GPS/GNSS (IGNSS2006), Surfers Paradise, Australia, 17-21 July, CD-ROM procs. (Download PDF)
  • MUSA, T., LIM, S., YAN, T.S., & RIZOS, C., 2006. Mitigation of distance-dependent errors for GPS network positioning. Symp. on GPS/GNSS (IGNSS2006), Surfers Paradise, Australia, 17-21 July, CD-ROM procs. (Download PDF)
  • NG, A., GE, L., & LAU, W.Y., 2006. Weather effect on DEM derived by Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar. 13th Australasian Remote Sensing & Photogrammetry Conf., Canberra, Australia, 20-24 November, Paper No 132. (Download PDF)
  • PARKINSON, K., MUMFORD, P.J., DEMPSTER, A.G., & RIZOS, C., 2006. Improving signal quality in FPGA based GPS receiver designs. Symp. on GPS/GNSS (IGNSS2006), Surfers Paradise, Australia, 17-21 July, CD-ROM procs. (Download PDF)
  • PROGRI, I.F., MAYNARD, J., MICHALSON, W.R., & WANG, J., 2006. The performance and simulation of a C-CDMA pseudolite indoor geolocation system. 19th Int. Tech. Meeting of the Satellite Division of the U.S. Inst. of Navigation, Fort Worth, Texas, 26-29 September, 2465-2477. (Download PDF)
  • PROGRI, I.F., ORTIZ, W., MICHALSON, W.R., & WANG, J., 2006. The performance and simulation of an OFDMA pseudolite indoor geolocation system. 19th Int. Tech. Meeting of the Satellite Division of the U.S. Inst. of Navigation, Fort Worth, Texas, 26-29 September, 3149-3162. (Download PDF)
  • RIZOS, C., 2006. The future of GNSS RTK services & implications for CORS infrastructure. Int. Symp. & Exhibition on Geoinformation 2006, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 19-21 September. (Download PDF)
  • RIZOS, C., & CRANENBROECK, J.van, 2006. Alternatives to current GPS-RTK services. 19th Int. Tech. Meeting of the Satellite Division of the U.S. Inst. of Navigation, Fort Worth, Texas, 26-29 September, 1219-1225. (Download PDF)
  • RIZOS, C., & CRANENBROECK, J.van, 2006. Making GNSS-RTK services pay. FIG Congress, Munich, Germany, 8-13 October, CD-ROM procs, paper TS13.1. (Download PDF)
  • ROBERTS, C.A., 2006. GNSS and the convergence of geodesy and the cadastre in Australia. FIG Congress, Munich, Germany, 8-13 October, CD-ROM procs, paper TS33.3. (Download PDF)
  • R†EGER, J.M., 2006. Overview of geodetic deformation mesurements of dams. Annual Congress of the Australian National Committee on Large Dams (ANCOLD), 20-22 November, Sydney, Australia. (Download PDF)
  • SRIVASTAV, M., LEE, J., BHOLA, N., & DEMPSTER, A.G., 2006. The effectiveness of GPS multipath mitigation techniques on BOC signals. Symp. on GPS/GNSS (IGNSS2006), Surfers Paradise, Australia, 17-21 July, CD-ROM procs. (Download PDF)
  • TABATABAEI, A., 2006. Statistical inference technique in pre-correlation interference detection in GPS receivers. 19th Int. Tech. Meeting of the Satellite Division of the U.S. Inst. of Navigation, Fort Worth, Texas, 26-29 September, 2232-2240. (Download PDF)
  • TABATABAEI, A., & DEMPSTER, A.G., 2006. A novel approach in detection and characterization of CW interference of GPS signal using receiver estimation of CNo. IEEE/ION PLANS, San Diego, California, 25-27 April, 1120-1126. (Download PDF)
  • TABATABAEI, A., DEMPSTER, A.G., THAN, N.T., & BARNES, J., 2006. An application of post-correlation GPS receiver interference detection and characterization. Symp. on GPS/GNSS (IGNSS2006), Surfers Paradise, Australia, 17-21 July, CD-ROM procs. (Download PDF)
  • TABATABAEI, A., DEMPSTER, A.G., & BARNES, J., 2006. Application of post-correlation interference detection and characterization in reconfiguration of GPS receivers. 12th IAIN Congress & 2006 Int. Symp. on GPS/GNSS, Jeju, Korea, 18-20 October, 347-352. (Download PDF)
  • TAPPERO, F., DEMPSTER, A.G., & IWATA, T., 2006. Anomalies influence analysis of the remote synchronization system RESSOX for the Japanese Quasi-Zenith Satellite System. 57th Int. Astronautical Congress, Valencia, Spain, 2-6 October. (Download PDF)
  • TAPPERO, F., IWATA, T., IMAE, M., SUZUYAMA, T., IWASAKI, A., & DEMPSTER, A.G., 2006. Remote control system for the Quasi-Zenith Satellite crystal oscillator based on the two-way time transfer method. Symp. on GPS/GNSS (IGNSS2006), Surfers Paradise, Australia, 17-21 July, CD-ROM procs. (Download PDF)
  • TEK, F.B., DEMPSTER, A.G., & KALE, I., 2006. A colour normalization method for Giemsa-stained blood cell images. IEEE Conf. on Signal Processing & Communications Applications, 17-19 April, 1-4.
  • TEK, F.B., DEMPSTER, A.G., & KALE, I., 2006. Malaria parasite detection in peripheral blood images. Proc. Medical Image Understanding & Analysis, Manchester, UK, 16-17 July. (Download PDF)
  • TEK, F.B., DEMPSTER, A.G., & KALE, I., 2006. Malaria parasite detection in peripheral blood images. Proc. British Machine Vision Conf., Edinburgh, UK, 4-7 September. (Download PDF)
  • WANG, J., BABU, R., LI, D., CHAN, F., & CHOI, J., 2006. Integrating GPS/INS/PL for robust positioning: The challenging issues. 12th IAIN Congress & 2006 Int. Symp. on GPS/GNSS, Jeju, Korea, 18-20 October, 127-132. (Download PDF)
  • WANG, J.J., WANG, J., SINCLAIR, D., & WATTS, L., 2006. High-accuracy airborne GPS/INS positioning augmented by pseudolite. U.S. Institute of Navigation National Tech. Meeting, Monterey, California, 18-20 January, 515-522. (Download PDF)
  • WANG, J.J., WANG, J., SINCLAIR, D., & WATTS, L., 2006. Designing a neural network for airborne GPS/INS/PL integration. Symp. on GPS/GNSS (IGNSS2006), Surfers Paradise, Australia, 17-21 July, CD-ROM procs. (Download PDF)
  • WANG, J.J., WANG, J., SINCLAIR, D., & WATTS, L., 2006. A neural network and Kalman filter hybrid approach for GPS/INS integration. 12th IAIN Congress & 2006 Int. Symp. on GPS/GNSS, Jeju, Korea, 18-20 October, 277-282. (Download PDF)
  • WOO, D., MARIETTE, N., SALTER, J., RIZOS, C., & HELYER, N., 2006. Audio Nomad. 19th Int. Tech. Meeting of the Satellite Division of the U.S. Inst. of Navigation, Fort Worth, Texas, 26-29 September, 3117-3123. (Download PDF)
  • YAN, T.S., 2006. GNSS data protocols: Choice and implementation. Symp. on GPS/GNSS (IGNSS2006), Surfers Paradise, Australia, 17-21 July, CD-ROM procs. (Download PDF)
  • YU, J., JUNG, S., LEE, J., & GE, L., 2006. Aeroplane deformation measurement using industrial photogrammetry. 13th Australasian Remote Sensing & Photogrammetry Conf., Canberra, Australia, 20-24 November, Paper No 100. (Download PDF)
  • ZHANG, K., RIZOS, C., ROBERTS, C.A., KEALY, A., GE, L., WU, F., RAMM, P., HALE, M., KINLYSIDE, D., & HARCOMBE, P., 2006. Sparse or dense: Challenges of Australian network RTK. Symp. on GPS/GNSS (IGNSS2006), Surfers Paradise, Australia, 17-21 July, CD-ROM procs. (Download PDF)

Lectures & presentations at conferences, seminars & workshops (2006):

  • ARSANA, I.M.A., RIZOS, C., & SCHOFIELD, C., 2006. The application of GIS in maritime boundary delimitation: A case study on the Indonesia-East Timor maritime boundary delimitation. Int. Workshop on 3D Geoinformation, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 7-8 August. (Download PDF)
  • BARNES, J., & CRANENBROECK, J.van, 2006. The potential of a ground based transceivers network for water dam deformation monitoring. Int. Conf. Hydropower 2006, Kunming, China, 23-25 October.
  • BARNES, J., & RIZOS, C., 2006. Alternatives to GNSS for Outdoor & Indoor Positioning. Tutorial pres. at Symp. on GPS/GNSS (IGNSS2006), Surfers Paradise, Australia, 18 July.
  • BARNES, J., RIZOS, C., KANLI, M., PAHWA, A., & GREJNER-BRZEZINSKA, D., 2006. Fusion of GPS and L1 Pseudolites for Structural Deformation Monitoring. Pres. at 3rd IAG Symp. on Geodesy for Geotechnical & Structural Engineering, and 12th FIG Symp. on Deformation Measurements, Baden, Austria, 22-24 May.
  • BARNES, J., RIZOS, C., KANLI, M., PAHWA, A., & CRANENBROECK, J.van, 2006. Structural Deformation Monitoring Using LocataÕs Radio-Location Technology. Pres. at 3rd IAG Symp. on Geodesy for Geotechnical & Structural Engineering, and 12th FIG Symp. on Deformation Measurements, Baden, Austria, 22-24 May.
  • BARNES, J., RIZOS, C., PAHWA, A., & CRANENBROECK, J.van, 2006. Structural deformation monitoring of dams using Locata. 12th IAIN Congress & 2006 Int. Symp. on GPS/GNSS, Jeju, Korea, 18-20 October.
  • BLEWITT, G., DOW, J.M., & RIZOS, C., 2006. Preparing the IGS Strategic Plan 2008-2012: Solicitation of ideas on the future needs of scientific and other users. Pres. at IGS Workshop, Darmstadt, Germany, 8-11 May. (Download PDF)
  • CHANG, H.C., GE, L., & RIZOS, C., 2006. Radar Interferometry for Urban Subsidence Monitoring. Pres. at 3rd Int. Symp. on Future Intelligent Earth Observing Satellites, Beijing, China, 24-26 May. (Download PDF)
  • DONG, Y., GE, L., & CHANG, H.C., 2006. Mine Subsidence Monitoring by JERS-1 SAR Interferometry. Pres. at 3rd Int. Symp. on Future Intelligent Earth Observing Satellites, Beijing, China, 24-26 May. (Download PDF)
  • GE, L., 2006. Monitoring Illegal Mining Activities with Satellite Radar Interferometry. Pres. at Hebei Provincial Bureau of Surveying and Mapping, Hebei, P.R. China, 27 July.
  • GE, L., CHANG, H.C., & RIZOS, C., 2006. ERS Tandem Differential Radar Interferometry and its Implications for Earthquake Monitoring. Pres. at Western Pacific Geophysics Meeting, Beijing, P.R. China, 24-27 July.
  • GE, L., WANG, H., RIZOS, C., 2006. Three-Dimensional Surface Displacement Field of the Mw 7.6, 8 October 2005, Kashmir Earthquake Inferred from ENVISAT SAR Amplitude Measurements. Pres. at 3rd IAG Symp. on Geodesy for Geotechnical & Structural Engineering, and 12th FIG Symp. on Deformation Measurements, Baden, Austria, 22-24 May.
  • HIGGINS, M., RIZOS, C., & HEWITSON, S., 2006. Next generation Global Navigation Satellite Systems. FIG Regional Conference, Accra, Ghana, Africa, 8-11 March.
  • KAZEMI, S., and LIM, S., 2006. Cartographic Generalisation Survey: Data Mining for Building an Expert System. First Conference of Geospatial Information Technology and Disaster Management organized by the Center of Excellence in Geomatics Engineering and Disaster Prevention of the University of Tehran, 27-29 December 2006, Iran.
  • KAZEMI, S., and FORGHANI, A., 2006. Risk Assessment Systems and Spatial Information Technologies. First Conference of Geospatial Information Technology and Disaster Management organized by the Center of Excellence in Geomatics Engineering and Disaster Prevention of the University of Tehran, 27-29 December 2006, Iran.
  • KAZEMI, S., 2006. An Intensive Workshop on Introduction to GIS. College of Environmental Design, University of California Berkeley CA USA, November 2006.
  • KAZEMI, S., 2006. Developments in Cartographic Generalization: Systems Perspective. Institute for Urban Research and Developments Visiting Scholars Roundtable Series, Tuesday, 10 October 2006 Wurster Hall, University of California Berkeley CA, http://www.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/events.pl/ZOOM/22769.
  • FORGHANI, A., CARY, C., and KAZEMI, S., 2006. Introduction to Remote Sensing (Module 1). Workshop on "Remote Sensing and GIS Applications in Archaeology", Ancient Cultures, New Technologies Conference 25-26 June 2006, Silpakorn Computer Centre, Bangkok, Thailand.
  • FORGHANI, A., CARY, C., and KAZEMI, S., 2006. Introduction to GIS (Module 2). Workshop on "Remote Sensing and GIS Applications in Archaeology", Ancient Cultures, New Technologies Conference 25-26 June 2006, Silpakorn Computer Centre, Bangkok, Thailand.
  • FORGHANI, A., CARY, C., and KAZEMI, S., 2006. Remote Sensing and GIS Application in Archaeology (Module 3). Workshop on "Remote Sensing and GIS Applications in Archaeology" Ancient Cultures, New Technologies Conference 25-26 June 2006, Silpakorn Computer Centre, Bangkok, Thailand.
  • KAZEMI, S., & LIM, S., 2006. Cartographic Knowledge-Based Approach to Linear Feature Simplification and Displacement. Pres. at the IntergraphÕs Geospatial User Community Conf., Brisbane, Australia, 1-3 March.
  • KAZEMI, S., and LIM, S., 2006. Framework for Digital Generalization of Linear Features: Coastline Spatial Data Simplification. Workshop on Application of GIS in the Ocean and Coastal Studies, 10-12 December 2005, Iranian National Center for Oceanography (INCO), Tehran, Iran.
  • LAU, W.Y., GE, L., JIA, X., 2006. The Feasibility of Using Multi-Temporal Landsat Images for Mining Monitoring: A Preliminary Study. Pres. at 3rd Int. Symp. on Future Intelligent Earth Observing Satellites, Beijing, China, 24-26 May. (Download PDF)
  • LIM, S., 2006. Search Australia in Google Earth. Pres. at the GITA Seminar, Brisbane, Australia, 6 June.
  • LIM, S., 2006. Workshop on Google Earth. Pres. at the 2006 Annual GITA Conf., Melbourne, Australia, 21 August.
  • McDOUGALL, K., WILLIAMSON, I., BELLMAN, C., & RIZOS, C., 2006. Challenges Facing Spatial Information and Geomatics Education in the Higher Education Sector. Pres. at the 5th Trans-Tasman Survey Conf. & 2nd Qld. Spatial Industry Conf., Cairns, Australia, 18-23 September. (Download PDF)
  • MENG, D., AMBIKAIRAJAH, E., & GE, L., 2006. A New Filtering Technique for Interferometric Phase Images. Pres. at 3rd Int. Symp. on Future Intelligent Earth Observing Satellites, Beijing, China, 24-26 May. (Download PDF)
  • RIZOS, C., 2006. School of Surveying & SIS, UNSW. Pres. at the Institution of Surveyors NSW Inc. "Australia Day Seminars", Sydney, Australia, 24 January.
  • RIZOS, C., 2006. GPS for Beginners. Pres. as a CRC for Spatial Information Workshop, Sydney, Australia, 6 February. RIZOS, C., 2006. Principles of GPS. Pres. as a CRC for Spatial Information Workshop, Sydney, Australia, 7 February.
  • RIZOS, C., 2006. Australia & Galileo. Pres. at Session 4 "New Players in the Galileo Concert", Munich Satellite Navigation Summit, Munich, Germany, 21-23 February.
  • RIZOS, C., 2006. Harnessing Location Intelligence to Develop 'Killer Applications'. Pres. at GIS Evolutions 2006, Sydney, Australia, 5 April. (Download PDF)
  • RIZOS, C., 2006. New GNSS Developments and the Impact on Providers and Users of Spatial Data Infrastructure. Pres. at IGS Workshop, Darmstadt, Germany, 8-11 May.
  • RIZOS, C., 2006. From Idea to Reality: The Case Study of a New Deformation Monitoring Technology. Keynote address pres. at 3rd IAG Symp. on Geodesy for Geotechnical & Structural Engineering, and 12th FIG Symp. on Deformation Measurements, Baden, Austria, 22-24 May.
  • RIZOS, C., 2006. The Research Challenges of IAG Commission 4 ÒPositioning and Applications". Pres. at the VI Hotine-Marussi Symposium of Theoretical & Computational Geodesy: Challenge & Role of Modern Geodesy, Wuhan, P.R. China, 29 May - 2 June.
  • RIZOS, C., 2006. Interference: A Threat!? Pres. at the Civil GPS Service Interface Committee (CGSIC) meeting at IGNSS2006, Surfers Paradise, Australia, 17 July.
  • RIZOS, C., 2006. Directions in 'Geopositioning'. Pres. at the CRC-SI 'Virtual Australia' Standing Committee, Melbourne, Australia, 2 November.
  • RIZOS, C., 2006. CRC-SI Status: Where We've Been & Where We're Heading. Pres. at the inaugural Board of Surveying & Spatial Information Conf., UNSW, Sydney, Australia, 8 November.
  • RIZOS, C., 2006. Modern Geodesy, its Capabilities and its Contribution to a Greater Understanding of 'System Earth'. Pres. on 5 December at Australian Institute of Physics Congress, Brisbane, Australia, 3-8 December.
  • ROBERTS, C.A., 2006. GPS for Cadastral Surveying: Practical Considerations. Invited speaker at C.R. Kennedy Seminar on GPS for Cadastral Surveying, Melbourne, Australia, 2 February.
  • ROBERTS, C.A., 2006. RTK-GPS: Concepts & Operations. Pres. workshop at Sydney, Australia, 9-10 February.
  • ROBERTS, C.A., 2006. GPS for Cadastral Surveying: Practical Considerations. Invited speaker at ISNSW, Cumberland Group meeting, Sydney, Australia, 22 February.
  • ROBERTS, C.A., 2006. School of Surveying and Spatial Information Systems: A Snapshot. Invited speaker at the New South Wales Country Surveyors Association meeting, Sydney, Australia, 6 April.
  • ROBERTS, C.A., 2006. GPS for Cadastral Surveying: Practical Considerations. Invited speaker at Uni of Newcastle, GPS for Cadastral Surveying Seminar, Newcastle, Australia, 29 June.
  • ROBERTS, C.A., 2006. GPS for Cadastral Surveying: Practical Considerations. Invited speaker at ISNSW, St George Group meeting, Sydney, Australia, 29 June.
  • ROBERTS, C.A., LIM, S., YAN, T., & RIZOS, C., 2006. Advanced Satellite & Terrestrial Technologies for Land Surveyors. Workshop for the Assoc. of Authorised Land Surveyors Malaysia at UNSW, Sydney, Australia, 20-24 November.
  • ROTHACHER, M., PLAG, H.-P., NEILAN, R., & RIZOS, C., 2006. The Global Geodetic Observing System (GGOS): A Project of the IAG. Pres. at the 3rd Asia Oceania Geoscience Society Meeting, Singapore, 10-14 July.
  • WANG, J., 2006. GPS/Pseudolite/INS Integration for Positioning and Navigation. Pres. at Australian Research Centre for Aerospace Automation (ARCAA), School of Engineering Systems, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia, 14 July.
  • WANG, J., 2006. Research and Teaching Activities in SSIS, Dept. of Geoinformatics, University of Seoul, Seoul, South Korea, 13 October.
  • WANG, J., 2006. Integration of GPS/INS with Pseudolites for Positioning Applications, Dept. of Electronic Engineering, Konkuk University, Seoul, South Korea, 13 October.
  • WANG, J., 2006. Research Activities in SSIS, Dept. of Electronics Engineering, Chungnam National University, Daejeon, South Korea, 16 October.
  • WANG, J., 2006. Research and Teaching Activities in SSIS, Dept. of Civil Engineering, Changwon National University, Kyongnam, South Korea, 17 October.
  • WANG, J., 2006. Integration of GPS/Pseudolite/INS, School of Geodesy & Geomatics,Wuhan University, P.R. China, 27 December.
  • WANG, J., & LI, Y., 2006. Integration of GPS and INS: Principles, Implementation, and Applications. Tutorial pres. at Symp. on GPS/GNSS (IGNSS2006), Surfers Paradise, Australia, 18 July.
  • WANG, J., LI, Y., & MUMFORD, P., 2006. Integration of GPS and INS: Principles, Implementation, and Applications. Tutorial pres. at UNSW, Sydney, Australia, 9 November.
  • WANG, H., XU, C.J., GE, L., & DU, Z.X., 2006. 3-D Displacement Field of the 8 October 2005 Kashmir Earthquake Inferred from ASAR Amplitude Measurements. Pres. at VI Hotine-Marussi Symposium of Theoretical & Computational Geodesy: Challenge & Role of Modern Geodesy, Wuhan, P.R. China, 29 May - 2 June.


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