8-10 December 2006 --
Chris Rizos attended the IGS Strategic
Planning Meeting (8-9 Dec), and the 29th IGS Governing Board
Meeting (10 Dec). ..
20-24 November 2006 --
Linlin Ge, Michael Chang, Alex Ng and
Eugene Yu attended the 13th Australasian
Remote Sensing & Photogrammetry Conference, Canberra,
Australia, and presented 7 papers ...
21 November 2006 --
SNAPlab hosted a workshop organised by
the Galileo Joint Undertaking and FEAST
to discuss opportunities for Australian GNSS researchers to
participate in the EU's Framework 7 Programme ...
7 November 2006 --
Inaugural 'Location Forum', where the
PG students presented their research work, and selected Australian
companies who develop Location Determination Technologies discussed
their products...click
to see student presentations...photo
gallery.....
18-20 October 2006 --
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...

Jinling Wang, Chris Rizos, Andrew Dempster, Hung-Kyu Lee,
Toshiaki Tsujii, Horng-Yue Chen, Ben Soon, Hyung Keun Lee, unknown,
Xiaoming Chen
9-13 October 2006 --
Chris Rizos and Craig Roberts attended
the FIG Congress and Intergeo
Exhibition, Munich, Germany, and presented 3 papers. ...
26-29 September 2006 --
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
19-21 September 2006 --
Chris Rizos attended the International
Symp. & Exhibition on Geoinformation, Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia, and gave the keynote address ...
12-24 September 2006 --
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 ...
12-13 September 2006 --
Jinling Wang, Linlin Ge, Peter Mumford, Chris Rizos, Yong Li,
Michael Chang, Weidong Ding, Asghar Tabatabaei attend the CRC
for Spatial Information annual conference, Perth, Western Australia
...
17-21 July 2006 --
15 staff, graduate students & vistors of SNAPlab attended
the International GNSS Society Symposium, Surfers Paradise,
Australia, and co-authored or presented 21 papers...see
list of presentations...
14 July 2006 --
SNAPlab has produced a Research Brochure that describes the
range of research topics being undertaken, identifying opportunities
for potential graduate students and collaboration with external
partners. Leica-Geosystems has sponsored the publication ...email
us for a hardcopy, or download
a PDF version
here
10-14 July 2006 --
Chris Rizos attended the Asia
Oceania Geosciences Society meeting, Singapore, where he
made 1 presentation, and took the opportunity to also visit
colleagues at the Nanyang Technological University ...
7 July 2006 --
Andrew Dempster, Chris Rizos and Joel Barnes, were awarded a
3yr ARC-Linkage grant application: "Structural Deformation
Monitoring Integrating a New Wireless Positioning Technology
with GPS", in the 2006 2nd round, with Industry partners
Leica Geosystems & Locata Corporation ...
details...
see also announcement of Leica-Locata
agreement...
5-7 July 2006 --
SNAPlab researchers welcomed several colleagues from the Dept.
of Electronic and Communication Engineering, Polytecnico di
Torino, to instigate collaborative research into Galileo &
other location technologies . ..
1 June 2006 --
At a ceremony chaired by Prof. J. Liu, President of Wuhan University,
China, Chris Rizos was made an Honorary Professor of Wuhan University
... click
here ...
29 May - 2 June 2006 --
Chris Rizos and Linlin Ge attend the VI
Hotine-Marussi Symposium of Theoretical & Computational
Geodesy: Challenge & Role of Modern Geodesy, Wuhan,
P.R. China, where Chris made 2 presentations ...
download
report ...
22-24 May 2006 --
Chris Rizos attended the Joint
3rd IAG Symposium on "Geodesy for Geotechnical and
Structural Engineering" and the 12th
FIG Symposium on "Deformation Measurements & Analysis",
Baden, Austria, where he made 4 presentations ...
download
report ...
15 May 2006 --
Asghar Tabatabaei, was
selected winner of the U.S. Institute of Navigation's student
scholarship to attend the world's premier GPS 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). Eight SNAPLab papers were
selected for presentation at ION-GNSS2006...
8-12 May 2006 --
Chris Rizos attended the IGS
Workshop: Perspectives & Visions for 2010 & Beyond,
Darmstadt, Germany, where he co-chaired the session "IGS
Strategic Planning", and presented two papers. Chris also
attended the meeting of the IGS Governing Board on 12 May ...
download report
...
25-27 April 2006 --
Andrew Dempster and Jinling Wang attended the IEEE/ION
PLANS conference, San Diego, California, and presented 6
papers ...
7 April 2006 - Dr Shaowei Han, VP Engineering
of Centrality Communications, and ex-staff member and postgraduate
student of SNAP, visited SSIS and made a presentation on his
current research work
...
20 March 2006 - 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 ... an MOU was signed...
21-23 February 2006 --
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 ...
17 February 2006 --
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 ...
13 February 2006 --
Introducing 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 and will support new
research into GNSS receiver design.
18-27 January 2006 --
Jinling Wang attended the U.S. ION National Technical Meeting,
Monterey, California, 18-20 January, where he presented three
papers and co-chaired a session ... he then attended a 5-day
GPS/INS integration workshop ...
18-24 January 2006 --
Linlin Ge was a guest of the Taiwanese Academy of Sciences,
and universities in Tainan & Taichung, where he discussed
possible collaboration on the use of DInSAR for geodynamic studies
...