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. There were approximately 260 participants, 27% from overseas.... see photo gallery...

26 November 2007 - the School welcomed several undergraduate students under the "Taste of Research" scheme, to work with SNAP Lab researchers over the 10-week summer period. Their names, and their projects are: Mr Joon Wayn Cheong, "Using WiFi for positioning"; Mr Xin Zhang, "A low-cost portable navigation system combining satellite navigation and MEMS inertial sensors"; Mr Timothy Wong, "Implementaion of a digital control system for navigation applications"; Mr Xiaowei Wei, "Atmospheric effects in a Locata Network".

4-10 November 2007 - Chris Rizos attended the Combined Int. Symp. & Exhibition on Geoinformation & GNSS, Johor Bahru, Malaysia, 5-7 November, and gave a keynote address, and then attend the 4th Int. Symp. on LBS & Telecartography, Hong Kong, 8-10 November, where he gave one of the keynote addresses as well as presented another paper. Jinling Wang also attended the Johor Bahru symposium...

25-28 September 2007 - Chris Rizos, Andrew Dempster, Samsung Lim, Nonie Politi, and graduate students Weidong Ding, Faisal Khan, Asghar Tabatabaei, Eamonn Glennon, attended the 20th Int. Tech. Meeting of the Satellite Division of the U.S. Institute of Navigation, Fort Worth, Texas, known as the annual "ION-GNSS" conference - the world's biggest conference devoted to navigation and positioning. This is the best ever representation at ION-GNSS by researchers from the SNAP Lab - authoring, or co-authoring, 15 papers (including 3 student prize winners)!

24 September 2007 - ARC successes: Both ARC-Linkage grants - "Locating Interference to GPS: Protecting the World's Aircraft landing Systems" (CIs, Andrew Dempster & Asghar Tabatabaei) and "Measurement of Paddock Scale Pasture Biomass Using Synthetic Aperture Radar Remote Sensing" (CI, Linlin Ge) - were successful. Both commence in 2008, with over $350K funding per year for 3 years. In addition, an ARC-LIEF grant "High Resolution Airborne Radar for Environmental Research: Soil Moisture, Vegetation, Salinity and Terrain Mapping" (CIs, Linlin Ge & others) was also successful. Two ARC-Discovery grants were successful - "Dynamic Autonomous Integrity Monitoring and Prediction for Multi-Constellation Satellite Navigation Receivers" (CI, Jinling Wang) and "Environmental Geodesy: Variations of Sea Level and Water Storage in the Australian Region" (CIs, Chris Rizos & others at ANU, CUT, UTas) ...

4-7 September 2007 - Chris Rizos attended the second meeting of the International Committee on GNSS (ICG-02), organised by the U.N. Office of Outer Space Affairs, Bangalore, India...

23 August 2007 - The UNSW designed NAMURU V2 boards were delivered (and more are on their way), a second generation FPGA-based GPS/GNSS receiver board to support a wide range of research activity including Galileo tracking, L1 & L2 GPS tracking, interference studies, multi-sensor integration, and more... see http://www.dynamics.co.nz/gpsreceiver

20-22 August 2007 - Chris Rizos co-chaired a meeting of the GRAS Algorithm Advisory Group in Melbourne, to review the algorithms and software development for the Ground-based Regional Augmentation System (GRAS)...

2-13 July 2007 - Chris Rizos, Jinling Wang, Linlin Ge, Michael Chang & AlexNg attended the XXIV Congress of the International Union of Geodesy & Geophysics, Perugia, Italy, and presented several papers.... Chris Rizos was installed Vice President of the IAG...

12-16 June 2007 - Andrew Dempster visited several universities and private companies in India to discuss potential research collaboration...

11-19 June 2007 - Charles Toth visited from the OSU Center for Mapping, to undertake multi-sensor hardware integration tests with Yong Li and other SNAP Lab researchers...

28 May - 11 June 2007 - Linlin Ge was invited by the State Education Committee of China as a speaker to participate in the Spatial Information "Roadshow" in the three Northeast Provinces of China (Heilongjiang, Liaoning, and Jilin). He gave talks on radar interferometry for urban subsidence monitoring at a number of universities...

28-31 May 2007 - Chris Rizos and Jinling Wang attended the 5th International Symposium on Mobile Mapping Technology, Padua, Italy.... download report ...

24-30 May 2007 - Andrew Dempster visited the Center for Mapping, Ohio State University (USA), and participated in the IEEE Int. Symp. on Circuits & Systems (ISCAS), New Orleans, Louisiana, where he chaired a special session on software GNSS receivers....

17 May 2007 - Three graduate students, Bilal Amin, Weidong Ding & Faisal Khan, were selected winners of the U.S. Institute of Navigation's student scholarship to attend the world's premier GPS/GNSS conference, the 20th International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of the US Institute of Navigation, ION-GNSS2007, Fort Worth, Texas, 25-28 September. These are the 21st, 22nd & 23rd US Institute of Navigation 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, 18th & 19th to Michael Chang and Jack Wang in 2005, 20th to Asghar Tabatabaei in 2006). A record 18 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.

14-18 May 2007 - Linlin Ge and Craig Roberts attended the Spatial Sciences Institute International Biennial Conference, Hobart, Australia, where they made two presentations.... Jack Wang also attended and made a presentation. ... download report ...

13-17 May 2007 - Chris Rizos attended the FIG Working Week, Hong Kong, where he made two presentations....

18 April 2007 - Visit by a delegation from the U.S., consisting of Mr Ralph Braibanti & Ms Alice Wong (US State Dept.), Mr James Miller & Mr James Madon (NASA), Mr Jason Kim (NOAA), and Mr Casey Mace (US Consulate-General, Sydney)....

16-17 April 2007 - Chris Rizos attended the 3rd Workshop for Space, Aeronautical & Navigational Electronics, Perth, Australia, where he chaired one session and gave one invited presentation....

28 March 2007 - UNSW and the State Bureau of Surveying & Mapping (SBSM), China, signed a 5 year agreement for SSIS to conduct annual training courses for SBSM administrators, and to pursure opportunities for collaborative research projects... click for announcement...

27 March 2007 -- Asghar Tabatabaei is a winner of a student prize to attend The European Navigation Conf. (GNSS2007), Geneva, Switzerland, 29 May - 1 June...

16 March 2007 --SNAP Lab is proud to announce that two PG students have succeeded in acquiring the GIOVE-A (Galileo test satellite) and GPS-L2C signals using the "Namuru" FPGA GPS receiver board ... download article ...

6-8 March 2007 -- Chris Rizos and Andrew Dempster participated in Session 7 "Why Galileo for Australian Industry?" of the Munich Satellite Navigation Summit, Munich, Germany ... download report ...

12-14 February 2007 -- as part of the School's Golden Jubilee celebrations, we hosted the "Postgraduate Intersections: Commemorative Annual Research Seminars", to celebrate the research achievments of the School's PG alumni and staff. Click here for Speakers' Program...photo gallery(1)...photo gallery(2)...

4-16 February 2007 -- Andrew Dempster visited UNSW-Asia (Singapore), and also Univ. of Westminster and Univ. of Nottingham (U.K.), to make several presentations. Also gave a GPS workshop to Astrium (U.K.) ...

22-24 January 2007 -- Jinling Wang attended the National Technical Meeting of the U.S. Inst. of Navigation, San Diego, California, where he was a session co-chair, and presented two papers ...

21 December 2006 - 5 January 2007 -- 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...

 

 

 

Information contained within this site is subject to important disclaimers, please ensure that you read and understand these before using this site.

Page created 31/12/2006
and last updated