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Keith D. McDonald
 |
is
Chairman and Technical Director of NavtechGPS. He was Scientific
Director of the Dept. of Defense Navigation Satellite Program during the
initial development of GPS and has remained continuously involved. He
has taught GPS courses in the US and internationally for over 25 years,
was a member of the National Academy of Science/National Research
Council Committee on the Future of GPS and is a Fellow of both the UK
Royal ION and the US ION. |
| Dennis Akos, Ph.D.
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Dennis M.
Akos, Ph.D., completed the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering at
Ohio University in the Avionics Engineering Center. His research
interests include: GNSS, Software Defined Radio (SDR), applied/digital
signal processing, and Radio Frequency (RF) design. Currently, he is
with the Aerospace Engineering Science Department at University of
Colorado at Boulder, and is a visiting professor at Luleå University as
well as a consulting professor with Stanford University. |
Penina
Axelrad, Ph.D.
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is
Associate Professor of Aerospace Engineering Sciences at the
University of Colorado, where she teaches courses on GPS technology
and conducts research on GPS-based orbit and attitude determination
for satellites. She has been involved in GPS since 1985, and was
previously a systems engineer in the GPS Systems Organization at
Stanford Telecom, where she developed a variety of GPS receivers. She
is the recipient of the 1996 AIAA Sperry Award. Dr.
Axelrad is the current Chair of the ION Satellite Division, having
served previously as the General Chair of ION GPS-97 and Technical
Program Chair for the ION GPS-96, and several ION council positions.
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Staffan Backén,
M.Sc.
 |
is currently pursuing the
Ph.D. degree at Luleå University of Technology in Luleå, Sweden in the
field of GNSS antenna arrays. His research interests include array
processing, RF design, weak signal processing and software defined
radio. He will be co-teaching with his Ph.D. advisor, Dr. Dennis Akos. |
|
John Betz, Ph.D.
 |
is a Fellow of the MITRE
Corp., and a Fellow of the US ION. He has contributed to modernized GPS
signal designs, GPS receiver processing and has contributed to the
interoperability between GPS and GALILEO, GLONASS, and QZSS. He is a
member of the USAF Scientific Advisory Board and received the US State
Dept Superior Merit Award for his work in US-EU negotiations on GPS and
Galileo. He is NavtechGPS' Technical Advisor for Receiver Design. |
|
Kai Borre,
Ph.D.
|
has been a professor with
the Department of Communication Technology at Aalborg University in
Denmark since 1976. He received his doctoral degree from Graz University
of Technology in Austria in 1986. He has authored or coauthored seven
books. In 1998, he founded the Danish GPS Center. Dr. Kai Borre has
coded several hundred Matlab® files for GPS related problems and the
files are available to the public. |
| Peter
Boulton
|
is a
Vice President of Technology at Spirent Communications Wireless &
Positioning, responsible for all technical aspects of its GNSS
simulation products, with which he has been associated for 18 years. His
GNSS testing experience covers all areas from military to commercial and
includes GPS, GLONASS, WAAS and LAAS plus inertial. He has recently
supported the modeling of weak signal testing for high sensitivity GPS
receivers and is currently engaged in the introduction of modernized GPS
and Galileo emulation, and testing in ultra high dynamic and
ultra-tightly coupled GNSS/Inertial environments. |
| Franck
Boynton
|
is
Vice President of Technical Sales for Navtech GPS Supply, specializing
in off-the-shelf system integrations. Experienced in sales to military
and civilian organizations, Mr. Boynton is certified by several
manufacturers on their high accuracy GPS receiver systems and OEM
products. He has been working with GPS since 1988. He is Navtech’s
Technical Advisor for GPS Equipment and Applications. |
| Michael
S. Braasch, Ph.D.
|
is
an Associate Professor of E.E., and Research Scientist with the
Avionics Engineering Center, at Ohio University. His research includes
GPS receiver design, GPS/INS integration, and multipath mitigation. He
served as technical advisor to the FAA and ICAO in precision approach
and landing systems, and is recognized internationally for his work on
characterizing the effects of multipath on GPS and GNSS accuracy. He
is co-originator of the GPS Multipath Limiting Antenna (MLA) for LAAS.
As a founder of GPSoft, a GPS software design company, Dr. Braasch has
been instrumental in the development of both the SatNav Toolbox and
the INS Toolbox for MATLAB™. |
|
Adrian Browne, M.A., M.BA.
 |
was educated at Cambridge
University and the University of Toronto. He has consulted to IBM and
Apple Computer and is currently a registered developer with Microsoft
and RIM. Adrian is an expert in linking GPS devices to all types of
computing devices (desktop, tablets and pocket computers) and merging
this information with data taken from other devices such as RFID
readers. He has extensive experience in real time datum/grid
conversions, in evaluating differential and WAAS data, and in
transferring data to Geographic Information Systems such as “ArcView”.
In his latest work he has been specializing in using speech engines in
pocket computers.
In 1974, Adrian Browne started his current computer consulting business
that focuses on designing and creating user friendly business
applications. He started developing GPS software applications in 1993.
In 1995, he was one of the founders and Chief Technical Officer of
FieldWorker Products, a company that specializes in spatially related
field data collection and its integration and use in the GIS field. |
|
Thomas
Burger, Ph.D. 
|
is
Navigation Signal Engineer for the European Space Agency Galileo Project
Office. His main task is the definition and implementation of the
Galileo navigation signal-in-space. Mr. Burger joined the ESA Galileo
system team in 2005. He worked from 2003 to 2005 on the search-and-
rescue SAR-Lupe project and for 6 years at Astrium GmbH,
Friedrichshafen, Germany, as a navigation systems technology and signal
processing expert.
Mr. Burger holds a Diplom-Ingenieur degree in communications engineering
from the University of Karlsruhe in Germany and a Dr.-Ing. degree in
electrical engineering from the University of Darmstadt, Germany. |
| M.
Elizabeth Cannon, Ph.D.
|
is
Professor and Dept. Head of Geomatics Engineering at the University of
Calgary. Involved in GPS research and development since 1984, she has
worked extensively on the integration of GPS and inertial navigation
systems for precise positioning. Dr. Cannon received the Johannes Kepler
Award in 2001, is a Past President of the ION and is now the ION
Satellite Division Chair. She is Navtech's GPS Precise Positioning
Technical Advisor. |
| Kees
de Jong, Ph.D.
|
has
been involved in precise positioning with GPS since 1985. He is
currently with the engineering firm Fugro in The Netherlands, where he
is responsible for the development of integrated positioning systems.
From 1998 until 2002 he was an assistant professor at the Department
of Mathematical Geodesy and Positioning at Delft University of
Technology, where he did research on real-time GNSS positioning,
ambiguity resolution and quality control. From 1995 to 1997 he was a
senior software engineer at Philips Electronics, where he was
responsible for the integration of GPS and dead-reckoning sensors in a
commercial car navigation system, which came on the market in 1996.
Prior to joining Philips, he developed GPS and speech coding software
for a number of companies in The Netherlands and Japan. |
|
Gary Delaney
|
is the
Chief GPS Consultant with GPS Ireland Consultants Ltd. Formerly, he
served with the Irish Navy for 20 years as a Navigation Specialist. He
was awarded an MSc, with Distinction, in Navigation Technology from
Nottingham University, UK, in 1997. He was also awarded the (Royal
Institute of Navigation) RIN medal and prize as best student. Mr.
Delaney has more than ten years experience teaching and supporting GPS
for diverse applications from land surveying to GIS applications and has
acted as an external lecturer at a variety of colleges and universities.
Mr. Delaney is a Fellow of the RIN and is currently Secretary of the
Ireland Branch. Through GPS Ireland, Gary offers a wide variety of
courses in the practical applications of GPS and GNSS. |
|
Bernd Eissfeller, Ph.D.
|
is Full
Professor of Navigation and Vice-Dir. of the Institute of Geodesy and
Navigation at the Univ. of Federal Armed Forces, Munich. He teaches and
researches in the field of GPS/Galileo, pseudolites, inertial
technology, signal processing and navigation. He previously was a
project manager at Kayser-Threde GmbH, Munich in mission analysis and
satellite navigation. His research is now on software receivers, indoor
positioning and deep GPS/INS integration. |
Marco
Falcone
|
is
System Engineering Manager of the Galileo Project Office in Noordwijk,
European Space Agency (The Netherlands). He holds a Master’s Degree
in Computer Science from the University of Pisa, Italy and a
Master’s Degree in Space Systems Engineering from the University of
Delft, The Netherlands. His main task is to define the Galileo
requirements and interfaces at system level and to ensure that the
Galileo system fulfills the required navigation and integrity
performance objectives. |
|
Jörg Hahn, Ph.D.
|
received
his M.Sc. in Physics and Mathematics from the Belorussian State
University, Minsk in 1993 and his Ph.D. in Engineering Sciences from the
University FAF Munich in 1999. After being with DLR’s Oberpfaffenhofen
navigation group for almost 8 years he joined in April 2000 ESA’s
Galileo Project Office in Noordwijk as a navigation system engineer. He
is now primarily in charge of all Galileo End-to-End Performance. |
| Christopher
J. Hegarty, D.Sc.
|
has been
involved with aviation applications of GPS at MITRE’s Center for
Advanced Aviation System Development since 1992. He is Chair of RTCA’s
Program Management Committee, co-chair of RTCA SC-159 (GPS), and
President of the ION. He was a recipient of the 1998 ION Early
Achievement Award, 2005 ION Johannes Kepler Award, 2005 U.S. State
Department Superior Honor Award, and 2006 Worcester Polytechnic
Institute Hobart Newell Award. He is NavtechGPS' GPS Modernization
Technical Advisor. |
| Günter
W. Hein, Ph.D.
|
is Full
Professor and Director of the Institute of Geodesy and Navigation at the
University of Federal Armed Forces, Munich. His major areas of research
are in precise GPS navigation, GPS/INS integration and Galileo. He is a
member of the European Commission’s Galileo Signal Task Force. Dr. Hein
received the ION’s prestigious Johannes Kepler Award in 2002. He is
Navtech’s Technical Advisor for Galileo. |
| Stephen
Heppe, D.Sc.
|
is VP
of Avionics for the Insitu Group, specializing in miniature robotic
aircraft. His experience in satellite and terrestrial communications
includes VHF, UHF, L-band, S-band, C-band, K-band, 60 GHz and optical
systems. He has been involved in GPS and DGPS systems since 1985, and
is currently working on DGPS guidance and RF communications for UAV’s.
He is Navtech’s Technical Advisor for DGPS & Communications Links. |
|
Martin Hollreiser, Ph.D.
|
works
for the ESA Galileo Project heading the User and Ground Receiver
Section. Previously he led the Microelectronics Section in the ESTEC
Technical Directorate. Since 1983 his R&D activities have focused on
integrated CDMA transceiver design, GPS/GLONASS and Galileo receiver
design and VLSI payload signal processing for satellite communications
systems. He holds a Ph.D. degree in E.E.and was visiting scientist at
Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburg, PA. Dr. Hollreiser is a Sr
Member of the IEEE and a member of the ION. |
|
Patrick Hwang, Ph.D.
 |
is a
Principal Systems Engineer with the Advanced Technology Center of
Rockwell Collins in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He has over 25 years
experience in applied Kalman filtering and advanced navigation
systems design and holds various system technology patents.
Recently, he has been developing concepts for indoor navigation, for
highly-accurate time transfer systems and for aircraft novel
integrity-optimized RAIM algorithms.
Dr. Hwang is a past winner of Engineer of The Year and Inventor of
The Year awards at Rockwell Collins. He has authored or co-authored
many technical papers on GPS and Kalman filtering applications and
co-authored the textbook Introduction to Random Signals and Applied
Kalman Filtering, 3rd edition with Prof. R. Grover Brown of Iowa
State University. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in
electrical engineering from Iowa State University. |
|
Clifford W. Kelley, Ph.D.
 |
holds a Ph.D. in
Industrial and Systems Engineering from the University of Southern
California. In 1995, he developed GPS receiver software and designed
and built GPS hardware for it. He has offered the software as an
open source project since 2001. Since joining the Navigation Systems
group at Boeing in 1997 he has worked on the GPS-IIA and GPS-IIF
satellite programs, and the GPS-III satellite requirements
definition studies. |
|
Hans
Kunze
 |
has been involved with
GPS and GNSS technology and its applications for over 20 years, and is
heading up KLA Global, a product marketing firm. He follows trends in
international, military and commercial markets. He previously held
positions in project management at the GPS JPO, and in product
marketing, international business development and general management
at various GPS manufacturers. He has presented at numerous seminars
and conferences such as ION, World ITS Congress, PTTI, and IGS. |
| Gérard
Lachapelle, Ph.D.
|
holds
the CRC/iCORE Chair in Wireless Location in the Dept. of Geomatics, the
U. of Calgary, where he is responsible for teaching and research in the
area of wireless location, positioning and navigation, with emphasis on
GPS. He has received numerous awards for his work, including the
Johannes Kepler award in 1997 and Fellowship of the Institute of
Navigation in 2003. Dr. Lachapelle is Navtech’s Technical Board Member
for High Sensitivity GPS. |
| Larry
Levy, Ph.D.
|
In
Memoriam
Dr.
Larry Levy established our intensive course on Kalman Filtering in
November of 1989. Some of you may have been there! We are extremely
sorry to report that Larry died on April 21, 2008 after a long illness.
We will miss his excellent, vigorous and always exciting teaching style.
Larry was a teacher in the truest sense, always caring that his class
was “with him” and doing his best to get across the obtuse technical
concepts he was portraying in the clearest manner possible. Larry was
the finest of men and his joyful spirit remains with us. |
| Demetrios
Matsakis,
Ph.D.
|
has
worked on how time scales are generated, how clocks are steered, Cs
atomic fountains, Hg-based trapped-ion clocks, pulsars, VLBI (Very Long
Baseline Interferometry), CEI (Connected Element Interferometry),
atmospheric modeling, water vapor radiometers, maser amplifiers, and
molecular radio astronomy. He studied under Dr. Charles Townes at UC
Berkeley. He is President of the International Astronomical Union’s
Commission on Time. He has published over 100 papers, and teaches in a
private capacity. |
|
Allen Morrison
|
is an
Assistant Vice President for Technology for SAIC. For 38 years he has
worked extensively in the application of digital signal processing
techniques in submarine and satellite comm systems and GPS-based
systems. For 15 years he has been involved in the requirements
definition, simulation, evaluation, acquisition, fabrication, and
testing of many variants of adaptive systems to support NAVWAR
objectives for enhancing GPS performance in the presence of
interference. |
Robert
Nelson, Ph.D.
|
is
President of Satellite Engineering Research Corporation, a consulting
firm in Bethesda, Maryland. He holds a Ph.D in physics from the
University of Maryland. Dr. Nelson is co-author of the textbook
Satellite Communication Systems Engineering (Prentice Hall, 1993) and is
Technical Editor of Via Satellite magazine. He is a member of IEEE, AIAA,
APS, AAPT, AAS, IAU, and ION. |
|
Frederick Niles
 |
holds a
Bachelor’s of Science Degree in Aerospace Engineering from the
University of Southern California and his Master’s degree in Control
Theory from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He currently
works at MITRE/CAASD in the Navigation department on WAAS, LAAS and GPS
L5 issues. He is in charge of the Linux port of the OpenSource GPS
software and has contributed various other improvements to the code. |
| Mark
Petovello, Ph.D.
|
is
assistant professor in the. Dept. of Geomatics Eng., Univ. of Calgary.
Since 1998, he has been involved in research including software-based
GNSS receivers, satellite-based nav, inertial nav, reliability analysis,
and dead-reckoning sensor integration. He has extensive experience in
nav algorithm development, and is co-creator of GPS/GLONASS and GPS/INS
software packages. |
|
Chad
Pillsbury,
M.E., MBA,
|
is
Program Manager, Military GPS Components for Raytheon Space and Airborne
Systems in El Segundo, CA. He is responsible for aspects of the
Selective Availability Anti-Spoofing Module (SAASM) development and
production at Raytheon. He has 13 years experience in military GPS,
including IIR and IIF satellites, control segment, user equipment
security, GPS policy, and secondary satellite payloads. |
| Alan J.
Pue, Ph.D.
|
is a Principal Staff
Member in the Air Defense Systems Department at the Johns Hopkins
Applied Physics Lab. Since 1974 he has worked on a variety of guidance,
control, and navigation projects including automated ground vehicle
control, space telescope point control, missile guidance and control,
and GPS-aided inertial navigation systems. He
has worked on development of tightly-coupled, high anti-jam, GPS/INS
systems for the Navy and the development of missile defense system
concepts. Currently, he is the
Director of the Interceptors Knowledge Center for the Missile Defense
Agency. |
| Logan Scott
|
Consultant, specializes in RF, signal processing and protocol design for
navigation, cellular, radar, and emitter location systems. He pioneered
approaches for building jam-resistant digital receivers at Texas
Instruments and has developed fast acquisition architectures, IMU
integration approaches, and adaptive array techniques. He holds 29 US
patents. He is NavtechGPS’ Technical Advisor for New Signals &
Processing. |
| James
Sennott, Ph.D.
|
is
President of Tracking & Imaging Systems, a GPS software and hardware
development company. His expertise includes estimation theory,
spread-spectrum communications, software design and microprocessor
architectures. He directs development of receiver technology and
simulations for civil embedded GPS and network-aided tracking systems,
and is principal investigator of US Navy and Air Force Integrated
Demodulation/Navigation receiver dev. projects. He holds 4 patents in
the GPS receiver area. |
| Trent
Skidmore, Ph.D.
|
is a
Senior Research Engineer and Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Ohio
University Avionics Engineering Center. His research is currently
focused on differential GPS-based aircraft precision approach and
landing applications, including JPALS and LAAS. Dr. Skidmore has been
involved in standards development at the FAA, RTCA, and ICAO. |
Susan
Skone, Ph.D.
|
is
Associate Professor in Geomatics Engineering at the Univ. of Calgary.
She has a background in space physics and has conducted research in
modeling ionospheric and tropospheric effects on GPS. She has developed
software for atmospheric research, and has chaired international working
groups on remote sensing of the atmosphere using GNSS. She leads the GPS
payload component for the CanX-2 nanosatellite mission. |
|
Michael
Vaujin
 |
is the lead navigation engineer for Guided Projectiles at
Raytheon Missile Systems in Tucson, Arizona. He received his BSEE from
the University of Florida in 1987 and his MSEE degree from the
University of South Florida in 1991. During his subsequent 16 years at
Honeywell Aerospace he was awarded 3 patents and developed and taught an
in-house technical course on inertial navigation error equations.
In 2004 he accepted a position at Tracking & Imaging Systems, Inc. in
St. Petersburg, FL and developed Matlab™ versions of all strapdown
navigation and Kalman filtering software used in support of a test range
tracking application. This software included an 81-state Kalman filter
used for the covariance analysis of the navigation errors under various
maneuvers and environmental conditions.
In his current work with Raytheon he continues to teach and
provide navigation support for several land combat systems. |
Frank
van Diggelen, Ph.D.
 |
is
Technical Director of GPS Systems, and Chief Navigation Officer, at
Broadcom Corporation; prior to that he was at Global Locate which was
bought by Broadcom. At Global Locate he created the Worldwide Reference
Network for A-GPS, Coarse-time Navigation, and many other nav.
innovations. He holds over forty issued patents on A-GPS. He was a
senior engineer at Navsys; & GPS/Wireless marketing director at
Magellan. He has published over fifty articles, taught six different GPS
courses, and is NavtechGPS' Technical Advisor for Assisted GPS. |
|
Frank van Graas, Ph.D.
|
is Russ Professor of Electrical Engineering and a Principal Investigator
with the Avionics Engineering Center at Ohio University. He has been involved with GPS
research since 1984, including the first real-time GPS attitude and heading flight
experiment on a DC-3, and the first code-phase Differential GPS system to satisfy both
sensor accuracy and Total System Error requirements for Category IIIb automatic landing
operations using a Boeing 757. The first prototype Local Area Augmentation System (LAAS)
for Category III was completed by his research team in 1997 and successfully flight tested
by the FAA. Dr. van Graas has received several awards for his research, including
the 1996 Johannes Kepler Award for "Sustained and Significant Contributions to
Satellite Navigation" from the Satellite Division of the U.S. Institute of Navigation.
Dr. van Graas is also a Visiting Professor at Leeds University in the United Kingdom and
Immediate Past President of the U.S. ION. |
Durk
van Willigen, Ph.D.
 |
is
founder and president of Reelektronika BV, a Dutch high-tech
radio-navigation and radar company. From 1989 till 2000 Prof. van
Willigen headed a radio navigation research group at Delft University.
He received the Medal of Merit of the International Loran Association,
the Thurlow Award of the Institute of Navigation, and the Gold Medal of
the Royal Institute of Navigation. He is a Fellow of the RIN and member
of the Advisory Board of the Netherlands Institute of Navigation.
Prof. van Willigen was instructor at Loran seminars in the US, UK,
Norway and Russia. |
|
Phillip
W. Ward
|
is
President of Navward GPS Consulting (founded 1991). Previously, at Texas
Instruments, he was Senior Member Technical Staff responsible for design
of high performance GPS receivers. He received the ION Thurlow Award
(1989) for his work in developing the TI 4100, the first commercial GPS
receiver. He was President of the ION (1992-93) and Chairman of the ION
Satellite Div. (1994-96). He was the first ION Congressional Fellow
(2001-1Q2002). He is a Fellow in the ION, Senior Member of the IEEE and
a Registered Professional Engineer in Texas. He is Navtech’s Technical
Advisor for GPS Receiver Design. |
|
Ira
Weiss, Ph.D.
|
is a Sr.
Engineering Specialist for the Aerospace Corp. He has worked in GPS
related areas for over 27 years, lectured on GPS, and written many
papers in the areas of GPS system aspects, anti-jam, and waveform
utilization. He directs simulation tasks as part of the NAVWAR modeling
effort, investigating present and future acquisitions of GPS User
Equipment and Controlled Reception Pattern Antennas (CRPA's). |
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