Nottingham Geospatial Institute

Research topics

Many of these research topics cross multiple research theme boundaries. Therefore, their categorisation below should be regarded as a rather loose one.

Atmosphere related:

  • The impact of new GNSS signals on ionospheric propagation modelling
  • Ionospheric scintillation effects on GNSS: monitoring and data treatment development

GIS related:

  • ANFIS (Adaptive Neuro Fuzzy Inference System) applied to hydrological modelling
  • An intelligent geospatial information management model for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
  • A design methodology for GUI display on hand-held devices for mobile navigation applications
  • Development and uses of map mashup applications
  • Geospatial ontology alignment and harmonization
  • Global Positioning Systems and geographical information systems for intelligent transportation systems
  • The impact of Web 2.0 technology in spatial data infrastructure
  • Geographical information systems
  • LogicGeoObject with LeKML: a new architecture and capability to achieve a smart, specialised & mashable geospatial logic web
  • Enhancing the concept of 'Geography' in agent-based models with application to CBRN (Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear) incident response
  • Supporting pedestrian navigation with a location-based service: An experimental human factors study

Remote sensing related:

  • Mobile laser scanning technology
  • Persistent scatter interferometry for vertical land movement studies

Receiver/system development related:

  • Satellite clock product generation for GNSS
  • Software GNSS receiver for automotive applications
  • Very low-cost mobile mapping systems for small areas

Engineering related:

  • Deflection monitoring of structures  

Navigation related:

  • Automotive applications of high precision and robust GNSS
  • Flexible integration of GNSS and other positioning sensors for pedestrian use
  • Integrating GNSS and terrestrial positioning technologies for autonomous machine control applications
  • Integration of GNSS and Locata (pseudolites)
  • Integration of NRTK GPS and multi-sensors for location-based ITS applications
  • NRTK quality control
  • Peer-to-peer positioning
 

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