GNSS Satellite Positioning and Navigation Group (GNSS-SPAN)

To improve Australia’s capability in utilising the next-generation Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) and to come to the fullest exploitation of the opportunities created, a GNSS Research Centre has been established at Curtin University. In 2019, the GNSS Research Center changed to the GNSS Satellite Positioning and Navigation Group (GNSS-SPAN). The group’s research program aims at developing theories, models, and methods that will enable future GNSSs to fulfil the high accuracy and high-integrity requirements of tomorrow’s geospatial information needs in the Earth-, atmospheric- and space sciences.

This GNSS program is also timely because of the forthcoming GNSS CORS network across Australia as part of the AuScope Geospatial program. This will provide an excellent large-area ‘field laboratory’ in which to first test, and then implement, the results generated by this program.

The GNSS-SPAN group uses state-of-the-art equipment and software and involves close collaborative links with other universities, industry and government, in Australia and overseas.