GeoSNav Lab
Description of the research group
GeoSNav Laboratory has been created at the Department of Engineering and Architecture, University of Trieste, Italy in order to emphasize GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite Systems) activities and researches, enforce the links with European partners, better connect common experimental activities on GNSS, in particular Galileo and EGNOS (European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service) and facilitate the networking with other European research centers and enterprises for common participation to European Community Research Projects.
GeoSNav Laboratory is coordinated by Prof. Raffaela Cefalo, who has 32 years expertise in GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System).
GeoSNav Lab main Research and Development activities:
- Landslide Monitoring
- Environmental and Pollution Monitoring
- GNSS applications to Terrestrial, Marine and Aerial Navigation
- SBAS/EGNOS real time tests and data analyses
- Static and kinematic interferential GNSS positioning
- Kinematic EGNOS real time performances and applications
- Interference and jamming tests
- Hardware/software innovative developments for real time terrestrial navigation.
Research activities and campaigns have been carried out together with researchers of the following countries: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Check Republic, Croatia, France, Poland, Slovenia, United Kingdom and Ukraine.
Experimental activities on GNSS and EGNOS performances and applications have been carried out in particular with researchers of the Department of Satellite Geodesy and Navigation, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn (UWM), Olsztyn, Poland and are currently on going with professors and researchers of the Faculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineering, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia and researchers of JOANNEUM RESEARCH Forschungsgesellschaft mbH, DIGITAL - Institute for Digital Technologies, Graz, Austria.
Keyword 1: GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System)
Keyword 2: Galileo
Keyword 3: EGNOS (European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service)
Keyword 4: Monitoring
Keyword 5: Positioning and Navigation
Head of the research group
List of members in the research group
- Tatiana Sluga - assistant researcher - ICAR/06
- Mauro Calderan - external cooperator
- Andrej Labiani - external cooperator
Research projects
- HARMO - DATA Project, Interreg Italia-Slovenija;
- GRC-MS (Galileo Reference Center - Member States) co-funded by EUSPA (European Union Agency for the Space Programme);
- GEMOP Project “Galileo and EGNOS Monitoring Of Performances, co-funded by EUSPA (European Union Agency for the Space Programme);
- IN4SAFETY Project, Interreg Italia-Slovenija
Name of the laboratories
Geodesy and Satellite Navigation Laboratory - Equipment:
- MMS (Mobile Mapping System)
- Litton LN-200 (Northrop Grumman, Falls Church, VA, USA) Inertial system
- Hercules encoder H35T-142P-FU1024 (Hercules, WI, USA) Odometer
- 2 × Trimble (Trimble, Sunnyvale, CA, USA) GPS receiver
- 2 × Trimble Zephyr (Trimble, Sunnyvale, CA, USA) GPS antenna
- 1 × Septentrio AsteRx-U (Septentrio, Leuven, Belgium) Multi-constellation GNSS receiver
- 1 × Septentrio PolaNT-X MF (Septentrio, Leuven, Belgium) GNSS antenna
- 1 x Leica GS14 GNSS receiver;
- 2x Topcon Hyper Pro GNSS receivers;
- 1 x Legacy 50 Hz GNSS receiver.
