Global Navigation Satellite Systems Engineering, Policy, and Design
Maurizio A. Spirito received his M.S. in electronics engineering and Ph.D. in electronics and telecommunications engineering from the Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy.
From 1998 to 2003, he was with the Nokia Research Center, Helsinki, Finland. In 2003, he joined Istituto Superiore Mario Boella (ISMB), Turin, Italy, where he currently leads the Pervasive Technologies Research Area.
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Bob Scannell is a business development manager for ADI’s inertial MEMs products.
He has been with ADI for more than 15 years in various technical marketing and business development functions, ranging from sensors to DSP digital signal processing to wireless, and previously worked at Rockwell International in both design and marketing.
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Sarah Carmichael is the marketing coordinator at Trusted Positioning Inc., where she is responsible for all forms of marketing and communications material.
Carmichael received her B.Comm. in marketing from the Haskayne School of Business at the University of Calgary.
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Peter Gutierrez, Inside GNSS’s European correspondent, is a senior reporter and editor based in Brussels, Belgium, who has written about Europe’s GNSS programs for many years.
He received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Texas at Austin and a M.S. degree from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
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Carmen Aguilera is market development officer at the European GNSS Supervisory Authority (GSA).
She holds a master engineering degree in telecommunication sciences.
Prior to joining the GSA, she worked as a technology and strategy consultant on high-tech innovation in the aerospace, transport, and information and communications technology industries.
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Rafael Prades graduated in translation and interpreting at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
He is currently a technician at the Logistics and Emergency Management Service in the Civil Protection Department of Generalitat de Catalunya.
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Wolfgang Kornus holds a Ph.D. from the Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geodesy at the Technical University of Munich.
He is head of the photogrammetric department at the Institut Cartogràfic de Catalunya.
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Teo Vitoria is the head of the Measurement, Communication and Control Group in Asociación de la Industria Navarra.
He is an industrial engineer (University of Navarra) with 20 years of research and technical development project leadership and has a long experience in research projects for remote sensing, UAS, and INS/GPS technology.
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Pere Molina graduated in mathematics at the University of Barcelona (UB) and later obtained a M.Sc. degree in advanced and professional mathematics at the UB.
He is currently a research assistant at the Institute of Geomatics in Barcelona, Spain, where he obtained the M.Sc. in airborne photogrammetry and remote sensing.
His fields of interest are multi-sensor navigation and integrity.
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Tom Willems works as a GNSS Engineer at Septentrio.
He has been involved in GNSS research since 1998. In 2006, he received a Ph.D. degree from the University of Ghent, Belgium.
At Septentrio, he is currently involved in the development of Galileo Test User Segment receivers and is supporting their use during payload testing and in-orbit validation. His topics of interest include GNSS signal tracking and RF aspects of GNSS signal processing.
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Desiree L. Craig is the chief program manager for the 746th Test Support Squadron and the 46th Test Group at Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico.
The 46th Test Group provides several world-premier test capabilities including the Flight Test Squadron, Holloman High Speed Test Track, the National Radar Cross Section Test Facility, the Survivability and Landing Gear Test Facilities and the Central Inertial and GPS Test Facility.
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Elmar Brockmann is head of “Geodetic Bases and Permanent Networks” at the Federal Office of Topography (swisstopo) where he is responsible for the reference frame definitions in Switzerland and the monitoring of the permanent GNSS network called AGNES.
He received his Ph.D. at the University of Berne and was a software engineer at Leica Geosystems between 1997 and 1999.
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Mike Perlmutter has worked in the inertial navigation field for more than 30 years and was a key contributor to Yole Développement’s IMU & High Performance Inertial MEMS 2011 Report.
He was the Navigation Systems Division director of strategy and planning at Northrop Grumman in 2007 when he retired from the company and established Skylight Navigation to consult in the area of inertial systems, navigation, corporate planning, and strategy.
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