Faculty Member, Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering
Professor of Space Geodesy
About
My work in Space Geodesy includes: spacecraft orbit determination and prediction; high precision processing of GPS data (plate tectonics, earthquake cycle, tide gauge positioning and so on); the definition of planet scale reference frames and reference surfaces (height datums, gravity field models, inertial and planet fixed reference frames); design and simulation of system architecture of navigation and positioning systems for other planets.
With respect to orbit determination and prediction the principal area of my work is in modelling of electro-magnetic radiation forcing: solar radiation pressure; Earth/planet radiation pressure; thermal forcing and antenna thrust.
I am head of the Satellite Geodesy and Navigation Research group at UCL. We have 11 group members, and cover a range of basic and applied science activities.
I am a principal investigator in the UK's Natural Environment Research Council National Centre for Earth Observation: theme 6 - dynamic earth and hazards, and a member of the NASA-CNES Ocean Surface Topography Science Working Team. I am also a co-investigator on the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council project: "Extending the applications and improving the efficiency of positioning through the exploitation of new GNSS signals" - my role in that project being to develop temporal and spatial frame transformation models for both post-processed and real-time applications.
At UCL I am also the director of the Industrial Doctorate Training Centre in Urban Sustainability and Resilience.
I am always glad to hear from colleagues around the world
Contact Information
Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering,
University College London
Gower Street
London
WC1E 6BT
United Kingdom
+44 20 7679 1359
