PSEUDOLITES – A NEW TOOL FOR SURVEYORS? Ip Ki Choi, Jinling Wang, Shaowei Han and Chris Rizos School of Geomatic Engineering The University of New South Wales Sydney NSW 2052 Australia Web: http://www.gmat.unsw.edu.au/snap The 2 nd Trans Tasman Surveyors Conference The Millennium Hotel, Queenstown, New Zealand 20 –26 August 2000 Ip Ki Choi, B.Sc.(North East London Polytechnic, U.K.), Pg.Dip. (University of South West, U.K.), M.Eng.Sc.(The University of New South Wales, Australia). Mr. Choi has been a Professional Land and Hydrographic Surveyor (AHKIS, ARICS, MISAust.) since 1987. He served in the Hong Kong Government in various land and hydrographic surveying aspects for more than 15 years and is currently a Ph.D. student in the School of Geomatic Engineeing, UNSW, studying precise positioning applications in the mining industry. One of his major research areas is the pseudolite technology. Jinling Wang is an Australian Research Council (ARC) postdoctoral research fellow, having starting in January 2000 in the School of Geomatic Engineering, UNSW. His current research interests are in the areas of GPS, GLONASS, Pseudolite and Inertial Navigation Systems (INS). He has research and teaching experience in China, Hong Kong and Australia. Jinling holds a Ph.D. from the Curtin University of Technology, Perth. He has authored over 60 publications, including more than 30 refereed journal papers and two widely-used commercial software packages, has attracted several competitive research grants, and has received over 10 academic awards. Shaowei Han, B.Sc. (WTUSM), M.Sc. (WTUSM), Ph.D. (UNSW), joined the School of Geomatic Engineering, UNSW, as a Lecturer in April 1997 and is currently a Senior Lecturer. He has since been involved in projects concerned with GPS static and kinematic positioning, network and deformation analysis, and the application of digital signal processing techniques. He has won several best paper prizes in China, Australia and the U.S.A., and has authored over 60 refereed journal and conference publications during the last five years. Chris Rizos is an Associate Professor at the School of Geomatic Engineering, UNSW, and leader of the Satellite Navigation and Positioning (SNAP) group, which specialises in addressing precise static and kinematic applications of GPS. Chris holds a B.Surv.(Hons.) and Ph.D., both from The University of New South Wales and has published over 100 papers, as well as having authored and co-authored several books relating to GPS and positioning technologies.