We are delighted to announce that Professor Washington Ochieng has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering
Washington Ochieng is an internationally renowned expert in the design of positioning and navigation systems for land, sea and air applications. He is the Professor of Positioning and Navigation Systems within the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Imperial College London, Head of the Centre for Transport Studies, and Director of the Imperial College Engineering Geomatics Group. With a PhD in Space Geodesy, he has worked in commercial satellite building and related companies as well as in academia, and he has done extensive and award winning research on the integration of satellite and earthbound systems.
Professor Ochieng’s work has applications in in a wide variety of areas including air traffic management systems and in the kind of intelligent traffic control systems that are increasingly needed to regulate congested streets. He has been a leading figure in the development of GPS measurement error modelling, design of new Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) including Europe’s GALILEO and augmentations to GPS including EGNOS, novel terrestrial positioning systems, systems integration and user receiver/sensor algorithms. He works closely with the leading companies and research bodies in Europe, USA, Canada and China on their projects in GNSS-based positioning and navigation.
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Angela Frederick
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
