Satellite Navigation and Positioning (SNAP) Laboratory

Competitive advantage

• Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receiver design and signal processing capabilities, including:
• Multi-GNSS receivers
• Interference and spoofing
• GNSS remote sensing (reflectometry and radio occultation)
• Precise positioning algorithms
• Multi-sensor navigation, and the application of navigation technologies for transport
• Machine automation and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)
• Satellite missions

Impact

• Improved precision and robustness of satellite and UAV navigation

Successful applications

• Synthetic aperture radar formation flying, Australian Space Research Program
• Unmanned aerial vehicles and their applications
• Improved detection of interference sources affecting Global Positioning Systems GPS and capability and technology demonstrator (CTD)
• Mapping radar for CubeSats
• Successfully commercialised product for geolocating GNSS jammers
• Company spun off to use reflectometry for sea state, target detection

Capabilities and facilities

• Hardware and software test facilities, including GNSS simulators and field-programmable gate array (FPGA) development tools
• GNSS receivers and other navigation sensor technologies
• Access to a wide variety of UAVs

Our partners

• Defence Science and Technology (DST)
• Australian Research Council Training Centre for CubeSats
• Defence Materials and Technology Centre (DMTC)