Civil, Environmental and Geodetic Engineering Chair receives international navigation award
Dorota Grejner-Brzezinska, professor and chair of the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geodetic Engineering, was awarded the Johannes Kepler Award on September 16. Presented to her during the Institute of Navigation's GNSS+ Conference in Portland, Oregon, the award recognizes significant contributions to the field of satellite navigation.
Grejner-Brzezinska earned her PhD in geodetic science from The Ohio State University in 1995 and joined the civil engineering faculty in 1998.
In the mid-1990s, Grejner-Brzezinska and her team pioneered the development of the GPS/INS component of the first fully digital and directly georeferenced GPS/INS/CCD integrated airborne remote sensing system, AIMS™, sponsored by NASA, FDOT, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin Fairchild and Trimble.
In early 2000, her research team delivered groundbreaking network-based RTK GPS software. In the mid-2000s, Grejner-Brzezinska led the design and prototyping of the NGA-sponsored multi-sensor and artificial intelligence (AI) personal navigator for emergency crews and dismounted soldiers using human locomotion model for Dead Reckoning navigation. For this research, she and her team were awarded the 2005 USGIF Academic Research Award.
Her most recent significant contributions include the design and implementation of the Advanced Geolocation Technology supporting detection and classification of unexploded ordnance and development of a novel approach of detecting clandestine nuclear explosions using ionospheric-like disturbance of GPS signals.
In December 2014, Grejner-Brzezinska was elected president of the Institute of Navigation (ION) for 2015-17.