Lawrence Lau
Professor
Department of Civil Engineering
University of Nottingham Ningbo China
China
Biography
Lawrence joined the University of Nottingham, Ningbo, China (UNNC) in October 2011. Before joining UNNC, he worked as an Associate Professor in the Institute of Geomatics in Barcelona from March 2010 to September 2011. In 2004 – 2010, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at University College London (UCL), UK. In his about 6 years at UCL he worked on several research projects, including two UK EPSRC-funded research project called SPACE, iNsight, two EU FP6 projects called BEAR and ANASTASIA, and two consultancy projects. SPACE was undertaken by a consortium of eleven UK university and industrial group1and iNsight (an on-going project) is undertaken by a consortium of thirteen UK university and industrial group2. Before joining UCL, he worked as a technical analyst in NSL (2002 - 2004) in design and development of the new European GNSS (Galileo); he worked on two European Commission (EC) and European Space Agency (ESA) funded Galileo System Test Bed (GSTB-V1 and GSTB-C0) projects. In 1999 – 2002, he worked in the Hong Kong Polytechnic University as a Research Associate for several vehicle navigation projects. Lawrence helped with the supervision of BSc, MSc and PhD projects, and giving lectures to MSc courses (Positioning module), in Department of CEGE at UCL. Moreover, he was a (part-time) lecturer in Engineering Surveying at the Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education in 1999 – 2002. In 1995 – 1997, he worked as a Junior Land Surveyor in the Hong Kong Mass Transit Railway Corporation for the construction of the new airport railway.
Research Interest
Integration of GNSS systems (e.g., GPS + Galileo + Compass): Multiple-frequency data processing algorithms Sensor integration for positioning and navigation (e.g., integration of GNSS and inertial measurements sensors) Ambiguity resolution – reliability and efficiency improvements Precise Point Positioning (PPP) techniques High-precision relative positioning for static and kinematic applications Multipath modelling and mitigation techniques Attitude determination GNSS for geodetic and engineering surveying applications
Publications
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Zhao, D., Roberts, G. W., Lau, L., Hancock, C., Bai, R. (2016) A Theoretical and Empirical Integrated Method to Select the Optimal Combined Signals for Geometry-Free and Geometry-Based Three Carrier Ambiguity Resolution. Sensors, 16(11), 1929. [SCI Impact Factor: 2.033 (2015)]
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Lau, L. and He, J. (2017) Investigation into the Effect of Atmospheric Particulate Matter (PM2.5 and PM10) Concentrations on GPS Signals. Sensors, 17, 508. Open Access. [SCI Impact Factor: 2.033 (2015)]
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Lau, L. (2017) Wavelet Packets Based Denoising Method for Measurement Domain Repeat-time Multipath Filtering in GPS Static High-Precision Positioning. GPS Solutions, 21(2), pp.461-474. DOI:10.1007/s10291-016-0533-1. Open Access. [SCI Impact Factor: 2.991 (2015)]
