Department of Geomatics Engineering
Mark Petovello
Associate Professor, P.Eng.
Telephone: (403) 210-9795
Fax: (403) 284-1980
Email: mark [dot] petovello [at] ucalgary [dot] ca
Web: http://www,ucalgary.ca/petovello/
Ph.D. (Geomatics Engineering) 2003, (University of Calgary)
B.Sc. (Geomatics Engineering) 1998, (University of Calgary)
Dr. Mark Petovello's research interests include global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) and its integration with inertial navigation systems (INS) and other dead-reckoning sensors. He is currently researching new methods of acquiring and tracking GNSS signals using a software-based GNSS receiver with a specific focus on carrier phase tracking in degraded signal environments.
Dr. Petovello has extensive experience with high accuracy GNSS and GNSS/INS applications including on-the-fly ambiguity resolution. He has worked on several projects with agencies such as Canadian Department of National Defense and the U.S. Navy. Mark has also developed and tested numerous navigation-related software packages.
Dr. Petovello is also a contributing editor of Inside GNSS (http://www.insidegnss.com/) magazine's GNSS Solutions column (http://www.insidegnss.com/solutions).
Current Research
- Development of software-based GNSS receivers
- Developing new GNSS receiver architectures that integrate INS and other dead-reckoning sensors to improve overall performance
- Multi-sensor integration for navigation applications
- Assessing the probabilty of correct carrier phase ambiguity resolution in the presence of time-correlated observation errors