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Alfred Leick
Alfred Leick (Ph.D.
- Ohio State University, Department of Geodetic Science) is the
author of the book GPS Satellite Surveying (J.
Wiley, 1990, 1995, 2004), Editor-in-Chief of the
peer-reviewed journal GPS Solutions (Springer Verlag),
and author of numerous technical publications. He has been
teaching at the University of Maine in the area of GPS (Global
Positioning System), Geodesy, and Estimation since 1979, and is
the program coordinator of GPS-GAP (GPS, Geodesy and Application
Program), which is offered asynchronously via the Internet.
Dr. Leick launched
his GPS research in 1982 when he tested the prototype Macrometer
satellite receiver at M.I.T. He continued GPS research while at
the Air Force Geophysics Laboratory (Cambridge, Massachusetts) in
1984/85 (1 year), the University of Stuttgart in 1985/86 (1 year),
3S Navigation (Los Angeles, California) in 1996, and the Jet
Propulsion Laboratory in 2002 (6 months each).
His research has
been funded NASA, the European Space Research Organization (ESRO),
the National Research Council (NRC), the Alexander von Humboldt
Foundation of Germany, Fulbright, the World Bank, the Corps of
Engineers, the Department of Interior, the National Imagery and
Mapping Agency (NIMA), the National Science Foundation (NSF), and
private industry.
Dr. Leick has been a
consultant to numerous GPS applications, e.g. such early and
pioneering projects as the Montgomery County geodetic network
densification (1984), the millimeter engineering network at the
Stanford accelerator (1984), the Superconducting Super Collider
network in Texas (1991), and the Orange County densification in
California (1993). His cooperation with industry is continuing.
He lectured on GPS
at Wuhan Technical University of Surveying and Mapping (P.R.China),
the Naval Oceanographic Office at Stennis Space Center, the
Institute of Military Geography at Quito (Ecuador), the University
of Stuttgart (Germany), the University of Sao Paulo, the Institute
for Statistics and Geography at Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), the
Universidad Distrital at Bogota (Columbia), GEOEXPO in Lima
(Peru), the University of New South Wales (Australia), and other
places.
Dr. Leick is a
Fellow of ACSM (American Congress on Surveying and Mapping).
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