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IMPERIAL COLLEGE was established by Royal Charter in 1907. It is a School of the University of London but enjoys a large measure of autonomy and responsibility for educational strategy, has national and international reputation for excellence in teaching and research. There are approximately 9000 students and 7000 staff.

Imperial’s contribution to the ANASTASIA project will be by researchers of the Imperial College Engineering Geomatics Group (IMPERIAL) based in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.

The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering is amongst the best equipped in the UK, and is located in its own building in the centre of the College campus, in South Kensington, London. It currently employs 40 academic staff, among which 12 are professors, 32 technical staff and 19 clerical/administrative/computing staff.

In addition to these, the Department also has 4 Research Fellows and 35 Research Assistants, all of whom are employed on external funds, mostly contracts and grants awarded by Industry and various National and International Government Agencies, including a significant amount of EU funding.

There are almost 500 students, 260 undergraduates, 135 MSc students and 90 research students. The Department has been awarded the top grade in each of the last five reviews of university research.

The IMPERIAL is led by Dr Washington Ochieng. The group has extensive relevant experience in GNSS system design, orbit determination, quality description and modelling, integration of GNSS with other sensors and systems, high precision carrier phase processing and applications and identification of innovative and novel applications. Its research portfolio also includes transport telematics, air traffic management and control, and the environmental impact of air transport.

Personnel at the IMPERIAL have carried out research and consultancy for various organisations. Examples of GNSS-related projects completed (or won) by IMPERIAL include, EGNOS design (EC/ESA/Eurocontrol), EGNOS validation (Alcatel/EC), Air traffic management (Eurocontrol, EPSRC and the Royal Society), GNSS structural integrity (Nuffield Foundation), the use of GNSS for the real-time capture of vehicle performance and emissions monitoring (Government, industry and the EPSRC), and definition of an integrity monitoring concept for GPS satellites within the Galileo system (Alcatel).

 Contracts have also been completed for organisations including INMARSAT, ESA, DERA (QinetiQ) and LogicaCMG. IMPERIAL is part of the London Centre for GNSS Research (LCGR) which is a joint initiative between Imperial College London and University College London. The LCGR exploits the complementary expertise in GNSS research available at the two institutions. The LCGR is co-directed by Dr Washington Ochieng
and Professor Paul Cross.