gAGE : Advanced GNSS Research and Innovative Applications

Dr. Jaume Sanz received his Degree in Physics (Earth and Cosmos) in 1982 and his PhD in Physics (Galactic Dynamics) in 1987, both from the University of Barcelona, Spain.
 
Since 1983, he is teaching in the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) in Barcelona, in the Department of Applied Mathematics IV. He is accredited as Full Professor by the Spanish National Agency for Quality Assessment and Accreditation (ANECA) and by the Catalan University Quality Assurance Agency (AQU).
 
Along with his colleagues Dr. M. Hernández-Pajares and Dr. JM Juan, he created the Research Group of Astronomy and Geomatics (gAGE) in the UPC. Its current research interests are in the area of GNSS data processing algorithms, GNSS ionospheric sounding, Satellite and Ground Based Augmentation Systems (SBAS and GBAS), and High Accuracy GNSS Navigation. This last topic is one of the main research topics of the gAGE/UPC group, where new algorithms for Wide Area High Accuracy Navigation are being developed and tested, leading to the Wide Area RTK (WARTK) technique. Initially WARTK was targeting to GPS (2-frequency) and afterwards was extended to GALILEO and GPS-III (3-frequencies) systems.

He has been Principal Investigator in several national and international R+D projects. He has more than 50 papers in peer-reviewed journals and more than 150 works in meeting proceedings, with three best paper awards from the US Institute of Navigation. He is co-authoring 15 patents on GNSS (12 international linked to WARTK) and three books on GNSS Data Processing.

As a result of the gAGE/UPC research group activities in GNSS, and together with his colleagues Dr. Hernández-Pajares and Dr. Juan, he has founded the spin-off company gAGE-NAV S.L.