COUNT Workshop

The 8^th COUNT Workshop, co-organized by the Satellite Positioning and Inertial Navigation (SPIN) Lab and the ElectroScience Lab, was held at the Blackwell Center on April 8-9, 2014.

The premier event drew a record attendance this year, totaling in over 90 professionals (25% increase form last year) representing faculty and graduate students from OSU, AFRL AFIT, Miami University and Ohio University, COUNT industrial affiliates, and representatives from the federal and local government. The two-day workshop features overview presentations from the four universities, providing valuable information on the ongoing research and graduate programs. Industrial affiliates, who are the paying members from the large defense companies, report on their R&D activities and future needs. Finally, poster sessions provides graduate students with the opportunity to show their research work. The single-track workshop provides an effective way to exchange ideas and to discuss developments in the field of precise navigation, accurate timekeeping, registration and geospatial technologies that essential for modern day warfare, homeland security, commercial aviation, transportation, agriculture, emergency rescue efforts, and more.

COUNT stands for the Consortium of Ohio Universities on Navigation and Timekeeping (http://www.countohio.org/). COUNT was established in 2006 by the faculty and researchers from OSU, Ohio University, Air Force Institute of technology (AFIT) and Miami University to share their expertise for further training of undergraduate and graduate students as well as employees of the US-based navigation industry.

The following students and post-doctoral researchers from the SPIN Lab, working with Prof. Dorota Brzezinska and Dr. Charles Toth, presented posters at the workshop: