Improved positioning using gsm and gnss tight hybridization

Abstract

Prof. Francis Castanié has got his PhD and his Doctorate of Sciences degree from National Polytechnics Institute of Toulouse (INPT) respectively in 1971 and 1977. He teaches essentially Signal Processing at the undergraduate and graduate level. He gives several doctoral courses in the following topics: Time-Frequency and Wavelet Analysis, Parametric Signal and Time Series Modeling, Digital Signal Processing. Prof. Castanié is the Director of the Research Laboratory Telecommunications for Space and Aeronautics (TeSA). Together with this activity in TeSA, he joined the CNRS Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse (IRIT) in 2002, where he is heading the Signal and Communication Group. He has several responsibilities in research societies at the national level (SEE) and at the international level: he had been Chairman of the French Chapter of Signal Processing of the IEEE, from 1992 to 2002. He authored or co-authored more than 52 papers (among which an International First Prize and a Best Paper Award), and more than 240 communications in international conferences. He has 7 international patents, and has co-authored around 99 industrial contracts reports. During his 30 years of career, he has been the advisor of more than 60 Ph. D. students.