Matt Higgins Psm Email & Phone Number

I am Internationally recognised as an expert in Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS); including the USA’s Global Positioning System (GPS). I have 40+ years experience in GNSS and Land Surveying covering research and development, technical implementation, policy and business development. I am also an Honorary Fellow of the Geospatial Council of Australia.In the 2023 King's Birthday Honours List, I was awarded a Public Service Medal "For outstanding public service to Queensland with international impact in the fields of surveying, geodesy and spatial sciences."In May 2013, I was appointed by the NASA Administrator to the Space-based Positioning, Navigation, and Timing Advisory Board; a US Presidential Committee that advises US Government on issues about PNT, including GPS. I am also a past member of UN mandated International Committee on GNSS where I Co-Chaired Working Group D on Reference Frame, Timing and Applications. Since 2008, I have been the President of the Australian based International GNSS Society (IGNSS). From 2007 to 2010, I was a Vice President of the International Federation of Surveyors (FIG) and was made an Honorary Member of FIG in 2012. I am also a past member of the Editorial Advisory Board of GPS World Magazine and in 2008, that magazine named me among the 50+ leaders to watch in GNSS business. From 2011 to 2017 I was an Adjunct Professor at the Queensland University of Technology. I spent most of my career in Queensland Government, including representing the state on the Permanent Committee on Geodesy of the Inter-governmental Committee on Surveying and Mapping for Australia and New Zealand.From 2022 to 2024, I was an Assistant Director, Space Technology in the Australian Space Agency’s Office of the CTO as the subject matter lead on PNT. Specialties: Positioning, Navigation, and Timing, particularly Precise PositioningGlobal Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) Global Positioning System (GPS)Surveying and Spatial InformationGeodesy and Geospatial Reference Frames

Listed skills include Gps, Surveying, Spatial Databases, Geodesy, and 23 others.

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  Assistant Director, Positioning Navigation And Timing

  Australian Space Agency

  Brisbane City, Qld, Au