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Dr. Dorota Brzezinska
Assistant Professor
Civil & Environmental Engineering & Geodetic Science
470 Hitchcock Hall
2070 Neil Avenue
Columbus, OH  43210
Telephone:  614-292-8787
Fax:  614-292-3780
E-mail:  dorota@cfm.ohio-state.edu
Webpage:   Center for Mapping Research Projects

Education & Degrees

  • Ph.D., Satellite Geodesy, The Ohio State University, Columbus OH, 1995
  • MS, Satellite Geodesy, The Ohio State University, Columbus OH, 1995
  • MS, Surveying and Land Management, The Technical and Agricultural University (ART), Olsztyn, Poland, 1986

Research and Teaching Interests

  • Positioning with GPS
  • GPS kinematic algorithms and OTF ambiguity resolution
  • GPS orbit determination
  • Inertial geodesy
  • GPS/INS integration for direct orientation
  • Mobile mapping technology
  • Integrated multi-sensor geospatial data acquisition systems
  • Robust estimation techniques

Selected Research

  • GPS/INS/Pseudolite Integration for Precise Positioning and Attitude Determination, 2001 Seed Grant of The University of New South Wales, Australia, January 2001- December 2001 (Co-PI)
  • High-Accuracy Direct Aerial Platform Orientation with Tightly Coupled GPS/INS System, Ohio Department of Transportation, March 2001 – March 2002 (PI)
  • Near Real-Time GPS/LEO Precision Orbit Determination for Operational Weather Forecasting with GPS, NASA NIP, January 2001-December 2003, (PI)
  • Remote Sensing Data Acquisition for Traffic Flow Estimates (part of the National Consortium for Remote Sensing in Transportation – Flows), Federal Department of Transportation, March 2000-February 2001 (PI)
  • High Accuracy Dynamic Highway Mapping Using a GPS/INS/CCD System with On-The-Fly GPS Ambiguity Resolution (phase II of project 6, new positioning technique and imaging sensor added), Ohio Department of Transportation, February 2000 - July 2001 (PI)
  • High Accuracy Dynamic Highway Mapping Using a GPS/INS System with On-The-Fly GPS Ambiguity Resolution, Ohio Department of Transportation, January 1997- March 1, 2000, (PI)
  • Multiple Sensor Fusion for Surface Extraction and Robust Geolocation, Department of Defense Dual Use Technology (DUST) Program, April 1, 2000-September 30, 2002 (Co-PI)
  • Airborne Integrated Mapping System (AIMS), NASA, 1996 -1998 (Co-I)
  • Simulation of Descent Imagery Collection for Mars Surveyor Mission with GPS/INS/CCD System, NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 1999 (Co-PI)
  • DEM Extraction from GPS/INS Geo-referenced High-Resolution Direct Digital Imagery (AIMSÔ), Florida Department of Transportation, 1998 (Co-PI)
  • Airborne Digital Mapping of the MIT Campus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998 (Co-PI)

Selected Publications and Presentations

  • Toth C., Berning S., Leonard J. and Grejner-Brzezinska D. (2001): Integration of LIDAR Data with Simultaneously Acquired Digital Imagery, Proc. ASPRS Annual Conference, CD ROM.
  • Shum C, Grejner-Brzezinska D, Hazelton B, Kwon J, Zhao C. (2001): The Ohio State University IGS LEO Pilot Project and Associate Analysis Center, IGS LEO Pilot Project Meeting, GeoForschungsZentrum, Potsdam, Germany, February 6-8.
  • Shum C, Grejner-Brzezinska D, Ge S, Hazelton B, Yi Y, Zhao C, Bevis M, Hocke H, Wickert J, Jeffress G, Martin D, and Szabados M. (2001): The Use of GPS for Measuring Water Vapor and Sea Level, Fifth Symposium on Integrated Observing Systems, American Meteorological Society meeting, Albuquerque, NM, January 15-19.
  • Grejner-Brzezinska D and Toth C. (2001): Performance Study of High-End Dual Frequency GPS Receivers Tightly Integrated with a Strapdown INS, Proc. 3rd International Symposium on Mobile Mappig, Cairo, Egypt, January 3-5, CD ROM.
  • Grejner-Brzezinska, D.A., (2000): GPS: Instrumentation Issues, chapter in Manual of Geospatial Science and Technology, J. Bossler (ed.), Taylor and Francis Ltd., in print.
  • Grejner-Brzezinska D. (2000): Mobile Mapping Technology: Ten Years Later, part I, submitted to Surveying and Land Information Systems, 24 pp.
  • Grejner-Brzezinska D. (2000): Mobile Mapping Technology: Ten Years Later, part II, submitted to Surveying and Land Information Systems, 21 pp.
  • Toth C and Grejner-Brzezinska D. (2001): Modern Mobile Mapping: On-the-fly Image Processing, Proc. 3rd International Symposium on Mobile Mappig, Cairo, Egypt, January 3-5, CD ROM.
  • Grejner-Brzezinska D. and Toth C. (2000): Interference and Multipath Effects on GPS/INS Positioning Results, Proc. ION GPS, September 19-21, Salt Lake City, Utah, CD ROM.
  • Grejner-Brzezinska D. and Toth C. (2000): Real-time Tracking of Highway Linear Features, Proc. ION GPS, September 19-21, Salt Lake City, Utah, CD ROM.
  • Grejner-Brzezinska D, Toth C. and McCord M. (2000): Traffic Management: Sensor and Platform Issues, presented at NATMEC 2000 Conference, Middleton, Wisconsin, August 27-31.
  • Grejner-Brzezinska D. (2000): Modern Remote Sensing Technologies in Support of Traffic Flow Monitoring, presented at NATMEC 2000 Conference, Middleton, Wisconsin, August 27-31.
  • Grejner-Brzezinska D. and Toth C. (2000): Precision Mapping of Highway Linear Features, Geoinformation for All, Proceedings, XIXth ISPRS Congress, July 16-23 Amsterdam, Netherlands, pp. 233-240.
  • Toth C. and Grejner-Brzezinska D. (2000): Complementarity of LIDAR and Stereo-imagery for Enhanced Surface Extraction, Geoinformation for All, Proceedings, XIXth ISPRS Congress, July 16-23 Amsterdam, Netherlands, pp. 897-904.
  • Toth C. and Grejner-Brzezinska D. (2000): Combining LIDAR with Digital Camera System, Launching the Geospatial Information Age, Proc. ASPRS Annual Convention, Washingtom DC, May 22-26, CD-ROM.
  • Grejner-Brzezinska D.A. and Toth C.K., (2000) : Multi-Sensor System for Highway Linear Feature Monitoring, presented at ION National Technical Meeting, Anaheim, CA, January 26-28.
  • Toth C.K. and Grejner-Brzezinska D.A., (1999): Integrating LIDAR with Direct Digital Imagery, ISPRS Commission III, Working Group 2, San Diego, CA, November 9-11, 1999.
  • Toth C.K. and Grejner-Brzezinska D.A., (1999): Modern All-Digital Airborne Data Acquisition Systems, presented at 47th Photogrammetric Week, Stuttgart, Germany, September 20-24.
  • Grejner-Brzezinska D.A. and Toth C.K., (1999): Information Fusion for Enhanced Surface Extraction, Proceedings of ION GPS, Nashville TN, September 15-17, CD ROM.
  • Grejner-Brzezinska D.A (1999): Direct Exterior Orientation of Airborne Imagery with GPS/INS System: Performance Analysis, Navigation, Vol. 46, No. 4, pp. 261-270.
  • Toth C.K. and Grejner-Brzezinska D.A (1999): Sensor Integration for Improved Surface Modeling, GIM International, Volume 13, pp. 42-45.
  • Grejner-Brzezinska D.A. and Toth C.K (1999): Mobile Mapping Systems: Calibration Aspects, presented at International Workshop on Integrated Sensor Calibration and Orientation, ISPRS Technical Commission III: Theory and Algorithms, June 15-17, Portland, ME.
  • Grejner-Brzezinska D.A., Toth C.K. and Edward Oshel (1999): Direct Platform Orientation in Aerial and Land-Based Mapping Practice, Real Time Mapping Technologies, ISPRS Working Group II/1, Bangkok, Thailand, April 21-23, 1999, pp. 2-4-1—2-4-7.
  • Toth C.K. and Grejner-Brzezinska D.A (1999): Improved DEM Extraction Techniques – Combining LIDAR Data with Direct Digital GPS/INS Oriented Imagery, Real Time Mapping Technologies, ISPRS Working Group II/1, Bangkok, Thailand, April 21-23, 1999, pp. 6A-4-1—6A-47.
  • Grejner-Brzezinska D.A. and Toth C.K. (1999): "AIMSÔ: An Alternative Tool for Coastal Mapping, International Journal for Marine Geodesy, Vol. 22, No. 2, pp.129-137 (invited).
  • Grejner-Brzezinska D. A. and Toth C. K. (1998): Airborne Remote Sensing Multi-Sensor System: Development, Testing and Applications, Proceedings of GPS in Forestry: Western Workshop, November 16-18, Kelowna, BC (invited).
  • Grejner-Brzezinska D. A. and Wang J. (1998): Gravity Modeling for High-Accuracy GPS/INS Integration, Navigation, Vol. 45, No. 3, pp.209-220 (invited), also in Proceedings of ION Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, June 1-3.
  • Grejner-Brzezinska D. A. and Toth C., (1998): Large Scale Mapping with AIMSÔ", 8th Annual Ohio GIS Conference, October 21-23, Columbus, abstract printed in Speakers' Abstracts and Biographies (invited).
  • Grejner-Brzezinska D. A. (1998): Direct Platform Orientation with Tightly Integrated GPS/INS in Airborne Applications, Proceedings of ION GPS, Nashville TN, September 16-18, pp. 885-894 (best paper award).
  • Toth C., Grejner-Brzezinska, D. A. (1998): Performance Analysis of the Airborne Integrated Mapping System (AIMS™), ISPRS Commission II Symposium on Data Integration: Systems and Techniques, July 13-17, Cambridge, England, pp.320-326.
  • Toth C. and Grejner-Brzezinska D. A. (1998): DEM Extraction from High-Resolution Direct Digital Airborne Imagery, ISPRS Commission III Symposium on Object Recognition and Scene Classification from Multispectral and Multisensor Pixels, July 6-9, Columbus, OH, pp.184-189.
  • Bossler J. D. and Grejner-Brzezinska D. A. (1998): Global Positioning System (GPS): Theory and Practice, course materials, Symposium on the Applications of Geophysics to Engineering and Environmental Problems (SAGEEP), March 26, Chicago, IL.
  • Grejner-Brzezinska D. A. (1998): Airborne Integrated Mapping System: The Ultimate Mapping Tool, Proceedings of ACSM Annual Conference, March 2-5, Baltimore, MD, CD ROM.
  • Grejner-Brzezinska D. A., Phuyal B. P. (1998): Positioning Accuracy of the Airborne Integrated Mapping System, Proceedings of Technical Meeting of the Institute of Navigation, January 21-23, Long Beach, CA, pp. 713-721.
  • Grejner-Brzezinska D. A., Da, R., Toth C., (1998): GPS Error Modeling and OTF Ambiguity Resolution for High-Accuracy GPS/INS Integrated System, Journal of Geodesy, 72(11), pp. 628-638.
  • Grejner-Brzezinska D. A., (1997): Airborne Integrated Mapping System (AIMS), 7th Annual Ohio GIS Conference, October 8-10, Columbus, abstract printed in Speakers' Abstracts and Biographies (invited).
  • Grejner-Brzezinska D. A., (1997): High Accuracy Airborne Integrated Mapping System, Advances in Positioning and Reference Frames, F. K. Brunner (Ed.), IAG Scientific Assembly, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, September 3-9, Springer, pp. 337-342 (invited).
  • Grejner-Brzezinska D. A., (1997): Airborne Integrated Mapping System: Positioning Module, Proceedings of the 53rd ION Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM, June 30-July 2, pp.225-235.
  • Grejner-Brzezinska D. A., (1996): Dynamic Modeling of Rail and Highway Grade and Curvature, Proceedings of GPS ION Meeting, Kansas City, September 18-20, pp. 1243-1251.
  • Grejner-Brzezinska D. A., (1996): Positioning Accuracy of the GPSVanTM, Proceedings of 52nd Annual ION Meeting, Boston, June 19-21, pp. 657-665.
  • Grejner-Brzezinska D. A., Goad C. C., (1996): Subdaily Earth Rotation Determined from GPS, Geophysical Research Letters, Vol. 23, No. 19, pp.2701-2704.
  • Goad C. C., Grejner-Brzezinska D. A., Yang M., (1996): Determination of High-Precision GPS Orbits Using Triple Differencing Technique, Journal of Geodesy, Vol. 70, pp. 655-662.
  • Grejner-Brzezinska D. A., (1995): Analysis of GPS Data Processing Strategies: In Search of Optimized Routine of Orbit and Earth Rotation Parameter Recovery, Department of Geodetic Science and Surveying, OSU, Departmental Report No. 432.
  • Goad, C. C., Grejner-Brzezinska, D. A., Yang, M., (1995): High - Precision GPS Orbit Determination Using Triple Differencing Technique, presented at the American Geophysical Union Spring Meeting, Baltimore, May 30-June 2.
  • Grejner-Brzezinska D. A (1995): Use of Kronecker Product and Array Algebra in Estimation Theory and Mapping Applications, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Annual Meeting, Charlotte, North Carolina, October 23-26.

Bulletins and Technical Reports

  • Toth, C., Grejner-Brzezinska, D., Csanyi, N., Paska, E., and Yi, Y.: DOD DUST project report: Multiple Sensor Fusion for Surface Extraction and Robust Geolocation, 2000.
  • Grejner-Brzezinska, D.: GPS/INS Dynamic Positioning and Its Applications: Lecture Notes, published by the Department of Civil and Surveying Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan, 2000.
  • Grejner-Brzezinska, D. and Toth, C: Project report and Users Manual, prepared for the Ohio Department of Transportation project High Accuracy Dynamic Highway Mapping Using a GPS/INS System with On-The-Fly GPS Ambiguity Resolution, 1999.
  • Bossler J., Grejner-Brzezinska, D., Toth, C.: Center for Mapping NASA Annual Report 1998, Commercial Space Center: Real-Time Satellite Mapping
  • Grejner-Brzezinska, D. and Toth, C.: Hyperspectral Sensor Integration with GPS/INS Geo-referenced High-Resolution Direct Digital Imagery (AIMS), Project Report submitted to NASA Stennis CRSP, September 1998.
  • Toth, C., Grejner-Brzezinska, D., Saunders, J., Oshel, E. and Filin, S.: DEM Extraction from GPS/INS Geo-referenced High-Resolution Direct Digital Imagery, Project Report, submitted to Florida Department of Transportation/University of Florida, 1998.
  • Da, R., Grejner-Brzezinska, D., Habib, A., Toth, C.: AIMS Project Report, submitted to and presented at NASA Stennis CRSP, October 1997.
  • Da, R., Grejner-Brzezinska, D., Toth, C.: AIMS Project Report, submitted to Guidance and control Systems Division, Litton Systems, Inc., April 1997.
  • Bossler J., Da, R., Grejner-Brzezinska, D., D, Toth, C.: Center for Mapping NASA Annual Report 1997, Commercial Space Center: Real-Time Satellite Mapping.
  • Grejner-Brzezinska D.A., (1995): Analysis of GPS Data Processing Strategies: In Search of Optimized Routine of Orbit and Earth Rotation Parameter Recovery, Department of Geodetic Science and Surveying, OSU, Departmental Report No. 432.

Invited Presentations

  • Integrated Approach to Precise GPS/LEO Orbit Determination in Support of GPS Meteorology, lecture presented at Wright Patterson Air Force Base, April 12, 2001.
  • Welcome to the World of Earth Satellites, workshop presented at OSU Take a Daughter to Work Day, April 26, 2001.
  • Integrated GPS/INS/CCD System for Airborne Image Data Acquisition, lecture presented at National Chiao Tung University, Hsing-Chu, Taiwan, January 4, 2000.
  • Integrated GPS/INS System in Support of Direct Geo-referencing, lecture presented at National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, January 5, 2000.
  • Airborne Integrated Mapping System (AIMSÔ) and Land-based Applications of GPS/INS/CCD Sensor Assembly, lecture presented at National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, January 5, 2000.
  • Multi-sensor Integration and Calibration Aspects, Lecture presented at National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, January 6, 2000.
  • GPS: Past, Present and Future, presented to the Columbus Ophthalmological and Otolaryngological Society, October 4, 1999.
  • Airborne Remote Sensing Multi-Sensor System: Development, Testing and Applications, workshop presented at GPS in Forestry: Western Workshop, November 16-18, Kelowna, BC.
  • Large Scale Mapping with AIMSÔ, 8th Annual Ohio GIS Conference, October 21-23, 1998, Columbus, OH.
  • Integrated Geospatial Data Acquisition Systems, workshop presented at the ISPRS Commission III Symposium, July 6-9, 1998, Columbus, OH.
  • Where in the World Are You? GPS Can Help, presented at Columbus Center of Science and Industry, May 4, 1998.
  • GPS: Theory and Practice, workshop presented at the Symposium on the Application of Geophysics to Environmental and Engineering Problems, March 26, 1998, Chicago IL.
  • Airborne Integrated Mapping System (AIMS), presented at 7th Annual Ohio GIS Conference, October 8-10, 1997, Columbus, OH.
  • High Accuracy Airborne Integrated Mapping System, presented at IAG Scientific Assembly, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, September 3-9, 1997.