Gérard Lachapelle is a Canadian
geomatics
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engineer and Professor Emeritus (CRC/iCore Chair in Wireless Location) at the
University of Calgary
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Schulich School of Engineering which he was instrumental in founding. He was named
Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2015 for "contributions to signal processing for global navigation satellite systems".
Dr. Lachapelle holds degrees from
Laval University
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People
* House of Laval, a French noble family originating from the town of Laval, Mayenne
* Laval (surname)
Places Belgium
* Laval, a village in the municipality of Sainte-Ode, Luxemb ...
, the
University of Oxford
, mottoeng = The Lord is my light
, established =
, endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019)
, budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20)
, chancellor ...
, the
University of Helsinki
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and the
Technical University at Graz. He and colleagues founded Calgary-based Nortech Surveys to develop GPS equipment and applications in the early 80s. Part of the company was later acquired by NovAtel Inc (now part of
Hexagon
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Regular hexa ...
), a high end GPS product manufacturer.
Dr. Lachapelle is co-author of several patents and hundreds of technical papers. He is also Fellow of the
Royal Institute of Navigation
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, the
Institute of Navigation
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, the
, the
Royal Society of Canada
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and the
Canadian Academy of Engineering. He received the coveted Johannes Kepler Award from the Institute of Navigation in 1997
Dr. Lachapelle is married to
Elizabeth Cannon
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, the eighth president and vice-chancellor of the University of Calgary.
[Nelson, Chris (2 October 2011)]
"Cannon Positions U of C for the Future"
''Calgary Herald
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History
''The ...
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References
Fellow Members of the IEEE
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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