Civil Engineering

Ahmed El-Rabbany, PhD OFFICE:  MON307 TELEPHONE:  416-979-5000 ext 6472 EMAIL:   rabbany@ryerson.ca WEBSITE: www.ryerson.ca/~rabbany

EDUCATION

Ph.D., Satellite Positioning, University of New Brunswick

B.Eng., M.A.Sc., Alexandria University

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Satellite positioning and navigation, Integrated navigation systems and hydrographic surveying.

PUBLICATIONS AND WORKING PAPERS

El-Rabbany, A. (2006). Introduction to GPS: The Global Positioning System. 2^nd revised edition. Artech House Publishers, Boston, USA. ISBN 1-59693-016-0. (received a 5-star rating on the Amazon.ca website and listed among top 10 bestsellers by the publisher)

Abd El-Gelil, M., S. Pagiatakis, A. El-Rabbany (2008). "Least Squares Response Atmospheric Admittance for Superconducting Gravimeter Noise Reduction." Elsevier: Journal of Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, Vol. 170, pp. 24-33.

Ibrahim, H. and A. El-Rabbany (2008). "On Stochastic Modelling of NOAA-Based Residual Tropospheric Delay." Journal of Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport, Vol. 34, No. 66, pp. 28-36.

Ibrahim, H. and A. El-Rabbany (2008). "Regional Stochastic Models for NOAA-Based Residual Tropospheric Delays." Journal of Navigation, Vol. 61, No. 3, pp. 209-219.

El-Diasty, M., A. El-Rabbany, S. Pagiatakis (2007). "An Accurate Nonlinear Stochastic Model for MEMS-Based Inertial Sensor Error with Wavelet Networks." Journal of Applied Geodesy, Vol. 1, No. 4, pp. 201-212.

El-Diasty, M., A. El-Rabbany, S. Pagiatakis (2007). "Temperature Variation Effects on Stochastic Characteristics for Low-Cost MEMS-Based Inertial Sensor Error". Journal of Measurement Science and Technology, Vol. 18, No. 11, pp. 3321-3328.

Yousif, H. and A. El-Rabbany (2007). "Assessment of Several Interpolation Methods for Precise GPS Orbits." Journal of Navigation, Vol. 60, No. 3, pp. 443-455.

Aram, M., A. El-Rabbany, S. Krishnan, A. Anpalagan (2007). "Single Frequency Multipath Mitigation Based on Wavelet Analysis." Journal of Navigation, Vol. 60, No. 2, pp. 281-290.

Mohasseb, M., A. El-Rabbany, O. Abdel Alim, R. Rashad (2007). "Pseudorange Correction Prediction Using Artificial Neural Networks." Journal of Navigation, Vol. 60, No. 2, pp. 291-301.

Alkan, R.M., M.H. Saka, A. El-Rabbany, B. Aktug, H.M. Palancioglu (2007). "Performance Evaluation of Low-Cost OEM GPS Receiver System for Surveying Applications." Journal the Arab Academy for Science and Technology and Maritime Transport, Vol. 32, No. 63, pp. 18-29.

Dias, G., D. Coleman, A. El-Rabbany, B. Agi, L. Alexander (2006). "A Process for Producing Ice Coverage Marine Information Objects (MIOs) in IHO S-57 format." International Hydrographic Review Journal, Vol. 7, No. 3, pp. 55-63.

El-Rabbany, A. (2006). "Assessment of Hydrographic Data Uncertainty for Seamless Vertical Reference Surface." Journal of Navigation, Vol. 59, No. 2, pp. 213-220.

Rabie, T., A. Shalaby, B. Abdulhai and A. El-Rabbany (2005). "Mobile Active-Vision Traffic Surveillance in Urban Networks." International Journal on Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering. Vol. 20, No. 4, pp. 231-241.

Abd El-Gelil, M. and A. El-Rabbany (2005). "A Hybrid Autonomous Positioning System for Public Transportation." Geomatica, Journal of the Canadian Institute of Geomatics. Vol. 59, No. 1, pp. 49-59.

El-Diasty, M. and A. El-Rabbany (2004). "Prediction of Ice Concentration in the Gulf of St. Lawrence Using Modular Neural Network Technique." Lighthouse, Journal of the Canadian Hydrographic Association. Vol. 66, No. 2, pp. 11-20.

El-Rabbany, A. (2004). "Precise, Standalone GPS System for Precision navigation." Journal of the Arab Academy for Science and Technology and Maritime Transport, Vol. 29, No. 58, pp. 26-32.

El-Rabbany, A. and M. El-Diasty (2004). "An Efficient Neural Network Model for De-noising of MEMS-Based Inertial Data." Journal of Navigation, Vol. 57, No. 3, pp. 407-415.

El-Rabbany, A., B. Agi, M. El-Diasty, G. Dias, and D. Coleman (2004). "On the Development of an Integrated Navigational Chart System for Marine Navigation in Ice Covered Waters." Lighthouse, Journal of the Canadian Hydrographic Association, Vol. 65, No. 1, pp. 5-10.

El-Rabbany, A., B. Agi, and D. Coleman (2004). "A Model for Automatic Integration of Ice Information into Electronic Navigational Chart." International Hydrographic Review, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 76-85.

El-Rabbany, A. and A. Kleusberg (2004). "Efficient Algorithm for the Inverse of the Fully Populated Covariance Matrix in GPS Relative Positioning." Journal of Surveying Engineering, Vol. 130, No. 1, pp. 29-35.

El-Diasty, M., and A. El-Rabbany (2003). "Sequential Sea Ice Concentration Prediction for Marine Operations in Ice-Infested Waters." International Hydrographic Review Journal, Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 82-87.

El-Rabbany, A. and M. El-Diasty (2003). "A New Approach to Sequential Tidal Prediction." Journal of Navigation, Vol. 56, No. 2, pp. 305-314.

El-Rabbany, A. (2003). "An Integrated Navigation System for the Suez Canal." Journal of the Arab Academy for Science and Technology and Maritime Transport, Vol. 28, No. 55, pp. 25-34.

El-Rabbany, A. and A. Kleusberg (2003). "Effect of Temporal Physical Correlation on Accuracy Estimation in GPS Relative Positioning." Journal of Surveying Engineering, Vol. 129, No. 1, pp. 28-32.

El-Rabbany, A. (2002). "Geomatics Aspects of the UN Convention on Law of the Sea - A Case Study." Journal of Navigation, Vol. 55, No. 3, pp. 443-449.

El-Rabbany, A., and M. Santos (2002). "The Effect of Attitude Errors on Multibeam Echo-Sounding Surveys." Journal of the Arab Academy for Science and Technology and Maritime Transport, Vol. 27, No. 54, pp. 44-49.

El-Rabbany, A., G. Auda and S. Abdelazim (2002). "Predicting Sea Ice Conditions Using Neural Networks." Journal of Navigation, Vol. 55, No. 1, pp. 137-143.

TEACHING FIELDS

CVL 650 - Satellite Positioning
CVL 550 - Geodesy and Map Projections
CVL 552 - Data Modelling, Analysis and Estimation I
CV8500 - Advanced Satellite Positioning
CV8504 - Advanced Topics in Estimation and Data Series Analysis

CURRICULUM VITAE