Dr Ramsey Faragher wins the Royal Institute of Navigation’s Harold Spencer-Jones Gold Medal for an outstanding contribution to navigation.
On 21 June Ramsey Faragher MA, MSci, PhD, CPhys, FRIN was awarded the Royal Institute of Navigation’s (RIN) highest accolade at the 2023 AGM and Annual Meeting. The award was presented at the Royal Geographical Society, London, by RIN President Cynthia Robinson OBE.
The citation for Ramsey’s award was, “In recognition of developing innovative technologies to improve smartphone and automotive navigation.”
Ramsey founded Focal Point Positioning in 2015 with the objective of transforming the capabilities of all GNSS devices by implementing a number of his innovations, including the Supercorrelation™ signal processing technique. This technology was described in detail in a RIN Webinar in June 2020.
Ramsey has had a distinguished career so far in PNT, having developed and recommended state-of-the-art improvements to the navigation systems of manned and autonomous platforms in the land, air, sea and space domains during his time in the Defence sector. During the COVID pandemic he advised a number of companies developing contact tracing apps on the best ways to maximise their accuracy. He regularly contributes to BBC Naked Scientists broadcasts, writes for Forbes, and has also provided science advice for two television production companies.
Ramsey said, “It is an incredible honour to have picked up the highest award from RIN, and to have joined the highly-prestigious list of Harold Spencer-Jones medallists.”
Dr Ramsey Faragher is the Founder, President and CTO of Focal Point Positioning, a Fellow of the Royal Institute of Navigation, and a Fellow of Queens' College, at the University of Cambridge.
Email to a Friend