Applied research group

The physics of
knowing where.

Omniscience works across exterior ballistics, radar and RF sensing, weather and atmospheric modeling, estimation, and instrumentation — taking problems from first principles through to validated models, and shipping the results as tools people can carry into the field.

Independent, privately funded, and publishing what we can.

6Active research programs
3Apps in the stores
6DOFTrajectory engine
2Patents pending

Research

Six domains, one underlying question.

Everything we work on reduces to the same problem: given imperfect measurements of a moving world, how confidently can you say where something is, and where it goes next?

Exterior ballistics

Six-degree-of-freedom trajectory modeling, drag coefficient estimation from Doppler data, spin drift and Coriolis correction, and transonic behavior where the simple models stop being honest.

Radar & RF sensing

Waveform design, matched filtering, clutter and multipath rejection, and detection theory applied to small, low-power apertures — plus propagation modeling over real terrain rather than flat earth.

Weather & atmospheric modeling

Mesoscale forecasting and boundary-layer characterization — the air is the medium every other program has to shoot, sense, or see through. Density altitude, wind profiles, refractivity gradients, and precipitation clutter, resolved finely enough to matter over a single valley.

Estimation & sensor fusion

Kalman, unscented, and particle filters for multi-sensor tracking; data association under clutter; and calibrated uncertainty, so a number never arrives without an error bar attached.

Instrumentation & applied physics

The general-purpose end of the work: optical and acoustic measurement, atmospheric characterization, calibration methodology, and whichever adjacent question the current program drags us into.

Navigation & positioning

GPS-denied localization, inertial-aided navigation, terrain-referenced positioning, and the fusion of all three — because the hardest place to know where you are is the one that matters most.

Apps

Research that fits in a pocket.

Models are only useful where the problem actually is. Each of these started as an internal tool and earned its way onto a phone.

Method

Measure it, or don't claim it.

A model that hasn't been checked against the world is a hypothesis wearing a lab coat. Every program here ends the same way — instrumented tests, residuals published internally, and the model corrected until the errors look like noise instead of structure.

  • First-principles derivation before any curve fitting.
  • Every prediction ships with its uncertainty, not just its mean.
  • Validation against independent measurement, not against the training set.
  • Open formats and documented methods — results you can reproduce.

Company

Small team, long horizon.

A handful of physicists and engineers who would rather go deep on a few hard problems than broad on many easy ones.

Founded
1985
Headquarters
New Zealand
Focus
Applied research
Hiring
DSP & physics engineers

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