Thursday 24 July 2014

The flow

It is always interesting when you have an idea in your mind but when someone explains it properly it really makes sense. Take the idea of, 'job satisfaction'. People are moving more and more from their jobs, a 'job for life' is a thing of the past in most cases.




 I left a permanent job to do my PhD and then move into research. Why? It's hard to explain - but then I came across this article on linkedin. A pictures is worth a thousand words right?




So I suppose everyone has to find their own 'flow channel', that sweetspot where you balance boredom and anxiety. I'm sure there will be outliers, i.e. days when you are way out of your depth on something, or watching the clock crawl towards 5pm - but this graph really stuck a chord with me.

Tuesday 8 July 2014

8th IEOS

We are hosting the 8th Annual Irish Earth observation Symposium thi syear. We timed to conincide with NUIM study week so we could have free access to the big hall, plus lecture rookms for break oaway sessions. It's going to run on Thursday 30th (all-day) and Friday 31st October (half-day). The symposium will enable researchers, academia, industry and employees of public bodies to present the state of the art in Irish remote sensing and identify potential collaborations. 



In addition to the traditional presentation/poster sessions, this year's symposium will also incorporate parallel workshops. These workshops will range from software demonstrations, to the introduction of new data sets, through to the procedure for applying for ESA imagery. Hardware demonstrations will be carried out in the symposium intervals, involving instruments such as UASs, Helikites, handheld laser scanners, Remotely Operated Underwater Vehicles (ROVs) and Mobile Mapping Systems (MMSs). Hopefully we will have 4 or 5 MMS on the day, our own, plus a few from our industry partners and Irish industry. A number of international keynote speakers will be invited to open the event. These will include personnel from ESA, multinational data providers and innovators in the field of spatial data capture, management and processing.

Early working version of the website is here!

Tuesday 1 July 2014

Remote Sensing Journals

Thanks to the IEOS Blog for pointing this out. Google Scholar have released updated info on the Citation Index- ranking Journals for the h-index 2013. 'Remote Sensing' is the sister journal of 'Sensors' that I had a paper published in a few weeks back. It's very interesting to see it doing so well, out-ranking more traditional journals like PE&RS and The Photogrammetric Record by quite a long way. I submitted a paper to Remote Sensing today - fingers crossed.

1.Remote Sensing of Environment7598
2.IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing6590
3.ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing3956
4.International Journal of Remote Sensing3646
5.IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters3346
6.Remote Sensing3141
7.International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation3043
8.IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing2941
9.Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing2641
10.IEEE Radar Conference2131
11.IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium2028
12.International Journal of Digital Earth1931
13.Journal of Applied Remote Sensing1927
14.Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing1725
15.The Photogrammetric Record1518
16.European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar1419
17.GIScience & Remote Sensing1317
18.Remote Sensing Letters1221
19.Photogrammetrie-Fernerkundung-Geoinformation1217
20.Geocarto International1215

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My name is Conor. I am a Lecturer at the Department of Geography at Maynooth University. These few lines will (hopefully) chart my progress through academia and the world of research.