Thursday 30 March 2017

Launch of MUSSI

The Maynooth University Social Sciences Institute (of which NCG and NIRSA are part) is being launched today by Minister Richard Bruton. The place looks well!

Wednesday 22 March 2017

CIG 2017

I notice abstract deadline for the CIG is rapidly approaching - must get my skates on and see if we can present some of the iCRAG MAROBS platform highlighting our work in the coastal zone.

Tuesday 21 March 2017

Two new projects

A short update after a busy few weeks.

1) The 2 year change detection / change classification project has started and I hope to have some concrete information to post on that soon.

2) ESA has awarded the SCSI RS & EO Working Group a very generous allowance of Pleiades tri-stereo optical and TerraSAR X 'Staring Spotlight' imagery - we'll be starting a project looking at assessing the suitability of Satellites for BIM (i.e. the entire building lifecycle) in the coming months and will also hopefully have updates from that.

Wednesday 1 March 2017

Four Million Solar Panels

An interesting example of changes in the landscape detected by satellites in space, here we have FOUR MILLION solar panels installed in the Longyangxia Dam Solar Park in China. I have a feeling that China will go from being the bad boy of the emissions world to its shining light in the very near future, especially as the USA will take its foot off the gas (not literally - they will keep their foot on the gas just as much as before and their cars are MASSIVE) over the next four to eight years. I did a quick search and the solar panels begin to appear in Landsat 5 imagery in late 2012.


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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.