Friday 17 November 2017

LiDAR, LasTools and Potree

Some people working with lastools and potree (I posted about potree earlier in the year) for navigating LiDAR point clouds of forestry. Nice looking stuff, i think their goal is VR - i feel like my hero, Ray Mears.

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potree viewer here


Thursday 9 November 2017

Irish Times - SCSI Property and Land supplement

I made a small contribution to the Society of Chartered Surveyors Ireland (SCSI) Property and Land supplement in the Irish Times today. I was mostly fielding questions covering Copernicus data, the Copernicus Emergency Mapping Service and the new Earth Explorer FLEX mission due for launch in 2022.

Tuesday 7 November 2017

Calm after the storm

What a busy few days...we had a large turn-out at both events last week and a great selection of keynote speakers and presenters. There were really too many highlights for me to mention but one of the key take-aways for me is the new RUS system, a virtual machine/data storage/processing facility provided by Copernicus for the user community. They even provide free training and support! The move towards cloud processing is welcome (hardwae gets so old so quickly) and quite evident, looking at the TEPs, Google Earth Engine, now RUS.

It was announced at the close that IEOS2018 will be in Teagasc, thanks to everyone who helped this year and especially the industry sponsors who help keep the event free to attend.

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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.