Survey Ireland 2019

Conference season is rapidly approaching - starting with Survey Ireland 2019 on the 8th May in Dunboyne Castle. Despite promising myself that I would not present again on space tech this year (it's been four years in a row, this will be the 5th....), I was 'volunteered' at one of the committee meetings. Serves me right for missing it I suppose. The talk will be on Remote sensing Data, what is available and it’s suitability for different applications.

Anyway - looking forward to the event and to seeing some familiar faces. 

Current schedule here.

EUGEO and CIG2019

We had such a good response this year that we have had to organise a dual EO session for the joint CIG/EUGEO this year in Galway. Sessions 2.3.7 and 2.4.7 - should be a great selection of talks. Thanks to all who applied and to co-convenor Daithí for all the hard work in compiling the submissions.

Conference programme available at this link

BIM From a Distance

Part 1 of our article on 'BIM from a Distance' has just been published in the Surveyors Journal. This was a SCSI/ESA funded study using high resolution passive and active satellites to monitor construction in Dublin port. Part 1 introduces the problem, proposed methodology etc - Part 2 will cover the results.

This was a very interesting study to be part of - basically proving to me that high resolution satellites can measure the dimensions of structures achieving relative accuracies of +/- 0.5m. This means that the process is not entirely dissimilar from traditional methods band even more importantly is repeatable and exportable for any site worldwide. We presented these results in CIG2018 in Maynooth and again in Survey Ireland 2018 in Dunboyne.