Earth from space

Very interesting documentary - must keep the link for next year's students. A long one but worth the watch.

The Earth From Space

Survey Ireland - Two's Company

Survey Ireland was a great success - well done to all those involved - some excellent talks, really incredible datasets being presented and a very good turn out too. It was also interesting to hear Gerard Lawlor from the IAA mention that we have a legal definition in Ireland of just how many is a 'crowd' - more than 12 apparently!

Remote Sensing Postdoc at Maynooth University/Ireland

The GrassQ postdoc has been advertised, will be a very interesting project.

Survey Ireland 2016 - Expanding Horizons

Survey Ireland is being hosted by the SCS this year - moving to the Red Cow hotel. The theme is "Innovation and Solutions". An interesting line of talks, plus a follow-up one I am doing on Flooding.

Sentinel 1b launch

The second of the Sentinel SAR satellites is going up this Friday. Sentinel 1b's introduction means that instead of having to wait approx 12 days between each overpass we should only have to wait about 5 or 6 days? They have also piggybacked a number of smaller cubesats on the launch vehicle to get maximum bang for their buck.. Speaking of Sentinel - here is a great image that I came across last week of a Sentinel 1a multi-temporal SAR colour composite of land coverage across the island created by ESA.

Good luck Sentinel 1b.

Flood Mapping

The article that I mentioned that I was collaborating on for flood mapping has been published in the Surveyors Journal. We even got the cover image spot - although it is odd - the theme of this issue was 'Flood Mapping' - and although there are 23 references to floods in the document all of them are in our article..

Citations and Profile

I must admit that it does give me a chuckle to think that if something was published along the lines of,

"...and the most recent findings of Cahalane et. al are absolute rubbish - they should be struck off the University's books and whipped by a professional committee...",

it would count as a citation and could possibly increase my h-index.

Additionally - there was a relatively well publicised case of thesis data falsification earlier in the year - I had a look at the person in questions Researchgate page - as did many others..they were hot stuff for a few days and their RG score went up correspondingly!