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.

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!

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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 Environment	75	98
2.	IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing	65	90
3.	ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing	39	56
4.	International Journal of Remote Sensing	36	46
5.	IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters	33	46
6.	Remote Sensing	31	41
7.	International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation	30	43
8.	IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing	29	41
9.	Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing	26	41
10.	IEEE Radar Conference	21	31
11.	IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium	20	28
12.	International Journal of Digital Earth	19	31
13.	Journal of Applied Remote Sensing	19	27
14.	Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing	17	25
15.	The Photogrammetric Record	15	18
16.	European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar	14	19
17.	GIScience & Remote Sensing	13	17
18.	Remote Sensing Letters	12	21
19.	Photogrammetrie-Fernerkundung-Geoinformation	12	17
20.	Geocarto International	12	15