Category: Events

Hacking a Sustainable Earth from Space: Digitising Green Spaces

National Space Centre (NSC) in partnership with Munster Technological University (MTU) are hosting the first of a series of six hackathons focused on using satellite data and signals to spur innovation, sustainability and entrepreneurship with space technology. The hackathon’s theme, Digitising Green Spaces, encourages participants to develop solutions to global challenges and make a sustainable impact on Earth. Participants will be supported in using EU satellite images and signals…
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HEAnet webinar on EO

Interesting looking webinar form HEAnet and ICHEC on their role in earth science and earth observation and funding applications. Its on the 14th April, register here: HEAnet Research Webinar for Researchers in Earth Sciences – HEAnet Uncategorized Earth Observation & Remote Sensing Research in IrelandRead More

Watch the Sold Out NSC Mars Landing Party!

On Thursday 18 February, we hosted a virtual Mars Landing Watch Party just ahead of the historic NASA Perseverance landing on Mars. We gathered questions in advance from our audience to share with our panel of amazing space experts, and you can watch them answer those questions and share their knowledge and enthusiasm for all…
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Great 2-minute tips for EO imagery processing

While browsing for information, I came across this Youtube channel providing Information and educational videos on Hexagon Geospatial’s ERDAS IMAGINE and Safe Software’s FME software (About). Great for curious students and not only! Take a look! Uncategorized, Educational EO, EO, ERDAS, FME, online learning Earth Observation & Remote Sensing Research in IrelandRead More

 An indicative history of green cover since the 1980’s

Map of the Month for July from Teagasc presents an interim output from a remote sensing study looking to see how often fields are bare of vegetation, due to harvesting or re-seeding. Using the Teagasc archive of satellite imagery going back to the 1980’s we can use vegetation indices to give an indication the number…
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EPA’s Research on Remote Sensing of Aerosols, Clouds and Wind

EPA’s report on Remote Sensing of Aerosols, Clouds and Wind at Mace Head Atmospheric Research Station is now available, focusing on identifying pressures on air quality, weather and climate but also on economy and human health, informing policy and developing solutions. Authors: Jana Preißler and Colin O’Dowd The power of remote sensing lies in its…
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Remote Sensing of Lightning Strikes

We’ve had a few days of summer storms and lightning strikes leading to blackouts and animal deaths. If you want see where lightning is happening here and now, then real-time lightning detection has the answer. The detectors measure Very Low Frequency radio waves and triangulate bursts to locate lightning strikes. Met Eireann feeds data (from…
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NDMI in the past ten years

In the latest Teagasc Map of the Month (https://www.teagasc.ie/rural-economy/rural-economy/spatial-analysis/gis-monthly-maps/) I used MODIS Terra surface reflectance data to calculate the Normalised Difference Moisture Index (NDMI) as a proxy for the spatial variation in the effect of the spring 2020 drought in Ireland. The specific measure I used was the difference in the average NDMI in May…
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