Diapositiva 1

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Strategic Research Cluster in Advanced
Geotechnologies
A Stewart Fotheringham National Centre for
Geocomputation National University of Ireland,
Maynooth
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THE FACTS

• 7m euros (plus 2m in overheads) over 5 years to
  fund Strategic Research Cluster in Advanced
  Geotechnologies
• Led by the National Centre for Geocomputation,
  NUIM
• Starting date May 01, 2008
• Lots of potential links with CASA

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BUDGET
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OUTLINE

• What?
• Why?
• How?
• Who?
• When?

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WHAT?
Next generation technologies for improved spatial
decision-making
What are Advanced Geotechnologies?

• RECORDING

Advanced Geotechnologies SRC

• PROCESSING

• VIEWING

• DISSEMINATING

GEOCODED ATTRIBUTES OF OUR ENVIRONMENT

• Knowing where things are
• Knowing where things are in relation to other
  things
• Making more informed decisions

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WHY?
Why are they important?

• Mapping data to monitor the environment

• Understanding how and why attributes vary
  spatially

• Identifying where changes take place

• Identifying spatial clusters

• Linking data from different sources

• Estimating missing values (spatial interpolation)

• Making more informed decisions

• Because it is increasingly recognised that most
  data are spatial and we are able to capture
  increasingly large volumes of spatial data that
  need to be processed in order to make informed
  decisions

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WHY?
For instance

• Technology to capture spatial data is evolving
  rapidly

• Massive European investment in spatial data

• GPS RFID LiDAR all-weather satellite imagery
  microlites pseudolites geocoded HDTV and video

• Tremendous growth in this sector. For instance

• Galileo 3.2 billion satellite system for
  improved recording of location EC estimates 3
  billion GPS receivers by 2010 and a market worth
  250 billion GMES (2.4 billion satellite system
  for monitoring land use, natural disasters,
  marine and climate) Envisat satellite extended
  to 2012 (greenhouse gas monitoring, melting ice
  caps, rising sea levels)

• The GIS industry is growing rapidly. Total annual
  expenditure on GIS Software, hardware, employees
  and services is now estimated to be of the order
  of 15 to 20 billion (Source gisdevelopment.net)
• Application areas very broad
• Nokia acquiring Navteq navigation software
  company for 8.1 billion US (Source CBC News,
  October, 2007)

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WHY?
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Use by
sector
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WHY?
Global GPS Sales Growth 1997-2006 (2007-2008
projected)
Projections Industrial Economics and Knowledge
Center (IEK) Taiwan
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WHY?
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WHY?
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)
Global RFID Production and prices projections to
2016
Statistics and projections complied from various
sources
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WHY?
Journal references to RFID 1996-2006
IEEE SCOPUS
IEEE searches the world's highest quality
technical literature in electrical engineering,
computer science, and electronics SCOPUS
searches 11700 published titles
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WHY?
Journal references to LIght Detection And
Ranging (LIDAR)
SCOPUS GEOBASE
SCOPUS searches 11700 published titles Geobase
searches over 2,000 international journals
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WHY?
Why this growth

• Determine which parts of a coastline will be
  flooded if sea levels rise by 40 cm

• Monitor air or water quality levels and alert
  mobile devices where there might be a problem

• Track extreme weather or traffic conditions and
  relay this information to devices in cars and
  offer alternative routes

• Monitor peoples movements (hospitals schools
  airports)

• Investigate the spread of a disease in people or
  animals

• Monitor wild fires and disseminate information in
  real time to mobile devices to assist
  firefighters and home owners

• Undertake airborne surveillance of crowds and
  relay to ground-based devices

• Monitor heat loss from houses energy
  consumption / drug growing

• Inventory the location of objects

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HOW?
How is this to be done?
INTERVENTIONS
INTERVENTIONS
INTERVENTIONS
Geospatial Monitoring and Early Warning Systems
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HOW?
Geospatial Monitoring and Early Warning System

A set of geo-sensors deployed over broad area
collecting and integrating data in real time,
determining what constitutes good data and
sending these either for further processing at a
central site or directly to remote devices. The
remote devices can then be used to make decisions
based on real-time scenarios and to access other
data bases to aid such decisions

• Generic set of
• Protocols
• Algorithms
• Technological developments
• To monitor a variety of environmental attributes

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HOW?
Example 1 A Campus Information System
DATA COLLECTION

• OSi map data 15000
• OSi orthophotos 140,000
• Ground-based LiDAR
• Geocoded digital photographs
• Airborne LiDAR
• Campus databases (building attributes depts
  services events etc.)
• RFID tags (security and other personnel)
• Building interiors
• Thermal imagery (energy conservation)
• CCTV cameras

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HOW?
Example 1 A Campus Information System
DATA PROCESSING

• Matching diverse databases based on common
  geocoded points
• adding photos to ground-based LiDAR
• matching ground and airborne LiDAR
• linking campus databases to scanned images
• linking scans to mapped database
• linking RFID sensor info to 3D images
• Processing LiDAR data
• Calculating shortest paths between places
  taking into account 3D and potential obstacles
  such as steps.
• Feature extraction from live video streams
• Movement tracking / behaviour identification
  /crowd monitoring

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HOW?
Example 1 A Campus Information System
DATA VISUALISATION

• Creating 3D map of the campus
• Creating AR map of the campus with point and
  click interface for querying
• Querying and displaying of shortest routes (inc.
  steps etc)
• Live tracking of individuals
• CCTV monitoring linked to 3D map
• Heat loss maps of campus
• Interiors of buildings displayed in 3D
• Locations of alarms
• Simulations of crowd scenes / events on campus /
  evacuation

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HOW?
Example 1 A Campus Information System
DATA DISSEMINATION

• Sending information to locationally aware devices
  (LADs) around campus via WiMAX
• Feedback from LADs on location of individuals and
  signal strength
• Allow devices to point at buildings and retrieve
  data relating to those buildings (e.g seminars,
  depts.)
• Allow map interface to change automatically as
  user moves location and direction
• Continuous monitoring of wayfinding
• Displaying location of alarms
• Monitoring location of others (e.g. security
  personnel)

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HOW?
Example 2 Video-based SatNav System (Maynooth)
DATA COLLECTION 15000 road data Geocoded
video of all roads 140000 orthos
DATA PROCESSING
Algorithm for processing large amounts of
geocoded video and delivering to LADs Algorithm
for route selection and joining relevant video
streams Algorithm for measurement of objects on
video (such as distance to next junction and
updated in real time)
DATA VISUALISATION
Linked map/ortho/video displays and location of
car updated in real time Optimal route LBS
DATA DISSEMINATION
Streaming geocoded video to LADs in cars via
WiMAX Link to other databases for LBS displays
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HOW?
Other application areas include

• Flood control

• Pollution monitoring (airborne, fluvial,
  oceanographic)

• Intelligent transportation systems (congestion
  charging network management)

• Disease infection

• Disaster management (both in Ireland and abroad)

• Seabed and oceanographic monitoring

• Climate monitoring

• Land use monitoring (urban rural forestry)

• Security (airport pedestrian monitoring vehicle
  tagging etc)

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WHO?
Who are we?
NCG-NUIM
International Collaboration
CS - NUIM
Gov. Agency Partners
Advanced Geotechnologies SRC
EE - NUIM
Future Ind. Partners
CS -TCD
CS-UCD
Industrial Partners
DMC-DIT
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WHO?
Where will this take place?
The SRC is a cluster of PIs and labs
RONAN FARRELL
JOHN MCDONALD
INSTITUTE OF MICROELECTRONICS AND WIRELESS
SYSTEMS
COMPUTER VISION AND IMAGING LABORATORY
ADAM WINSTANLEY
SEÁN MCLOONE
INTELLIGENT GRAPH-BASED SYSTEMS RESEARCH
GROUP
DYNAMICS AND CONTROL RESEARCH GROUP
STEWART FOTHERINGHAM
JOHN RINGWOOD
GRAPHICS VISION AND VISUALISATION GROUP
MARTIN CHARLTON
CAROL OSULLIVAN
TIM MCCARTHY
MICHELA BERTOLOTTO
SPATIAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS GROUP
JAMES CARSWELL
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WHO?
PARTNERS
INDUSTRY
GOV AGENCIES
ESRI Michael Byrne
Ordnance Survey Ireland Stephen Curran Hugh
Mangan
eSpatial Solutions Eamon Walsh
Geological Survey of Ireland Koen Verbruggen
FUTURE
EPA Shane Colgan
BKS Chris Boreland
NRA
PMS Keiren Feighan
Marine Institute
IBI Group
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WHO?
INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATORS
Mike Goodchild UCSB, USA
Nick Chrisman Scientific Director, GEOIDE, Canada
Jonathan Raper City University, UK
Xiaoling Chen Jianya Gong Lab in Information
Engineering, Surveying, Mapping and Remote
Sensing, Wuhan University, Peoples Republic of
China
Mike Batty UCL, UK
Kirsi Virrantaus HUT, Finland
John Leonard Computer Science and Artificial
Intelligence Laboratory, MIT, USA
Lei Yan Beijing University, Peoples Republic of
China
Chris Brunsdon Leicester University, UK
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PDRA and PHD Allocation to Strands
WHO?
NCG EE (2) EE (2) EE/CS NCG EE (0.5)
3 PDs 4.5 PhDs
Sensors
EE DIT NCG (0.5) CS NCG
2 PDs 2.5 PhDs
Algorithms
Cluster 2 PhDs (funded by collaborators)
TCD (0.5) CS NCG NCG CS TCD UCD
2.5 PDs 4 PhDs
Visualisation
CS UCD CS UCD DIT
2 PDs 3 PhDs
LBS
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MANAGEMENT STRUCTURE
Oversight Board
Scientific Board
IP Committee
Director Prof A Stewart Fotheringham
Cluster Support Team
Principal Investigators Charlton McCarthy
Ringwood Farrell McLoone McDonald OSullivan
Bertolotto Carswell Winstanley
Sensors Leaders Tim McCarthy Ronan Farrell
Spatial Algorithms Leaders Martin Charlton James
Carswell
Spatial Visualisation Leaders Carol
OSullivan John McDonald
Location-Based Services Leaders Adam
Winstanley Michela Bertolotto
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WHEN?
Timetable

• Official Start Date May 01, 2008

• Will have an official launch event The Future
  for Advanced Geotechnologies in September 2008.

• Each of the four Research Strands will have an
  Expert Meeting between Oct 08 and May 09

• Majority of Postdocs appointed in Year 1 with
  funding up to 5 years

• Majority of PhD Fellows appointed in Year 2 with
  funding for 3 years
• Can host visitors, seminar speakers, occasional
  collaborators etc
• Major review before end of Year 3

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WHEN?
GOALS for the SRC

• Become an internationally recognised centre for
  research in Advanced Geotechnologies

• Work as a cluster to act as a flagship for A GeoT
  in Ireland

• Provide Ireland with HQP in this rapidly growing
  area

• Work with our industry partners to commercially
  exploit output

• Develop working applications of GMEWS

• Actively engage international collaborators on
  research projects

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SUMMARY

• A strong mix of personnel from different
  departments and different universities across 4
  research strands involving the capture,
  processing, visualisation and dissemination of
  spatial data

• Strong industry and gov. agency support

• In a rapidly growing and exciting field of
  technology

• Will generate substantial benefits to Irelands
  geotechnology sector

• Has many important application areas
• Plenty of opportunity to interact with similar
  groups in other countries e.g. CASA