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

2. Strategic Research Cluster in Advanced Geotechnologies 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

3. Strategic Research Cluster in Advanced GeotechnologiesBUDGET

4. OUTLINE What? Why? How? Who? When?

5. Strategic Research Cluster in Advanced Geotechnologies WHAT? RECORDING GEOCODED ATTRIBUTES OF OUR ENVIRONMENT What are Advanced Geotechnologies? Knowing where things are Knowing where things are in relation to other things Making more informed decisions Advanced Geotechnologies SRC DISSEMINATING VIEWING PROCESSING Next generation technologies for improved spatial decision-making

6. Strategic Research Cluster in Advanced Geotechnologies WHY? Why are they important? Mapping data to monitor the environment Understanding how and why attributes vary spatially Estimating missing values (spatial interpolation) Linking data from different sources Identifying where changes take place Identifying spatial clusters 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… Making more informed decisions

7. Strategic Research Cluster in Advanced Geotechnologies WHY? For instance… Technology to capture spatial data is evolving rapidly… Tremendous growth in this sector. For instance… Massive European investment in spatial data …GPS; RFID; LiDAR; all-weather satellite imagery; microlites; pseudolites; geocoded HDTV and video 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)

8. Strategic Research Cluster in Advanced Geotechnologies WHY? Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Use by sector

9. Strategic Research Cluster in Advanced Geotechnologies WHY? Global GPS Sales Growth 1997-2006 (2007-2008 projected) Projections: Industrial Economics and Knowledge Center (IEK) Taiwan

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11. Strategic Research Cluster in Advanced Geotechnologies WHY? Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) YearProduction (Billions) Average costEstimated Revenue (Billions US$) 20000.150.30.045 20051.30.20.26 2010330.13.3 201616500.0233 Global RFID Production and prices projections to 2016 Statistics and projections complied from various sources

12. Strategic Research Cluster in Advanced Geotechnologies 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

13. Strategic Research Cluster in Advanced Geotechnologies WHY? Journal references to LIght Detection And Ranging (LIDAR) SCOPUSGEOBASE SCOPUS searches 11700 published titles Geobase searches over 2,000 international journals

14. Strategic Research Cluster in Advanced Geotechnologies WHY? Why this growth … Determine which parts of a coastline will be flooded if sea levels rise by 40 cm Monitor heat loss from houses – energy consumption / drug growing Undertake airborne surveillance of crowds and relay to ground-based devices Monitor wild fires and disseminate information in real time to mobile devices to assist firefighters and home owners Investigate the spread of a disease in people or animals Monitor people’s movements (hospitals; schools; airports) Track extreme weather or traffic conditions and relay this information to devices in cars and offer alternative routes Monitor air or water quality levels and alert mobile devices where there might be a problem Inventory the location of objects

15. Strategic Research Cluster in Advanced Geotechnologies INTERVENTIONS HOW? How is this to be done? Geospatial Monitoring and Early Warning Systems INTERVENTIONS ENVIRONMENTSENSORSALGORITHMSVISUALISATIONLBS

16. Strategic Research Cluster in Advanced Geotechnologies 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

17. Strategic Research Cluster in Advanced Geotechnologies Example 1: A Campus Information System HOW? OSi map data 1:5000 OSi orthophotos 1;40,000 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 DATA COLLECTION

18. Strategic Research Cluster in Advanced Geotechnologies Example 1: A Campus Information System HOW? 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 DATA PROCESSING

19. Strategic Research Cluster in Advanced Geotechnologies Example 1: A Campus Information System HOW? 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 DATA VISUALISATION

20. Strategic Research Cluster in Advanced Geotechnologies Example 1: A Campus Information System HOW? 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) DATA DISSEMINATION

21. Strategic Research Cluster in Advanced Geotechnologies Example 2: Video-based SatNav System (Maynooth) HOW? DATA COLLECTION 1:5000 road data; Geocoded video of all roads; 1:40000 orthos DATA PROCESSING DATA VISUALISATION DATA DISSEMINATION 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) Linked map/ortho/video displays and location of car – updated in real time; Optimal route; LBS Streaming geocoded video to LADs in cars via WiMAX; Link to other databases for LBS displays

22. Strategic Research Cluster in Advanced Geotechnologies Other application areas include… HOW? 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)

23. Strategic Research Cluster in Advanced Geotechnologies WHO? Who are we? Advanced Geotechnologies SRC NCG-NUIM CS - NUIM EE - NUIM CS -TCD CS-UCD DMC-DIT Industrial Partners Gov. Agency Partners Future Ind. Partners International Collaboration

24. Strategic Research Cluster in Advanced Geotechnologies Advanced Geotechnologies SRC DYNAMICS AND CONTROL RESEARCH GROUP WHO? Where will this take place?The SRC is a cluster of PIs and labs National Centre for Geocomputation, NUIM Dept. of Computer Science, NUIM Dept. of Electronic Engineering, NUIM School of Comp. Science and Statistics, TCD School of Comp. Science and Informatics, UCD Digital Media Centre, Dublin Institute of Technology STEWART FOTHERINGHAM MARTIN CHARLTON TIM MCCARTHY JAMES CARSWELL COMPUTER VISION AND IMAGING LABORATORY INTELLIGENT & GRAPH-BASED SYSTEMS RESEARCH GROUP RONAN FARRELL SEÁN MCLOONE GRAPHICS VISION AND VISUALISATION GROUP MICHELA BERTOLOTTO JOHN MCDONALD ADAM WINSTANLEY INSTITUTE OF MICROELECTRONICS AND WIRELESS SYSTEMS JOHN RINGWOOD CAROL O’SULLIVAN SPATIAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS GROUP

25. Strategic Research Cluster in Advanced Geotechnologies WHO? PARTNERS INDUSTRY ESRI Michael Byrne eSpatial Solutions Eamon Walsh FUTURE BKS Chris Boreland PMS Keiren Feighan IBI Group GOV AGENCIES Ordnance Survey Ireland Stephen Curran Hugh Mangan Geological Survey of Ireland Koen Verbruggen EPA Shane Colgan NRA Marine Institute

26. Strategic Research Cluster in Advanced Geotechnologies WHO? INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATORS Mike Goodchild UCSB, USA Jonathan Raper City University, UK Mike Batty UCL, UK Kirsi Virrantaus HUT, Finland John Leonard Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MIT, USA Chris Brunsdon Leicester University, UK Nick Chrisman Scientific Director, GEOIDE, Canada Xiaoling Chen Jianya Gong Lab in Information Engineering, Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University, People’s Republic of China Lei Yan Beijing University, People’s Republic of China

27. Strategic Research Cluster in Advanced Geotechnologies PDRA and PHD Allocation to Strands WHO? Sensors Algorithms Visualisation LBS 3 PDs 4.5 PhDs 2 PDs 2.5 PhDs 2.5 PDs 4 PhDs 2 PDs 3 PhDs NCG EE (2) EE/CS NCG EE (0.5) CS UCD CS UCD DIT TCD (0.5) CS NCG CS TCD UCD EE DIT NCG (0.5) CS NCG Cluster 2 PhDs (funded by collaborators)

28. Strategic Research Cluster in Advanced Geotechnologies MANAGEMENT STRUCTURE Oversight Board Scientific Board Principal Investigators Charlton McCarthy Ringwood Farrell McLoone McDonald O’Sullivan Bertolotto Carswell Winstanley Director Prof A Stewart Fotheringham IP Committee Sensors Leaders Tim McCarthy Ronan Farrell Spatial Algorithms Leaders Martin Charlton James Carswell Spatial Visualisation Leaders Carol O’Sullivan John McDonald Location-Based Services Leaders Adam Winstanley Michela Bertolotto Cluster Support Team

29. Strategic Research Cluster in Advanced Geotechnologies WHEN? Timetable Official Start Date: May 01, 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 Will have an official launch event “The Future for Advanced Geotechnologies” in September 2008.

30. Strategic Research Cluster in Advanced Geotechnologies WHEN? GOALS for the SRC Become an internationally recognised centre for research in Advanced Geotechnologies 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 Work as a cluster to act as a flagship for A GeoT in Ireland

31. Strategic Research Cluster in Advanced Geotechnologies 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 Ireland’s geotechnology sector Has many important application areas Plenty of opportunity to interact with similar groups in other countries e.g. CASA