strategic research cluster in advanced geotechnologies
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Strategic Research Cluster in Advanced Geotechnologies. A Stewart Fotheringham National Centre for Geocomputation National University of Ireland, Maynooth. THE FACTS. 7m euros (plus 2m in overheads) over 5 years to fund Strategic Research Cluster in Advanced Geotechnologies - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Strategic Research Cluster in Advanced Geotechnologies
Strategic Research Cluster in Strategic Research Cluster in Advanced GeotechnologiesAdvanced Geotechnologies
A Stewart Fotheringham
National Centre for GeocomputationNational University of Ireland, Maynooth
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
Strategic Research Cluster in Advanced Geotechnologies
BUDGETBUDGET
SRA in Advanced Geotechnologies - Years 1 - 5
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Staff Equipment (>€2,000) Materials & Consumables Travel
Strategic Research Cluster in Advanced Geotechnologies
OUTLINE
What?
Why?
How?
Who?
When?
Strategic Research Cluster in Advanced Geotechnologies
WHAT?
RECORDING
GEOCODED ATTRIBUTES OF OUR ENVIRONMENT
What are Advanced Geotechnologies?
Knowing where things areKnowing where things are
Knowing where things are in relation to other thingsKnowing where things are in relation to other things
Making more informed decisionsMaking more informed decisions
AdvancedGeotechnologies
SRC DISSEMINATING
VIEWING
PROCESSING
Next generation technologies for improved spatial decision-making
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
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 $8.1 billion US (Source: CBC News, October, 2007)
Strategic Research Cluster in Advanced Geotechnologies
WHY?
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Use by sector
Strategic Research Cluster in Advanced Geotechnologies
WHY?
Global GPS Sales Growth 1997-2006 (2007-2008 projected)
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Strategic Research Cluster in Advanced Geotechnologies
WHY?
Strategic Research Cluster in Advanced Geotechnologies
WHY?
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)
Year Production (Billions)
Average cost Estimated Revenue (Billions US$)
2000 0.15 0.3 0.045
2005 1.3 0.2 0.26
2010 33 0.1 3.3
2016 1650 0.02 33
Global RFID Production and prices projections to 2016
Statistics and projections complied from various sources
Strategic Research Cluster in Advanced Geotechnologies
WHY?
Journal references to RFID 1996-2006
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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)
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SCOPUS searches 11700 published titlesGeobase searches over 2,000 international journals
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
Strategic Research Cluster in Advanced Geotechnologies
INTERVENTIONS
HOW?
How is this to be done?
Geospatial Monitoring and Early Warning Systems
INTERVENTIONSINTERVENTIONS
ENVIRONMENT
SENSORS
ALGORITHMS
VISUALISATION
LBS
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
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
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
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
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
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
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)
Strategic Research Cluster in Advanced Geotechnologies
WHO?
Who are we?Who are we?
AdvancedGeotechnologies
SRC
NCG-NUIM
CS - NUIM
EE - NUIM
CS -TCD
CS-UCDDMC-DIT
Industrial Partners
Gov. Agency Partners
Future Ind. Partners
International Collaboration
Strategic Research Cluster in Advanced Geotechnologies
AdvancedGeotechnologies
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. ofComputer 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
Strategic Research Cluster in Advanced Geotechnologies
WHO?PARTNERS
INDUSTRYINDUSTRY
ESRIMichael Byrne
ESRIMichael Byrne
eSpatial SolutionsEamon Walsh
eSpatial SolutionsEamon Walsh
FUTUREFUTURE
BKSChris Boreland
BKSChris Boreland
PMSKeiren Feighan
PMSKeiren Feighan
IBI GroupIBI Group
GOV AGENCIESGOV AGENCIES
Ordnance Survey IrelandStephen Curran Hugh Mangan
Ordnance Survey IrelandStephen Curran Hugh Mangan
Geological Survey of IrelandKoen Verbruggen
Geological Survey of IrelandKoen Verbruggen
EPAShane Colgan
EPAShane Colgan
NRANRA
Marine InstituteMarine Institute
Strategic Research Cluster in Advanced Geotechnologies
WHO?INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATORS
Mike GoodchildUCSB, USA
Mike GoodchildUCSB, USA
Jonathan RaperCity University, UK
Jonathan RaperCity University, UK
Mike BattyUCL, UK
Mike BattyUCL, UK
Kirsi VirrantausHUT, Finland
Kirsi VirrantausHUT, Finland
John LeonardComputer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MIT, USA
John LeonardComputer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MIT, USA
Chris BrunsdonLeicester University, UK
Chris BrunsdonLeicester University, UK
Nick ChrismanScientific Director, GEOIDE,
Canada
Nick ChrismanScientific Director, GEOIDE,
Canada
Xiaoling ChenJianya Gong
Lab in Information Engineering, Surveying,
Mapping and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University, People’s Republic of China
Xiaoling ChenJianya Gong
Lab in Information Engineering, Surveying,
Mapping and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University, People’s Republic of China
Lei YanBeijing University,
People’s Republic of China
Lei YanBeijing University,
People’s Republic of China
Strategic Research Cluster in Advanced Geotechnologies
PDRA and PHD Allocation to Strands WHO?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
NCGEE (2)
EE (2)EE/CSNCGEE (0.5)
CSUCD
CSUCDDIT
TCD (0.5)CSNCG
NCGCSTCDUCD
EEDIT
NCG (0.5)CSNCG Cluster
2 PhDs
(funded by
collaborators)
Strategic Research Cluster in Advanced Geotechnologies
MANAGEMENT STRUCTUREMANAGEMENT STRUCTURE
OversightBoard
Scientific Board
Principal InvestigatorsCharlton McCarthy Ringwood Farrell McLoone McDonald O’Sullivan Bertolotto Carswell Winstanley
DirectorProf A Stewart Fotheringham
IP Committee
Sensors
LeadersTim McCarthyRonan Farrell
SpatialAlgorithms
LeadersMartin CharltonJames Carswell
SpatialVisualisation
LeadersCarol O’SullivanJohn McDonald
Location-BasedServices
LeadersAdam WinstanleyMichela Bertolotto
Cluster Support Team
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.
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
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