Palaeoglaciology of the Last Irish Ice Sheet Reconstructed from Striae Evidence
Smith, M.J. and Knight, J.(in press)
Quaternary Science Reviews
A database comprising some ~5200 individual striation measurements on bedrock surfaces across the island of Ireland was used to produce maps of flowsets corresponding to individual ice flow events during the last (late Devensian) glacial cycle....
posted on: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 | path: /publications/journals | permanent link to this entry
CSVed
I've blogged a couple of times about the utility of CSVs as a file format for the distribution of data....
posted on: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 | path: /computing | permanent link to this entry
SSTL Developing Three new satellites
SSTL have just announced the development of three new satellites in a £100M investment. What's interesting with this announcement is that it's a partnership between SSTL and its data processing subsidiary DMCii and will be operated commercially, leasing time on the satellites to nations that would otherwise not be able to afford their own satellite.
posted on: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 | path: /remote_sensing | permanent link to this entry
TLS to 3D shapefiles
We have taken delivery of a new GeoWall system at Kingston which Ken has been painstakingly putting together....
posted on: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 | path: /GIS | permanent link to this entry
DEMView: 3-D Visualization of DEM Error
M.B. Gousie and M.J. Smith
Proceedings of Spatial Accuracy Assessment in Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, Leicester
It is well known that a digital elevation model (DEM) may contain systematic or other errors....
posted on: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 | path: /publications/proceedings | permanent link to this entry
Mapping European Stereotypes
Something in this for everyone:
http://alphadesigner.com/project-mapping-stereotypes.html
Funny.
posted on: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 | path: /fun | permanent link to this entry
Photogrammetric Week
Photogrammetric Week has a long and enviable record as a high profile, quality, conference. In fact, amazingly for a "conference", it held its 100th Anniversary last year. And whilst it obviously focuses upon photogrammetry, there are many talks devoted to related topics (LiDAR, IfSAR etc). And, somewhat like RSPSoc Annual Conference they publish a set of extended abstracts which are really very useful. If you've missed these then the entire back catalogue is available. This is a fantastic resource and, being open access, means they are index by Google as well. RSPSoc need to take a leaf out of PW's book and do the same, otherwise they will languish on a dusty shelf.
posted on: Sat, 11 Sep 2010 | path: /meetings | permanent link to this entry
Yes another story about OS monopoly
This time though its the Monopoly boardgame and OS have created a modern map showing the locations of monopoly squares in London....
posted on: Wed, 08 Sep 2010 | path: /fun | permanent link to this entry
Department for Education puts in searing cuts
Had a meeting at the Department for Education last week. From all the press I know that cuts have been hard in government, but I hadn't expected education to be fully bearing the brunt of them.
Michael Gove's office is top left.
posted on: Sat, 04 Sep 2010 | path: /fun | permanent link to this entry
Camp Stansted
I left for RSPSoc 2010 yesterday. Flights from Stansted, Heathrow and Gatwick all go in to Cork, but I reckoned that Stansted was easiest and caught the airport bus up late last night....
posted on: Wed, 01 Sep 2010 | path: /meetings | permanent link to this entry
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