Conor Cahalane
Professor
Geocomputation
National University of Maynooth
Ireland
Biography
Dr Conor Cahalane is a Senior Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the NCG/Social Sciences Institute (MUSSI) at the National University of Ireland Maynooth. His background is in Geomatics, Applied Computing and Geocomputation. Dr Cahalane employs satellite, airborne and UAV remotely sensed data for coastal management, environmental protection, engineering works, forestry surveys and precision agriculture. Conor currently is collaborating with Ordnance Survey Ireland developing a method for automated change detection and map updating using multi-band aerial imagery. Dr Cahalane sits on council for the Society of Chartered Surveyors promoting RS and EO in the Geomatics community in Ireland and is also the Irish MC member on COST Action ES1309, investigating recent advances in satellites, UAVs and optical sensors.
Research Interest
My interests encompass both land and marine - ranging from passive and active remote sensing technologies including multispectral, hyperspectral, thermal, LiDAR and SAR. I utilise data from satellite, airborne, unmanned platforms and terrestrial platforms and combine this data with other spatial data-sets for additional contextual information. Fusing data from multiple sensors on a single platform is a major focus of our research.
Publications
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Cahalane, C; Lewis, P; McElhinney, C.P; McNerney, E; McCarthy, T (2016) 'Improving MMS Performance during Infrastructure Surveys through Geometry Aided Design'. Infrastructures.
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Cahalane, C; Walsh, D.; Magee, A.; Mannion, S.; Lewis, P.; McCarthy, T (2017) 'Sensor Pods: Multi-Resolution Surveys from a Light Aircraft'. Inventions.
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Pforte, L; Brundson, C; Cahalane, C; Charlton, M (2017) 'Data imputation in a short-run space-time series: A Bayesian approach'. Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design.
