Tim Mccarthy
Senior Lecturer
Geocomputation
National University of Maynooth
Ireland
Biography
Tim has more than twenty-five years R&D experience in Earth Observation science and Decision Support Platforms, specialising in a number of research areas including; Earth Observation: Satellite, Airborne & Terrestrial Mapping Systems Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) - Drones Geospatial Web & Mobile Services Spatial Decision Support (Cloud-based) Platforms He has led (PI/Co-PI) more than twenty-five externally funded research projects, carries out PhDs/MSc supervision and spun-out two University companies over his past twelve years at Maynooth. He currently leads a team of five researchers, engaged in six R&D projects based across Marine, Transport, Agriculture, Forestry, Environment, Emergency Management sectors. He provides RTDI support to a number of start-up ventures based around geospatial science & technology including; Earth Observation, Mobile Mapping, Decision Support and Drones. He is also the Irish National delegate for Copernicus in Brussels.
Research Interest
Offshore Petroleum Infrastructure Programme (PIP) - Decision Support for Oil Spill DSOS management, ERA-NET GrassQ - Precision Agriculture, CEF funded ITS Project TN_ITS Spatial data Pilot Platform, European CEDR funded ESReT - Road Safety Risk Modelling, Funded Investigator SFI Geoscience Centre iCRAG - Marine Monitoring platform, Forestry Inventory using Satellite and Airborne Remote Sensing.
Publications
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Kumar, Pankaj; Lewis, Paul; McElhinney, Conor P; Boguslawski, Pawel; McCarthy, Tim; (2016) 'Snake Energy Analysis and Result Validation for a Mobile Laser Scanning Data-Based Automated Road Edge Extraction Algorithm'. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing,
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Kumar, P., Lewis, P., McCarthy T (2017) 'The Potential of Active Contour Models in Extracting Road Edges from Mobile Laser Scanning Data'. Infrastructures, 2 (3)
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Cahalane C, Walsh D, Magee A, Mannion S, Lewis P and McCarthy T. (2017) 'Sensor Pods: Multi-Resolution Surveys from a Light Aircraft'. Inventions, 2 (1)
