Our friends at OpenDataNI have been busy securing some fantastic spatial data sets for public use. in particular LiDAR surface elevation data collected by various NI Government Departments over the last 12 years. I’ve covered LiDAR technology in a previous post showing how it…
Why High-Precision GPS is Important – A Post from Neolithic Shetland!
Dr Will Megarry, Centre for GIS and Geomatics, School of Natural and Built Environment, Queen’s University Belfast Shetland, 2nd June 2017 [The North Roe Felsite Project has been funded by the National Geographic Northern European Exploration fund] INTRODUCTION Global…
Ireland’s Surveying Heritage – past, present and future.
Beginning a series of guest posts by colleagues utilising Geographical Information Science at GAP, Professor Keith Lilley writes on the often overlooked but internationally important survey heritage of the Island of Ireland. Ireland was the first country in the world to be fully surveyed…