RTI – Defence Organisation Comdt Jay O’Reilly DefOrg Liaison |
Principal Researchers Tim McCarthy (TMcC) Earth Observation, Drones & Geocomputation John McDonald (JMcD) AI, Robotics, Computer Vision & SLAM Stephanie Keogh (SK) CoPilot Team Coordination Charles Markham (CM) Computing, Vision Systems, Modelling, Instrumentation Rozenn Dahyot (RD) AI, Machine Learning, Visualisation, Mathematics Rowan Fealy (RF) Climate Modelling, Land-Atmosphere Interactions John Dooley (JD) Wireless Communications Lars Pforte (LP) Mathematical Modelling |
Research Team Postdoc (Data Fusion) Postdoc (ML) Geospatial Web Developer App Developer |
Airborne/Drone Operations Team DroneSAR (Leo Murray) Drones for Emergency Response GeoAerospace (Fearghus Foyle) Advanced Aerial/Drone Mapping & Monitoring |
The Maynooth University (MU) interdisciplinary team comprises seven principal researchers, recognised nationally/internationally as leaders in their respective research fields; Earth Observation, Drones, Computer Vision, Robotics, Machine Learning (ML), Electronic Engineering, Mathematics and Climate/Weather disciplines. The team will work closely with the DefOrg Liaison Officer during both Concept and Seed phases of the project. The MU team have met and discussed this project over past number of weeks and members are already actively collaborating on various R&D projects, inside/outside the University, in areas which are directly relevant to the proposed research areas detailed in this submission. The principal researchers will be supported (secondments/new recruits) by 2 X Postdocs (ML & Data Fusion) as well as 2 X Geospatial Web/App Developers. Two external Irish-based Aerial/Drone Technology Startups, have made contact and wish to join the team and collaborate in this project, taking part in a real wildfire event and support field-based Drone Operations and advanced aerial mapping & monitoring R&D.