Sentinel 1 Ship Detection
I recently read Annekatrien Debien’s post on Digital Geography regarding extracting information from Sentinel-1, specifically ship data and I decided to follow the tutorial for an area of the South-West coast of Ireland. The first step was to download a Sentinel-1 image from the Copernicus website. I downloaded an image captured on the 4th April […]
Ringforts in Ireland
With a number of Irish data sets having been made available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license I thought it would be interesting to take a look at one of these, the Sites and Monuments Record (SMR) from the National Monuments Service. This falls under the Archaeological Survey of Ireland which is a unit […]
Soviet Cold War Maps
Recently, I’ve been reading about the maps that the Soviet’s produced of major cities in the United States, the UK and Ireland. Being Irish I was interested in what they had completed for Ireland. After some searching online I managed to get my hands on an original copy for Dublin. It was produced in 1980 […]