Welcome

The National Centre for Geocomputation ( NCG ) was established at the National University of Ireland Maynooth ( NUIM ) in 2004, through the award of a Research Fellowship to Professor A. Stewart Fotheringham by Science Foundation Ireland.
It is involved in the capture, storage, integration, management, retrieval, display, analysis and modelling of spatial data.

News

Jan 2010 - The StratAG research programme announces a number of PhD and Postdoctoral positions. Please see the StratAG vacancies page for more information.

Jan 2010 - Prof. A. Stewart Fotheringham appears on Dublin City FM discussing Geographical Information Systems. Please see the Media section for more inforamtion.

Sept 2009 - NCG is pleased to announce the new Master of Science/Higher Diploma in Geocomputation. For more information, please click here.

Upcoming Events
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18 February 2010 @ 1600	-	"The Impact of Food Availability on Dietary Quality: Evidence for Ireland"	Prof. Richard Layte

Projects
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Current Projects	-	Overview of current projects being carried out.

The Demographic Impacts of the Famine	-	Research using GIS-based spatial analysis, cartograms and Geographically Weighted Regression (GWR) to examine small area population change during the Famine period.

GIS Day Ireland	-	Showing real-world applications of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in Ireland to schools, businesses, and the general public.

GIS into Schools	-	Creating curriculum material for the teaching of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) principles and practice to Irish secondary school students, using Irish spatial data.

STARs	-	SFI Science Teacher Assistant Researchers.