Welcome

The National Centre for Geocomputation ( NCG ) was established at the National University of Ireland Maynooth ( NUIM ) through the award of a Research Fellowship to Professor A. Stewart Fotheringham by Science Foundation Ireland.

The NCG is a resource for those interested in any aspect of the capture, storage, integration, management, retrieval, display, analysis or modelling of spatial data. See What We Do.

Job opportunities available in NCG

We are looking for two Junior Technicians to join our team in the NCG and also with our partner institute NIRSA. These positions are suited to recent graduates. Information available here.

Web & Wireless Geographical Information Systems, 7 & 8 December 2009, Maynooth, Ireland

W2GIS is intended to provide an up-to-date review of advances in recent development of Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems (W2GIS). This symposium will be the 9th in a series of successful events beginning with Kyoto 2001, and alternating locations between East Asia and Europe, with the most recent event held in Shanghai, China. This year the symposium will be held at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland. More information here.

NCG researcher wins a Research Frontiers Grant by Science Foundation Ireland . Urska Demsar was awarded a grant under the Science Foundation Ireland Research Frontiers Programme (RFP) for 2009 for a project on combining Spatial Statistics and Geovisual Analytics. More here.

PhD Studentships available

The Strategic Research Cluster in Advanced Geotechnologies (StratAG) have a number of PhD Studentships available. More information here.

MSc/HDip in Geocomputation

For information on the new Master of Science/Higher Diploma in Geocomputation, please click here.

NCG welcomes Chief Scientific Adviser

On 12th January the Government's Chief Scientific Adviser, Prof Paddy Cunningham visited the NCG to hear about a range of current projects, particularly the StratAG programme.

Official StratAG Launch

StratAG was officially inaugurated on September 4th, 2008 with a one-day seminar at NUIM. Further details can be seen on the website: StratAG.

Seamus Coveney awarded PhD
We are delighted to announce that Seamus Coveney has been awarded the first PhD in Geocomputation in the National Centre for Geocomputation. More details available here.

NCG-led Strategic Research Cluster wins €10m in Science Foundation Ireland investment
For all those involved in the National Centre for Geocomputation and the NCG-led Strategic Research Cluster in Advanced Geotechnologies, the announcement by SFI that it would fully fund this research grouping for the next 5 years was the definitive highlight of Science Week 2007. The award includes over €7m in research funding and €3m in overhead investment that can be claimed by NUI Maynooth. Read more.

ESRI awards funding to Advanced Geotechnologies at Maynooth
On Wednesday 14th November, Micheál Martin T.D, Minister for Enterprise, Trade & Employment, announced Science Foundation Ireland's research investment awards totalling €87 million across a number of groundbreaking industry-academic projects. This is the largest funding award made by Science Foundation Ireland under its Centres for Science, Engineering and Technology (CSET) and the new Strategic Research Clusters (SRC) programmes. The funding follows a rigorous review and assessment process and all award recipients were assessed by a total of 50 internationally renowned scientific experts, who came to Ireland and participated in the site review process.Read more.