About

About

PREDICT has four research work packages which include in-situ water property measurement and chemical and physical surveys of water and sediment in Dublin Bay; present and past coastal and marine processes functioning for Dublin Bay; Earth observation sensor data fusion for coastal zone monitoring and methodology development for the calibration of remotely-sensed data against ground-truth information using multiple datasets with differing scales and resolutions.

A primary objective of the PREDICT project is a coordinated program of coastal ocean observations that will be used to validate, calibrate and extract as much information as possible from satellite earth observation data. We will integrate these datasets to generate models that can be used to predict environmental change. These models will contribute to future planning in a diversity of areas such as coastal mapping, flooding prediction, marine habitats and fisheries, climate change, environmental protection and policy. 

This research is funded by Science Foundation of Ireland (SFI), the Geological Survey of Ireland (GSI) and the Marine Institute (MI). The project is coordinated in Dublin City University (DCU), with Principal Investigators in Maynooth University (MU), University College Cork (UCC) and the GSI.