About Us
MANAGEMENT TEAM
Fearghus Foyle
Dr. Paul Lewis
Fearghus Foyle
CEO
With a master’s in environmental planning and design, Fearghus has 15 years experience in the design, planning and development of national infrastructure projects (specifically transport & energy). His areas of expertise relate to project management and business development.
At GeoAerospace he leads all aspects of the growth of the comp
CEO
With a master’s in environmental planning and design, Fearghus has 15 years experience in the design, planning and development of national infrastructure projects (specifically transport & energy). His areas of expertise relate to project management and business development.
At GeoAerospace he leads all aspects of the growth of the company from finance and fund-raising to commercial relationships and team development. His specific interests relate to the development of innovative technology solutions with an emphasis on the integration of UAV technology in multiple verticals.
Sean Mannion
Dr. Paul Lewis
Fearghus Foyle
COO
Sean Mannion is Chief Operations Officer at GeoAerospace and was one of the founders of the company in 2016. Sean has 20 years’ experience as an Engineer and 17 years in aviation and has worked in a variety of lead engineering and management roles in numerous industries sites and projects in Ireland and Europe.
Sean is a qualified Comme
COO
Sean Mannion is Chief Operations Officer at GeoAerospace and was one of the founders of the company in 2016. Sean has 20 years’ experience as an Engineer and 17 years in aviation and has worked in a variety of lead engineering and management roles in numerous industries sites and projects in Ireland and Europe.
Sean is a qualified Commercial Pilot and has many years’ experience in flight operations and data acquisition for aerial survey and has flown over 1,200 hours in flying fixed aircraft. He leads the operational aspects of airborne data collection within GeoAerospace.
Dr. Paul Lewis
Dr. Paul Lewis
Dr. Paul Lewis
CTO
Paul has over 15 years of experience working and engaging with commercial and state organisations in the design, development and delivery of software solutions. His background is in Computer Science & Software Engineering with extensive experience in the development and delivery of geospatial-multimedia web-applications, large-scale sp
CTO
Paul has over 15 years of experience working and engaging with commercial and state organisations in the design, development and delivery of software solutions. His background is in Computer Science & Software Engineering with extensive experience in the development and delivery of geospatial-multimedia web-applications, large-scale spatial database deployment and specification writing for systems implementation. He currently coordinates key elements of GeoAerospace’s cloud-platform management and ongoing activities; working alongside a core team of specialists drawn from geoinformatics and computer science. He completed a PhD. in Computer Science and Geocomputation in 2009 at the National Centre for Geocomputation in Maynooth University.
Technical Support Team
Bryan Deegan
Rebekah Burke
Bryan Deegan
Project Management
Bryan has over 25 years’ experience working in Irish terrestrial and aquatic environments, providing ecological and GIS services to the State, Semi-State and industry.
Bryan is particularly experienced in the provision of project management for ecological and geospatial projects in difficult environments, with a necessity
Project Management
Bryan has over 25 years’ experience working in Irish terrestrial and aquatic environments, providing ecological and GIS services to the State, Semi-State and industry.
Bryan is particularly experienced in the provision of project management for ecological and geospatial projects in difficult environments, with a necessity for strong logistical expertise, health & safety and planning. He also has extensive experience in ecological assessment, aquatic and terrestrial ecological surveying, GIS, remote sensing, aquatic sampling and underwater video (including GPS encoded video) and dataset collation.
Aidan MaGee
Rebekah Burke
Bryan Deegan
Remote Sensing
Aidan is an Earth Observation specialist (currently completing his PhD) focusing on research and development to improve the accuracy of Earth Observation data & Geoinformation Web Services. With a background in Earth Observation and Environmental Science, he is uniquely positioned to collate and analyse remotely sensed data
Remote Sensing
Aidan is an Earth Observation specialist (currently completing his PhD) focusing on research and development to improve the accuracy of Earth Observation data & Geoinformation Web Services. With a background in Earth Observation and Environmental Science, he is uniquely positioned to collate and analyse remotely sensed data recorded over a variety of environments. Within GeoAerospace, his main role is to coordinate aerial/drone data processing activities and ensure these workflows produce high quality data and geoinformation outputs. Aidan’s other research interests revolve around developing Convolution Neural Networks for feature extraction from both spaceborne and drone sensor imagery.
Rebekah Burke
Rebekah Burke
Rebekah Burke
Software Dev (Data & Information Services)
Rebekah is a geospatial data scientist & web developer within GeoAerospace and is leading the development of the GeoAerospace platform.
This includes full-stack design of our cloud-based remote sensing platform. She works closely with the data management team to automate the workflows involved i
Software Dev (Data & Information Services)
Rebekah is a geospatial data scientist & web developer within GeoAerospace and is leading the development of the GeoAerospace platform.
This includes full-stack design of our cloud-based remote sensing platform. She works closely with the data management team to automate the workflows involved in planning surveys based on user input, including processing and adding the resulting data to the platform for access by clients. This also entails accounting for a wide range of data produced such as variations in optical imagery and 3D data.
Rebekah's day to day role involves providing ongoing support and development of bespoke platform functionality to cater for the rapidly changing needs of clients and the back-end team.
Sean O'Kane
Timothy McNamara
Timothy McNamara
Geospatial Data Analysis
With a masters in Geographical Information Systems and Remote Sensing, Sean has a high proficiency in various GIS based tools such as ArcGIS, QGIS, ERDAS Imagine, SNAP, Agisoft & LiDAR Software (MMCapture, MMProcess, AeroOffice, GrafNav, and Bentley Microstation (with Terra Office)).
His current research focuses on
Geospatial Data Analysis
With a masters in Geographical Information Systems and Remote Sensing, Sean has a high proficiency in various GIS based tools such as ArcGIS, QGIS, ERDAS Imagine, SNAP, Agisoft & LiDAR Software (MMCapture, MMProcess, AeroOffice, GrafNav, and Bentley Microstation (with Terra Office)).
His current research focuses on Python Programming, Java Programming (10 ECTS Credits), SQL, R & LaTex and his broader research topics includes coastal/marine remote sensing of water quality indicators; environmental modelling and machine learning.
Timothy McNamara
Timothy McNamara
Timothy McNamara
Data Processor and Field Technician
Tim provides technical support with data collection (field work) and data processing.
He supports all aspects of the technical team's workload, with specific interest in GIS, remote sensing, and image processing.
