The aim of the research is to carry out a series of validation studies for landslide susceptibility and hazard maps that have been published some time ago, using landslide inventories of events that occurred after the publishing of the...
Look at TopicThe research is placed in the context of extreme rainfall characteristics (pattern, spatial and temporal distribution). The following main research questions could be considered: - What is the role of basin characteristics in driving...
Look at TopicIn this research the following objectives could be considered: - Quantifying future stages of landscape restoration as envisaged by Commonlands (vegetation increase and all processes influenced by this). - Designing a number of impact...
Look at TopicIn this research the following major questions should be addressed: - Which sensor combinations are most useful in the different contexts of DM (earthquake, landslides, floods and storms, wild fires etc.)? - How can the different...
Look at TopicIn this research the following major questions should be addressed: - How can explicit classification certainty of individual objects or pixels be used as additional information in forecast modelling, e.g. to trigger alternative...
Look at TopicThe objective of this MSc research is to develop a set of physical and population vulnerability curves for a variety of hazard types, intensity types and elements-at-risk types, in a a web-based open environment. The research will start...
Look at TopicYou will analyze the photos of the camera-trap for animals close to the seismic station and use that to select windows from the continuously measured seismic records for further analysis. You will do spectral analysis of the seismic...
Look at TopicIn this research the following major questions should be addressed: - What climate risks and disaster impacts have occurred in a specific conflict-affect country (historical hazard and impact analysis)? - What forecast skill exists...
Look at TopicThis study will use time series of remotely collected data from the ground as well as from space. Two fumaroles in Kenya’s Olkaria field are currently monitored with ground-based thermal infrared cameras at the surface. Subsurface...
Look at TopicSeveral research options are available within this topic: - Regional seismological subsurface imaging using receiver functions, ambient noise tomography, earthquake tomography, or joint inversion of multiple seismological datasets. -...
Look at TopicIn this research the following questions could be addressed, to be further developed for a concrete context in consultation with stakeholders: - Combine climate data, remote-sensed heat mapping with exposure and vulnerability information...
Look at TopicThe goal of this topic is to use airborne hyperspectral imagery, aerial photos, and airborne geophysics for detailed mapping of the stratigraphy and the architecture of hydrothermal vent systems and paleo-surfaces. The results may help...
Look at TopicIn this research the following major questions should be addressed: - What impact can pre-segmentations have on the follow-up image analysis? Is there a positive impact at all? What particular analysis steps do benefit from a...
Look at TopicThe aim of this reserach is to incorporate socio-economic indicators in the Tajirisk platform , and generate a holistic risk index which is composed of the outcomes of the multi-hazard risk assessment in terms of the exposure and losses...
Look at TopicThe main objective of this thesis will be to provide a first assessment whether herd locations (and possibly livestock numbers) can be revealed by night-time imagery from ECOSTRESS. ECOSTRESS is a sensor flown onboard the International...
Look at TopicIn 2020, ITC MSc student Bruno Portela has studied an epithermal system in Nevada with the help of short-wave infrared imagery. His results are currently being published in Ore Geology Reviews. As part of this research you will take the...
Look at TopicThe objective of this study would be to investigate what the green minerals in the drill cuttings really are and possibly how to best prevent future misinterpretations as epidot. To help solve this question the drill cuttings can be...
Look at TopicThis MSc topic aims at investigating this research gape. The available course of the thesis may cover themes from seismology to geomorphology, with a common link in terms of landslide susceptibility modeling. Study areas may chosen...
Look at TopicThe following research questions could be considered: - Can we improve on existing multi-temporal image analysis methods? - Can we make our measurements of geological land surface cover independent of time? - Can we distinguish weather...
Look at TopicFor this research topic the following main research question(s) could be considered: - Develop a method for mapping minerals or interesting features on a planet, moon, asteroid or comet of choice. - Develop a method for assessing the...
Look at TopicDevelopment of a national spatial geo-referenced GIS dynamic database of public and private assets and infrastructure (agriculture, livestock, infrastructure, buildings) and associated physical vulnerability to different types of natural...
Look at TopicThis research plans to compare a regular social protection (SP) targeting method (often income- or categorically-based) with a method that integrates natural hazard risk information (“climate-informed” method). The climate-informed...
Look at TopicThe methodology described in van Ruitenbeek et al. (2019) will be used as a basis and further developed in consultation with supervisors.
Look at TopicThe aim of this study is to identify key hazardous processes that happen simultaneously during tropical cyclones. Possible research questions are: - To what extend is storm surge impacting the flash flood hazard? - What process...
Look at TopicShort and longwave infrared spectroscopy of end-of-life battery materials is a new field of interest. Li-ion batteries have many different active cathode materials, and we can foresee that fast ‘smart sorting’ is needed in recycling...
Look at TopicThis project will focus on defining spectral signatures of lithium minerals of interest to the mining industry. There is a need for systematic research to quantify the relation between chemical composition and spectral absorption...
Look at TopicSpectral detection and identification of REE minerals like REE-fluorocarbonates (e.g., bastneasite) and REE-silicates like eudialyte is still in its infancy, despite the key role that spectroscopy can play in the exploration and/or...
Look at TopicFor this research topic the following main research question(s) could be considered: - How can the different types of drought be best monitored in the selected region? - How has drought hazard changed in last 30 years? - What is the...
Look at TopicThe following research questions could be considered: - How does iron oxide speciation influence spectral absorbance features? - Which iron-bearing minerals can be distinguished in multi-spectral VNIR data? - How well can we distinguish...
Look at TopicThis MSc topic aims at laying the foundations for a near-real-time forecasting system. To achieve this, a multidisciplinary approach which involves geomorphology, statistics and meteorology will be pursued. Several study areas can be...
Look at TopicThe purpose of this project is twofold: carry out image-based damage assessment for an event where IBF was done, to determine the accuracy of the loss prediction, where possible for individual hazard types. Secondly, investigate the...
Look at TopicThe objective of this research would be to find out what causes the spatial patterns in the “shadow” maps of laboratory hyperspectral images from the ITC Geoscience Laboratory. By investigating this topic you will aim to understand...
Look at TopicFor this research topic the following main research question(s) could be considered: - What key factors define a worst-case flooding scenario (rainfall, landuse, DEM, etc)? - How different is the flood comparing a standard design storm...
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