Disaster Resilience of Nepal
Nepal is highly vulnerable to natural hazards such as earthquakes, landslide and floods. To address those challenges, ITC collaborates with NAXA, a Geo-ICT technology company in Nepal striving for innovation in geospatial technologies developing a range of solutions. NAXA has a large team of young engineers working on different projects with a good understanding of the state-of-the-art. Together with NAXA we have formulated a list of challenges that you can work on for your MSc thesis (or internship). Pick your favourite challenge and we will help you compose the most fitting supervision team drawing from expertise from different departments. You have the opportunity to work on your challenge in Kathmandu, Nepal.
The following challenges have been defined. For a detailed description of the challenges please have a look here.
- Building Footprint Extraction and Geometry Optimization
- Building Damage Assessment and Categorization / Automated Detection of Rural Road Issues Using AI
- Road Network Data Classification and Categorization
- Socio-Technical Research on Humanitarian Open Spaces
- Development of a Composite Vulnerability Index for Household-Level Vulnerability
- Automated Landslide Detection Using AI Models
- Community-Based Early Warning Systems
- Suitable House Addressing System for Urbanizing Cities in Developing Countries
- A Hybrid Approach for Participatory GIS Mapping to Support Project Planning
- Effectiveness of Virtual Reality for Disaster Preparedness Education: Case Study of our VR Tool for Disaster Preparedness Education
- Drones for Landslide Study: Using Drone Images from Two Different Periods to Compute Change in Landslides and Volumes
- Using Drones for Glaciological Research: Drone Images to Compute the Glacial Melting Rate and Identify Other Indicators of Climate Change