MSc thesis topics by Supervisor Gustavo Alckmin G (Gustavo) Togeiro de Alckmin Promovendus Msc thesis subject: Remote Sensing Hollywood: Computer Generated Forests 02 March 2020 - Student information - When Pieter Claesz painted "Still Life with a Skull and a Writing Quill" in 1628, (putting an enormous amount of effort to realistically... Federico Andreotti F (Federico) Andreotti Promovendus Msc thesis subject: Mapping and linking quinoa-based farming systems to landscape in the Peruvian Altiplano 03 May 2019 - Student information - Quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa Willd.) was domesticated more than 7000 years ago in the Andes and today farmers including indigenous Quechua and Aymara... Ioannis Athanasiadis I (Ioannis) Athanasiadis PhD Associate Professor Msc thesis subject: Big data geospatial analytics with Apache Spark 17 May 2017 - Student information - Today, technologies are changing very fast to cope with the ever-increasing volume and velocity of data. Big data methods and tools is a disruptive... MSc thesis subject: Machine learning for ecosystem service models 12 May 2020 - Student information - Ecosystem service models support these policies, but they are generally poorly validated, especially at large scales, which undermines their... MSc thesis subject: Tracking progress on climate change adaptation across spatial scales 12 May 2020 - Student information - Climate impacts are felt across the globe. Adapting to climate risks is critical to prevent negative impacts. Although many of these impacts have been... MSc thesis subject: Transfer learning using crop time series data 12 May 2020 - Student information - Transfer learning is proven to be an effective way to incrementally learn with limited data, mostly in image applications. However, there are cases... Harm Bartholomeus dr. HM (Harm) Bartholomeus Universitair docent MSc thesis subject: Automating processing workflows for UAV based LiDAR data of different vegetation types on different terrain types 08 May 2018 - Student information - With the RiCOPTER UAV we acquired numerous datasets over different crop types over the previous year, and more datasets will be acquired this year.... Msc thesis subject: Implementation and evaluation of PPK-GNSS for UAV-photogrammetry 03 May 2019 - Student information - More demands for high accuracy UAV photogrammetry are coming up. To achieven cm accuracies, one of the technical improvements that can be made to our... MSc thesis subject: Importance of camera calibration for UAV-based photogrammetry 08 May 2018 - Student information - Over the last years the use of photogrammetry from UAV acquired imagery has grown massively. The availability of small, cheap, high quality cameras... MSc thesis subject: Measuring tree growth with Terrestrial Laser Scanning 08 May 2018 - Student information - In 2010 we started measuring forest plots with Terrestrial Laser Scanning. One of the first areas we went to is the Loobos study site, where... Msc thesis subject: Using RS and GIS to describe vegetation changes over a period of 30 plus years on the island of Curacao 03 May 2019 - Student information - The Christoffelpark on Curacao is the area with the highest floristic and faunistic diversity of not only Curacao but also of all three ABC islands.... Msc thesis subject: Using the Riegl VUX-SYS as a flexible mobile mapping platform. Can we reach TLS accuracy? 03 May 2019 - Student information - For a couple of years we are operating the Ricopter LiDAR UAV, with a Riegl VUX-SYS laserscanner mounted underneath. However, there are circumstances... Benjamin Brede B (Benjamin) Brede PhD Onderzoeker MSc thesis subject: Building a Raspberry Pi Prototype for Continuous Forest Canopy Monitoring 17 May 2019 - Student information - Digital Hemispherical Photography (DHP) is a favoured technique to measure Plant Area Index (PAI) in forests. However, continuous measurements are... Msc thesis subject: Crop parameter estimation with UAV laser scanning 03 May 2019 - Student information - In the context of precision agriculture, monitoring crop conditions with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs, drones) has been proposed as a cost-efficient... Msc thesis subject: Individual tree detection and segmentation with Terrestrial Lidar point clouds of tropical forests 08 April 2020 - Student information - Point clouds of forests acquired with Terrestrial Laser Scanning (TLS) contain a wealth of information on tree structural properties. However,... Sytze de Bruin dr.ir. S (Sytze) de Bruin associate professor MSc thesis subject: Model-based accuracy assessment of mapped global forest biomass (changes) 06 May 2019 - Student information - Knowledge about global forest biomass is very important within the context of climatic change processes, mitigating actions and (financial)... MSc thesis subject: Path planning and route planning for autonomous agricultural vehicles 06 May 2019 - Student information - Soil compaction is an important problem in modern agriculture. Agricultural machines tend to become larger and heavier which may severely damage soil... MSc thesis subject: Smart Emission: fitness-for-purpose and geostatistical analysis of sensor data 06 May 2019 - Student information - “Smart Emission” is a research project executed by a consortium of Dutch knowledge institutes, government, (ICT- and sensor) companies... Msc thesis subject: The impact of spatial environmental and land use data on soil formation in the Netherlands: A temporal analysis (1960 – present) 18 March 2020 - Student information - Spatial soil data are among the top five types of data used by the Dutch government. Digital soil mapping (DSM) requires large sets of spatial data... Sarah Carter dr. SL (Sarah) Carter Onderzoeker MSc thesis subject: Research challenges for forest monitoring 11 January 2019 - Student information - Capacities for forest monitoring are increasing, however monitoring tropical forests in order to fulfil the monitoring requirements of international... MSc thesis subject: The use of satellite data for forest monitoring 11 January 2019 - Student information - Capacities for forest monitoring are increasing, however monitoring tropical forests in order to fulfil the monitoring requirements of international... Jan Clevers dr.ir. JGPW (Jan) Clevers Associate Professor MSc thesis subject: Effects of human settlement in the surroundings or within tropical mangrove forests 03 June 2020 - Student information - Climate change is expected to cause the displacement of tens of millions by 2050 driven by changes in their local environmental conditions and the... MSc thesis subject: Sun-induced fluorescence of agricultural crops 11 May 2017 - Student information - The terrestrial ecosystem plays a major role in studies on the global carbon cycle and on plant production. Not only information on vegetation... Msc thesis subject: Using Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 for mapping crop emergence 20 April 2020 - Student information - This topic deals with the mapping of the moment of emergence of various agricultural crops (in the Netherlands). This information is crucial for crop... Msc thesis subject: Using Sentinel-2 for monitoring grazing activities in the Netherlands 20 April 2020 - Student information - This topic deals with the mapping and monitoring of grasslands in the Netherlands, particularly the difference between using it for grazing by cattle... Lukasz Grus dr.ir. L (Lukasz) Grus Assistant Professor Geo-information Science; Education Coordinator Data Science , Medewerker onderwijsontwikkeling MSc thesis subject: Ethics in Geo-infromation Science. Building a framework for considering the issues of ethical and moral aspects of using location data 19 December 2018 - Student information - Ethical aspects of information use becomes an increasingly relevant topic in many data-reach fields of science. As a digital society we create... MSc Thesis subject: Evaluate AgroDataCube usability for Agro/Food application use cases 28 May 2018 - Student information - (Open) big data offer research and business community opportunities to explore and create new insights in environmental domains by using data science... MSc thesis subject: Impact of open geodata 15 April 2014 - Thesis subject - The last decade and increasing number of data has been made available as open data. The majority of this data are geospatial. Governmental... Ilan Havinga I (Ilan) Havinga MSc Promovendus , Promovendus MSc thesis subject: Quantifying the experience of nature for urban ecosystem service assessments using computer vision and social media data 01 May 2020 - Student information - The positive effects of nature on mental health are well-known. In response, cities are “greening” to improve the well-being of their... Gerard Heuvelink prof.dr.ir. GBM (Gerard) Heuvelink Professor , Externe medewerker MSc thesis subject: Digital soil mapping with uncertain data 15 May 2017 - Student information - Digital soil mapping (DSM) is defined as the ‘computer-assisted production of digital maps of soil type and soil properties, by use of... MSc thesis subject: Random Forest spatial interpolation 20 March 2020 - Student information - Machine learning techniques are used increasingly for spatial interpolation. This is because the number of covariates that help explain the spatial... MSc thesis subject: Uncertainty propagation in global soil organic carbon stock estimation 15 May 2017 - Student information - There is much worldwide interest in accurate estimation of the global soil organic carbon stock. This is because soil carbon storage can help mitigate... Benjamin Kellenberger MSc thesis subject: Powerful representations for using deep learning object detectors with few training data 01 May 2020 - Student information - Deep Learning models like Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) are ubiquitous across all major computer vision tasks, such as self-driving cars or... Lammert Kooistra dr.ir. L (Lammert) Kooistra Associate Professor Msc thesis subject: Deriving alerting services from high-resolution crop monitoring time-series in precision agriculture 02 April 2020 - Student information - Changing needs in food production and associated safety are challenging the agricultural sector to develop a new generation of sustainable... Msc thesis subject: Developing Object-based Image Analysis methods for improved retrieval of vegetation characteristics 03 May 2019 - Student information - Increasingly very-high resolution (VHR) images become available from camera systems attached to an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV). For optimal use of... Msc thesis subject: Modelling plant-height, growth and canopy dynamics using UAV Remote-Sensing 02 April 2020 - Student information - Plant responses to biotic and abiotic legacies left in soil by preceding plants is known as plant–soil feedback (PSF). Most PSF studies are... Msc thesis subject: Monitoring plant traits in an organic farming experiment using UAV acquired imagery 02 April 2020 - Student information - Phenomics is an area of biology and crop science concerned with the measurement of phenomes - the physical and biochemical traits of organisms - as... Msc thesis subject: Retrieving canopy characteristics of new potato cultivars from remote sensing measurements. 02 March 2020 - Student information - The use of remote sensing data to inform crop growth models (assimilation/calibration) is a promising approach that can help improving the reliability... Ron van Lammeren dr.ir. RJA (Ron) van Lammeren Associate professor MSc thesis subject: Does the Shoreface change? 07 June 2016 - Student information - The Dutch coastal line is monitored for at least 50 years by high precision bathymetry. This bathymetry data is called Jarkus. MSc thesis subject: Geo-Visualisation - Mapping Mental Maps 28 May 2013 - Thesis subject - Mental maps are widely used to study human behaviour and preferences and appear frequently in literature of environmental perception. The production... MSc thesis subject: Hostile ground or valuable land? Bog ownership and value according to the 1830 cadastral mapping 06 July 2018 - Student information - Raised bogs (hoogvenen) are peat moss-dominated wetlands consisting of organic soils, and once covered large parts of Northwest Europe and the Low... MSc thesis subject: Participatory Planning - Role of augmented reality 29 May 2013 - Thesis subject - Due to the latest mobile technology and web developments augmented reality becomes a serious option for participatory planning. Discussing and... MSc thesis subject: Public space in urban configuration - the greening factor 29 May 2013 - Thesis subject - The role of GIS analysis in landscape architecture and city planning is still rather limited compared with landscape planning. In previous decennia... MSc thesis subject: Spatial Dimensions of the Moving City of Amsterdam 11 May 2016 - Student information - The topic of Health is a big issue for a city like Amsterdam. A vital city requires a healthy and active population. This can be strongly influenced... MSc thesis subject: Suitability modelling for current and future spatial explicit conditions for Asian Tiger Mosquitos (Aedes albopictus) in the Netherlands 07 March 2019 - Student information - Over the last years, the occurrence of Aedes albopictus has globally strongly expanded, mainly as a result of by human activities, in particular the... MSc thesis subject: Surface table and participatory planning 29 May 2013 - Thesis subject - The Map table has been introduced to become a different interface of man and digital base d information. Instead of the one to one interfaces of smart... 12Next Alvaro Lau Sarmiento dr.ir. AI (Alvaro) Lau Sarmiento MSc Onderzoeker MSc thesis subject: Deriving tree parameters for functional Structural Plant (FSP) models from Terrestrial LiDAR point clouds. 27 August 2020 - Student information - Point clouds of trees scanned with Terrestrial Laser Scanning (TLS) can be analysed to estimate tree structural properties. Nowadays, algorithms allow... MSc thesis subject: Inventory stem map alignment based on T-LiDAR based map 04 May 2016 - Student information - Light detection and ranging (LiDAR) has been proposed as a suitable technique for mapping forest. A number of parameters can be derived from these 3D... MSc thesis subject: Repeatability of above ground biomass retrievals with Terrestrial Laser Scanning and Quantitative Structural Models 08 September 2016 - Student information - In recent years Terrestrial Laser Scanning (TLS) has been given much attention for its capability to estimate forest Above-Ground Biomass (AGB).... Msc thesis subject: What do trees tell us about drought? 17 July 2019 - Student information - Trees play an important role in the water cycle at local, regional and global scales. Information on tree water status gives valuable information on... Alex Levering AH (Alex) Levering MSc Promovendus , Promovendus MSc thesis subject: Discovering historical city changes in The Netherlands using Flickr imagery 01 May 2020 - Student information - Historical city changes are most often observed by assessing the change insurvey and census data over the years. Such an approach neglects the clues... Arend Ligtenberg dr.ir. A (Arend) Ligtenberg Assistant Professor MSc thesis subject: Exploring new means of visualizing spatial (temporal) data (joint project with WANDER) 26 June 2020 - Student information - Wageningen Environmental Research is working on the realization of a Visualization Laboratory WANDER (Wageningen lANDscape sEnsory laboRatory). This... Msc thesis subject: Perception of Places in an Urban context 04 October 2019 - Student information - The goal is to get insight in de development and dynamics of places amongst different groups of people as well as the effects of (mass) tourism and/or... Diego Marcos Gonzalez D (Diego) Marcos Gonzalez PhD Onderzoeker MSc thesis subject: Extracting the different meanings of word embeddings for landscape characterization 04 May 2020 - Student information - Word embeddings are used to convert each word in the dictionary into a vector, which allows the use of vector operation to understand the relationship... Dainius Masiliūnas D (Dainius) Masiliunas MSc Docent , PhD researcher MSc thesis subject: Comparison of land cover change detection methods at a global scale 30 April 2020 - Student information - Land cover change monitoring is essential for sound policymaking and keeping track of what effects policies have over time. Automatic land cover... Msc thesis subject: Land cover fraction map yearly updating and visualisation techniques 03 May 2019 - Student information - Land cover change often times happens gradually over time, and land cover fraction mapping and updating aims to express this change in a more precise... Milutin Milenković dr. M (Milutin) Milenkovic Onderzoeker Msc thesis subject: Analysing Spatial Patterns of Tropical Forest with Radar Images (Study site: Brazil) 21 May 2019 - Student information - Forest structure is an important parameter for characterising and analysing the state and resilience of tropical forest ecosystem. With Sentinel-1,... Adugna Mullissa dr. AG (Adugna) Mullissa Onderzoeker MSc thesis subject: Coconut mapping using Sentinel data and deep learning 30 April 2020 - Student information - The coconut palm is considered an important plant as all parts of the plant are valued at small or industrial scale. Therefore, accurate mapping and... Johannes Reiche J (Johannes) Reiche PhD Assistant Professor MSc thesis subject: Analysing spatial and temporal distribution of forest cover loss in the Congo Basin 01 May 2020 - Student information - An alarming rate of forest cover loss combined with more frequent extreme climate events strongly increases the pressure on tropical forest... MSc thesis subject: Analysing topography dependency of global forest cover loss over the last 20 years 01 May 2020 - Student information - An alarming rate of forest cover loss combined with more frequent extreme climate events strongly increases the pressure on tropical forest... MSc thesis subject: Improving tropical peatland forest cover information using Sentinel data (Study site: Congo Basin | Software: Google Earth Engine) 01 May 2020 - Student information - An alarming rate of forest cover loss combined with more frequent extreme climate events strongly increases the pressure on tropical forest... Peter Roosjen Msc thesis subject: Object based image analysis for tree species identification with high resolution UAV-based imagery at the hyperdiverse Tiputini Biodiversity Station (Amazonia-Ecuador) 03 May 2019 - Generic article - Knowledge on the composition and distribution of tree species is essential for forest inventories and floral diversity analyses. Remote sensing... Jalal Samia dr. J (Jalal) Samia Externe medewerker Msc thesis subject: Dynamic time-variant landslide susceptibility modelling using machine learning-based approaches 04 October 2019 - Student information - Landslide susceptibility maps resulted form the modelling of landslide susceptibility are key tools in the management of crisis in landslide prone... Erika Speelman dr.ir. EN (Erika) Speelman Universitair hoofddocent Msc thesis subject: Agent-based simulation of the forest-water-people nexus 17 June 2019 - Student information - Approximately half of the human population needs to cope with too much, too little and/or low quality water. The complex relationships between... MSc thesis subject: Assessing the impact of land use and land cover changes on water availability, Mt. Elgon Water tower, Uganda 14 October 2020 - Student information - Overlapping the international boundary between Uganda and Kenya, the Mt. Elgon watershed contributes to the waters of Lake Victoria, the Nile River... MSc thesis subject: Gaming for active participation in (local) landscape planning 11 May 2018 - Student information - Participatory gaming is an upcoming method increasingly being used for supporting and exploring (collective) decision-making processes in complex... Niki de Sy dr. V (Niki) de Sy Assistant Professor MSc thesis subject: Assessment of forest degradation across the tropics 04 May 2020 - Student information - Deforestation and forest degradation continue to be critical topics in the global environmental, biodiversity conservation and climate change agendas.... MSc thesis subject: Characterise landscape dynamics related to tropical deforestation with innovative methods and global spatial datasets 04 May 2020 - Student information - Deforestation and forest degradation continue to be critical topics in the global environmental, biodiversity conservation and climate change agendas.... MSc thesis subject: Earth Observation data to monitor quality and connectivity of the habitats for farmland birds 27 August 2020 - Student information - In addition to providing food, fibre and biomass, agriculture can deliver a variety of ecosystem services, like biodiversity conservation and carbon... Ximena Tagle Casapi MX (Maria Ximena) Tagle Casapia MSc thesis subject: Estimating above ground biomass of palms in tropical forests using RGB UAV imagery 06 May 2019 - Student information - Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) provide a flexible method for acquiring high-resolution imagery with relative simple operation and cost-effectiveness,... MSc thesis subject: Linking UAV and satellite imagery with forest ground measurements from the Peruvian Amazon 06 May 2019 - Student information - Typical forest ground measurements only sample small areas, whilst forest management decisions require precise information of the resources at local... Yunyu Tian Y (Yunyu) Tian Promovendus MSc thesis subject: In-depth urban sustainability mapping: case study for typical cities with different urbanization processes 27 March 2020 - Student information - Urbanization has achieved a planetary reach. This urbanization process poses a wide range of environmental and social problems, and further challenges... MSc thesis subject: Monitoring global urban sustainability using remote sensing and social data 27 March 2020 - Student information - Urbanization has achieved a planetary reach[1]. This urbanization process poses a wide range of environmental and social problems, and further... Nandika Tsendbazar dr. NE (Nandika) Tsendbazar Msc thesis subject: Characterizing global peatland mapping accuracy for climate change mitigation strategies 17 June 2019 - Student information - In spite of their relatively small area, peatlands are high carbon ecosystems that directly affect climate change by preserving long-term accumulated... MSc thesis subject: Mapping irrigated agriculture in a complex landscape (Mozambique) 28 April 2020 - Student information - Smallholder irrigation is seen as a useful approach to improve agricultural productivity, increase food security, reduce poverty and increase... MSc thesis subject: Remote sensing based SDG indicator monitoring 08 May 2018 - Student information - The United Nations has recently adopted "Transforming our World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”. Comprising a set of 17... MSc thesis subject: Suitability of Global Tree Cover Map for REDD+ Performance 08 May 2018 - Student information - Forest play an important role in the new Paris climate agreement, mainly through REDD+ in tropical developing countries. REDD+ is an international... MSc thesis subject: Understanding the impact of reference datasets on land cover mapping 30 April 2020 - Student information - Land cover and land use mapping is one of the most common applications of remote sensing datasets. Such maps are also essential for policymaking and... Devis Tuia prof.dr. D (Devis) Tuia Externe medewerker MSc thesis subject: A deeper look into Arctic wetlands 01 May 2020 - Student information - Wetlands in the Arctic constitute an effective long term carbon storage. With increasing temperatures and permafrost melting, these greenhouse gases... MSc thesis subjet: Mapping land usages in the Swiss Alps 01 May 2020 - Student information - Every 6 to 12 years a map of landuse in Switzerland is generated by photointerpretation of aerial imagery. This time consuming work reduces greatly... Joao Valente dr. JR (Joao) Pereira Valente Assistant Professor Msc thesis subject: A Deep Learning Approach for Detection of Poisonous Weeds in Wide Grasslands 05 July 2019 - Thesis subject - Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) shipped with on-board sensors have become an effective remote sensing (RS) tool in agriculture and environmental... Msc thesis subject: A machine vision/learning approach for yield estimation in a wide spinach (Spinacia oleracea) field 05 July 2019 - Thesis subject - Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) shipped with on-board sensors have become an effective remote sensing (RS) tool in agriculture. They have been used... Msc thesis subject: Flower blossom estimation from high resolution images acquired by an autonomous fleet of - ground and aerial - robots 05 July 2019 - Thesis subject - Autonomous robots shipped with on-board sensors have become an effective remote sensing tool in agriculture. Aerial robots have been mostly used for... Jan Verbesselt dr.ir. JP (Jan) Verbesselt Associate Professor Corné Vreugdenhil LC (Corné) Vreugdenhil MSc Docent Msc thesis subject: Monitoring the growth of Dutch forests using AHN and relate this to local soil characteristics 03 May 2019 - Student information - The height growth of trees follows a typical curve, where the height increment and the maximum height are highly influenced by the local soil... MSc thesis subject: Towards a general-purpose Vegetation Model of the Netherlands 04 May 2020 - Student information - The ‘Algemeen Hoogtebestand Nederland’ (AHN ) is a publicly open available Digital Elevation Model with national coverage in the... MSc thesis subject: Urban Metropolitan Profiles/Metabolism of Dutch cities 04 May 2020 - Student information - A sound understanding of a city’s resource flows is essential forsustainable management of these resources. Yet, current resource flow analyses... Twitter Whatsapp Linkedin Email
