MSc thesis topics: Modelling & visualization
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MSc thesis topic: A comparative assessment of satellite-based forest disturbance alerts for Insular Southeast Asia
An alarming rate of forest disturbances strongly increases the pressure on tropical forest ecosystems. Insular Southeast Asia, home to the third... -
MSc thesis topic: Agent-based modelling of creative industry commodification in Indonesian Kampungs
Creative industries are acknowledged to offer opportunities for socio-economic development of neighbourhoods (Booyens, 2012). Research into creative... -
Msc thesis subject: Agent-based simulation of the forest-water-people nexus
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 topic: Assessing drivers of forest regrowth in South America
Various factors affect the forest regrowth rate after disturbances. Understanding what influences forest regrowth rate after disturbances are of great... -
MSc thesis topic: Assimilating Sentinel-1-derived forest disturbance alerts into a land use change simulation model
The rainforest in the Congo Basin is under threat of disturbance by the expansion of agriculture, selective logging, and mining (Tyukavina et al.,... -
Msc thesis subject: Big data geospatial analytics with Apache Spark
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 topic: Characterising RADD forest disturbance alerts using high resolution Planet data
Timely information on deforestation is crucial to effectively manage and protect forest resources in the tropics. Poorly managed and illegal... -
Msc thesis subject: Characterizing global peatland mapping accuracy for climate change mitigation strategies
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: Coconut mapping using Sentinel data and deep learning
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... -
MSc thesis subject: Deriving tree parameters for functional Structural Plant (FSP) models from Terrestrial LiDAR point clouds.
Point clouds of trees scanned with Terrestrial Laser Scanning (TLS) can be analysed to estimate tree structural properties. Nowadays, algorithms allow...