Most recent added thesis topics
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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 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 topic: Invasive plant species modelling with cellular automata
- Ecosystem services can be altered dramatically when the ecosystem is invaded by invasive plant species. Such species often facilitate their own... -
MSc thesis topic: Land use optimization, raster vs. vector representation
- The pressure on land, by e.g., requirements for producing food, feed, fibre and bioenergy, has led to debates about sustainable land use planning.... -
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: Comparing structure in an Evergreen coniferous forest using mobile and terrestrial LiDAR
- Pointclouds of forests acquired with LiDAR systems contain information on structural properties. The quality of the pointcloud differs between... -
MSc thesis topic: Understanding occlusion in an Evergreen coniferous forest at different height levels using terrestrial LiDAR
- Pointclouds of forests acquired with terrestrial LiDAR (TLS) contain information on structural properties of the forest, and individual trees.... -
MSc thesis topic: Understanding tree parameters from filtered and unfiltered tropical trees.
- Pointclouds of forests acquired with terrestrial LiDAR (TLS) contain information on structural properties. Currently, a few segmentation algorithms... -
MSc thesis topic: Feature elimination for pasture growth models with Bayesian Neural Networks
- While neural networks can give good prediction accuracy, they often behave as black boxes, which makes it hard to determine which parts of the input... -
MSc thesis topic: Machine learning techniques for automatic calibration of crop growth models
- Once experimental field data has been obtained, calibrating crop growth models is a labour intensive tasks requiring detailed domain knowledge.... -
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: 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 topic: Studying Sentinel-1 radar backscatter dynamics/seasonality across global forest biomes
- With Sentinel-1A and -1B (launched in 2014 and 2016) for the first time, dense and regular SAR time series data are provided globally and openly. Such... -
MSc thesis topic: Sentinel data and deep learning for cocoa mapping in West Africa
- West Africa is the world's second-largest tropical rainforest and presents favorable environments for cocoa plants. Due to highly valued nutritional... -
MSc thesis topic: Detecting Colorado Potato Beetles from the air with remote sensing and artificial intelligence
- With the challenge of reducing pesticide use, early detection and monitoring of crop pests is essential in controlling pest dynamics. Colorado potato... -
MSc thesis topic: Detecting Reindeer Carrion in the Arctic Tundra of Svalbard
- Dead organic matter comprises the basal trophic level of many food webs globally and promotes biodiversity and ecosystem stability. Dead organic... -
MSc thesis topic: Immersive Technologies for Geo-Spatial Planning
- AR/VR is ideal for communication, collaboration and facilitates a better understanding of environments in finer detail. This is particularly useful... -
MSc thesis topic: Integrated Land Monitoring
- 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 topic: Modelling plant-height, growth and canopy dynamics using UAV Remote-Sensing
- Plant responses to biotic and abiotic legacies left in soil by preceding plants is known as plant–soil feedback (PSF). Most PSF studies are...