The working group Interdisciplinary Geoinformation Sciences provides a list of topics for theses.
Suggested topics from the working group Cartography for bachelor`s or master`s thesis can be found here.
Thesis topics of the Urban Remote Sensing working Group:
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Valerie Graw:
- Urban -rural dynamics with regard to risk - how do extreme events differ in occurrence, dynamic and impact in the rural to urban gradient?
- Remote-sensing based assessment of risk and resilience of urban systems using selected examples // What drives risk and resilience of urban systems? - A remote-sensing based analysis with case studies
- Land use change and dynamics in Ecuador / the Galapagos Islands // Land use change and dynamics in Ecuador /Galapagos Islands
- Detection and assessment of safe and just planetary boundaries with support of remote sensing and GIS // Quantification of safe and just planetary boundaries with support of remote sensing and GIS
Dr. Stefanie Steinbach:
- Monitoring (small), agriculturally used water bodies in East or West Africa using multi-sensor remote sensing (e.g., analysis of water volume and levels, water quality monitoring)
- Analysis of land use and land use change and the impact of (disruptive) human activities on natural resources (e.g., urban structures, agriculture, resource extraction)
- Mapping riparian vegetation and analyzing its impact on water quality and quantity in human-used systems (e.g., at small reservoirs in Central Kenya; field data already available) (see also Locke 2024)
- Analysis of the potential for supporting aquaculture in Ghana using satellite remote sensing (see also: IWMI Aquaculture in Ghana)
- Data-driven approaches to analyzing “urban bias” in Earth observation for water and land management (e.g., as a literature review or by developing case studies)
- Analysis of water scarcity considering water quality constraints (see also van Vliet et al. 2017), e.g., by distinguishing between urban, peri-urban, and rural areas
- Potential of satellite altimetry missions for monitoring inland waters (e.g., using NASA SWOT, Sentinel-3, or ICESat-2 data)
