Research

Acquisition and quality of geo-spatial information

Projects

In the framework of this research theme, several research projects  are in progress and still more are pending implementation when suitably qualified researchers (e.g., graduate students) express interest in joining the research group.

Current PhD research projects

Guided real-time close-range photogrammetry for 3D modeling
Bashar Alsadik

Quantifying spatio-temporal processes of forest land use change (LUC) in Brazil
Salma Anwar

Uncertainty propagation for remote sensing processing facilities
Nitin Bhatia

Probabilistic risk assessment, integrating in situ, space borne imagery and GIS data
Sibusisiwe A. Khuluse

Mapping and semantic 3D-modelling of indoor environments using RGB-D data
Jingfeng Mu

Verification and update of building vector data using oblique images
Adam Patrick Nyaruhuma

Quality assured estimates of forest gross primary productivity integrating earth observations and process-based model at the regional scale
Rahul Raj

Automatic reconstruction of 3D building model using shape knowledge
Biao Xiong

Change detection in airborne laser scanning point clouds of different epochs
Sudan Xu

Estimation of seismic hazard based on structural evidence and active tectonic using hyperspectral remote sensing and GIS techniques: an earthquake forecasting approach
Muhammad Yaseen

Uncertainty in area of polygons extracted from airborne laser points
Liang Zhou

Completed PhD research projects

Automatic building detection using oblique imagery (2013)
Dr. Jing Xiao

Object-based methods for mapping and monitoring of urban trees with multitemporal image analysis (2012)
Dr. Juan Pablo Ardila López

Assessing vegetative drought from multi-temporal NDVI images (2012)
Dr. Coco Musaningabe Rulinda

Random sets to model uncertainty in remotely sensed objects (2012)
Dr. Xi Zhao

Improving forest growth estimation: Bayesian networks for integrating satellite images and process-based forest growth models (2012)
Dr. Yaseen Taha Mustafa

A spatio-temporal analysis of tea productivity and quality in North-East India (2011)
Dr. Rishiraj Dutta

Building reconstruction from terrestrial video image sequences (2011)
Dr. Yixian Tian

Spatial statistical modelling for assessing landslide hazard and vulnerability (2011)
Dr. Iswar Das

Acquisition of 3D topography: automated 3D road and building reconstruction using airborne laser scanner data and topographic maps (2010)
Dr. Sander Oude Elberink

Knowledge based building facade reconstruction from laser point clouds and images (2010)
Dr. Shi Pu