Research

Water Cycle and Climate

Projects

Completed PhD research projects

Reactive nitrogen dynamics in streams: case study in the agricultural Upper Roxo catchment, Portugal (2012)
Dr. Mariela Andrea Yevenes Burgos

Coupled dynamics in soil: understanding the transport mechanisms of liquid water, water vapor, air pressure and heat by field experiments and numerical simulation (2012)
Dr. Yijian Zeng

Integrating remote sensing, GIS and mathematical modelling for surface water quality management in an irrigated watersheds (2012)
Dr. Amel Moustafa Azab

Coupling optical and thermal directional radiative transfer to biophysical processes in vegetated canopies (2011)
Dr. Joris Timmermans

Mitigating China's water scarcity and pollution : environmental and economic accounting, modelling and policy analysis (2011)
Dr. Changbo Qin

Planning of system innovations in watersheds: spatial mapping of environmental and hydrological determinants in Pangani and upper Ewaso Ng'iro north river basins, Africa (2011)
Dr. Jeniffer Kinoti

Shallow groundwater effect on land surface temperature and surface energy balance: description, modeling and remote sensing application (2011)
Dr. Fouad Alkhaier

Rainfall variability and estimation for hydrologic modeling: a remote sensing based study at the source basin of the Upper Blue Nile river (2010)
Dr. Alex T. Haile – NUFFIC funding.

Remote sensing of tropical coastal waters: study of the Berau estuary, east Kalimantan, Indonesia (2010)
Dr. Wiwin Ambarwulan

Soil moisture remote sensing using active microwaves and land surface modeling (2010)
Dr. Rogier van der Velde

Tree transpiration mapping from upscaled sap flow in the Botswana Kalahari (2009)
Dr. Diana Chavarro-Rincon – funded by WOTRO Dutch research foundation. 

Measurements and modelling of evapotranspiration to assess agricultural water productivity in basins with changing land use patterns: a case study in the Sao Francisco River basin, Brazil (2008)
Dr. A.H. de Castro Teixeira - funded by ITC and Wageningen University.

Soil moisture dynamics and evapotranspiration at the fringe of the Botswana Kalahari (2007)
Dr. Obolokile Thothi Obakeng – funded by Government of Botswana. 

Ongoing PhD research projects

Atmosphere boundary layer and application of remote sensing data
Mr. Wang Bin Bin

Cropland productivity and water use in North China plain: Scaling from site to region based on crop growth model
Longhui Li

Determination of land surface heat fluxes over the Tibetan Plateau area by integrating remote sensing with land surface meteorological data
Xuelong Chen

Development of a water information system for global scale water use assessment
Mireia Romaguera Albentosa

Development and improvement of algorithms for calculation sensible and latent heat fluxes
Kitsiri Weligepolage

Earth observation for quantifying ecohydrological fluxes and interrelations; the Konya closed basin - Turkey
Mustafa Gökmen

Eco-hydrological cycle in upper and middle reaches of Heihe river basin
Xin Tian

Evaluation of hydrological response of the Yangtze river basin to climate change and human activities
Ms. Ying Huang

Exploring downstream water availability of the Yellow River based on historic and projected runoff change in the source region area
Donghai Zheng

Hydrological impact of reforesting degraded lands in the Middle Mountains of Nepal
Chandra Ghimire

Impact of climate change on flood response and drought in the Zambezi floodplains
Mr. Webster Gumindoga

Integration of spatio-temporal recharge assessment in groundwater model applied to semi-arid environment
Alain Pascal Frances

Partitioning of subsurface evaporation
S.M. Tanvir Hassan

Partitioning of subsurface evaporation into unsaturated and saturated zone components
Enrico Balugani

Plant-water interactions in water-limited environments
Leonardo Acosta Reyes

Predicting irrigation water demand applying machine learning model using remotely sensed data
Ms. Fatemeh Aghdasi

Quantifying sediment fluxes in the Mahakam delta using remote sensing
Syarif Budhiman

Quantifying the impact of land use/cover change on the hydrology of Lake Naivasha
Vincent Omondi Odongo

Remote sensing based soil moisture verified by field measurements to constrain recharge in numerical groundwater models
Guido Baroncini Turricchia

Remote sensing of snow for land surface modeling
Jahanzeb Malik

Retrieval of soil moisture at global scale from satellite data acquired by passive and active microwave sensors
Laura Dente

Retrieving soil moisture content over agricultural areas using remote sensing data
Mr. Omar Ali Ahmed Mohamed

Satellite-based soil moisture estimation for watershed modeling
Haris Bhatti

Soil moisture and its impact on the East Asia summer monsoon forecasting
Mr. Shaoning Lv

Soil moisture retrieval by microwave sensors
Mr. Quiang Wang

Water cycle under climate change on the Tibetan plateau
Lei Zhong

Water resources management in Karkheh river basin – Iran; an approach integrating water resources modeling and remote sensing
Lal Muthuwatta

Water quality research of Hydropower Reservoirs in Amazon basin
Isabel L. Sousa Brandao

Current projects

AgriCAB: Developing increased EO capacity for better agriculture and forestry management in Africa

CEOP-AEGIS: Hydrology and climatology on the Tibetan plateau

ESA DRAGON: Advanced training courses in China

CB4IWRM-SA: Capacity Building for Integrated Water Resources Management in South Africa

FLEX/S3 Tandem Mission Performance Analysis and Requirements Consolidation Study (PARCS)

GNC4WFS: GEONETCast for Early Warning and Food Security - Ethiopia

In Place: Integrated Network for Production and Loss Assessment in the Coastal Environment (NWO) - Waddenzee

SEBS4Google: Implementing SEBS on Google Earth Engine

TIGER: Tiger Capacity Building Facilty

Previous projects

AMESD

DEVCOCAST

WACMOS