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
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
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
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
SEBS4Google: Implementing SEBS on Google Earth Engine
TIGER: Tiger Capacity Building Facilty
Previous projects
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