Research

Projects

Completed PhD research projects

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

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

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

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

Impact of climate change upon groundwater resources in water limited environments (WLE)
S.M. Tanvir Hassan

Improving groundwater model's reliability: data acquisition, data integration and coupling models approach
Alain Pascal Frances

Integration of multi-isotope techniques and a water quality model for tracing and cycling nutrients along stream networks
Mariela Andrea Yevenes Burgos

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

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

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

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

Surface roughness parameterization in heterogeneous land surfaces
Kitsiri Weligepolage

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

Overview of (externally) funded project clusters