Courses & research | Free specialisation | Geo-information Science and Earth Observation

During your Master’s in Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation, you will complete a total of 120 EC within two years. During the programme you will take a mixture of courses that include foundation courses, specialisation and elective courses. As part of the electives, you can gain additional work experience through an optional internship before completing your studies with your master’s thesis.

Structure

YEAR 1	NUMBER OF EC
Foundation courses Required courses for all students of the Master’s.	15 EC	Fundamentals of GIS and Earth Observation Fundamental spatial data engineering and innovations Fundamental programming for geospatial data analysis
Specialisation courses Pick 25 ECs of courses and discuss these with the Programme Manager.	25 EC	Quantitative Remote Sensing 1 Quantitative Remote Sensing 2 OR VGI and Geo Citizen Science Machine Learning for Geospatial Applications Geovisualisation AR/VR Modelling and Mapping OR Advanced Geospatial Analysis & Timeseries AND 1 of the following Geospatial Database Engineering Geoweb Apps & Services & SDI Laser Scanning & Point Cloud Processing Thermal Infrared RS 5 EC from one of the specialisation topics in Disaster Resilience, Urban Land Futures or Resource Security 5 EC from one of the electives we offer
Elective courses You can choose a course that matches your interests and career ambitions.	10 EC	Land Use Transport Interactions GeoHealth Entrepreneurship Climate Awareness Raising Water Decisions and Health (WASH) 3D Modelling for City Digital Twins Engaging Climate Communication Geo-journalism Space for Ethics Modelling Environmental Space-Time Processes Economics & Finances for Geosciences Participatory Planning Tools and Processes
Research and professional skills courses Required course for developing your research skills	10 EC	Research Skills & Proposal writing
YEAR 2
Electives	25 EC	In the second year, you can personalise your study programme by doing an internship (15 EC) and taking elective courses, including professional courses.
Research	35 EC	To complete your Master’s in Geo-information Science and Earth Observation you will conduct a research project of your choice.
Total EC	120 EC

Internship

In the second year of your Master’s in Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation, you can apply the knowledge and skills you have acquired during your studies by doing an internship at a consultancy company, government agency, research institute, or non-governmental organisation in the Netherlands or abroad. ITC has a broad network of organisations where you can do your internship project.

Master's thesis

You will complete your studies with a Master’s thesis on a topic of your choice. You will work with a supervisory team throughout the course of your research.

- Suwannapura, V. (2024) The Influence of Rare Earth Elements on Thermal Infrared Spectra of Monazite.
- Batame, Michael (2023) Global Trade and Local Food Security: Mapping and Monitoring Cocoa Expansion and its Impact on Household Food Security in the Bia West Disctrict, Ghana.
- Cárdenas León, I.L. (2023) From Trash To Digital Treasure: Urban Digital Twining For Solid Waste Management. A Case Study In The City Of Tshwane, South Africa.
- Muraj, Tea M. (2023) The Cartographic Visualization of Processes and Changes: “Case study of changes over the years in the city of Vienna”.
- Tsige, Girma Zewdie (2022) Scan-vs-BIM automated registration using columns segmented by deep learning for construction progress monitoring.
- Biswas, Biman (2022) Deep Learning-based Multimodal Fusion of Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 Data for Mapping Deforested Areas in the Amazon Rainforest.
- Buohemaa, Bernice Osei (2022) Urban green in Greater Paramaribo: Explorations of accessibility and social inequality.
- Khawte, Sharvi Samir (2022) 3D modelling of slums based on UAV data.
- Sood, Megha (2021) Deep learning for image time-series analysis: Application to crop mapping.
- De, Ranit (2021) Crop yield estimation from simulated carbon flux using scope: a case study of Samrakalwana village in India.
- Dereje, Martha (2021) Assessment of nature visitation in Lake Tana Biosphere Reserve through crowdsourced data using social media.
- Shrestha, Sadichchha (2021) Nature-based Solution (NbS) for local adaptation of neighborhood to urban flooding: A case study of Enschede, Netherlands.
- Umutesi, Mameline (2021) Assessing impacts of climate change and land-use interventions on flooding in Nyabugogo catchment (Kigali -Rwanda).
- Sredhar, Devi Darshana (2021) Detection of objects and their orientation from 3D point clouds in an industrial robotics setting.
- Li, Wei (2020) The relationship between street visual features and property value using deep learning.
- Marete, Emmanuel Mutwiri (2020) Adaptation of spatial development framework methods for agricultural value chain development.
- Owusu, Maxwell (2020) Spatio-temporal slum mapping at citywide scale using high-resolution images.
- Phuntsho, p (2020) Differentiating healthy and bark beetle infected spruce trees with Sentinel-1 SAR.
- Adigi, J. A. (2019) Spatio-temporal regression kriging for predicting rainfall from sparse precipitation data in Ghana.
- Chang, Jinwei (2019) Women's perspective on safety and smart safety devices in smart city.
- Rodriguez, Gerardo Macedo (2019) Modelling and mapping of ultrafine particles in space and time in the city of Eindhoven , The Netherlands.
- Nie, Shen (2019) 3D BIM-GIS for underground network management.