GeoSciences MSc thesis collection
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Identifying river geodiversity in Lower Mekong tributaries using supervised classification of Sentinel-2 imagery
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-11-01)This project aims to improve the environmental data available for river basin managers when deciding Freshwater Protected Area (FPA) location. Due to the absence of information on critical habitat location and difficulty ... -
Evaluation of potential anaerobic digestion facilities in Selangor, Malaysia by integrating GIS and Multi-criteria Decision Aid (MCDA)
(2020-08)There is currently an obvious deficiency in Malaysian government policies that encourage communities and industries to rely on municipal solid waste or organic waste as sources of bioenergy. Research has shown that though ... -
A Deep Learning Approach to Detect Charcoal Kilns in Medium Resolution Satellite Imagery: A step towards disentangling the drivers of deforestation in Mozambique.
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-08-20)The need for a better understanding of the drivers of deforestation and forest degradation is made clear in UN REDD+ policy. Charcoal production is thought to be one of the main drivers of degradation across Sub-Saharan ... -
Does the food environment influence dietary preference of people reflected through twitter in Scotland?
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-11)Dietary health is an increasingly concerning topic related to public. The dietary choice is essential to health. Before fostering dietary behaviours, learning about current food preference of people is necessary. A map ... -
Mapping Savanna Wildfires in Southern Belize using Sentinel-1 SAR and Object Based Imagery Analysis.
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-11-03)A new approach for extracting spatially explicit estimates of burned areas is developed, using a time series of pre-processed Sentinel-1 SAR imagery and object based image analysis. By using scientific analysis-ready and ... -
Monitoring Vegetation Biomass in Continental Antarctica: A Comparison of Hyper- and Multispectral Imagery
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-08-20)In the last few decades Antarctica has come under intense scrutiny as an area that could potentially provide insight into climate change as an early warning system for the rest of the world. This is due in part to the ... -
Analysing vegetation changes in continental Antarctica using modern UAV-based technology
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-08-20)In the context of global climate change, changes in vegetation cover have attracted much attention. Antarctica represents an ideal open-air laboratory to do so and the Rudolph plot (120 m * 30 m) ... -
The Development of an Interactive Map for Islay based on WebGIS
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-08-13)The emergence of web-based GIS technology has made it possible to integrate, represent and analyse geographical data through the Internet (Dong et al., 2013). Integrating WebGIS technology with a range of data resources, ... -
The Potential of Sentinel-2-derived Phenological Data SRTM Data for Estimating Plant Diversity of Wetlands in the UK
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-11-21)Wetlands are an essential for conservation. To understand more about biodiversity of wetlands in a less labour intense way, scientists have applied remote sensed data in their researches. To test the potential of ... -
Detection of Roof Type in Rural Tanzania using High-Resolution Satellite Imagery and Convolutional Neural Networks
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-11)The United Nations (UN) efforts to completely eliminate poverty by 2030 have been less successful in rural areas of Sub Saharan Africa compared to other parts of the world. This is partially due to infrequent and incomplete ... -
Explore the spatial relationship between Type 2 diabetes and the Accessibility of Fast Food Stores and Greenspace
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-08-28)Many studies have found the close relationship between Type 2 diabetes, people’s eating habits and the habits of doing physical activities. In Scotland, based on the background of the big cover of greenspace and the high ... -
Roundhouses in Reality: Identifying and Predicting the Distribution of Bronze Age Roundhouses on the Isle of Arran
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-11)Prehistoric hut-circles are one of the most common archaeological features in Scotland. These prehistoric remains are used by archaeologists to study settlement and domestic activity of their inhabitants. One location with ... -
Understanding and identifying the spatial patterns of aging traffic accident by a combined GIS and machine learning approach
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-08-28)With the coming of the aging society, the situation that elderly involved in Vehicle-Pedestrian (VP) collisions will occur more frequently. A large body of studies has pointed out the possible features which cause aging ... -
Evaluating the cascading impacts of flooding on emergency service response and spatial accessibility in Carlisle, UK.
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-08-13)First responders, such as ambulance and fire & rescue services often have to respond and operate to urgent cases throughout a dynamic flood event. This paper adopts a novel method that utilises flood modelling with GIS-based ... -
A multi-year assessment of the Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) signature of supraglacial lake evolution on the George VI ice shelf, Antarctic Peninsula.
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-08-31)Supraglacial lakes (SGLs) that form annually on the ice shelves fringing Antarctica exert a significant influence on the stability and mass balance of the entire ice sheet, yet their continent-wide extent and evolution is ... -
Assess the change in 3D PAI distribution by fire using TLS data
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-08-13)Remote sensing has been applied to many scientific research in recent decades and Lidar is one of the most popular active remote sensing instrument. There are many kinds of Lidar data such as terrestrial laser scanning ... -
Deep Learning: Population Estimation with Sentinel 1 & 2
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020)High resolution gridded population maps represent an integral part of the efforts to monitor and implement the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations. However, censuses often lack spatial resolution, temporal ... -
Evaluate the ground finding accuracy of GEDI to measure short vegetation on steep land.
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-12-01)NASA's Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) is a latest large-footprint full-waveform spaceborne lidar mission which observing near-global area and collecting forest structure data between 51.6° N and S latitude. ... -
Modelling Habitat Suitability for Common Eelgrass (Zostera marina) around the Isle of Skye.
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-08-31)Seagrass meadows, which provide valuable ecosystem services and are vital as stores of blue carbon, are known to be in decline worldwide. Alongside the reduction of pollution, seagrass restoration is vital to help restore ... -
Spatial distribution and risk factors of depression in Lothian based on open data of General Practitioner (GP)
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-08-13)Depression, whose symptom relating to the mood of human, is one of the crucial diseases that plague human health as it always leads to other severe diseases, sometimes incurable diseases. The aim of this research is to ...
