GeoSciences MSc thesis collection
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Geological storage of hydrogen: natural analogues, flow cell experiments and mass transport modelling
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-11-26)Decarbonising the global energy mix is crucial to lowering greenhouse gas emissions and combating climate change. The introduction of renewable (low carbon) energy sources and the removal of fossil fuel energy sources ... -
Time Series Analysis of Phytoplankton and Sea Ice in the Barents Sea
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-11-26)The Arctic is undergoing rapid environmental change due to a synergy of environmental factors, such as rising temperature, warm water advection and decreasing sea ice (IPCC, 2014). However, the biological response to this ... -
An assessment of the ability of Sentinel-1 SAR data and Sentinel-2 NDVI product to identify and monitor phenological changes in agricultural crops.
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-11-27)Effective monitoring of agricultural crops is of importance for food security, yield predictions and effective land management. Rising human populations and shifting climate patterns are increasing pressures on the food ... -
Evaluating the Relationship between Cerebrospinal Meningitis Infection Rates and Environmental Factors in Sub-Saharan West Africa: A GIS Case Study of Nigeria
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019)Cerebrospinal Meningitis (CSM) is a serious, often fatal communicable disease that disproportionately effects certain parts of the developing world. The greatest number of cases occur in an area of sub-Saharan Africa known ... -
Web-GIS based Airbnb Information Web
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-08)With the splendid market in Beijing Airbnb, there is an increasing demand for relevant decision supporting tool. In decision-making, spatial analysis is significant for location relevant question solving. Therefore, the ... -
Visualisation of Most Frequently Posted Locations on Social Media Based on Web Map
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-08-08)In recent years, with the rapid development of mobile internet technology, location-based services have become the mainstream in people’s daily life and a large amount of social media data containing geographic location ... -
Integrating Web GIS with Multi-criteria Evaluation Techniques for Site Selection of Makerspace in Shenzhen City
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-08-31)Since 2014, China has experienced a rapid increase of entrepreneurship and business development, due to the strong support of the state for business incubators such as makerspace. Makerspace is an open and comprehensive ... -
Identifying Employment Centre and Sub-centres and Analysing Commuting Mode in Scotland: a case study of City of Edinburgh, West Lothian, Midlothian and East Lothian
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-08-08)Rural areas occupied the majority land use of Scotland. Finding a practical way to promote rural development is particularly important for future Scotland. This paper proposes an objective and effective method to identify ... -
Simulate and integrate the evapotranspiration into hydrological cycle model based on a modified MODIS LAI data in Yalong catchment
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-09-10)Climate change and global warming are now severely influenced the coupled hydrological-carbon cycle model around the world. Compared to the normal basin, the mountain and high-elevation catchment and its plant community ... -
A multi-satellite investigation into the evolution and SAR signature of surface lakes on George VI ice shelf, West Antarctic Peninsula.
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-08-07)As many ice shelves on the Antarctic Peninsula are meeting a similar unfortunate fate, the role of surface water in the disintegration of these ice shelves has received considerable attention. This study uses 24 Sentinel-1 ... -
Assessing the ability of spaceborne LiDAR to measure forest LAI profile for fire modelling
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-08-08)Leaf area index (LAI) is an important parameter for forest fire modelling, which could be assessed on a forest or landscape level by utilizing satellites to achieve globally consistent datasets. Spaceborne lidar has ... -
Application of Geo-tagged Images for Automated Attribution of 3D City
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-08-08)In recent years, growing applications of three-dimenstional city models have brought new challenges to the construction of 3D city models, requiring the models to be large-scaled as well as semantically enriched. Existing ... -
Social Media Based Chinese Tourists’ Satisfaction Analysis on Major Tourist Cities in Turkey
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-08-08)Social media has already changed the way travellers find and select tourist information online, especially through microblogging. As China’s largest microblog social media platform, Weibo post has become one of the most ... -
Poverty Mapping in Mozambique by Integrating Household Surveys and Geospatial Metrics
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-08-09)Eight percent of the total world population lives in extreme poverty. The goal of this study is to create a method for targeting poverty in three Mozambican provinces using geospatial metrics and correlating the results ... -
Developing Automated Tourist Guides Using Data Stored Within A Gazetteer
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-08-08)Tourist guides are an essential aspect of travelling made to help users navigate while simultaneously providing information. As travelling becomes more common the variety in travel motivations of tourist similarly increases. ... -
The Audibility of Chacoan Tower Kivas: Analysing Sound Propagation Across a Prehistoric Landscape
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-11-26)Tower kivas are unusual features of the Chacoan landscape, ones which have been repeatedly explored through GIS-based visibility analyses. The visual significance of monuments and structures has long been a topic of ... -
Measuring plant structure with terrestrial lidar compared with manual measurement
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-08-08)Quantifying leaf area is essential for it is a key variable in global carbon, water and energy flux, atmospheric exchange models, crop yield prediction, and satellite calibration. This research processed and analysed ... -
Airborne Lidar for Forest Understory Profiles: Validating with Terrestrial Lidar Data
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-11-24)Lidar is an effective active remote sensing instrument with potential for use in forest management for fire mitigation by accurately measuring vegetation profiles, or foliage density, height and composition. Lidar is ... -
Mapping and Comparing Accessibility of Type 2 Diabetes Hospital Healthcare in the Urban and Rural Area in England
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-08-08)Type 2 diabetes accounts for 90% of diabetes in the UK. In addition to daily diet control, exercise and eight care process, healthcare in hospital level are required for the deterioration of diseases or complications. The ... -
Comparison of Three Machine Learning Algorithms and Four Post-processing Methods on Landslide Mapping using High-Resolution Satellite Image
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-08-08)Landslide disasters have always been one of the geological disasters of global concern. In the Three Gorges area of China, landslide disasters have greatly threatened the safety of people's lives and property. Landslide ...
