Geosciences, School of: Recent submissions
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Impacts of anthropogenic aerosols on air quality, climate, and extremes
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-11-12)Anthropogenic aerosols have significant impacts on global air quality and climate. However, there are still major uncertainties in our understanding of their characteristics and effects, particularly the mechanisms through ... -
Separating polar ionospheric and lithospheric magnetic signals in satellite data
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-12-09)Both the interior of the Earth and near-Earth space contain a variety of interacting magnetic field sources, which together make up the “geomagnetic field”. When a magnetic field measurement is made, either on Earth or ... -
Regimes of land dispossession, crisis, and uneven development on Crete’s contested edge
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-12-10)By examining the political economy of two ongoing investments in land on Eastern Crete’s area of Sitía, this thesis contributes intellectually to the research fields of the geographies of the crisis in Europe and the ... -
Taxonomy, systematics and ecomorphological diversity of Teleosauroidea (Crocodylomorpha, Thalattosuchia), and the evaluation of the genus ‘Steneosaurus’
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-12-10)Teleosauroidea represented an extraordinary group of crocodylomorphs that thrived in predominately shallow marine environments during the Mesozoic Era. While they have previously been considered as ‘marine gharials’ of ... -
Applying financial risk approaches to the challenge of assessing natural disturbance risks to forests
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-11-26)The commercial forest sector manages a significant proportion of the global forest resource, just under a third being classified as ‘production forest’. This sector faces a number of threats, including those from natural ... -
Deep and intermediate water mass history of the Western Indian Ocean
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-07-03)This research focuses on reconstructing the history of various oceanic conditions, ranging from surface to deep layers, in the Western Indian Ocean over the last glacial cycle. A new data set is presented, composed of ... -
Identifying the vulnerable forests of Southeast Asia, and transforming them into a conservation and climate change mitigation priority
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-11-26)Facing the threat of climate change, preventing land use change in tropical forest areas has been identified as one of the main strategies to reduce carbon emissions to the atmosphere. However, the rate of tropical forest ... -
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 ...
