Monitoring the health of urban greenery with terrestrial low-cost, mobile sensors

Urban forests and vegetation are fundamental for developing resilient cities. Thus, the effective management and protection of urban trees and greenery are essential. Nowadays, urban trees are experiencing atypical amount of natural and human-induced stresses which affects their functionality, productivity and survival. The current methods for...

Lessons for Remote Post-earthquake Reconnaissance from the 14 August 2021 Haiti Earthquake

On 14th August 2021, a magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck the Tiburon Peninsula in the Caribbean nation of Haiti, approximately 150 km west of the capital Port-au-Prince. Aftershocks up to moment magnitude 5.7 followed and over 1,000 landslides were triggered. These events led to over 2,000 fatalities, 15,000 injuries and more than 137,000...

Parasite Detection using Hyperspectral Microscopy: Hyperspectral microscopy in Malaria and Schistosoma diagnostics: the approximation and detection of spectral signatures

Parasitic diseases such as malaria remain a mayor burden on global health. One of the biggest challenges still to be overcome is that of inadequate diagnoses. This research explores the opportunities that Hyperspectral Imaging yields in this field. The first goal is to estimate the spectral signature of Malaria parasites in non-stained or Giemsa...

Remote Sensing: Deriving water quality indicators from high-resolution satellite data using spatio-temporal statistics

The derivation of water quality indicators is of importance, especially in coastal areas, as most of the economic activities are located here. However, the availability of high-spatial-resolution water quality information in coastal zones is limited. Nowadays, high-resolution satellite data is becoming available and can fill in this knowledge...

Satellite derived bathymetry for times of absent in situ data

Knowledge of seafloor topography (bathymetry) is increasingly important as coastal environments are unprecedentedly stressed by climate change and anthropogenic pressure. The bathymetry of shallow nearshore waters is yet marginally monitored due to costly and time-intensive survey techniques. Methods to obtain satellite derived bathymetry (SDB)...