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van Batenburg, K. (author)In recent years, the interest in integrating shore protection with the local ecosystems has increased. In comparison with the traditional reinforced embankments, integrated shores form a gradual transition from land to water where shore vegetation can establish itself. These nature-friendly shores have a positive impact upon the water quality,...master thesis 2020
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Xie, Xinbai (author)Current climate change characterized by increasing temperature has led to an increase in the intensity and frequency of extreme droughts that have more prolonged and profound ecohydrological and social impacts. By paying attention to the hydrological change before and after extreme drought and the patterns of drought recovery of ecohydrological...master thesis 2020
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Hendriks, Céline (author)In 2017 the island Sint Maarten was hit by hurricane Irma. Approximately ninety-one per cent of the build environment was damaged. This made the existing housing shortage, caused by a growing population, even more significant. Now, three years later, the residential area of Philipsburg is mostly deserted. With the departure of its residents, the...master thesis 2020
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Wei, Mengya (author)Root zone storage capacity Sr is a significant variable for hydrology and climate studies, as it strongly influences the hydrological behaviour of a catchment. A climate-derived method (water-balance between precipitation and transpiration) was applied for estimating Sr values for 113 catchments in Australia. Various climate, hydrological and...master thesis 2020
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de Groot, Rob (author)Automatically generated 3D city models are becoming less of a futuristic, demanding or even impossible to attain goal, and more of a necessary, or vastly sought after, means for a multitude of applications. The current prevalence of open geographic information, such as nationwide-covering LiDAR datasets in the Netherlands, opens up opportunities...master thesis 2020
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Altenburg, Marte (author)Technologies for the reduction of the carbon dioxide emissions in the Dutch vegetable oil and fat industry are identified and characterised by their costs and carbon emission reduction potential. The Dutch vegetable oil and fat industry consists of seven companies each producing more than 10 kton CO2 per year, emitting a total of 0.36 Mton CO2...master thesis 2020
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Verhoeven, Vincent (author)The aim of this thesis project is to investigate the temporal changes of vegetation in Europe using statistical analysis and machine learning. A methodology is used consisting of five main steps. The first is data pre-processing, which is used to reduce the noise within the data set. This is followed by classification, which divides the data...master thesis 2020
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Vermunt, P.C. (author), Khabbazan, S. (author), Steele-Dunne, S.C. (author), Judge, Jasmeet (author), Monsivais-Huertero, Alejandro (author), Guerriero, Leila (author), Liu, Pang Wei (author)The latest developments in radar mission concepts suggest that subdaily synthetic aperture radar will become available in the next decades. The goal of this study was to demonstrate the potential value of subdaily spaceborne radar for monitoring vegetation water dynamics, which is essential to understand the role of vegetation in the climate...journal article 2020
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Truong, S.H. (author), Li, Un (author), Uijttewaal, W.S.J. (author)Transverse exchange processes of mass and momentum in floodplain regions of channels are of primary importance regarding the sediment transport and riverbank stability. The presence of large horizontal coherent structures (LHCSs) at the interface of the floodplain and main channel regions may contribute up to 90% the amount of transverse...conference paper 2020
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Vreugdenhil, M. (author), Navacchi, Claudio (author), Bauer-Marschallinger, Bernhard (author), Hahn, Sebastian (author), Steele-Dunne, S.C. (author), Pfeil, Isabella (author), Dorigo, Wouter (author), Wagner, Wolfgang (author)Vegetation products based on microwave remote sensing observations, such as Vegetation Optical Depth (VOD), are increasingly used in a variety of applications. One disadvantage is the often coarse spatial resolution of tens of kilometers of products retrieved from microwave observations from spaceborne radiometers and scatterometers. This can...journal article 2020
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Truong Hong, S. (author), Phan, K.L. (author), Stive, M.J.F. (author), Uijttewaal, W.S.J. (author)The significant defensive role of vegetation in general and mangroves in particular for coastal and estuarine regions has been increasingly recognized. However, understanding the shallow flow field in and around the region of vegetation is still limited. In order to gain more insight, a laboratory experiment of a vegetated compound channel...book chapter 2020
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Relative Magnitude of Infragravity Waves at Coastal Dikes with Shallow Foreshores: A Prediction ToolLashley, Christopher H. (author), Bricker, J.D. (author), van der Meer, J.W. (author), Altomare, Corrado (author), Suzuki, T. (author)Despite the widely recognized role of infragravity (IG) waves in many often-hazardous nearshore processes, spectral wave models, which exclude IG-wave dynamics, are often used in the design and assessment of coastal dikes. Consequently, the safety of these structures in environments where IG waves dominate remains uncertain. Here, we combine...journal article 2020
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Bouaziz, L.J.E. (author), Steele-Dunne, S.C. (author), Schellekens, Jaap (author), Weerts, Albrecht H. (author), Stam, Jasper (author), Sprokkereef, Eric (author), Winsemius, H.C. (author), Savenije, Hubert (author), Hrachowitz, M. (author)The spatiotemporal dynamics of water volumes stored in the unsaturated root zone are a key control on the response of terrestrial hydrological systems. Robust, catchment-scale root-zone soil moisture estimates are thus critical for reliable predictions of river flow, groundwater recharge, or evaporation. Satellites provide estimates of near...journal article 2020
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Zheng, Xing (author), Dai, T. (author), Tang, Mingfang (author)Past studies have demonstrated the remarkable energy-saving effect of vertical greenery systems. The vast majority of these works focus on opaque building walls. While external shadings on windows are more effective than these on walls. Inspired by the climbing plants (vines) raised outside windows by residents, the present study proposed the...journal article 2020
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Seagrass coastal protection services reduced by invasive species expansion and megaherbivore grazingJames, Rebecca K. (author), Christianen, Marjolijn J.A. (author), van Katwijk, Marieke M. (author), de Smit, Jaco C. (author), Bakker, Elisabeth S. (author), Herman, P.M.J. (author), Bouma, T.J. (author)Seagrasses provide an important ecosystem service by creating a stable erosion-resistant seabed that contributes to effective coastal protection. Variable morphologies and life-history strategies, however, are likely to impact the sediment stabilization capacity of different seagrass species. We question how opportunistic invasive species and...journal article 2020
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Mashhoodi, B. (author), Stead, D. (author), van Timmeren, A. (author)Household energy consumption (HEC) is affected by a variety of determinants. In addition to the level of HEC in 2612 residential zones in the Netherlands (the so-called wijk) in 2014, this dataset provides a geographically-referenced data of 11 determinants of HEC on: (1) socioeconomic characteristics - namely income per capita, household...journal article 2020
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Jamalinia, E. (author), Vardon, P.J. (author), Steele-Dunne, S.C. (author)Climatic conditions and vegetation cover influence water flux in a slope which affect the pore water pressure and self weight, hence its stability. High evapotranspiration and low precipitation rates during summer cause dry soil with low soil moisture (SM) that leads to soil shrinkage, which leads to cracking and reduced shear strength, which...conference paper 2020
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Jamalinia, E. (author), Vardon, P.J. (author), Steele-Dunne, S.C. (author)The stability of a dike is influenced strongly by its water content, via both changing its weight and strength. While safety calculations using both analytical and numerical methods are well studied, the impact of surface boundaries exposed to natural conditions is rarely considered, nor is the fact that this surface is covered in vegetation and...journal article 2020
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Rutzinger, M. (author), Anders, K. (author), Bremer, M. (author), Höfle, B. (author), Lindenbergh, R.C. (author), Oude Elberink, S. (author), Pirotti, F (author), Scaioni, M. (author), Zieher, T. (author)The 3rd edition of the international summer school "Close-range Sensing Techniques in Alpine terrain"took place in Obergurgl, Austria, in June 2019. This article reports on results from the training and seminar activities and the outcome of student questionnaire survey. Comparison between the recent edition and the past edition in 2017 shows...journal article 2020
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Reis, Rui Almeida (author), Pires-Silva, António A. (author), Juana Fortes, Conceição (author), Suzuki, T. (author)The vegetation capacity to protect the coasts from wave action is becoming more important and attractive due to ongoing sea level rise and increasing storminess. In addition, it is a quite environmentally friendly way. Quantifying the vegetation effect in wave propagation will be relevant for coastal management. A non-hydrostatic wave model...journal article 2020