A New Method for Iceberg Tracking Using Contour Matching

Icebergs drifting through the Southern Ocean release fresh water and nutrients. This has local impacts on surrounding ecosystems and sea ice formation. On a global scale, salinity patterns and ocean circulation are affected. In addition, <br/> tudying icebergs as a proxy for ice shelves in a warming climate can help predict future climate...

Automatically deriving and updating attribute road data from movement trajectories

There are many applications that use maps, and more detailed the maps are, more applications can benefit from the map. Many maps are still manually created and also the underlying attributes are informed in a manual process. This thesis presents a method to automatically derive and update attribute road data by mining and analyzing movement...

Optimization of descent trajectories for lunar base settlement

Four decades after Neil Armstrong's 1st steps on the Moon the time has come to take it one step further, the permanent occupation of humans on lunar soil. Permanent occupation of humans will revive the dream of exploring space and will open the doors for space flight to Mars or even further. For this reason this project investigates the...