B.Sc. and M.Sc. Theses
The student excursions to Namibia as well as cooperations with the Namibia University of Science and Technology (NUST) as well as NGOs and provate nature reserves have triggered a series of B.Sc. and M.Sc. theses related to the research clusters of our department. These include land cover and land cover change analysis (LULCC), drought monitoring, hydrological analysis and analysis of urbanisation trends.
List of B.Sc. Theses:
- A GIS-based Analysis of Spatial Disparities and Accessibility to Services - A case study of Windhoek, Namibia
- GIS-based Analysis of Informal Settlement Development in Windhoek, Namibia
- GIS-based Visualization and Spatial Analysis of Windhoek's Urban Development by means of High-resolution Remote Sensed Data
- Analysis of Land Use and Land Cover Change within the Okavango-Omatako River Basin in Namibia
- A Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Fires and their Effect on Biomass in the Kavango Region, Namibia
- Watershed Delineation in the Kavango-Omatako Region (Namibia) using Digital Elevation Models – A comparative Analysis of TanDEM-X, SRTM, ALOS World 3D & ASTER GDEM
- A GIS-based Flood Analysis within the Cuvelai-Etosha Basin, Namibia;
- Spatial Analysis of Precipitation Time Series over the Okavango-Omatako River Basin based on Reanalysis Data
- Spatio-Temporal Analysis of NDVI-based Drought Indices in the North-West District of Botswana
- Conceptual Design and Development of a Framework for a Drought Information System based on GeoNode
- Implementation of Drought Indices and Time Series Calculations for a Drought Information System
- Monitoring of Land Use and Land Cover Changes (LULCC) in the Rehoboth and Rundu regions of Namibia
- Remotely-Sensed monitoring of vegetation and land cover changes in the NamibRand and ProNamib nature reserves (Namibia) under consideration of topographic-climatic conditions
- Understanding phenological time series based on hyper- und multispectral vegetation indices in the ProNamib nature reserve - Namibia
- Multitemporal phenological vegetation analysis within the ProNamib nature reserve (Namibia) using Sentinel-2 satellite imagery and derived vegetation indices.
- Interactive web map of the ProNamib Nature Reserve - An application to support grassland monitoring and restauration
- Four decades of urban development in Rundu: A remote sensing approach quantifying Land use Land Cover changes between 1985 and 2024 using Landsat-Data and machine learning
- A comparison of OPTRAM and TOTRAM normalized moisture content estimates on watershed level. An example of Rundu, Namibia
List of M.Sc. Theses:
- Analysing Bush Encroachment in Namibia - Causes, Economic Potentials and Spatio-temporal Monitoring
- Satellite-Based Population Estimation - A case study of Rundu, Namibia
- Comparative Analysis of Drought Indices for Namibia: A Multi-Scale Drought Monitoring Approach
- A Spatio-temporal and Comparative Analysis of ESA SMOS Data in Southern Africa
- HyperGrass: Spectral imaging of grass species in semi-arid ecosystems of Namibia
- Grassland monitoring in the ProNamib Nature Reserve in Namibia - A remotely-sensed time series analysis and biomass estimation to assess the phenological status
- Spatiotemporal changes of soil moisture in the Kavango Region of Namibia. A Remote Sensing-based estimation and comparioson of different soil moisture products