Dynamics of natural hazards and disasters in tropical Africa

Project Details

Description

Nowadays, studies on environmental changes play an important role in decision
making due to the increasing impacts of climate change and natural hazards. In
parallel, land use changes due to the deforestation and the expansion of urban
areas and human infrastructures in general lead to more disasters, both in space
and time. In the present work, we propose to support a PhD research dedicated
to the study of the spatial and temporal distribution of natural hazards and related
disasters, in tropical Africa, using web crawling and remote sensing techniques.
This research aims to position the new ZAP member as an expert in remote
sensing of natural hazards, as initially expected. This will also strengthen the
position of the VUB as a key actor in the study of natural hazards, disasters and
environmental changes in Africa. The proposed research is indeed performed in
collaboration with the FED-tWIN GuiDANCE project between the VUB and the
AfricaMuseum, and offers several synergies with on-going PhD research works
a research projects, both in the Department of Geography and in the Faculty of
Engineering of the VUB.
AcronymOZR3992
StatusActive
Effective start/end date1/10/2230/09/26

Keywords

  • Geospatial Analysis
  • Earth Observation
  • Remote Sensing
  • Change Detection
  • Big Data Analysis
  • Web Crawling
  • Environmental Changes
  • Natural Processes
  • Natural Hazards
  • Geo-Hydrological Hazards
  • Land Use Land Cover Change
  • Urban Sprawl
  • Deforestation
  • Disaster
  • Risk Assessment
  • Africa

Flemish discipline codes in use since 2023

  • Natural language processing
  • Computer vision
  • Environmental impact and risk assessment
  • Environmental monitoring
  • Remote sensing
  • Natural hazards
  • Geomorphology and landscape evolution
  • Image processing
  • Climate change
  • Data mining

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