Potential topics

Procedure to select an MSc topic

  • You can submit a topic from June until September 19th the latest, where you need to have a topic and at least one supervisor selected
  • Be warned that if you wait until September, then it is possible that your topic is already gone and your favourite supervisor is full
  • A topic can be changed a bit until the A1 registration date (mid-November)
  • Some recommended topics are below. Click on the links for more info, which will take you to the different pages in the websites of the groups involved in Geomatics education.
  • You can directly choose one of the topics below, or you can speak to a geomatics staff and agree on a custom topic, then submit it (with a temporary title)
  • If your topic is in collaboration with an external party, keep in mind that several staff follow the requirements for open science
  • Only the 1st supervisor is relevant at this point, the 2nd can be added later
  • Questions? you can ask in the Discord channel #geo2021 or contact the thesis coordinator

Giorgio Agugiaro

  1. Adding support for CitySim to the 3DCityDB-Tools plugin for QGIS
  2. Development of the client-side 3DCityDB-Tools plugin for QGIS to support CityGML 3.0 data via the new 3DCityDB v. 5
  3. Too cool or too hot? Cooling and heating demand scenarios based on the semantic 3D city model of Rotterdam (Co-supervisor)
  4. IFC in PostgreSQL/PostGIS (Co-supervision)
  5. Accuracy assesment of EnergyBAG (Co-supervision)
  6. Development of a Graphical User Interface for EnergyBAG in-house urban energy building simulation tool) (Co-supervision)

Ken Arroyo Ohori

  1. Creation of planar partitions from mismatched datasets
  2. Different heuristics for CGAL polygon repair
  3. IFC in PostgreSQL/PostGIS

Jesús Balado Frías

  1. From low quality point clouds to high quality BIM
  2. Design and improvement of self-adaptive 3D structuring elements for mathematical morphology in point clouds
  3. Integration of point clouds in CityGML standard for obtaining a continuous Level of Detail

Daniele Cannatella

  1. Developing an open-source Multifunctional Green Infrastructure Planning Support System

Weixiao Gao

  1. Urban Mesh Segmentation
  2. 3D Reconstruction for Man-Made Urban Linear Objects

Clara García-Sánchez

  1. Optimizing building mesh designs for computational fluid dynamics using machine learning.
  2. To mesh or not to mesh: immersed boundary methods and porosity in OpenFOAM
  3. Using urban morphology to optimize biking and running routes in cities?
  4. The effects of building model automatic reconstruction methods for CFD simulations
  5. Developing an open-source GIS pipeline tailored for FastEddy
  6. Citizen Voices in Climate Action: Developing digital platforms for citizen engagement in climate planning and design
  7. Revealing energy inequalities in The Netherlands

Amin Jalilzadeh

  1. Designing a Data Infrastructure for Digital Twin Technology in Energy Management
  2. Enhancing Energy Demand Modeling with Spatial Data: A Geographic Approach to Simulation Accuracy
  3. Optimizing Solar Panel Installations in Urban Districts: A Data-Driven and Digital Twin Integrated Approach

Eftychia Kalogianni

  1. Enhancing data reusability in 3D Land Administration Systems in line with ISO 19152 LADM II
  2. Identifying blockchain implementation for 3D Land Administration in line with ISO 19152 LADM Edition II
  3. Identifying land-related indicators for ISO 19152 LADM Edition II
  4. Air Rights Restrictions and Responsibilities: investigate, model, and visualise them in the context of ISO 19152 LADM
  5. Cadaster and Madaster

Abdullah Kara

  1. Visualizing and disseminating property valuation information
  2. Taking climate change into account in Land Administration: How to improve and evaluate existing systems

Martin Kodde

  1. 3D mesh generation from Oblique Photos with AI (at Geodelta)
  2. Temporal Analysis of Point Clouds for Identifying Significant Changes in Urban Landscapes (at Geodelta)
  3. Bundle-Block Adjustment with Panorama Imagery (at Geodelta)
  4. Seamless Oblique Image Mosaics for Aerial Visualization (at Geodelta)

Hugo Ledoux

  1. How can 3D alpha wrapping be best used to repair buildings?
  2. Estimating noise pollution with machine learning?
  3. Modern metadata for CityJSON
  4. Water (level) detection with ICESat-2 measurements

Camilo León-Sánchez

  1. Urban energy simulations linking CitySim with the 3DCityDB
  2. (Further) Development and Testing of the Energy Extension for CityJSON (v1.x)
  3. Accuracy assesment of in-house urban energy building simulation tool
  4. Development of a Graphical User Interface for Visualizing Building Energy Data

Bastiaan van Loenen

  1. Governance of the open data ecosystem
  2. Bridging the information gap between public and private sector

Martijn Meijers

  1. Allmaps - Curating, georeferencing and exploring digitized maps
  2. Improving the content of vario-scale maps
  3. Making a vario-scale 4D point cloud
  4. Comparing compression techniques for 2.5 and 3D point clouds
  5. Compare solutions for bringing 3D subsurface data on the web - at Geological Survey of the Netherlands

Liangliang Nan

  1. Reconstructing permanent indoor structures from multi-view images
  2. BuildingBlocks: Enhancing 3D urban understanding and reconstruction with a comprehensive multi-modal dataset

Peter van Oosterom

  1. Cadastral Map Quality
  2. The LADM as Linked Open Data
  3. Change Detection using LoD
  4. Making a vario-scale 4D point cloud

Hendrik Ploeger

  1. Intellectual property & data ownership in the open data ecosystem
  2. Privacy in the open data ecosystem
  3. Liability in the open data ecosystem

Wilko Quak

  1. Possibilities of using Solid data pods in a geo environment
  2. Mobility of People
  3. Designing a Data Infrastructure for Digital Twin Technology in Energy Management

Azarakhsh Rafiee

  1. Spatial Resolution Enhancement of Thermal Satellite Imagery through Deep Neural Networks
  2. Detecting building element/material through thermal imagery using Deep Neural Networks approach
  3. Exploring the impact of tree original point cloud data leverage in urban daylight simulation
  4. Optimization for energy demand-production-storage balance in Local Energy Systems through Deep Reinforcement Learning
  5. Urban form, climate and personal comfort in a highly dense urban environment: the case of Seoul, South Korea

Jantien Stoter

  1. Developing Level of Detail framework for 3D cadastre implementation in practice
  2. Developing methods for edge-matching with customisable heuristics
  3. Supporting earthquake risk assessment by 3D city models
  4. 3D delineation of urban river spaces
  5. Update 3D BAG from different point clouds
  6. Development on quality assessment of point cloud datasets

Edward Verbree

  1. Investigating the reliability of indoor objects to act as landmarks
  2. Positioning and Location Awareness, Point Cloud Cartography or Point Cloud Analysis

Robert Voûte

  1. Seabed fingerprinting
  2. Smart voxels

Frederika Welle Donker

  1. Financial and economic aspects of the open data ecosystem
  2. Design of a user driven open data ecosystem
  3. Assessment of the open data ecosystem