IGSNRRsupervisor: ProfYongGE
UNNCsupervisor:DrNicholasHAMM(SchoolofGeographicalSciences)
Formanyapplicationsitisimportanttohavequantitativecurrentandhistoricmapsoftheenvironment(e.g.,landcover,urbanlanduse,environmentalandairpollution). Thehistoricextentrangefromthepresentdaytothepast10-40years. Suchdatasetsareneededforenvironmentalmonitoringandmodellinginthecontextofland-usechange,urbanexpansionanddevelopmentssurroundingtheBeltandRoadinitiative. Environmentalepidemiologyisanotherapplication. Datasourcesincluderemotesensing,insituenvironmentalmonitoringnetworks,socio-economicdata,socialmediaandvolunteeredgeographicinformation. CoretopicstobeaddressedinthisPhDare:(a)identificationofappropriatecurrentand/orhistoricdata,(b)integrationandmodellingofthesebiggeosciencedatasetsusingnovelstatisticalandmachinelearningmethods,(c)datasharing,(d)spatial-temporalscaleand(e)spatialdataqualityandvalidation. Theexactdirectionandapplicationwillbedecidedinconsultationwiththesuccessfulcandidate.
InformalinquiriesmaybeaddressedtoDrNicholasHAMM(nicholas.hamm@***.cn)andProfYongGE(gey@lreis.***),butformalapplicationsshouldfollowinstructionsinthe‘Howtoapply’sectionbelow.