PhD position: Multi-temporal forest canopy height reconstruction from satellite data
Uni Zürich
- Institution
- Uni Zürich
- Position type
- PhD
- Location
- Zürich, CH
- Funding
- Fully funded position
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Über die Stelle
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Aufgaben
- Process and analyse large archives of optical stereo satellite imagery.
- Develop and improve photogrammetric workflows for DSM and CHM generation.
- Generate and validate multi-temporal canopy height models.
- Analyse long-term forest structural dynamics and disturbance processes.
- Publish research results in peer-reviewed journals and present them at international conferences.
- Contribute to teaching activities within the Department of Geography.
Anforderungen
- You hold a MSc degree in photogrammetry, remote sensing, geomatics, geodesy, physical geography, environmental sciences, computer science, geoinformatics, aero/astro engineering, or a related discipline.
- Satellite or airborne remote sensing data processing/analysis
- Stereo photogrammetry and/or SfM software (open-source or commercial)
- Very-high-resolution commercial satellite image processing and/or analysis
- Airborne LiDAR, and/or spaceborne laser altimetry (GEDI, ICESat-2) analysis
- Geospatial data processing
- Scientific programming (Python, R, Julia, or Matlab)
- Point cloud processing and/or analysis
- Computer vision and/or machine learning involving geospatial data
- Forest science
- Linux, Git/Github, Jupyter, Cloud computing
- Open-source geospatial stack (e.g., GDAL, PDAL, GeoPandas, xarray)
- Excellent written and oral communication skills (publication or other technical writing, conference poster or talk)
- A fully funded 4-year PhD position.
- Access to unique international remote sensing datasets.
- Project collaboration with leading forest and remote sensing researchers across Europe (such as WSL, TU Wien, NIBIO, and IGE Grenoble) and Canada (Canadian Forest Service).
- Excellent research infrastructure and computational resources.
- A stimulating and supportive research environment at the University of Zurich.
- Opportunity to collaborate with both remote sensing and machine learning research groups at the University of Zurich.
Experience or strong interest in at least one of the following:
Other relevant, but optional experience (ideally one or more):
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