Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic EngineeringAcronym | D-BAUG | Homepage | http://www.baug.ethz.ch/ | Country | Switzerland | ZIP, City | | Address | | Phone | | Type | Academy | Parent organization | ETH Zurich | Current organization | Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering | Child organizations | |
Open OpportunitiesAccurate modelling of glacier mass balance requires the representation of wind-driven snow transport. This thesis will investigate the performance of various parameterizations. | Implement and benchmark a reduced-complexity ice flow model to run in parallel on graphical processing units (GPUs) using the the Julia language and the finite-difference method. | Snow accumulation is a critical parameter for glacier mass balance investigations. Conventional measurements include snow depth probings while ground penetrating radar (GPR) has been successfully applied for continuous measurements of the snow cover thickness. - Geophysics, Glaciology
- Bachelor Thesis, Semester Project
| The TanDEM-X mission has been launched for more than a decade. The mission collected rich valuable data that allows for generating high resolution digital elevation models (DEM) and analysing the change of earth surface topography. Therefore, this project aims to leverage the TanDEM-X data collected over the Great Aletsch Glacier to evaluate the height changes and velocity dynamics of the glacier. - Glaciology, Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
- Master Thesis
| Glaciers are an essential freshwater resource, especially during warm and dry periods. Assessing the contributions of glacier melt to downstream discharge at daily to weekly scales is important to understand the susceptibility of mountain water supply to the ongoing and future projected glacier retreat. However, these contributions are difficult to obtain as glacier mass balance observations are typically multi-year, annual or seasonal measurements. Therefore, daily streamflow dynamics will be analysed. - Glaciology
- Bachelor Thesis, Master Thesis
| Antarctic ice sheets contribute significant uncertainty to sea level rise projections due to processes occurring deep beneath the ice. This project will use existing data from two passive seismic deployments to investigate the ice sheet – ice shelf transition of Kamb Ice Stream in West Antarctica. - Earthquake Seismology, Glaciology
- Master Thesis
| The surface mass balance of a glacier is critical in determining its long-term evolution. This thesis will explore the effect that the activities of a gold-mine operating next to a glacier has on the glacier mass balance. The area of interest is located in Kyrgyzstan and the project will make use of both numerical modelling and data collected in situ. | Atmospheric turbulence has an impact on the propagation delay of radio signals and, thus, is an important error source for space geodetic techniques, such as Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) and Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) [1].
Before observing with VLBI, thousands of simulations are performed to find the best sequence of scans that needs to be carried out to achieve optimal results. However, atmospheric turbulences are not properly represented in the atmospheric delay model used in these simulations. Therefore, a more realistic representation of atmospheric turbulences is essential in future simulations to reach the highest accuracy with VLBI. - Earth Sciences
- Semester Project
| A machine learning-based classifier will be developed to automatically detect abnormal GNSS ephemerides in daily broadcast ephemeris files. - Earth Sciences
- ETH Zurich (ETHZ), Semester Project
| A dynamic tropospheric process noise model will be implemented into GNSS real time kinematic (RTK) algorithms to improve the estimation of drone-based GNSS zenith total delays (ZTDs). - Earth Sciences
- ETH Zurich (ETHZ), Semester Project
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