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We combine earth scientific knowledge with dynamic modelling and advanced remote sensing, to analyse earth systems and processes in space and time. Our goal is to address global challenges concerning future demands for earth resources, and to help reduce disaster risk and the impact of natural hazards on communities living in changing environments.

MGEO Applied Remote Sensing for Earth Sciences Master's specialisation

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MGEO Natural Hazards and Disaster Risk Reduction Master's specialisation

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AES Research Themes

Hazard, risk and resilience

We use a range of techniques and tools to study natural hazards, such as floods, landslides and volcanic eruptions. We study how dynamic risk of interacting natural hazards can be quantified for improved decision making in disaster risk reduction and support post-disaster recovery.

Raw materials and the energy transition

We use remote sensing, geographic information systems (GIS) and computational modelling to map and assist exploration of critical raw materials and geothermal resources.

Remote and proximal sensing

We study earth composition and dynamics through remote sensing (optical, thermal, geophysical) to address the increasing global demand for green energy and critical raw materials. Find out more here

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SAVE the DATE: 12 July mini-symposium Science Communication

The recent deadly heatwave across the Asian continent was made worse by climate change

ITC's Spatial Engineering graduate, Carolina Pereira Marghidan, now a PhD researcher at KNMI/UT and consultant at the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre, led the V&E section for this study.

Faculty of ITC leading in geospatial research

The faculty of ITC won the Geospatial World Awards Leadership Award for ‘Research, Science & Technology Institution of the Year’. The award coincides with the launch of the faculty's new Geoversity platform. The award was handed out at the Geospatial World Forum held in Rotterdam on 13-16 May 2024.

Unlocking Geothermal Energy Potential in the EU

Associate Professor Juan Carlos Afonso, from the AES Department within the ITC Faculty, WAS an invited speaker and panelist at the international geothermal conference "Unlocking Geothermal Energy Potential in the EU" Hosted in Poznan, Poland.

Finding superhot rocks: A new global model for geothermal exploration

Associate Professor, Juan Carlos Afonso, collaborated with the Clean Air Task Force (CATF) to build a new tecno-economic global model for superhot geothermal energy, which was presented this week at the world's main energy conference: CERAWeek

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