Institute of Geography
Topic
Flood impact on vegetation encroachment on gravel bar identified by handled terrestrial laser scanning
PhD. program
Physical Geography, Geoecology and Geoinformatics
Year of admission
2025
Name of the supervisor
Mgr. Miloš Rusnák, PhD.
Contact:
Receiving school
Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University, Bratislava
Annotation
The aim of this work is to identify and map gravel bars of selected river channels using a handheld lidar scanner. Based on a dense point cloud, a virtual reality of the current state will be created, showing rare and threatened riverine ecosystems. Individual models from the terrestrial scanning will then be compared with each other on a temporal scale. Sediment volume and sediment grain size composition will be analysed based on the processing of the dense point cloud and its geometric properties. The thesis focuses on field data acquisition and its point cloud processing to analyse the correlation between vegetation and sedimentation on gravel bars. This PhD position offers a great opportunity to get involved in ongoing research projects.