PhD Opportunities in Remote Sensing in Portugal

This PhD project is part of TWIG, a five-year ERC Starting Grant focused on tropical forest biomass flows that are usually missed by conventional inventories. The work combines repeated terrestrial laser scanning with long-term forest monitoring to directly quantify damage, recovery, and biomass redistribution in mature tropical forests. The doctoral researcher will study the environmental and biological drivers of tree-level biomass changes and the ecological consequences of small-scale disturb...

This EngD project at the University of Twente focuses on building AI methods for detecting underground infrastructure in ground penetrating radar (GPR) radargrams and estimating burial depth. The work builds on high-quality GPR data from the university’s Utility Mapping Site (UMS) , a dedicated test environment for utility mapping technologies. You will work on systematically collected and accurately annotated GPR datasets to develop and validate machine learning models that improve automated in...

[Annual stipend at the UKRI minimum rate currently £21,805 per year plus £1,000 per year enhancement, and a research training support grant of up to £20,000 for the full 4-year programme.] This 4-year PhD project at The University of Manchester focuses on the use of geospatial foundation models to improve the monitoring of smallholder agricultural systems from satellite data. The work sits at the intersection of Earth Observation , remote sensing , and agricultural mapping, with an emphasis on u...

The University of Exeter is offering a fully funded PhD project exploring a different dimension of interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR): the use of InSAR loop closure to understand and monitor soil moisture and vegetation dynamics. The research will combine Sentinel-1 C-band and NISAR L-band satellite observations with physical, statistical and data-driven modelling. The PhD researcher will investigate how changes in soil moisture and vegetation affect InSAR loop-closure signals, and...

Elise Jakoby Laugier is recruiting an MS or PhD student to join the LEGASYS Lab at Utah State University in research spanning remote sensing, GIS, and geospatial artificial intelligence . The student will contribute to a UtahView-funded project investigating historical land-use and landscape change in Utah. The research will draw on historical aerial photography and satellite imagery, combining geospatial programming with applied remote sensing methods. Potential research activities include mach...

Fully funded PhD opportunity: Beyond Cooling explores how climate-robust urban environments can better protect people from extreme heat and heat-related health risks in the UK. The project examines urban heat exposure and climate adaptation through a combination of remote sensing, GIS and spatial analysis. It will also investigate human mobility and heat exposure, heat-related health risks and inequalities, and the role of urban green and blue spaces under future climate scenarios. The research ...

This PhD project is part of VERTICAF (Vertical Africa: Visualizing Urban Change, Negotiating Power, Designing Sustainable Cities) , a comparative research initiative on urban verticalization in African cities. Based at EPFL Lausanne and linked to partnerships with the Universities of Dakar, Kigali, and Luanda, the project examines how cities in Africa are changing through vertical growth and what this means for urban futures. The doctoral researcher will focus on developing and applying methods ...

The Postgraduate International Programme in Physics and Electrical Engineering (PIP) at the University of Bremen is a doctoral programme for graduate physicists and electrical engineers from around the world. It is based in the Faculty of Physics and Electrical Engineering and combines structured doctoral study with close supervision and research training. Students in PIP pursue PhD projects within a broad set of research environments. In Physics , the programme spans environmental physics, remo...

The University of Gothenburg is offering a doctoral project in Physical Geography focused on remote sensing of Arctic landscape change. Based in the Department of Earth Sciences, the project addresses how rapidly warming Arctic environments are changing through interacting processes of vegetation “greening,” landscape “wetting,” snow dynamics, and bare-ground change. The doctoral researcher will combine drone observations collected across the Arctic with a decade of multispectral Sentinel-2 sate...