Advanced exploitation of Sentinel-1 data for supporting landslide risk analysis 

    Barra, Anna (Date of defense: 2022-04-22)

    Satellite Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometry (InSAR) and Persistent Scatterer Interferometry (PSI) are now consolidated tools for ground movement detection and monitoring. Sentinel-1 (S1) is the first satellite providing ...

    Advanced image analysis techniques for laboratory experiments on soils 

    Parera Morales, Ferran (Date of defense: 2020-01-27)

    The understanding of soil behavior is the foundation where the geotechnical engineering is built on. Experimentation is essential to improve this comprehension, and then to be able to translate it into models, theories, ...

    Citizen sciences technologies for operational monitoring of aquatic ecosystems 

    Rodero García, Carlos (Date of defense: 2023-05-29)

    (English) Light attenuation is a critical factor in aquatic ecosystems for many physical and biological processes. Water transparency plays an essential role in understanding the variations of the ecological environment ...

    Diseño de una nueva barrera continua de hormigón "in situ" 

    Cañas Gallart, Jordi (Date of defense: 2016-04-19)

    Pervious concrete is a special material with high permeability usually obtained by reducing the amount of fine aggregates in the composition of concrete. The properties of pervious concrete not only depend on its composition ...

    Inspección no destructiva de estructuras mediante georradar : análisis de daños por corrosión y por otras patologías 

    Sossa Arancibia, Viviana Alejandra (Date of defense: 2021-03-11)

    This thesis aims to studythe capacities and limitations of Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) to support inspection, assessment, maintenance and rehabilitation tasks, helping to earlydetection and evaluation ofpathologies in ...

    Monitorización de estructuras de hormigón mediante sensores de fibra óptica distribuida 

    Rodríguez Gutiérrez, Gerardo (Date of defense: 2017-07-03)

    This doctoral thesis presents the use of an opto-electronic system so-called OBR (Optical Backscattered Reflectometer) as an alternative of measurement in structural health monitoring (SHM) processes in concrete structures, ...

    Structural damage monitoring based on machine learning and bio-inspired computing 

    Vitola Oyaga, Jaime (Date of defense: 2021-01-28)

    For a few decades, systems for supervising structures have become increasingly irnportant. In origin, the strategies had as a goal only the detection of damages. Furthermore, now monitor­ing the civil or military structures ...

    Update urban basemap by using the LiDAR mobile mapping system : the case of Abu Dhabi municipal system 

    Al Shaiba, Omar (Date of defense: 2020-10-02)

    Basemaps are the main resource used in urban planning and in building and infrastructure asset management. These maps are used by citizens and by private and public stakeholders. Therefore, accurate, up-to-date geoinformation ...