Earth and Environmental Sciences (SEES)
Mr Mathias Leidig
Researcher
School of Earth & Environmental Sciences
Burnaby Building
Burnaby Road
Portsmouth
PO1 3QL
Profile
Research interest
My research interest is the applied field of geo-informatics, in particular the application of remote sensing and GIS. My present work can be summarized as: “Remote sensing for disaster risk reduction using low-cost geo-informatics for coastal regions”.
Background
Mathias is a PhD student at the School of Earth and Environmental Science at the University of Portsmouth. Before his PhD studies Mathias was working as a researcher and teaching assistant for the Remote Sensing Group at the Technical University Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany. During that time he was involved in several research and consulting projects using remote sensing to answer geomorphological questions. His main focus was on river profile analysis in Nepal and northern Switzerland and on fine-scale erosion estimation for Tibet and adjacent regions. Fieldwork experience was gained during his MSc studies in the mountainous regions of Nepal.
Career and Education
University of Portsmouth (since October 2010)
PhD Research: “Remote sensing for disaster risk reduction using low-cost geo-informatics for coastal regions”
Supervisors: Dr. Richard Teeuw (Principal Lecturer, University of Portsmouth, UK) and Dr. Norman Kerle (Assistant Professor, ITC University of Twente, The Netherlands).
Committee Memberships
- Student Representative in the Geological Remote Sensing Group (GRSG, since 12/2011)
Positions at the University of Portsmouth
- Member of the University Research Degree Committee (URDC, since 10/2011)
- Member of the Science Faculty Board (since 10/2011)
- Member of the Science Faculty Research Degree Committee (SFRDC, since 10/2011)
- PhD-Student Representative of the School of Earth and Environmental Science (SEES, since 07/2011)
Conferences and Workshops since joining University of Portsmouth
- Geological Remote Sensing Group: Geo-Environmental Remote Sensing, The 22st Annual Meeting of the Geological Remote Sensing Group, Frascati (I), December 7-9, 2011
- UN International Conference on Space-based Technologies for Disaster Risk Management, Beijing (China), November 22-25, 2011
- ESA Workshop at ESTEC: "Sentinel Convoy for Land Applications”, Noordwijk (NL), 31.10. - 01.11.2011
- Remote Sensing & Photogrammetry Society (RSPSoc): Annual Student Meeting, Millers Dale (UK), March 14-16, 2011
- CEOI Challenge Workshop in association with RSPSoc SAR-SIG: Future Space Radar Missions – From Technology to Application, Woking, Surrey (UK), January 11, 2011
- Geological Remote Sensing Group: Geo-Environmental Remote Sensing, The 21st Annual Meeting of the Geological Remote Sensing Group, December 1-3, 2010
- Royal Geographic Society – Explore, London (UK), November 12-14, 2010
- Various internal presentations at the University of Portsmouth
Teaching activities in UK
- GIS for Expeditions and Fieldwork Workshop, Royal Geographic Society , 11 – 13 March 2011
Previous to University of Portsmouth (Summary)
October 2009 – June 2010 - Scientific employee (consultant & researcher) at TU Bergakademie Freiberg working for a research project of the National Cooperative for the Disposal of Radioactive Waste (NAGRA)
March 2009 – September 2010 - Webmaster of GEOARC at the TU Bergakademie Freiberg
February 2008 - September 2010 - Network- and System administrator of a heterogeneous Linux, Windows, OSX network of the Remote Sensing Group at TU Bergakademie Freiberg
October 2003 – April 2009 - Diplom Naturwissenschaftler (Dipl. Nat.) / MSc. in Applied Natural Science; Major course: Environmental Analytics and Environmental System Analysis
See also: Mathias Leidig, Remote Sensing Group, TU-Bergakademie Freiberg
Teaching activities (TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany)
- Remote Sensing Summer School of the University of Sulaimani, Iraq, July 2010
- Undergraduate student training within the block course “Remote sensing for Geoecologists, Geoinformatics and Geophysics”, TU Bergakademie Freiberg - Teaching within the “Remote Sensing Workshop ” offered by the Remote Sensing Group, TU Bergakademie Freiberg