Vijaya Kumar Thota
Vijaya Kumar Thota
Department Geographie und Geowissenschaften
Institut für Geographie
Wetterkreuz 15
91058 Erlangen
- Telefon: +49 9131 85-67959
- Faxnummer: +49 9131 85-22013
- E-Mail: vijaya.kumar.thota@fau.de
- Webseite: http://www.geographie.uni-erlangen.de/
Curriculum Vitae
Education
Since October, 2023 : Research Assistant at Institute of Geography, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, Group : Remote Sensing & GIS
2021-23 : Master of Technology (M.Tech) in Civil Engineering (with a specialization in Geomatics) at IIT Roorkee , India
2014-18 : Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) in Civil Engineering at JNTUK, Andhra Pradesh, India
Experience
2021-23 : Senior Design Engineer at Larsen &Toubro Limited, Chennai, India
Publications
Teaching
Research
Cryosphere, remote sensing
Projects
UNLOC: Unlocking the glaciological information of historical aerial imagery to obtain long-term glacier mass balance information and to identify drivers of glacier changes on the Antarctic Peninsula, DFG
Applications
- Long term mass balance of glaciers
- Glacier dynamics
- Surface and structural deformation
Methods
- Photogrammetry
- SAR interferometry
- SAR intensity tracking
- Altimetry
- GNSS
Study areas
- Antarctic Peninsula
- Himalayas
Internships & Exchanges
Oct 2022- Mar 2023 : Guest Researcher at Remote Sensing & Geoinformatics section, GFZ Potsdam, Germany
Oct 2022- Mar 2023: Co-PREPARE Master exchange research stay at University of Potsdam, Germany