Vijaya Kumar Thota

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

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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

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