Dr Kamila Pawłuszek-Filipiak, University of Life Sciences in Wrocław won the Award of the Minister of Development, Labor and Technology in the competition for the best diploma theses, doctoral dissertations, publications and innovative solutions in the field of geoinformation.

The Wrocław researcher took first place in the doctoral dissertation category for the dissertation “Application of airborne laser scanning data for the identification of landslide areas”.

In her doctoral dissertation, Dr Pawłuszek-Filipiak dealt with the automation of landslide identification (unambiguous recognition of landslides by algorithms with minimal human interference). She developed a methodology with a set of algorithms, for which she used ALS airborne laser scanning along with other data such as lithology, tectonics, land cover or information on precipitation.

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