Professor (Specially Appointed)
Ph.D. (Geology)
KOCH Magaly
Organization
Research Division
- Risk Evaluation and Disaster Mitigation Research Division
- Disaster Humanities and Social Science Division
- Disaster Medical Science Division
- Practical Research and Collaboration Division
- Endowed Research Division
- Joint Research Division
- Co-creation Research Center
- Co-creation Center for Disaster Resilience
- Global Centre for Disaster Statistics
- Kesennuma Satellite Office
- Public Relations Office
- Strategic Research Promotion Office
- Administration Office
- Research Subject(s)
- I am geologist with expertise in optical/hyperspectral/radar remote sensing applications in natural and applied sciences, including research on 1) groundwater resources (in drylands), 2) land degradation problems (soil salinization), 3) geohazards (flooding, land subsidence) and 4) human impact in environmental change. I am particularly interested in studying global water scarcity/flooding problems as related to extreme weather conditions through an interdisciplinary approach. My recent research work is on integrating earth and disaster science to enable sustainable adaptation and mitigation of coastal zones.
- Website
- Research Activities
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My most recent collaboration with Tohoku University is through an NSF-JST funded US-Japan joint research project that aims at applying and expanding the concept of “digital twins” into disaster science. The project envisions the design of a virtual platform and tools that can 1) execute physics-driven hazard simulations developed by experts in U.S./Japan using integrated geospatial data, 2) design techniques for efficient integration of simulations into database systems, and 3) explore machine learning techniques to generate exposure estimates and damage information using hazard simulations and the diverse sets of data.
URL: https://www.bu.edu/igs/research/digital-twins/ ; - Selected Works
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Ho, C. Y., Adriano, B., Baier, G., Mas, E., Wiguna, S., Koch, M., and Koshimura, S. (2026) Integrating GAN-Generated SAR and Optical Imagery for Building Damage Mapping, Remote Sensing, 18(1), 134. (https://doi.org/10.3390/rs18010134)
Chandra, N., Vaidya, H., Koch, M. and Meena, S.R. (2025) Optimized YOLOv8 with Multi- Level Attention for Satellite Image-Based Landslide Detection, Advances in Space Research, 76(4), 2072-2085.
(https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asr.2025.06.010)Asadi, A., Baise, L.G., Koch, M., Moaveni, B., Chatterjee, S. and Yusupujiang, A. (2024) Pixel-based Classification Method for Earthquake-Induced Landslide Mapping Using Imagery, Geospatial Data and Temporal Change Information, Natural Hazards, 120, 5163–5200. (https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-023-06399-8)
Aimaiti, Y., Sanon, C., Koch, M., Baise, L.G. and Moaveni, B. (2022) War related damage assessment in Kyiv, Ukraine, using Sentinel-1 radar and Sentinel-2 optical images, Remote Sensing, 14(24), 6239
(https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14246239).Mather, P.M., and Koch, M. (2022) Computer Processing of Remotely-Sensed Images: An Introduction, Fifth Edition. Hoboken, NJ, USA: Wiley-Blackwell, 384 pp.
- Selected Memberships
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- American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS), USA
- Geological Society of America (GSA), USA
- American Geophysical Union (AGU), USA
- IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society, USA
- Others
・Boston University and Padua University Faculty Exchange Award for a 1-month stay as visiting researcher in the Department of Geosciences of the University of Padova, ITALY (2025)
・Fulbright Fellowship for a 1-year research/lecturing stay in Tohoku University, JAPAN (2014-15)
・Marie Curie Research Fellowship (EU) for a 2-year postdoctoral research project at the Earth Sciences Institute (CSIC), Barcelona, SPAIN (1996-98)