List of Ph.D. theses
This list of ongoing and completed Ph.D. projects gives an impression of some of the research that is carried out by our graduate students. Responsible advisors are shown in brackets.
Ph.D. theses in progress
Bereuter Pia | User-Oriented On-the-Fly Generalization for W2 Mapping Applications |
Derungs, Curdin | Fine Spatial Granularity in Language - Vagueness & Ambiguity in Natural Landscape Description |
Gschwend, Christian | Context-aware Movement Analysis |
Soleymani, Ali | Machine Learning Algorithms for Analysing Movement Patterns |
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(Weibel) | Context-Aware Simulation of Trajectories of Moving Objects |
Venkateswaran Ramya | Ad hoc Data Intergration for Mobile GIS Applications |
Completed Ph.D. theses
2011 |
Somayeh Dodge: Spatio-Temporal Pattern Analysis of Moving Point Objects (Weibel / Fabrikant) |
Patrick Lüscher: Providing Enriched Spatial Data - Ontology driven Recognition of Urban Structures from Spatial Databases (Weibel / Burghardt) |
2010 |
Ruedi Haller: Integratives Geoinformationsmanagement in der Schutzgebietsforschung unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der räumlichen Genauigkeit (Allgöwer / Imfeld / Weibel) |
Ralph Straumann: Extraction and characterisation of landforms from digital elevation models: Fiat parsing the elevation field (Purves / Weibel / Korup, SLF) |
2008 |
Felix Hebeler: Modelling Topographic Uncertainty: Impacts on Large Scale Environmental Modelling (Purves / Weibel) |
Awase Khirni Syed: Exploratory Representations for Geographic Information Retrieved from the Internet (Weibel / Purves) |
2007 |
Alistar Edwardes: Re-placing Location: Geographic Perspectives in Location Based Services (Prof. R. Weibel / Dr. D. Burghardt) PDF (PDF, 9.2 Mb), 9.2MB |
Moritz Neun: Data Enrichment for Adaptive Map Generalization Using Web Services (Prof. R. Weibel / Dr. D. Burghardt) PDF (PDF, 4.4 Mb), 4.4MB |
Stefan Steiniger: Enabling Pattern-Aware Automated Map Generalization (Prof. R. Weibel / Dr. D. Burghardt), PDF (PDF, 20 Mb), 20.0MB |
2006 |
Daniel Isenegger: IPODLAS - A framework for coupling Temporal Simulation Systems, Virtual Reality, and Geographic Information Systems (Dr. B. Allgöwer / Prof. R. Weibel) PDF (PDF, 8.1 Mb), 8.1MB |
2005 |
Patrick Laube: Analysing Point Motion - Spatio-Temporal Data Mining of Geospatial Lifelines (Prof. R. Weibel / Dr. B. Allgöwer / Dr. St. Imfeld) PDF (PDF, 10.0 Mb), 4.1MB |
Stefan Leyk: Computing the Past - Utilizing Historical Data Sources for Map-Based Retrospective Landscape Research (Prof. R. Weibel / Dr. R. Boesch, WSL / Dr. N. Zimmermann, WSL) PDF (PDF, 11.6 Mb), 11.6MB |
Margherita Maggioni: Avalance Release Areas and Their Influence on Uncertainty in Avalanche Hazard Mapping (Dr. U. Gruber, SLF / Dr. R. Purves / Prof. R. Weibel) PDF (PDF, 17.8 Mb), 8.1MB |
Ariane Walz: Land use modelling for an integrated approach to regional development in the Swiss Alps (Prof. R. Weibel / Dr. R. Purves / Dr. P. Bebi, SLF / Dr. S. Kytzia) |
2004 |
Marco Hugentobler: Terrain Modelling with Triangle Based Free-Form Surfaces (Prof. R. Weibel / Dr. R. Purves / Dr. B. Schneider, University of Basel) PDF (PDF, 4.1 Mb), 4.1MB |
2003 |
Alessandro Cecconi: Integration of Cartographic Generalization and Multi-Scale Databases for Enhanced Web Mapping (Prof. Dr. R. Weibel / Dr. D. Burghardt) PDF (PDF, 3.0 Mb), 3.0MB |
Martin Galanda: Automated Polygon Generalization in a Multi Agent System (Prof. Dr. R. Weibel / Dr. D. Burghardt) PDF (PDF, 3.0 Mb), 3.0MB |
2002 |
Daria Martinoni: Quality Management in Digital Terrain Modelling (Prof. R. Weibel) PDF (PDF, 22 Mb), 22MB |
2001 |
Andreas Bachmann: GIS-based Wildland Fire Risk Analysis (Prof. Dr. R. Weibel / Dr. B. Allgöwer / Prof. D.X. Viergas, University of Coimbra) PDF (PDF, 1.3 Mb), 1.3MB |
Mattias Bader: Energy Minimizing Methods for Feature Displacement in Map Generalization (Prof. Dr. R. Weibel / Prof. K. Brassel / Prof. M. Sester, University of Hannover) PDF (PDF, 5.2 Mb), 5.2MB |
2000 |
Frank Brazile: Semantic Infrastructure and Methods to Support Quality Evaluation in Cartographic Generalization (Prof. R. Weibel) PDF (PDF, 2.9 Mb), 2.9MB |
Stephan Imfeld: Time, Points and Space - towards a better Analysis of Wildlife Data in GIS (Prof. K. Brassel / Dr. B. Allgöwer / Prof. B. Nievergelt, Institute of Zoology, Prof. P. Fisher, University of Leicester) PDF (PDF, 41 Mb), 41MB |
1998 |
Felix Bucher: Regionenbasierte Wahl und Parametrisierung von Interpolationsmodellen (Prof. Dr. K. Brassel / Prof. R. Weibel) |
Geoffrey Dutton: Working Through the Scales -- A Hierarchical Coordinate System for Digital Map Data (Prof. R. Weibel / Prof. K. Brassel / Prof. G. Gensler, SMA) |
Bernhard Schneider: Geomorphologisch plausible Rekonstruktion der digitalen Repräsentation von Geländeoberflächen aus Höhenliniendaten (Prof. R. Weibel / Prof. Dr. K. Brassel) |
Caroline Westort: Methods for Sculpting Digital Topographic Surfaces (Prof. R. Weibel / Prof. K. Brassel / Prof. S. Ervin, Harvard University) |
1997 |
Walter Bosshard: Homogenisierung klimatologischer Zeitreihen, dargelegt am Beispiel der relativen Sonnenscheindauer 1997 (Prof. K. Brassel / Dr. Gisler and Dr. W. Kirchhofer, SMA) |
Martin Brändli: Modelle und Methoden für die Extraktion geomorphologischer und hydrologischer Objekte aus digitalen Geländemodellen (Prof. Dr. K. Brassel / Prof. R. Weibel) |
Eva Lippert-Stephan: Exploratory visualization in environmental data analysis 1997 (Prof. K. Brassel / Prof. P. Stucki, IFI) |
Andrej Vckovski: Interoperable and Distributed Geoprocessing (Prof. Dr. K. Brassel / Prof. R. Weibel) |