News of the GIS unit, starting in 2008
2010 | |
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1. March 2011 | Georgios Technitis joined the GIS unit as a PhD student working on Context-Aware Simulation of trajectories of Moving Objects supervised by Prof. Robert Weibel. George has completed his MSc studies at the School of Rural and Surveying Engineering in National Technical University of Athens with his thesis titled "Open source software development for True-color Satellite Image Segmentation in Google Earth environment”. We are happy to welcome him and are looking forward to working together. |
1. January 2011 | Christian Gschwend joined the GIS unit as a PhD student working on context-aware movement analysis supervised by Dr. Patrick Laube. Christian has completed his MSc studies at the Department of Geography in 2010 with his thesis titled "Umgangssprachliche Geographie im Zusammenhang mit Geomorphometrie". We are happy to welcome him back and are looking forward to working together. |
14-17 September 2010 | The GIS and GIVA group successfully organised GIScience 2010 conference. The conference focused on basic research findings across all sectors of the field, and pure application papers were discouraged. The conference had two refereed submission tracks: full papers and extended abstracts. |
12-13 September 2010 | The ICA Commission on Generalisation and Multiple Representation and the GIS unit successfully organised the 13th Workshop of the ICA commission on Generalisation and Multiple Representation prior to GIScience 2010. |
21 April 2010 | Ruedi Haller successfully defended his PhD thesis, entitled "Integratives Geoinformationsmanagement in der Schutzgebietsforschung unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der räumlichen Genauigkeit". |
20 April 2010 | Ralph Straumann successfully defended his PhD thesis titled "Extraction and characterisation of landforms from digital elevation models: Fiat parsing the elevation field". While Oliver Korup (co-advisor of the thesis) could not come to Zürich due to the volcanic ashes of Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland, luckily, the rest of the PhD committee and the external referee were able to attend. Ralph will work some more weeks in the Department of Geography. |
1 April 2010 | Curdin Derungs joined the GIS unit – specifically, the Digital Terrain Modelling Group led by Dr. Ross Purves – as a PhD student. Curdin has completed his MSc studies at the Department of Geography in 2008 with his thesis titled "Modellierung von Bergen in den Alpen mit dem Internet und mit Morphometrie". We are happy to welcome him back and are looking forward to working together. |
16 April 2010 | We would like to motivate our people to submit their work and participate at the Innovation Award of E-GEO.ch involving geodata. The award honors participants who contribute to NSDI with their innovative ideas and projects, and promotes education and research in the realms of geo-information in Switzerland. |
Past News of the GIS unit
2009 | |
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31 August - 2 September 2009 | The Department of Geography with its members of the local organising committee (Ross Purves, Stephan Gruber and Ralph Straumann) hosted the successful Geomorphometry 2009 international conference. Before the conference, on 29 and 30 August 2009, two workshops were organised for the participants. A result of the conference was the formation of the "Geomorphometry Society" which will be responsible for further meetings in the series. Proceedings with the reviewed extended abstracts can be found here: Geomorphometry 2009 . |
1 September 2009 | Annica Scheiwiller is the newest addition to our group and has joined us from the 1st of September, 2009 as the administrative assistant. On behalf of the GIS group, we extend a warm welcome and are pleased to have her with us. |
31 August 2009 | The PhD showcase paper "Exploring Movement- Similarity Analysis of Moving Objects", written by Somayeh Dodge, Robert Weibel and Patrick Laube, has been accepted in the ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2009 . The paper will be published in the November issue of the SIGSPATIAL newsletter. The ACM SIGSPATIAL PhD program this year has been highly competitive: only three papers are accepted among the eight received papers. Somayeh's visit to the ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS that will be held in Seattle November 3-6 2009, is funded by the Zurich Graduate School in Geography. |
26 July 2009 | The Paper "Revealing the Physics of Movement: Comparing the Similarity of Movement Characteristics of Different Types of Moving Objects" written by Somayeh Dodge, Robert Weibel and Ehsan Forootan has been accepted for publication in Computers, Environment and Urban Systems. |
01 July 2009 | The paper "Integrating ontological modelling and Bayesian inference for pattern classification in topographic vector data", written by Patrick Lüscher, Robert Weibel and Dirk Burghardt has been accepted for publication in Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 33(5), pp. 363-374. |
30 June 2009 | Somayeh Dodge received an award from the Short Mentoring-Stay Abroad program at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences at the University of Zürich. This award is for a short scholar visit in November 2009 to the Department of Computer Science, College of Engineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago as well as to the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Northwestern University in Evanston. |
10 June 2009 | Forschungskredit 2009 - Martin Tomko, currently a Postdoctoral Research Assistant at the GIS Division working on the project TRIPOD, has been awarded the UZH Forschungskredit 2009 grant for the project "Exploring the Functional Structure of Urban Environments". |
2 June 2009 | Workshop "Adaptation in Spatial Communication", organised in conjunction with AGILE 2009 |
1 June 2009 | Dr. Patrick Laube has started work in our unit. He replaces Dirk Burghardt, who has been appointed as Associate Professor at TU Dresden this March. Patrick's research interests are in the development of methods for spatio-temporal data mining, geosensor networks, and on GIS for environmental applications. He joins us from the University of Melbourne, where he was a research fellow in the Department of Geomatics. Read more... |
26 May 2009 | The Committee of Senior Officials of COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) has approved the proposed COST Action "MOVE: Knowledge Discovery from Moving Objects". Under the leadership of Prof. Robert Weibel MOVE will establish a research network with participants from 13 European countries. This COST Action will start in the fall of 2009 and run for four years. The main objective of the Action is to establish a network of ICT researchers and application domain specialists to discuss broad theoretical underpinnings, facilitate the development of, and showcase methods for, knowledge discovery from massive amounts of moving object data. Read more... |
1 April 2009 | The website of the Zurich Graduate School in Geography was launched. The Zurich Graduate School in Geography offers the possibility to study for a Doctoral degree across the breadth of Geography, in the research fields of Physical Geography, Human Geography and Methodological Geography. |
24 January 2009 | Lorenz Dolder and Andrea Ryffel have been runners-up in the 2008 SGAG Award by the Swiss Association of Applied Geography. Lorenz won 2nd place with his MSc thesis on vehicle routing problems in the dairy industry. Andrea won 3rd place with her MSc thesis on the characterization and modelling of potential habitats of bearded vultures in the Swiss Alps. |
8 January 2009 | Dirk Burghardt, one of our lecturers, been appointed as an Associate Professor of Cartography at the Technical University of Dresden. He will commence his new position on 1 March 2009. |
2008 | |
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12 December 2008 | Alistair Edwardes, a postdoctoral fellow on the TRIPOD project, has been appointed as a Spatial Analysis Coordinator with the UK Department for Communities and Local Government, effective of 1 February 2009. |
26 September 2008 | for his contribution "Delineation of Valleys and Valley Floors" Ralph Straumann received the Travel Scholarship by ESRI at the GI-Science 2008 in Utah. |
18 September 2008 | GITTA has finished on second place at this year's MedidaPrix, a prestigious award for projects implementing the use of new learning technologies in higher education in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. More.. |
18 July 2008 | Syed Awase Khirni successfully defends his PhD thesis, entitled “Exploratory Representations for Geographic Information Retrieved from the Internet”. |
11 July 2008 | Three papers by Alistair Edwardes and Ross Purves, Felix Hebeler and Thorsten Behrens, and Martin Tomko and Ross Purves accepted for GIScience 2008 in the Extended Abstract category. |
25 June 2008 | Paper by Patrick Lüscher, Robert Weibel and William Mackaness selected as best paper at SDH 2008. |
4 April 2008 | A paper on which Ross Purves and Alistair Edwardes were co-authors with Jason Dykes and Jo Wood (City University) won best paper prize at GISRUK 2008. |
30 May 2008 | Felix Hebeler successfully defends his PhD thesis, entitled “Modelling Topographic Uncertainty: Impacts on Large Scale Environmental Modelling”. |
May 2008 | Paper by Ralph Straumann and Ross Purves accepted for GIScience 2008 in the Full Paper category. |
24 March 2008 | New project awarded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF). The SNF project “Generalization for Portrayal in Web and Wireless Mapping (GenW2)” will fund two PhD student positions over three years. More |
26 February 2008 | Paper by Patrick Lüscher, Robert Weibel and William Mackaness accepted for SDH 2008 conference. |