Ongoing MSc Theses
Asper, Lino GEO | Electronic governance with an infrastructure reporting platform: The case of Züri wie neu. | Prof. Dr. Ross Purves Prof. Dr. Hanna Hilbrandt |
Di Vincenzo, Simona GEO | Temporal Analysis of Place Names and Natural Language Terms in the Swiss National Park: A Computational Textual Analysis that Conceptually Analyses the Change in Landscape Perception. | Prof. Dr. Ross Purves Stefanie Gubler Tamara Estermann |
Durband, Gabriele GEO | Partizipative Erfassung der kulturellen Ökosystemleistungen in der Valposchiavo | Dr. Enrico Celio Prof. Dr. Ross Purves |
Fässler, Tim GEO | Low-Stress Connectivity and Accessibility; 'Leave no one behind' in the Bicycle Network of the City of Zurich | Prof. Dr. Ross Purves |
Groenveld, Quinten GEO | Scenicness model based on Britisch Scenic or Not Dataset for Switzerland as a base to search for wind power plant locations. | Prof. Dr. Ross Purves Maximilian Christoph Hartmann |
Hauser, Joel GEO | Geospatial Analysis of Access to Pediatric Practices in Switzerland | Dr. Oliver Grübner Micheal von Rhein Reto Jörg Prof. Dr. Ross Purves |
Kaufmann, Dominik GEO | Semantic Similarities - A systematic approach to characterize and classify cities | Prof. Dr. Ross Purves |
Maiani, Nicola GEO | Traffic coverage quality by bike in Switzerland: A comparison of cities' bikeability | Dr. Cheng Fu Prof. Dr. Ross Purves |
Meier, Chantal Angela GEO | The Image of Zurich - Investigating the Lynchian elements of the “Image of the City” in the City of Zurich | Prof. Dr. Ross Purves |
Özvegyi, Thomas GEO | Model for mapping bicycle ridership with crowdsourced data in the Metropolitan Area of Zurich | Prof. Dr. Ross Purves not yet known |
Pfoster, Carmen GEO | Energy Poverty in Switzerland? A geospatial analysis. | Prof. Dr. Ross Purves Prof. Dr. Christian Berndt |
Pleisch, Hans Peter GEO | Predicting the Impact of Urbanisation on Land Use/Cover Change using the Dyna-CLUE Model in Palawan, Philippines | Dr. Franziska Komossa Prof. Dr. Ross Purves |
Schäfer, Leonie GEO | Predicting and Characterizing Traffic on Backcountry Ski Routes with User-Generated GPS Data | Prof. Dr. Ross Purves Frank Techel Günter Schmudlach |
Schär, Eric ESS | Cross linguistic comparison of Wilderness Perception in Switzerland - Perceptions of French-speaking and German-speaking Switzerland in two Regional Nature Parks | Prof. Dr. Ross Purves Prof. Dr. Felix Kienast |
Schenker, Patrick GEO | Reviewing the measurement of urban sprawl | Prof. Dr. Ross Purves Yves Maurer |
Sigrist, Jan GEO | Multifunctionality and accessibility of green spaces in small European cities – developing a comparing environmental indicator considering socio-economic factors. | Dr. Franziska Komossa Prof. Dr. Ross Purves |
Stutz, Marco GEO | Geospatial Sentiment Analysis of different Energy Sources using historical Twitter Data | Prof. Dr. Ross Purves |
Tharmalingam, Eric GEO | Social Media based Flood Footprint Modelling for Lagos, Nigeria | Thomas Phillips Prof. Dr. Ross Purves |
Xu, Leyi GEO | Discovering City Perception by Mining Semantic Trajectory | Prof. Dr. Ross Purves |
Yuan, Mingyang GEO | The roles social media play before, during, and after the disaster | Prof. Dr. Ross Purves |
Zhang, Anjing GEO | A robust model of urban popularity | Dr. Inhye Kong Prof. Dr. Ross Purves |
Completed MSc Theses
2023 | ||
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Steinmann, Nicolas GEO | Analysing Spatial Patterns of Coastal Cultural Ecosystem Services using Flickr and Wikipedia Data PDF | Prof. Dr. Ross Purves |
2022 | ||
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Graf, Philipp GEO | Trends in European Climate Change Perception: Where the Effects of Climate Change go unnoticed PDF | Prof. Dr. Ross Purves |
Kirsteina, Dace GEO | Characterising London City Parks Using Open Data. PDF | Prof. Dr. Ross Purves Marie Mueller |
Stuber, Julian GEO | Opportunities for geomorphological and glaciological research from the Arctic-wide high resolution ArcticDEM PDF | Prof. Dr. Andreas Vieli Prof. Dr. Ross Purves |
Sturzenegger, Sophie GEO | What Makes an Urban Public Space Popular? A Data-Based Analysis of Existing Urban Public Spaces in the City of Zurich PDF | Prof. Dr. Ross Purves |
2021 | ||
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Arnet, Hans Thomas GEO | Die Abgrenzung von Wald - Wo beginnt der Wald und wo hört er auf? Fallstudie im Kanton Aargau PDF | Prof. Dr. Ross Purves Dr. Flurina Wartmann |
Biland, Fabian GEO | Perception of landscape along hiking trails in the UNESCO Biosphere Entlebuch, Switzerland PDF | Prof. Dr. Ross Purves Vuokko Heikinheimo |
Brandenberg, Natalie GEO | Automatisches Extrahieren von Landschaftsbeschreibungen aus öffentlich zugänglichen Texten über den Kanton Schwyz PDF | Prof. Dr. Ross Purves Dr. Maarten van Strien |
Christen, Fabienne GEO | Extracting cultural landscape properties of UNESCO cultural heritage sites in Switzerland PDF | Prof. Dr. Ross Purves |
Wyler, Lisa GEO | Characterisation of the Evolution of Vineyards in Canton of Ticino and Moesa Region since the 1930s PDF | Patrik Krebs Prof. Dr. Ross Purves |
Wysling, Laura GEO | Where to improve cycling infrastructure? A case study on the city of Paris. PDF | Prof. Dr. Ross Purves |
2020 | ||
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Amrhein, Adina GEO | Three-Dimensional Topographic Model as Public Participation GIS: A tool for place-based Wind Energy Planning? | Prof. Dr. Ross Purves Stefanie Müller |
Frey, Tobias GEO | The Cultural Eye. Exploring Cultural Differences in Landscape Preference based on Flickr Images. PDF | Dr. Olga Koblet Prof. Dr. Ross Purves |
Füglister, Benjamin GEO | From Text to Coordinates: Machine-Coding the Location of Historical Battles to Create a New Spatial Conflict Dataset PDF | Prof. Dr. Ross Purves |
Grcic, Tomislav Spec. MA | Understanding changes in tourists' behavior in the last decade of tourism in Croatia using User-generated content PDF | Prof. Dr. Ross Purves |
Hug, Dario GEO | Comparison of Bike Sharing Systems (BSS) in Different Cities and the Impact of Different Influencing Factors PDF | Prof. Dr. Ross Purves Ralph Straumann |
Lechtenböhmer, Marius Spec. MA | Uncertainty aware density estimation with user-generated tick bite data PDF | Prof. Dr. Patrick Laube Prof. Dr. Ross Purves |
2018 | ||
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Baumann, Markus GEO | Approach to the perception of wilderness based on user generated open data PDF | Prof. Dr. Ross Purves Dr. Nicole Bauer Olga Chesnokova |
Hanimann, David GEO | Geotagged Tweets as a Proxy for Human Settlements PDF | Prof. Dr. Ross Purves Emanuele Strano |
Schönenberger, Christoph Spec. MA | Analysis of Planned Route Trajectories to Gain Insights into Route Planning Behaviour for Backcountry Ski Tours PDF | Prof. Dr. Ross Purves Stephan Harvey Frank Techel |
Urner, Jorim | Incorporating Spatio-Temporal Context for Predicting the Next Place Using Neural Networks and Random Forests PDF | Dominik Bucher Martin Raubal Prof. Dr. Ross Purves |