Geographic Information Systems
GIScience Center: Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
GIScience Center is responsible for teaching and research in geographic information science within the Department of Geography. Three divisions of our department make up the GIScience Center:
Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
Geographic Information Visualization & Analysis (GIVA)
GeoComputation (GeoComp)
News
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Distinction award for Nico Neureiter
Our PhD student Nico Neureiter, whose project was funded by the URPP Language and Space, has received the distinction award of the Faculty of Science of UZH for his thesis, entitled "Travelling with speakers through time and space: Spatio-temporal modelling of language change”
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DSI Community Mobility Research Workshop
From 30 June - 1 July 2022, the DSI Community Mobility Research Workshop on "Mobility and Digitalization" organized by Hoda Allahbakhshi, Liudmila Zavolokina, and Anja Schulze took place in Maienfeld.
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Defense Nico Neureiter
Travelling with speakers through time and space: Spatio-temporal modelling of language change
Celebrating the successful defense of the PhD thesis of Nico Neureiter, funded by the University Research Priority Program “Language and Space”. -
Defense Zhiyong Zhou
Hierarchical Modeling of Indoor Spaces: Towards Route Communication at Multiple Levels of Detail for Navigation in Buildings
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New Publication
Detecting contact in language trees
Want to find hidden contact in language history? A new paper by @NicoNeureiter et al. presents contacTrees, a phylogenetic model with horizontal transfer. -
New Publication
The dialect chain of the Timor-Alor-Pantar language family
Language Dynamics and Change
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New Publication
Linguistic traits as heritable units? Spatial Bayesian clustering reveals Swiss German dialect regions
Journal of Linguistic Geography
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New Publication
Eigenbehaviour as an Indicator of Cognitive Abilities
Sensors
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Featured Paper
Gone with the wind? How small birds move to the wintering grounds
To protect endangered migratory birds, we need to know their flight paths. But some birds are too small to carry a GPS tracker. By combining light, activity and wind measurements, their most likely route can be accurately estimated.
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CaGIS Rising grant program
Eun-Kyeong Kim, postdoc
in our GIS Unit,
has received funding from
the Cartography and Geographic Information Society (CaGIS)