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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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
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Featured Paper
Choose your own route!
A new navigation system lets pedestrians decide for themselves which route to take in a given area. In this way, they can better acquire spatial knowledge and have a lot of fun during navigation
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New SNSF project DeepGeneralization
Utilizing Deep Learning in Map Generalization
Robert Weibel (PI), Cheng Fu (Co-PI), Zhiyong Zhou (postdoc) -
New Employees
We are happy to welcome three new PhD students to our team:
Han Changyu
Georgescu Alexandra
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New Publication
Predicting individuals' car accident risk by trajectory, driving events, and geographical context
Computers, Environment and Urban Systems
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New Publication
HiVG: A hierarchical indoor visibility-based graph for navigation guidance in multi-storey buildings
Environment and Urban Systems, 93:101751
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New Publication
Recognition of group patterns in geological maps by building similarity networks
Geocarto International, 37(2):607-626
https://doi.org/