Finished Projects

Project Title (Acronym)

Schools on Ice. Globaler Wandel in Polar- und Hochgebirgsgebieten. (FERMAP.EDUGLOBE)

Duration

01.07.2007 - 30.06.2009

Funding Organization

Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Research. FERMAP. Franz Josef Land Environment Research, Monitoring and Assessment Programme. Austrian Initiative to the international Polar Year IPY 2007/2008.

 

 

Abstract

The project strongly advocates the inclusion of learners’ perspectives and activity in the conceptualisation of learning materials. Based on these foundations, the project develops and evaluates Geoinformation-based learning objects for free use in schools.

Visualisation and collaboration by learners is based on the use of digital Globes, mapping both global and local change of the cryosphere as well as the economic and ecological consequences thereof. Reference areas are Franz-Josefs-Land on a global and polar scale as well as a section of National Park Hohe Tauern, Austria.

The project is open to further education partners and also serves as a geo-communication base for other FERMAP-IPY projects.

Partner

Science Partner: Vienna University of Technology, Institute of Geodesy and Geophysics

Education Partners: BG Nonntal-Salzburg, BRG Traun, BG XXI  Vienna

 

GIScience Contact Person

Josef Strobl, Thomas Jekel, Gudrun Wallentin

 

Publications and Presentations

  • Wallentin, G., Jekel, T., Rattensberger, M. & Binder D. (2008),‚Schools on Ice‘ – Einbindung von Lernendenperspektiven in GI-basiertes Lernen. – In: Jekel, T., Koller, A. & Donert, K. (Eds); Learning with Geoinformation III. – Heidelberg: Wichmann, S. 87 – 95.
    • Jekel, T. (2008), Children Mapping Global Change. Participatory GI-Based Learning. – In: Proceedings, Map India, Noida (CD-ROM and http://www.gisdevelopment.net/application/miscellaneous/mi08_227.htm).
  • Rattensberger , M., Jekel, T., Wallentin, G., & Mitterbauer, U. (2008), Der Klimawandel und was sich unsere Schülerinnen und Schüler darunter so vorstellen: Eine Erhebung von SchülerInnen-Perspektiven. – In: GW Unterricht.
  • Binder, D., Jekel, T., Mitterbauer, U., Hausman, H., Behm, M., Wallentin, G. & Brückl, E. (2008), Schools on Ice – Bringing the IPY to the classroom. Proceedings EGU.
  • Mitterbauer, U. & Jekel, T. (2008), Schools on Ice – Classroom Experiments on Global Change of the Cryosphere. Proceedings EGU.
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Project Title (Acronym)

GIScience and Technology in Croatian Higher Education. (GIST-CroHE)

Duration

01.09.2007 - 30.11.2009

Funding Organization

European Commission. Education and Training. The Tempus Programme.

 

Summary

The main objective of the GIST-CroHE (Geographic Information Science and Technology in Croatian Higher Education) project is to revise the existing but not yet implemented MSc programme in Geographic Information Science & Technology (GISc&T) in accordance with the Bologna Declaration for the Faculty of Geodesy at the University of Zagreb (FG). Three universities (University of Salzburg, Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Faculty of Geodesy (FG) at the University of Zagreb), two individual experts from the U

niversity of West Hungary and the University of Manchester  will work together on this project. Furthermore it is supported by the Croatian Ministry of Science, Education and Sports.

The programme is scheduled to start in the Autumn semester of 2008, i.e. at the beginning of the 2nd year of the proposed project, and will be run mainly by FG teaching staff using modern equipment and materials acquired through the project. The revision of the MSc curriculum in GISc&T will focus on the contents, teaching methods, and form of delivery as well as laying foundation for life long learning in the respective field. The main objective will be realized through 5 types of activities leading to 5 types of outcomes: (1) Development of an updated curriculum in GISc&T for the MSc programme. (2) Train The Trainer (TTT) on teaching methodology for faculty at all three partner universities. (3) Implementation of the updated MSc programme at Faculty of Geodesy (FG). (4) Train The Trainer (TTT) and student training combining content and teaching methods. (5) Acquisition of GISc&T related equipment for FG.

This project is seen as the most significant effort in substantiating cooperation between the Partner Country member and the EU partners at HE level, and at the later stage at research level.

Partner

Z_GIS Centre for Geoinformatics, University of Salzburg (co-ordinator and grant holder, Faculty of Geodesy at the University of Zagreb, Jagiellonian University, Institute of Geography and Spatial Management > Project Website

 

GIScience Contact Person

Adrijana Car, Josef Strobl

 

Publications and Presentations

  • Car, Adrijana; Strobl, Josef; Medak, Damir; Kozak, Jacek (08.02.2008) TEMPUS Joint European Project (CD_JEP-41174-2006(HR)): Report on the action's implementation and Summary report for publication (IR1). Bericht-Nr. CD_JEP-41174-2006(HR) IR1; im Auftrag von: European Commission DG for Education and Culture.
  • Car, Adrijana; Strobl, Josef; Medak, Damir; Kozak, Jacek (30.09.2008) TEMPUS Joint European Project (CD_JEP-41174-2006(HR)): Report on
  • Strobl, J. (29.05.2008) Geoinformatik-Qualifikationen für die GI-Gesellschaft. Vortrag: Fachhochschule Rapperswil, Rapperswil/SWITZERLAND.
  • Strobl, J. (15.05.2008) Reaching out to Distant Learners: Learner-Centered Design and Management of Online Programmes. Vortrag: Second Central Asia GIS Conference - GISCA’08 'GIS for the Future of Central Asia (Kyrgyz State University of Construction, Transportation and Architecture), Bishkek/KYRGYZSTAN .
  • Strobl, J. (29.02.2008) GIScience als Rahmen für Quantitative Methoden in der Geographie. Vortrag: Arbeitskreis für Quantitative Methoden in der Geographie, Salzburg/AUSTRIA.
  • Strobl, J. (26.03.2008) Postgraduate Online Education for GIS professionals. Vortrag: Simposio sobre GIS Educación en América Latina 2008 ( Universidad San Francisco de Quito (USFQ)), Quito/ECUADOR.
  • Car, A.; Strobl, J. (01.11.2007) TEMPUS: GISc&T Position and Role in Croatian Higher Education. vector1media - online magazine.
  • Car, Adrijana (01.03.2007) UNIGIS@Salzburg: Successful Career Development for Professionals Through Online Distance Learning. Vortrag: IntergeoEAST 2007, Sofia/GREECE.
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Project Title (Acronym)

Potenzialmodelle für zentrale Einrichtungen in Wien. (MA7 Projekt)

Duration

01.01.2009 - 30.09.2009

 

>>Research Report

 

Projektziele

Angestrebt wird die Entwicklung eines mit flexiblen Distanzabnahmefunktionen parametrisierbaren räumlichen Potenzialmodells für zentrale Einrichtungen. Die empirische Validierung ist nicht Teil dieses Modells, vielmehr stehen die Methodenentwicklung und die Entscheidungsunterstützung für unterschiedliche methodische Zugänge im Mittelpunkt des Interesses. Für dieses sowohl für öffentliche Verwaltung wie auch privatwirtschaftliche Betreiber relevante entscheidungsunterstützende Modell wird eine Implementation im Model Builder angestrebt.

 

Brief Summary

This project applies the modelling of customer potentials to facilities like public transport stations for a part of the Vienna urban area. The results and cartographic visualizations are the basis for profound assumptions on the quality of service supply and reachability of stations.
Additional criteria of attractiveness will be integrated, consequently statements on the centrality of a facility might be optimised. A meaningful criteria is the frequency of service as well as the connectivity of a station in public transport. A probable user of a station presumably will choose a less proximate station if the connectivity is better there. Another stage of expansion is the consideration of competing locations within the modelling of customer potentials. Furthermore the development as a web-based application will enable access for a company-wide public. The project implements a (semi-)automatic modelling of customer potentials. The application is fully integrated in ArcGIS and can be adapted to the requirements of various decision-makers in only a few steps.

 

Partner

  • Bundesamt Statistik Austria, Dr. Erich Wonka (Datenmodell und demographische Basisdaten)
  • Forschungsstudio iSPACE, Dr. Thomas Prinz (Kooperation bei Methodenentwicklung)

 

GIScience Contact Person

Josef Strobl, Barbara Hochwimmer

 

References

  • Strobl, J. (Hrsg.) und E. Wonka (2009): Regionalstatistik in Österreich auf der räumlichen Bezugsbasis von regionalstatistischen Rastereinheiten. 2. Auflage. (Online ).
  • Strobl, J. (Hrsg.) und E. Wonka (2008): Regionalstatistik in Österreich auf der räumlichen Bezugsbasis von regionalstatistischen Rastereinheiten. (Online ).
  • Strobl, J. (Hrsg.) und E. Wonka (2006): Regionalstatistik in Österreich. Von der Tabelle zur räumlichen Analyse und Visualsierung = Salzburger Geographische Arbeiten, Bd. 39.
  • Strobl, J. (2005): Hierarchische Aggregation: Detailinformation versus Datenschutz am Beispiel adressbezogen georeferenzierter Datensätze. In: Salzburger Geographische Arbeiten, Bd. 38, pp 163-171.
  • Prinz, T., J. Strobl und E. Wonka (2004): Flexible Aggregation regionalstatistischer Erhebungen – online-Produkte der amtlichen Statistik. In: Angewandte Geographi-sche Informationsverarbeitung XVI. Beiträge zum AGIT-Symposium Salzburg 2004: pp. 556-561.Wichmann-Verlag Heidelberg.
  • Wonka, E. (2001): Koordinatengebundene Statistik als Voraussetzung für die Infrastrukturplanung. In: Angewandte Geographische Informationsverarbeitung XIII. Beiträge zum AGIT-Symposium Salzburg 2001. Wichmann-Verlag Heidelberg.
  • Wonka, E. (1993): Computergestützte kartographische Darstellungen statistischer Daten mittels Flächensignaturen auf der Basis von geometrischen Bezugseinheiten. In: Berichte und Informationen. Hrsg. Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Institut für Kartographie, Nr. 22, Wien.
 

Project Title (Acronym)

Real Time City. Sensing traffic through mobile phone data. (Real Time City)

Duration

15.09.2007 - 31.01.2008

 

Abstract

Mobile Phone Data - available in real-time, these maps can support decision making in multiple contexts, notably in case of emergencies or for evacuations: for the first time it is possible to quantify how many people there are in a given area, at a given time.
The Real Time City project aims at proofing this concept for the metropolitan area of Amsterdam. It leverages on the KPN network and on the data engineering expertise of world reknown research institutions. Data currently available include the location of cell phone towers to which phones are connected. After processing such data through algorithms, two types of maps can be devised:

  • agglomeration of people during the course of the day;
  • movements of pedestrians and cars in the Amsterdam metropolitan area.

 

Partner

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, SpinLAB

 

GIScience Contact Person

Filippo Dal Fiore 
 

Project Title (Acronym)

Understanding mobility in an ubiquitously connected society. (Econometric Modelling of Human Spatial Behavior)

Duration

01.03.2007 - 28.02.2009

 

Abstract

Mobile technologies such as cell phones, laptop computers and PDAs are more and more diffused all over the world. Once people and professionals are always reachable and ubiquitously connected to information resources, how do they modify their daily spatial behaviour? Do they move differently and, if so, do they move more or less, for which new reasons and to which different places?                                                                                                                                  This project aims at shading new light on this issue, building on two case studies: the urban campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where students can count on laptop and ubiquitous Wi-Fi connectivity; the city of Groningen (NL), where policemen are equipped with a portable workstation PDA.      

Mobility data are to be collected through mobility diaries and innovative hi-tech solutions (based on triangulation of Wi-Fi signals and GPS tracks), for then being quantitatively analysed in GIS and correlated with socio-demographic data on the same subjects.

Through regression analysis, a mathematical model is devised to predict spatial behaviour from a wide set of independent variables, one of which being the availability of a mobile device.

Final results will be relevant for different publics, from transportists to urbanists. Hopefully, an increased awareness of current drivers of human mobility will allow them to plan infrastructures that better adapt to the new needs and are more sustainable in the way they get used.

 

Partner

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Department of Spatial Economics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, SENSEable City Lab

 

GIScience Contact Person

Filippo Dal Fiore, Josef Strobl
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