PhD Projects

Daniela Verónica Mariño Castro
Exploring well-being through descriptions of natural landscapes
(Purves)

Leonie Schäfer
Predicting recreational behavior in the Swiss Alps using user-generated content and machine learning
(Purves)

If not available below, PDFs of Ph.D. theses can be found in the library catalog of the University of Zurich.

Maximilian Hartmann
Building Spatially Explicit Policy Indicators Based on User-Generated Content: Resources, Methods and Implementations
(Purves, Santos, Edwardes)
PDF (PDF, 34 MB)

Maria Elena Vargas Amado
Spatial aspects of potential disease spread and its containment among free-ranging wild boar in Switzerland considering possible spillover to domestic pigs
(Purves, Santos, Grütter)
PDF (PDF, 22 MB)​​​​​​​

Manuel Bär
Capturing Perceived Everyday Lived Landscapes through Gamification and Active Crowdsourcing
(Purves, Seibert, Wartmann)
PDF (PDF, 14 MB)

Julia Villette
Exploring Landscape through Place Names: an Interdisciplinary Approach
(Purves, Glaser, Vieli) 
PDF (PDF, 6 MB)

Kiran Zahra
Information Extraction from Microblogs During Disasters 
(Purves, Weibel, Ostermann) 
PDF (PDF, 6 MB)

Frank Techel
On Consistency and Quality in Public Avalanche Forecasting - a Data-Driven Approach to Forecast Verification and to Refining Definitions of Avalanche Danger 
(Purves, Schweizer, Furrer, van Herwijnen) 
PDF (PDF, 8 MB)

Azam Raha Bahrehdar
Extraction of Place Descriptions from User-Generated Content
(Purves, Weibel) 
PDF (PDF, 28951 KB)

Olga Koblet
Extracting Perceived Landscape Properties from Text Sources
(Purves) 
PDF (PDF, 59681 KB)

Elise Acheson
Extracting and Modeling the Geography of Text Documents - Resources and Applications
(Purves)
PDF (PDF, 9 MB)

2018

Ekaterina Egorova
From Text to Space: Spatial Discourse in Alpine Route Directions and Narratives
(Purves, Tenbrink)

2017

Anita Locher
Defining the designated community of legacy geospatial data: user needs of historic electronic geographic information
 (Térmens Graels, Purves)

2016

Flurina Wartmann
From Space to Place in the Bolivian Amazon - Representing Landscape Perceptions with Ethnographic and GIS Approaches
(Purves, Backhaus, Haller)
PDF (PDF, 17 MB)

2015

Jochen Veitinger
Release Areas of Snow Avalanches: New Methods and Parameters
(Sovilla, Purves)
PDF (PDF, 8 MB)

2013

Curdin Derungs
From Text to Landscape: Extraction of Landscape Concepts through the Resolution of Ambiguity and Vagueness present in Descriptions of Natural Landscapes
(Purves, Weibel, Waldvogel, Hägeli)
PDF (PDF, 6 MB)

2010

Ralph Straumann
Extraction and characterisation of landforms from digital elevation models: Fiat parsing the elevation field 
(Purves, Weibel, Korup (SLF))
PDF (PDF, 9 MB)

2008

Felix Hebeler
Modelling Topographic Uncertainty: Impacts on Large Scale Environmental Modelling
(Purves, Weibel)
PDF (PDF, 11 MB)

Awase Khirni Syed
Exploratory Representations for Geographic Information Retrieved from the Internet
(Weibel, Purves)

2005

Margherita Maggioni
Avalance Release Areas and Their Influence on Uncertainty in Avalanche Hazard Mapping
(Gruber, Purves, Weibel)
PDF (PDF, 17 MB)

Ariane Walz
Land use modelling for an integrated approach to regional development in the Swiss Alps 
(Weibel, Purves, Bebi, Kytzia)
PDF (PDF, 6 MB)

2004

Marco Hugentobler
Terrain Modelling with Triangle Based Free-Form Surfaces
(Weibel, Purves, Schneider)
PDF (PDF, 4 MB)