Publications

ZORA Publication List

Publications

• 2026

  • Journal Article

    • Kong, I., & Purves, R. (2026). Analyzing Geographic Bias of Newspaper Articles Reporting Global Climate Disasters Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 116, 270–288. https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2025.2564220

• 2025

  • Journal Article

    • Techel, F., Purves, R., Mayer, S., Schmudlach, G., & Winkler, K. (2025). Can model-based avalanche forecasts match the discriminatory skill of human danger-level forecasts? A comparison from Switzerland Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 25, 3333–3353. https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-25-3333-2025
    • Kong, I., Seibert, J., & Purves, R. (2025). Droughts and media: when and how do the newspapers talk about the droughts in England? Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 29, 3795–3808. https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-3795-2025
    • Kunz, A., Purves, R., & Rohling, B. (2025). Developing a Spatially Explicit Humanitarian Flood Vulnerability Index for Refugee Settlements using Fuzzy Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis AGILE: GIScience Series, 6, 1–10. https://doi.org/10.5194/agile-giss-6-33-2025
    • Kazemi Beydokhti, M., Duckham, M., Griffin, A. L., Tao, Y., Purves, R., & Vasardani, M. (2025). Probabilistic qualitative spatial reasoning with applications to GeoQA International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 39, 817–846. https://doi.org/10.1080/13658816.2024.2434613
    • Kirsteina, D., Mueller, M. A. E., & Purves, R. (2025). Characterising London parks and gardens using open data Ecological Indicators, 171, 113213. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2025.113213

  • Book Section

    • Backhaus, N., Hunziker, M., Purves, R., & Siegrist, D. (2025). Landscape and Leisure In O. Kühne, F. Weber, K. Berr, & C. Jenal (Eds.), Landscape handbook (pp. 1089–1097). Springer Nature Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-83147-8_97

  • Monograph

    • Striedl, P. (2025). Modern Hebrew in Israel: Representations of Linguistic Variation and Standard (Vol. 57). De Gruyter Mouton. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111390628

• 2024

  • Journal Article

    • Baer, M. F., Wartmann, F., Fagerholm, N., & Purves, R. S. (2024). Extracting sensory experiences and cultural ecosystem services from actively crowdsourced descriptions of everyday lived landscapes Ecosystems and People, 20, 2331761. https://doi.org/10.1080/26395916.2024.2331761
    • Komossa, F., Kong, I., & Purves, R. S. (2024). What’s in the news? A multiscalar text analysis approach to exploring news media discourses for managing protected areas in Switzerland Landscape Research, 49, 823–850. https://doi.org/10.1080/01426397.2024.2358234
    • Striedl, P., Majid, A., & Purves, R. S. (2024). Sensory, motor, and emotion associations for landscape concepts differ across neighbouring speech communities Landscape Research, 49, 704–721. https://doi.org/10.1080/01426397.2024.2334055
    • Adams, B., Dodge, S., & Purves, R. (2024). Research articles in the GPT era Journal of Spatial Information Science, 1–2. https://doi.org/10.5311/josis.2024.28.383
    • Striedl, P. (2024). Forest: 0 or 1? Interdisciplinary challenges and methods for the classification of landscape data JournaLIPP, 9, 77–98. https://doi.org/10.5282/journalipp/4906
    • Cracco, M., Michel, A. H., Komossa, F., Kong, I., Backhaus, N., Thaler, L., Oliveri, T., & Walters, G. (2024). Where is the wolf? A multi‐method comparison of social values and perceptions in a Swiss park Wildlife Biology, 2024, e01267. https://doi.org/10.1002/wlb3.01267

  • Book Section

    • Backhaus, N., Hunziker, M., Purves, R. S., & Siegrist, D. (2024). Landschaft und Freizeit In O. Kühne, F. Weber, K. Berr, & C. Jenal (Eds.), Handbuch Landschaft (pp. 1237–1247). Springer (Bücher). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-42136-6_95
    • Burghardt, D., Dunkel, A., Hauthal, E., Shirato, G., Andrienko, N., Andrienko, G., Hartmann, M., & Purves, R. (2024). Extraction and Visually Driven Analysis of VGI for Understanding People’s Behavior in Relation to Multifaceted Context In D. Burghardt, E. Demidova, & D. A. Keim (Eds.), Volunteered Geographic Information: Interpretation, Visualization and Social Context (pp. 241–264). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-35374-1_12

  • Conference or Workshop item

    • Kong, I., & Purves, R. S. (2024). Locality and transferability: examining pre-built lexicons to elicit landscape values from natural language AGILE: GIScience Series, 5, 1–6. https://doi.org/10.5194/agile-giss-5-33-2024
    • Gomes, D., Purves, R. S., & Volpi, M. (2024). Fine-tuning transformers for toponym resolution: A contextual embedding approach to candidate ranking CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 43–51. https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3683/paper6.pdf

  • Working Paper

    • Otero, I., Keller, R., Reynard, E., Cracco, M., D’Agostino, A., Schlaepfer, M. A., Honeck, E. C., Pfund, J.-L., Guntern, J., Komossa, F., Purves, R. S., Lehmann, B., Klein, N., & Grêt-Regamey, A. (2024). How can pluralist nature valuation impact Switzerland’s biodiversity? Insights from the ValPar.CH project (2024.4; ValPar.CH – Values of the Ecological Infrastructure in Swiss Parks). https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-265281

• 2023

  • Journal Article

    • Hartmann, M. C., & Purves, R. S. (2023). Seeing through a new lens: exploring the potential of city walking tour videos for urban analytics International Journal of Digital Earth, 16, 2555–2573. https://doi.org/10.1080/17538947.2023.2230182
    • Komossa, F., Marino, D., Michel, A. H., & Purves, R. S. (2023). Find the one you like! Profiling Swiss parks with user generated content Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism, 44, 100673. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jort.2023.100673
    • Purves, R. S., & Wartmann, F. M. (2023). Characterising and mapping potential and experienced tranquillity: From a state of mind to a cultural ecosystem service Geography Compass, 17, 12726. https://doi.org/10.1111/gec3.12726
    • Ivanovic, S. S., Wood, J., & Purves, R. S. (2023). Evaluation of bicycle sharing scheme data as a proxy for cycling mobility – How COVID-19 measures influenced cycling in Paris Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives, 22, 100937. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trip.2023.100937
    • Metzger, M. J., Keller, R., Lo, V., Filyushkina, A., Komossa, F., López-Rodríguez, M. D., Valluri, C., & De Vries Lentsch, A. (2023). ‘Bonkers but good!’ – Using illustration-based interview methods to understand land management and conservation visions Landscape and Urban Planning, 239, 104862. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2023.104862
    • Purves, R. S., Striedl, P., Kong, I., & Majid, A. (2023). Conceptualizing landscapes through language: the role of native language and expertise in the representation of waterbody related terms Topics in Cognitive Science, 15, 560–583. https://doi.org/10.1111/tops.12652
    • Adams, B., Dodge, S., & Purves, R. (2023). Spatial Information Science in 2023 Journal of Spatial Information Science, 125–127. https://doi.org/10.5311/josis.2023.26.305
    • Kong, I., Sarmiento, F. O., & Mu, L. (2023). Crowdsourced text analysis to characterize the U.S. National Parks based on cultural ecosystem services Landscape and Urban Planning, 233, 104692. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2023.104692
    • Baer, M. F., & Purves, R. S. (2023). Identifying landscape relevant natural language using actively crowdsourced landscape descriptions and sentence-transformers Künstliche Intelligenz, 37, 55–67. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13218-022-00793-3
    • Dunkel, A., Hartmann, M. C., Hauthal, E., Burghardt, D., & Purves, R. S. (2023). From sunrise to sunset: Exploring landscape preference through global reactions to ephemeral events captured in georeferenced social media PLoS ONE, 18, e0280423. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0280423

  • Book Section

    • Rozenblat, C., Mariño, D., & Bidault-Waddington, R. (2023). Actors of urban health at world and continental scales: an intercontinental comparison of urban health actions using topic modeling on a large worldwide web mining (2000–2021) In L. Fusco Girard, K. Kourtit, & P. Nijkamp (Eds.), The Future of Liveable Cities (pp. 267–310). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-37466-1_13

  • Conference or Workshop item

    • Mariño, D., Moncla, L., & Purves, R. S. (2023). Extracting positive descriptions and exploring landscape value using text analysis in the Cairngorms National Park 44–47. https://doi.org/10.1145/3615887.3627758

• 2022

  • Journal Article

    • Karimi, M., Mesgari, M. S., & Purves, R. S. (2022). A comparative assessment of machine learning methods in extracting place functionality from textual content Transactions in GIS, 26, 3225–3252. https://doi.org/10.1111/tgis.12999
    • Baer, M. F., & Purves, R. S. (2022). Window Expeditions: A playful approach to crowdsourcing natural language descriptions of everyday lived landscapes Applied Geography, 148, 102802. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeog.2022.102802
    • Hartmann, M. C., Schott, M., Dsouza, A., Metz, Y., Volpi, M., & Purves, R. S. (2022). A text and image analysis workflow using citizen science data to extract relevant social media records: Combining red kite observations from Flickr, eBird and iNaturalist Ecological Informatics, 71, 101782. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2022.101782
    • Stahl Olafsson, A., Purves, R. S., Wartmann, F. M., Garcia-Martin, M., Fagerholm, N., Torralba, M., Albert, C., Verbrugge, L. N. H., Heikinheimo, V., Plieninger, T., Bieling, C., Kaaronen, R., Hartmann, M., & Raymond, C. M. (2022). Comparing landscape value patterns between participatory mapping and geolocated social media content across Europe Landscape and Urban Planning, 226, 104511. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2022.104511
    • Wysling, L., & Purves, R. S. (2022). Where to improve cycling infrastructure? Assessing bicycle suitability and bikeability with open data in the city of Paris Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives, 15, 100648. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trip.2022.100648
    • Psyllidis, A., Gao, S., Hu, Y., Kim, E.-K., McKenzie, G., Purves, R. S., Yuan, M., & Andris, C. (2022). Points of Interest (POI): a commentary on the state of the art, challenges, and prospects for the future Computational Urban Science, 2, 20. https://doi.org/10.1007/s43762-022-00047-w
    • Ivanovic, S. S., & Purves, R. S. (2022). Effects of traffic perturbations on bike sharing demand – a case study of public transport strikes and protests in Paris AGILE: GIScience Series, 3, 1–6. https://doi.org/10.5194/agile-giss-3-39-2022
    • Villette, J., Burenhult, N., & Purves, R. S. (2022). Maps meet myths: Understanding Jahai place naming through Geographical Information Systems Journal of Linguistic Geography, 10, 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1017/jlg.2021.11
    • Hartmann, M. C., Koblet, O., Baer, M. F., & Purves, R. S. (2022). Automated motif identification: Analysing Flickr images to identify popular viewpoints in Europe’s protected areas Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism, 37, 100479. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jort.2021.100479

  • Conference or Workshop item

    • Baer, M. F., Tregel, T., Laato, S., & Söbke, H. (2022). Virtually (re)constructed reality: the representation of physical space in commercial location-based games 9–22. https://doi.org/10.1145/3569219.3569339

  • Dissertation

    • Bär, M. F. (2022). Capturing perceived everyday lived landscapes through gamification and active crowdsourcing (Dissertation, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-253041

• 2021

  • Journal Article

    • Hutter, V., Techel, F., & Purves, R. S. (2021). How is avalanche danger described in textual descriptions in avalanche forecasts in Switzerland? Consistency between forecasters and avalanche danger Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 21, 3879–3897. https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-21-3879-2021
    • Wartmann, F. M., Baer, M. F., Hegetschweiler, K. T., Fischer, C., Hunziker, M., & Purves, R. S. (2021). Assessing the potential of social media for estimating recreational use of urban and peri-urban forests Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 64, 127261. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2021.127261
    • Wartmann, F. M., Koblet, O., & Purves, R. S. (2021). Assessing experienced tranquillity through natural language processing and landscape ecology measures Landscape Ecology, 36, 2347–2365. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-020-01181-8
    • Winkler, K., Schmudlach, G., Degraeuwe, B., & Techel, F. (2021). On the correlation between the forecast avalanche danger and avalanche risk taken by backcountry skiers in Switzerland Cold Regions Science and Technology, 188, 103299. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coldregions.2021.103299
    • Tao, Y., Both, A., Silveira, R. I., Buchin, K., Sijben, S., Purves, R. S., Laube, P., Peng, D., Toohey, K., & Duckham, M. (2021). A comparative analysis of trajectory similarity measures GIScience and Remote Sensing, 58, 643–669. https://doi.org/10.1080/15481603.2021.1908927
    • Hafner, E. D., Techel, F., Leinss, S., & Bühler, Y. (2021). Mapping avalanches with satellites – evaluation of performance and completeness The Cryosphere, 15, 983–1004. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-983-2021
    • Acheson, E., & Purves, R. S. (2021). Extracting and modeling geographic information from scientific articles PLoS ONE, 16, e0244918. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0244918
    • Larsson, J., Burenhult, N., Kruspe, N., Purves, R. S., Rothstein, M., & Sercombe, P. (2021). Integrating behavioral and geospatial data on the timeline: towards new dimensions of analysis International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 24, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1080/13645579.2020.1763705

  • Dissertation

    • Zahra, K. (2021). Information extraction from microblogs during disasters (Dissertation, University of Zurich) https://uzb.swisscovery.slsp.ch/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma99117097524405508&context=L&vid=41SLSP_UZB:UZB&lang=de&search_scope=MyInstitution&adaptor=Local%20Search%20Engine&tab=LibraryCatalog&query=any,contains,zahra%20kiran&offset=0
    • Villette, J. (2021). Exploring landscape through place names : an interdisciplinary approach. (Dissertation, University of Zurich) https://uzb.swisscovery.slsp.ch/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma99117137902805508&context=L&vid=41SLSP_UZB:UZB&lang=de&search_scope=MyInstitution&adaptor=Local%20Search%20Engine&tab=LibraryCatalog&query=any,contains,julia%20villette&offset=0

• 2020

  • Journal Article

    • Adams, B., Dodge, S., & Purves, R. S. (2020). JOSIS’ 10th anniversary special feature: part two. Journal of Spatial Information Science, 1–4. https://doi.org/10.5311/josis.2020.21.729
    • Das, R. D., & Purves, R. S. (2020). Exploring the potential of Twitter to understand traffic events and their locations in Greater Mumbai, India IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 21, 5213–5222. https://doi.org/10.1109/tits.2019.2950782
    • Techel, F., Pielmeier, C., & Winkler, K. (2020). Refined dry-snow avalanche danger ratings in regional avalanche forecasts: Consistent? And better than random? Cold Regions Science and Technology, 180, 103162. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coldregions.2020.103162
    • Bahrehdar, A. R., Adams, B., & Purves, R. S. (2020). Streets of London: Using Flickr and OpenStreetMap to build an interactive image of the city Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 84, 101524. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2020.101524
    • van Putten, S., O’Meara, C., Wartmann, F., Yager, J., Villette, J., Mazzuca, C., Bieling, C., Burenhult, N., Purves, R., & Majid, A. (2020). Conceptualisations of landscape differ across European languages PLoS ONE, 15, e0239858. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0239858
    • Techel, F., Winkler, K., Walcher, M., van Herwijnen, A., & Schweizer, J. (2020). On snow stability interpretation of extended column test results Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 20, 1941–1953. https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-20-1941-2020
    • Adams, B., Dodge, S., & Purves, R. (2020). JOSIS’ 10th anniversary special feature. Journal of Spatial Information Science, 1–4. https://doi.org/10.5311/josis.2020.20.670
    • Koblet, O., & Purves, R. S. (2020). From online texts to Landscape Character Assessment: Collecting and analysing first-person landscape perception computationally Landscape and Urban Planning, 197, 103757. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2020.103757
    • Schweizer, J., Mitterer, C., Techel, F., Stoffel, A., & Reuter, B. (2020). On the relation between avalanche occurrence and avalanche danger level The Cryosphere, 14, 737–750. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-737-2020
    • Bruggmann, A., Fabrikant, S. I., & Purves, R. S. (2020). How can geographic information in text documents be visualized to support information exploration in the humanities? International Journal of Humanities and Arts Comouting, 14, 98–118. https://doi.org/10.3366/ijhac.2020.0247
    • Villette, J., & Purves, R. S. (2020). From microtoponyms to landscape using semantics, location, and topography: the case of Wald, Holz, Riet, and Moos in St. Gallen, Switzerland The Professional Geographer, 72, 109–120. https://doi.org/10.1080/00330124.2019.1653772
    • Zahra, K., Imran, M., & Ostermann, F. O. (2020). Automatic identification of eyewitness messages on twitter during disasters Information Processing & Management, 57, 102107. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ipm.2019.102107
    • Carrio-Cordo, P., Acheson, E., Huang, Q., & Baudis, M. (2020). Geographic assessment of cancer genome profiling studies Database, 2020, baaa009. https://doi.org/10.1093/database/baaa009
    • Techel, F., Müller, K., & Schweizer, J. (2020). On the importance of snowpack stability, its frequency distribution, and avalanche size in assessing the avalanche danger level: a data-driven approach The Cryosphere, 14, 3503–3521. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-2020-42

  • Book Section

    • Leidner, J. L., Martins, B., McDonough, K., & Purves, R. S. (2020). Text meets space: Geographic content extraction, resolution and information retrieval In J. M. Jose, E. Yilmaz, J. Magalhães, P. Castells, N. Ferro, M. J. Silva, & F. Martins (Eds.), Advances in Information Retrieval: 42nd European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2020, Lisbon, Portugal, April 14–17, 2020, Proceedings, Part II (No. 12036; pp. 669–673). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45442-5_89

  • Dissertation

    • Bahrehdar, A. (2020). Extraction of place descriptions from user-generated content (Dissertation, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-193848
    • Koblet, O. (2020). Extracting perceived landscape properties from text sources (Dissertation, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-193201
    • Techel, F. (2020). On consistency and quality in public avalanche forecasting - a data-driven approach to forecast verification and to refining definitions of avalanche danger (Dissertation, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-199650

• 2019

  • Journal Article

    • Berlin, C., Techel, F., Moor, B. K., Zwahlen, M., & Hasler, R. M. (2019). Snow avalanche deaths in Switzerland from 1995 to 2014—Results of a nation-wide linkage study PLoS ONE, 14, e0225735. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0225735
    • Chesnokova, O., Taylor, J. E., Gregory, I. N., & Purves, R. S. (2019). Hearing the silence: finding the middle ground in the spatial humanities? Extracting and comparing perceived silence and tranquillity in the English Lake District International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 33, 2430–2454. https://doi.org/10.1080/13658816.2018.1552789
    • Purves, R. S., Winter, S., & Kuhn, W. (2019). Places in information science Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 70, 1173–1182. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24194
    • Baer, M. F., Wartmann, F. M., & Purves, R. S. (2019). StarBorn: Towards making in‐situ land cover data generation fun with a location‐based game Transactions in GIS, 23, 1008–1028. https://doi.org/10.1111/tgis.12543
    • Morin, S., Horton, S., Techel, F., Bavay, M., Coléou, C., Fierz, C., Gobiet, A., Hagenmuller, P., Lafaysse, M., Ližar, M., Mitterer, C., Monti, F., Müller, K., Olefs, M., Snook, J. S., van Herwijnen, A., & Vionnet, V. (2019). Application of physical snowpack models in support of operational avalanche hazard forecasting: A status report on current implementations and prospects for the future Cold Regions Science and Technology, 170, 102910. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coldregions.2019.102910
    • Acheson, E., Volpi, M., & Purves, R. S. (2019). Machine learning for cross-gazetteer matching of natural features International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 1–27. https://doi.org/10.1080/13658816.2019.1599123
    • Bahrehdar, A. R., Koblet, O., & Purves, R. S. (2019). Approaching location-based services from a place-based perspective: from data to services? Journal of Location Based Services, 13, 73–93. https://doi.org/10.1080/17489725.2018.1564383
    • Dunkel, A., Andrienko, G., Andrienko, N., Burghardt, D., Hauthal, E., & Purves, R. S. (2019). A conceptual framework for studying collective reactions to events in location-based social media International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 33, 780–804. https://doi.org/10.1080/13658816.2018.1546390
    • Purves, R. S., & Jones, C. B. (2019). GIR’18 Workshop Report 12th ACM SIGSPATIAL workshop on geographic information retrieval seattle, USA 6th November 2018. SIGSPATIAL Special, 10, 19–20. https://doi.org/10.1145/3307599.3307611

  • Dissertation

    • Acheson, E. (2019). Extracting and modeling the geography of text documents : resources and applications. (Dissertation, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-193847

• 2018

  • Journal Article

    • Egorova, E., Moncla, L., Gaio, M., Claramunt, C., & Purves, R. S. (2018). Fictive motion extraction and classification International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 32, 2247–2271. https://doi.org/10.1080/13658816.2018.1498503
    • Das, R. D., & Winter, S. (2018). A fuzzy logic based transport mode detection framework in urban environment Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems, 22, 478–489. https://doi.org/10.1080/15472450.2018.1436968
    • Techel, F., Mitterer, C., Ceaglio, E., Coléou, C., Morin, S., Rastelli, F., & Purves, R. S. (2018). Spatial consistency and bias in avalanche forecasts – a case study in the European Alps Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 18, 2697–2716. https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-18-2697-2018
    • Côte, M., Wartmann, F. M., & Purves, R. S. (2018). Introduction: The trouble with forest: definitions, values and boundaries Geographica Helvetica, 73, 253–260. https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-73-253-2018
    • Wartmann, F. M., Acheson, E., & Purves, R. S. (2018). Describing and comparing landscapes using tags, texts, and free lists: an interdisciplinary approach International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 32, 1572–1592. https://doi.org/10.1080/13658816.2018.1445257
    • Wever, N., Vera Valero, C., & Techel, F. (2018). Coupled snow cover and avalanche dynamics simulations to evaluate wet snow avalanche activity Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 123, 1772–1796. https://doi.org/10.1029/2017JF004515
    • Bahrehdar, A. R., & Purves, R. S. (2018). Description and characterization of place properties using topic modeling on georeferenced tags Geo-Spatial Information Science, 21, 173–184. https://doi.org/10.1080/10095020.2018.1493238
    • Wartmann, F. M., & Purves, R. S. (2018). Investigating sense of place as a cultural ecosystem service in different landscapes through the lens of language Landscape and Urban Planning, 175, 169–183. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2018.03.021
    • Brunner, M., Pool, S., Kiewiet, L., & Acheson, E. (2018). The other’s perception of a streamflow sample: from a bottle of water to a data point Hydrological Processes, 1–6. https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.13227
    • Chesnokova, O., & Purves, R. S. (2018). From image descriptions to perceived sounds and sources in landscape: Analyzing aural experience through text Applied Geography, 93, 103–111. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeog.2018.02.014
    • Wartmann, F. M., & Purves, R. S. (2018). ‘This is not the jungle, this is my barbecho’: semantics of ethnoecological landscape categories in the Bolivian Amazon Landscape Research, 43, 77–94. https://doi.org/10.1080/01426397.2016.1269882
    • Purves, R. S., Clough, P., Jones, C. B., Hall, M. H., & Murdock, V. (2018). Geographic information retrieval: Progress and challenges in spatial search of text Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval, 12, 164–318. https://doi.org/10.1561/1500000034

  • Book Section

    • Navidi, Z., Das, R. D., & Winter, S. (2018). Geospatial data science approaches for transport demand modeling In H. A. Karimi & B. Karimi (Eds.), Geospatial data science techniques and applications (pp. 177–204). CRC Press. https://doi.org/10.1201/b22052

  • Conference or Workshop item

    • Chesnokova, O., & Purves, R. S. (2018, November 6). Automatically creating a spatially referenced corpus of landscape perception GIR 2018 : 12th Workshop on Geographic Information Retrieval at ACM SIGSPATIAL 2018, Seattle. https://doi.org/10.1145/3281354.3281356
    • Das, R. D., & Purves, R. S. (2018). Urban traffic event detection using Twitter data (D. Burghardt, S. Chen, G. Andrienko, N. Andrienko, R. S. Purves, & A. Diehl, Eds.). SNSF. https://kops.uni-konstanz.de/bitstream/handle/123456789/43923/Das_2-tdm72k0hlhwh0.pdf?sequence=3&isAllowed=y
    • Diehl, A., Yang, B., Das, R. D., Chen, S., Andrienko, G., Andrienko, N., Dransch, D., & Keim, D. (2018). User-uncertainty : A human-centred uncertainty taxonomy for VGI through the visual analytics workflow (D. Burghardt, S. Chen, & G. Andrienko, Eds.). Universität Konstanz. https://kops.uni-konstanz.de/handle/123456789/43913
    • Das, R. D., & Purves, R. S. (2018). Towards the usefulness of user-generated content to understand traffic events In S. Winter, A. Griffin, & M. Sester (Eds.), LIPIcs : Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (No. 114; pp. 25:1-25:7). Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik. https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.GIScience.2018.25
    • Villette, J., & Purves, R. S. (2018, June 15). Exploring microtoponyms through linguistic and geographic perspectives 21th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science, Lund. https://agile-online.org/conference_paper/cds/agile_2018/shortpapers/67%20AGILE_2018_Villette_Purves.pdf
    • Zahra, K., Imran, M., & Ostermann, F. O. (2018). Understanding eyewitness reports on Twitter during disasters (K. Boersma & B. Tomaszewski, Eds.; pp. 687–695). ISCRAM. https://iscram2018.rit.edu/sites/rit.edu.iscram2018/files/docs/2018_ISCRAM_Conference_Proceedings.pdf
    • Ghosh, S., Ghosh, S. K., Das, R. D., & Winter, S. (2018). Activity-based mobility profiling: a purely temporal modeling approach 409–416. https://doi.org/10.1145/3184558.3186356

  • Dissertation

    • Egorova, E. (2018). From text to space : spatial discourse in alpine route directions and narratives. (Dissertation, University of Zurich)

• 2017

  • Journal Article

    • Pasquier, M., Hugli, O., Kottmann, A., & Techel, F. (2017). Avalanche accidents causing fatalities: are they any different in the summer? High Altitude Medicine & Biology, 18, 67–72. https://doi.org/10.1089/ham.2016.0065
    • Wartmann, F. M., & Purves, R. S. (2017). What’s (not) on the map: landscape features from participatory sketch mapping differ from local categories used in language Land, 6, 79. https://doi.org/10.3390/land6040079
    • Acheson, E., De Sabbata, S., & Purves, R. S. (2017). A quantitative analysis of global gazetteers: Patterns of coverage for common feature types Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 64, 309–320. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2017.03.007
    • Zahra, K., Ostermann, F. O., & Purves, R. S. (2017). Geographic variability of Twitter usage characteristics during disaster events Geo-Spatial Information Science, 20, 231–240. https://doi.org/10.1080/10095020.2017.1371903
    • Techel, F., & Schweizer, J. (2017). On using local avalanche danger level estimates for regional forecast verification Cold Regions Science and Technology, 144, 52–62. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coldregions.2017.07.012
    • Grütter, R., Purves, R. S., & Wotruba, L. (2017). Evaluating topological queries in linked data using DBpedia and GeoNames in Switzerland and Scotland Transactions in GIS, 21, 114–133. https://doi.org/10.1111/tgis.12196
    • Baltensweiler, A., Walthert, L., Ginzler, C., Sutter, F., Purves, R. S., & Hanewinkel, M. (2017). Terrestrial laser scanning improves digital elevation models and topsoil pH modelling in regions with complex topography and dense vegetation Environmental Modelling & Software, 95, 13–21. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2017.05.009

  • Conference or Workshop item

    • Acheson, E., Villette, J., Volpi, M., & Purves, R. S. (2017). Gazetteer matching for natural features in Switzerland In C. B. Jones & R. S. Purves (Eds.), Proceedings of the 11th Workshop on Geographic Information Retrieval - GIR’17 (p. online). ACM New York. https://doi.org/10.1145/3155902.3155913
    • Acheson, E., Wartmann, F. M., & Purves, R. S. (2017). Generating spatial footprints from hiking blogs (P. Fogliaroni, A. Ballatore, & E. Clementini, Eds.; pp. 5–7). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63946-8_2
    • Chesnokova, O., Nowak, M., & Purves, R. S. (2017). A crowdsourced model of landscape preference (E. Clementini, M. Donnelly, M. Yuan, C. Kray, P. Fogliaroni, & A. Ballatore, Eds.). Dagstuhl Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.COSIT.2017.19

• 2016

  • Journal Article

    • Badoux, A., Andres, N., Techel, F., & Hegg, C. (2016). Natural hazard fatalities in Switzerland from 1946 to 2015 Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 16, 2747–2768. https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-16-2747-2016
    • Egorova, E., Boo, G., & Purves, R. S. (2016). The ridge went north : Did the observer go as well? Corpus-driven investigation of fictive motion. International Conference on GIScience Short Paper Proceedings, 1, 92–95. https://doi.org/10.21433/B3118354q145
    • Chesnokova, O., Gregory, I. N., & Purves, R. S. (2016). Comparing digital traces of modern travellers to journeys of two 18th-19th century British poets International Conference on GIScience Short Paper Proceedings, 1, 45–48. https://doi.org/10.21433/B31152g534d3
    • Wartmann, F. M., Derungs, C., & Purves, R. S. (2016). Characterizing place: an empirical comparison between user-generated content and freelisting data International Conference on GIScience Short Paper Proceedings, 1, 336–339. https://doi.org/10.21433/B3111bw2c801
    • Wartmann, F. M., Haller, T., & Backhaus, N. (2016). “Institutional Shopping” for natural resource management in a protected area and indigenous territory in the Bolivian Amazon Human Organization, 75, 218–229. https://doi.org/10.17730/1938-3525-75.3.218
    • Derungs, C., & Purves, R. S. (2016). Mining nearness relations from an n-grams Web corpus in geographical space Spatial Cognition & Computation, 16, 301–322. https://doi.org/10.1080/13875868.2016.1246553
    • Derungs, C., & Purves, R. S. (2016). Characterising landscape variation through spatial folksonomies Applied Geography, 75, 60–70. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeog.2016.08.005
    • Wirz, V., Geertsema, M., Gruber, S., & Purves, R. S. (2016). Temporal variability of diverse mountain permafrost slope movements derived from multi-year daily GPS data, Mattertal, Switzerland Landslides, 13, 67–83. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10346-014-0544-3
    • Comber, A., Mooney, P., Purves, R. S., Rocchini, D., & Walz, A. (2016). Crowdsourcing: It Matters Who the Crowd Are. The Impacts of between Group Variations in Recording Land Cover PLoS ONE, 11, e0158329. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0158329
    • Reichenbacher, T., De Sabbata, S., Purves, R. S., & Fabrikant, S. I. (2016). Assessing geographic relevance for mobile search: A computational model and its validation via crowdsourcing Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 67, 2620–2634. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.23625
    • Reisser, M., Purves, R. S., Schmidt, M. W. I., & Abiven, S. (2016). Pyrogenic Carbon in Soils: A Literature-Based Inventory and a Global Estimation of Its Content in Soil Organic Carbon and Stocks Frontiers in Earth Science, 4:80. https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2016.00080
    • Wirz, V., Gruber, S., Purves, R. S., Beutel, J., Gärtner-Roer, I., Gubler, S., & Vieli, A. (2016). Short-term velocity variations at three rock glaciers and their relationship with meteorological conditions Earth Surface Dynamics, 4, 103–123. https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-4-103-2016
    • Techel, F., Jarry, F., Kronthaler, G., Mitterer, S., Nairz, P., Pavšek, M., Valt, M., & Darms, G. (2016). Avalanche fatalities in the European Alps: long-term trends and statistics Geographica Helvetica, 71, 147–159. https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-71-147-2016

  • Conference or Workshop item

    • Winkler, K., Fischer, A., & Techel, F. (2016). Avalanche risk in winter backcountry touring: status and recent trends in Switzerland 270–276. http://www.slf.ch/info/mitarbeitende/techel/download/winkler_etal_avalanche_risk_backcountry_touring_issw2016.pdf
    • Techel, F., Walcher, M., & Winkler, K. (2016). Extended Column Test: repeatability and comparison to slope stability and the Rutschblock 1203–1208.
    • Techel, F., Dürr, L., & Schweizer, J. (2016). Variations in individual danger level estimates within the same forecast region 466–471.
    • Bahrehdar, A., & Purves, R. S. (2016). Linking VGI for place-based map generalization 1–4.
    • De Sabbata, S., & Acheson, E. (2016, April 1). Geographies of gazetteers in Great Britain 24th GIS Research UK (GISRUK 2016) conference, Greenwich. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/38182

  • Dissertation

    • Wartmann, F. (2016). From space to place in the Bolivian Amazon: exploring and representing folk landscape categories with ethnographic and GIS approaches [Claudia Wartmann Natürlich]. (Dissertation, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-135296

• 2015

  • Journal Article

    • Purves, R. S., & Derungs, C. (2015). From space to place: place-based explorations of text International Journal of Humanities and Arts Comouting, 9, 74–94. https://doi.org/10.3366/ijhac.2015.0139
    • Purves, R. S., Palacio, D., & Derungs, C. (2015). Development and evaluation of a geographic information retrieval system using fine grained toponyms Journal of Spatial Information Science, 1–29. https://doi.org/10.5311/JOSIS.2015.11.193
    • Egli, M., Maisch, M., Purves, R. S., Cöltekin, A., & Hilbich, C. (2015). Multi-methodological reconstruction of the lake level at Morgarten in the context of the history of the Swiss Confederation The Holocene, 25, 1727–1741. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683615591360

  • Book Section

    • Wartmann, F. M., Egorova, E., Derungs, C., Mark, D. M., & Purves, R. S. (2015). More than a list: what outdoor free listings of landscape categories reveal about commonsense geographic concepts and memory search strategies In S. I. Fabrikant, M. Raubal, M. Bertolotto, C. Davies, S. Freundschuh, & S. Bell (Eds.), Spatial Information Theory. 12th International Conference, COSIT 2015, Santa Fe, NM, USA, October 12-16, 2015, Proceedings (No. 9368; Vol. 9368, pp. 224–243). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23374-1_11
    • Egorova, E., Tenbrink, T., & Purves, R. S. (2015). Where snow is a landmark: route direction elements in Alpine contexts In S. I. Fabrikant, M. Raubal, M. Bertolotto, C. Davies, S. Freundschuh, & S. Bell (Eds.), Spatial Information Theory. 12th International Conference, COSIT 2015, Santa Fe, NM, USA, October 12-16, 2015, Proceedings (Vol. 9368, pp. 175–195). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23374-1_9
    • Ostermann, F. O., Huang, H., Andrienko, G., Andrienko, N., Capineri, C., Farkas, K., & Purves, R. S. (2015). Extracting and comparing places using Geo-Social Media In C. Mallet, N. Paparoditis, I. Dowman, S. Oude Elberink, A.-M. Raimond, F. Rottensteiner, M. Yang, S. Christophe, A. Coltekin, & M. Brédif (Eds.), ISPRS Geospatial Week 2015: Vols. II-3/W5 (II-3/W5; pp. 311–316). Copernicus Publications. https://doi.org/10.5194/isprsannals-II-3-W5-311-2015

• 2014

  • Journal Article

    • Wartmann, F. M., Juárez, C. P., & Fernandez-Duque, E. (2014). Size, site fidelity, and overlap of home ranges and core areas in the socially monogamous Owl monkey (Aotus azarae) of northern Argentina International Journal of Primatology, online. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10764-014-9771-7
    • Veitinger, J., Sovilla, B., & Purves, R. S. (2014). Influence of snow depth distribution on surface roughness in alpine terrain: A multi-scale approach The Cryosphere, 8, 547–569. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-8-547-2014
    • Hahmann, S., Purves, R. S., & Burghardt, D. (2014). Twitter location (sometimes) matters: Exploring the relationship between georeferenced tweet content and nearby feature classes Journal of Spatial Information Science, 1–36. https://doi.org/10.5311/JOSIS.2014.9.185
    • Venkateswaran, R., Weibel, R., & Purves, R. S. (2014). Exploring and visualizing differences in geographic and linguistic web coverage Transactions in GIS, 18, 852–876. https://doi.org/10.1111/tgis.12071
    • Purves, R. S., Laube, P., Buchin, M., & Speckmann, B. (2014). Moving beyond the point: An agenda for research in movement analysis with real data Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 47, 1–4. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2014.06.003
    • Züst, F., Dahms, D., Purves, R. S., & Egli, M. (2014). Surface reconstruction and derivation of erosion rates over several glaciations (1Ma) in an alpine setting (Sinks Canyon, Wyoming, USA) Geomorphology, 219, 232–247. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2014.05.017
    • Zellweger, F., Morsdorf, F., Purves, R. S., Braunisch, V., & Bollmann, K. (2014). Improved methods for measuring forest landscape structure: LiDAR complements field-based habitat assessment Biodiversity and Conservation, 23, 289–307. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-013-0600-7
    • Wirz, V., Beutel, J., Gruber, S., Gubler, S., & Purves, R. S. (2014). Estimating velocity from noisy GPS data for investigating the temporal variability of slope movements Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 14, 2503–2520. https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-14-2503-2014

  • Conference or Workshop item

    • Veitinger, J., Sovilla, B., & Purves, R. S. (2014). Slab avalanche release area estimation: a new GIS tool 256–262. http://arc.lib.montana.edu/snow-science/objects/ISSW14_paper_O10.04.pdf
    • Wartmann, F. M., & Purves, R. S. (2014). Why landscape terms matter for mapping: A comparison of ethnogeographic categories and scientific classification In K. Stewart, E. Pebesma, G. Navratil, P. Fogliaroni, & M. Duckham (Eds.), GeoInfo Series (No. 40; pp. 192–194). Technische Universität Wien. http://www.giscience.org/download/proceedings/GIScience2014EA.pdf
    • Derungs, C., & Purves, R. S. (2014). Where’s near? Using web tri-grams to explore spatial relations In K. Stewart, E. Pebesma, G. Navratil, P. Fogliaroni, & M. Duckham (Eds.), GeoInfo Series (No. 40; pp. 158–162). Technische Universität Wien. http://www.giscience.org/download/proceedings/GIScience2014EA.pdf
    • Comber, A., & Purves, R. S. (2014). Comparing different crowdsourced data: an analysis of Flickr elements, qualities and activities with Geo-Wiki land cover In K. Stewart, E. Pebesma, G. Navratil, P. Fogliaroni, & M. Duckham (Eds.), GeoInfo Series (No. 40; pp. 201–204). Technische Universität Wien. http://www.giscience.org/download/proceedings/GIScience2014EA.pdf

• 2013

  • Journal Article

    • Derungs, C., & Purves, R. S. (2013). From text to landscape: locating, identifying and mapping the use of landscape features in a Swiss Alpine corpus International Journal of Geographical Information Science, online. https://doi.org/10.1080/13658816.2013.772184
    • Ostermann, F. O., Tomko, M., & Purves, R. S. (2013). User evaluation of automatically generated keywords and toponyms for geo-referenced images Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 64, 480–499. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.22738
    • Gubler, S., Endrizzi, S., Gruber, S., & Purves, R. S. (2013). Sensitivities and uncertainties of modeled ground temperatures in mountain environments Geoscientific Model Development, 6, 1319–1336. https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-6-1319-2013

  • Book Section

    • Derungs, C., Wartmann, F. M., Purves, R. S., & Mark, D. M. (2013). The meanings of the generic parts of toponyms: use and limitations of gazetteers in studies of landscape terms In T. Tenbrink, J. Stell, A. Galton, & Z. Wood (Eds.), Spatial Information Theory (Vol. 8116, pp. 261–278). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01790-7_15

  • Conference or Workshop item

    • Palacio, D., Derungs, C., & Purves, R. (2013). Creating test collections from user generated content for GIR evaluation Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Geographic Information Retrieval - GIR ’13, 82–83. https://doi.org/10.1145/2533888.2533934
    • Wider, T., Palacio, D., & Purves, R. S. (2013). Georeferencing images using tags: application with Flickr online. http://agile-online.org/Conference_Paper/CDs/agile_2013/Short_Papers/SP_S2.3_Palacio.pdf

• 2012

  • Journal Article

    • Gschwend, C., & Purves, R. S. (2012). Exploring geomorphometry through user generated content: comparing an unsupervised geomorphometric classification with terms attached to georeferenced images in Great Britain Transactions in GIS, 16, 499–522. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9671.2012.01307.x
    • Gubler, S., Gruber, S., & Purves, R. S. (2012). Uncertainties of parameterized surface downward clear-sky shortwave and all-sky longwave radiation Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 12, 5077–5098. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-12-5077-2012
    • Fischer, L., Purves, R. S., Huggel, C., Noetzli, J., & Haeberli, W. (2012). On the influence of topographic, geological and cryospheric factors on rock avalanches and rockfalls in high-mountain areas Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 12, 241–254. https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-12-241-2012
    • Shamoun-Baranes, J., van Loon, E. E., Purves, R. S., Speckmann, B., Weiskopf, D., & Camphuysen, C. J. (2012). Analysis and visualization of animal movement Biology Letters, 8, 6–9. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2011.0764

  • Conference or Workshop item

    • Derungs, C., Palacio, D., & Purves, R. S. (2012). Resolving fine granularity toponyms: Evaluation of a disambiguation approach online. http://www.giscience.org/proceedings/abstracts/giscience2012_paper_70.pdf
    • Derungs, C., & Purves, R. S. (2012). Measuring topographic similarity of toponyms (J. Gensel, D. Josselin, & D. Vandenbrouke, Eds.; pp. 30–34). http://agile.gis.geo.tu-dresden.de/web/Conference_Paper/CDs/AGILE%202012/proceedings/papers/Paper_Derungs_Measuring_topographic_similarity_of_toponyms_2012.pdf

• 2011

  • Journal Article

    • Purves, R. S., & Jones, C. B. (2011). Geographic information retrieval SIGSPATIAL Special, 3, 2–4. http://www.sigspatial.org/sigspatial-special-issues/SIGSPATIALSpecialVol3Num2Jul2011.pdf
    • Laube, P., & Purves, R. S. (2011). How fast is a cow? Cross-scale analysis of movement data Transactions in GIS, 15, 401–418. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9671.2011.01256.x
    • Straumann, R. K., & Purves, R. S. (2011). Computation and elicitation of valleyness Spatial Cognition & Computation, 11, 178–204. https://doi.org/10.1080/13875868.2010.537797
    • Purves, R. S., Edwardes, A. J., & Wood, J. (2011). Describing place through user generated content First Monday, 16, 3710. https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v16i9.3710
    • Pozdnoukhov, A., Matasci, G., Kanevski, M., & Purves, R. S. (2011). Spatio-temporal avalanche forecasting with support vector machines Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 11, 367–382. https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-11-367-2011

  • Book Section

    • Purves, R. S. (2011). Methods, examples and pitfalls in the exploitation of the geospatial web In S. N. Hesse-Biber (Ed.), The Handbook of Emergent Technologies in Social Research (pp. 592–624). Oxford University Press.

  • Conference or Workshop item

    • Derungs, C., Purves, R. S., & Waldvogel, B. (2011). Toponym disambiguation of landscape features using geomorphometric characteristics 106–110. http://standard.cege.ucl.ac.uk/workshops/Geocomputation/
    • Stadler, B., Purves, R. S., & Tomko, M. (2011, July 8). Exploring the relationship between land cover and subjective evaluation of scenic beauty through user generated content 25th International Cartographic Conference, Paris. http://icaci.org/documents/ICC_proceedings/ICC2011/Oral%20Presentations%20PDF/E2-Terrain%20generalisation/CO-443.pdf
    • Gschwend, C., & Purves, R. S. (2011). Comparing Flickr tags to a geomorphometric classification 174–178. http://www.port.ac.uk/special/gisruk2011/

• 2010

  • Journal Article

    • Wartmann, F. M., Purves, R. S., & van Schaik, C. P. (2010). Modelling ranging behaviour of female orang-utans: a case study in Tuanan, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia Primates, 51, 119–130. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10329-009-0186-6
    • Hollenstein, L., & Purves, R. S. (2010). Exploring place through user-generated content: Using Flickr to describe city cores Journal of Spatial Information Science, 1, 21–48. https://doi.org/10.5311/JOSIS.2010.1.3

  • Book Section

    • Laube, P., & Purves, R. S. (2010). Cross-scale movement trajectory analysis In M. Haklay (Ed.), Proceedings of the GIS Research UK 18th Annual Conference GISRUK 2010 (pp. 103–107). University College London. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/19284/

  • Conference or Workshop item

    • Tomko, M., & Purves, R. S. (2010). Matterhorn on the horizon: identification of salient mountains for image annotation In M. Haklay (Ed.), Proceedings of the GIS Research UK 18th Annual Conference GISRUK 2010 (pp. 359–362). University College London.
    • Purves, R. S., Edwardes, A., Fan, X., Hall, M., & Tomko, M. (2010). Automatically generating keywords for georeferenced images (M. Haklay, J. Morley, & H. Rahemtulla, Eds.; pp. 203–207). University College London.

• 2009

  • Journal Article

    • Tomko, M., & Purves, R. S. (2009). Venice, city of canals: characterizing regions through content classification Transactions in GIS, 13, 295–314. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9671.2009.01165.x
    • Hebeler, F., & Purves, R. S. (2009). The influence of elevation uncertainty on derivation of topographic indices Geomorphology, 111, 4–16. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2007.06.026
    • Aberegg, I., Egli, M., Sartori, G., & Purves, R. S. (2009). Modelling spatial distribution of soil types and characteristics in a high Alpine valley (Val di Sole, Italy) Studi Trentini Di Scienze Naturali, 85, 39–50. http://www2.muse.it/pubblicazioni/18/85/4.pdf

  • Book Section

    • Jones, C. B., & Purves, R. S. (2009). Geographic information retrieval In L. Liu & M. T. Özsu (Eds.), Encyclopedia of database systems ; Part 7 (pp. 1227–1231). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-39940-9_177
    • Tomko, M., Trautwein, F., & Purves, R. S. (2009). Identification of practically visible spatial objects in natural environments In M. Sester, L. Bernard, & V. Paelke (Eds.), Advances in GIScience (pp. 1–23). Springer (Bücher). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00318-9_1

• 2008

  • Journal Article

    • Hebeler, F., Purves, R. S., & Jamieson, S. S. R. (2008). The impact of parametric uncertainty and topographic error in ice-sheet modelling Journal of Glaciology, 54, 889–919. https://doi.org/10.3189/002214308787779852
    • Machguth, H., Purves, R. S., Oerlemans, J., Hoelzle, M., & Paul, F. (2008). Exploring uncertainty in glacier mass balance modelling with Monte Carlo simulation The Cryosphere, 2, 191–204. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-2-191-2008
    • Yang, B., Purves, R. S., & Weibel, R. (2008). Variable-resolution Compression of Vector Data GeoInformatica, 12, 357–376. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10707-007-0036-x
    • Hebeler, F., & Purves, R. S. (2008). The influence of resolution and topographic uncertainty on melt modelling using hypsometric sub-grid parameterization Hydrological Processes, 22, 3965–3979. https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.7034
    • Jones, C. B., & Purves, R. S. (2008). Geographical information retrieval International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 22, 219–228. https://doi.org/10.1080/13658810701626343
    • Pozdnoukhov, A., Purves, R. S., & Kanevski, M. (2008). Applying machine learning methods to avalanche forecasting Annals of Glaciology, 49, 107–113. https://doi.org/10.3189/172756408787814870
    • Jones, C. B., Purves, R. S., Clough, P. D., & Joho, H. (2008). Modelling vague places with knowledge from the Web International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 22, 1045–1065. https://doi.org/10.1080/13658810701850547

  • Book Section

    • Dias, E. S., Edwardes, A. J., & Purves, R. S. (2008). Analysing and aggregating visitor tracks in a protected area In A. Stein & et al (Eds.), Quality Aspects in Spatial Data Mining (pp. 1–29). CRC Press. http://www.crcpress.co.uk/shopping_cart/products/product_detail.asp?sku=69268&isbn=9781420069266&parent_id=502&pc=
    • Corripio, J. G., Purves, R. S., & Rivera, A. (2008). Modeling climate-change impacts on mountain glaciers and water resources in the Central Dry Andes In B. Orlove & et al (Eds.), Darkening Peaks: Glacier Retreat, Science, and Society (pp. 126–135). University of California Press. http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/10596.php
    • Hebeler, F., & Purves, R. S. (2008). Modelling DEM data uncertainties for Monte Carlo simulations of ice sheet models In A. Stein, J. Shi, & W. Bijker (Eds.), Quality Aspects in Spatial Data Mining (pp. 175–196). CRC Press.
    • Straumann, R. K., & Purves, R. S. (2008). Delineation of valleys and valley floors In T. J. Cova & et al (Eds.), Geographic Information Science: Vol. 5266/2 (5266/2; pp. 320–336). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-87473-7_21
    • Purves, R. S., Edwardes, A., & Sanderson, M. (2008). Describing the where – improving image annotation and search through geography In G. Csurka (Ed.), Proceedings of the workshop on Metadata Mining for Image Understanding (MMIU 2008) (pp. 105–113). Insticc Press. http://www.visapp.org/VISAPP2008/
    • Walz, A., Bebi, P., & Purves, R. (2008). A comparison of two techniques for local land-use change simulation in the swiss mountain area In A. Lovett & et al (Eds.), GIS for Environmental Decision-Making (pp. 131–148). CRC Press. http://www.tandfbuiltenvironment.com/books/GIS-for-Environmental-Decision-Making-isbn9780849374234

  • Conference or Workshop item

    • Pasley, R., Clough, P., Purves, R. S., & Twaroch, F. A. (2008). Mapping geographic coverage of the web 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1145/1463434.1463459
    • Brunner, T. J., & Purves, R. S. (2008). Spatial autocorrelation and toponym ambiguity (R. S. Purves, Ed.; pp. 25–26). https://doi.org/10.1145/1460007.1460013
    • Barker, E. J., & Purves, R. S. (2008). A caption annotation scheme for georeferencing images (R. S. Purves, Ed.; pp. 45–46). https://doi.org/10.1145/1460007.1460026
    • Tomko, M., & Purves, R. S. (2008, September 26). Characterizing regions through content classification. GIScience 2008 - Fifth International Conference on Geographic Information Science, Park City. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9671.2009.01165.x
    • Tomko, M., & Purves, R. S. (2008). Categorical prominence and the characteristic description of regions. 1–9.

• 2007

  • Journal Article

    • Yang, B., Purves, R. S., & Weibel, R. (2007). Efficient transmission of vector data over the Internet International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 21, 215–237. https://doi.org/10.1080/13658810600894281
    • Purves, R. S., Clough, P., Jones, C. B., Arampatzis, A., Bucher, B., Finch, D., Fu, G., Joho, H., Syed, A. K., Vaid, S., & Yang, B. (2007). The design and implementation of SPIRIT: a spatially aware search engine for information retrieval on the Internet International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 21, 717–745. https://doi.org/10.1080/13658810601169840

  • Book Section

    • Edwardes, A., & Purves, R. S. (2007). A theoretical grounding for semantic descriptions of place In J. M. Ware & G. E. Taylor (Eds.), Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems 7th International Symposium, W2GIS 2007, Cardiff, UK, November 28-29, 2007. Proceedings (No. 4857; pp. 106–120). Springer. http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-540-76925-5_8
    • Straumann, R. K., & Purves, R. S. (2007). Resolution sensitivity of a compound terrain derivative as computed from LiDAR-based elevation data In S. I. Fabrikant & M. Wachowicz (Eds.), The European information society. Leading the way with Geo-information (XVII; pp. 87–109). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-72385-1_5
    • Laube, P., Purves, R. S., Imfeld, S., & Weibel, R. (2007). Analysing point motion with geographic knowledge discovery techniques In J. Drummond, R. Billen, E. Joao, & D. Forrest (Eds.), Dynamic and Mobile GIS: Investigating Changes in Space and Time (pp. 263–286). C R C Press, LLC. http://www.crcnetbase.com/doi/abs/10.1201/9781420008609.ch14

  • Conference or Workshop item

    • Edwardes, A. J., & Purves, R. S. (2007). Eliciting concepts of place for text-based image retrieval (R. S. Purves & C. Jones, Eds.; pp. 15–18). ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/1316948.1316953
    • Hebeler, F., & Purves, R. S. (2007, June 17). Modelling DEM data uncertainties for Monte Carlo Simulations of Ice Sheet Models 5th International Symposium on Spatial Data Quality, ITC.
    • Dias, E. S., Edwardes, A. J., & Purves, R. S. (2007). Analysing and aggregating visitor tracks in a protected area online. http://www.isprs.org/proceedings/XXXVI/2-C43/Session3/paper_Dias.pdf
    • Purves, R. S., & Korup, O. (2007). Multiscale analysis of hillslope height for geomorphometry 484–488. http://ncg.nuim.ie/gisruk/materials/proceedings/PDF/P8.pdf
    • Derungs, C., & Purves, R. S. (2007). Empirical experiments on the nature of Swiss mountains online. http://ncg.nuim.ie/gisruk/materials/proceedings/PDF/6A3.pdf

• 2006

  • Journal Article

    • Laube, P., & Purves, R. S. (2006). An approach to evaluating motion pattern detection techniques in spatio-temporal data Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 30, 347–374. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2005.09.001
    • Purves, R. S., & Jones, C. B. (2006). Geographic Information Retrieval (GIR) Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 30, 375–377. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2005.12.001
    • Campbell, F. M. A., Nienow, P. W., & Purves, R. S. (2006). Role of the supraglacial snowpack in mediating meltwater delivery to the glacier system as inferred from dye tracer investigations Hydrological Processes, 20, 969–985. https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.6115

  • Book Section

    • Purves, R. S., & Hebeler, F. (2006). Uncertainty and terrain data in ice-sheet modelling (Case study) In I. Heywood, S. Cornelius, & S. Carver (Eds.), An introduction to Geographical Information Systems (p. ?). Pearson. http://www.pearsoned.co.uk/bookshop/detail.asp?item=100000000285661
    • Clough, P. D., Joho, H., & Purves, R. S. (2006). Judging the spatial relevance of documents for GIR In M. Lalmas, A. MacFarlane, S. Rüger, A. Tombros, T. Tsikrika, & A. Yavlinsky (Eds.), Advances in Information Retrieval (No. 3936; Vol. 3936, pp. 548–552). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/11735106_62

  • Conference or Workshop item

    • Purves, R. S., & Heierli, J. (2006). Evaluating nearest neighbours in avalanche forecasting - a qualitative approach to assessing information content? 701–708. http://arc.lib.montana.edu/snow-science/objects/issw-2006-701-708.pdf
    • Maggioni, M., Gruber, U., Purves, R. S., & Freppaz, M. (2006). Potential release areas and return period of avalanches: is there a relation? online. http://arc.lib.montana.edu/snow-science/item/981
    • Purves, R. S., & Clough, P. D. (2006). Judging spatial relevance and document location for Geographic Information Retrieval IfgiPrints, 159–164. http://ir.shef.ac.uk/cloughie/papers/GIScience2006.pdf