UZH Geocomputation Group Publications

‘Bonkers but good!’ – Using illustration-based interview methods to understand land management and conservation visions

Citation: Metzger, Marc J ; Keller, Rose ; Lo, Veronica ; Filyushkina, Anna ; Komossa, Franziska ; López-Rodríguez, Maria D ; Valluri, Christiane ; De Vries Lentsch, Aster (2023). ‘Bonkers but good!’ – Using illustration-based interview methods to understand land management and conservation visions. Landscape and Urban Planning, 239:104862.

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Find the one you like! Profiling Swiss parks with user generated content

Citation: Komossa, Franziska ; Marino, Daniela ; Michel, Annina Helena ; Purves, Ross S (2023). Find the one you like! Profiling Swiss parks with user generated content. Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism:100673.

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Conceptualizing landscapes through anguage: the role of native language and expertise in the representation of waterbody related terms

Citation: Purves, Ross S ; Striedl, Philipp ; Kong, Inhye ; Majid, Asifa (2023). Conceptualizing landscapes through anguage: the role of native language and expertise in the representation of waterbody related terms. Topics in Cognitive Science, 15(3):560-583.

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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

Citation: Hartmann, Maximilian C ; Schott, Moritz ; Dsouza, Alishiba ; Metz, Yannick ; Volpi, Michele ; Purves, Ross 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.

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• https://github.com/niconoe/pyinaturalist
• https://gitlab.vgiscience.de/integ

Comparing landscape value patterns between participatory mapping and geolocated social media content across Europe

Citation: Stahl Olafsson, Anton ; Purves, Ross S ; Wartmann, Flurina M ; Garcia-Martin, Maria ; Fagerholm, Nora ; Torralba, Mario ; Albert, Christian ; Verbrugge, Laura N H ; Heikinheimo, Vuokko ; Plieninger, Tobias ; Bieling, Claudia ; Kaaronen, Roope ; Hartmann, Maximilian ; Raymond, Christopher M (2022). Comparing landscape value patterns between participatory mapping and geolocated social media content across Europe. Landscape and Urban Planning, 226:104511.

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Seroprevalence of Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae in sows fifteen years after implementation of a control programme for enzootic pneumonia in Switzerland

Citation: Scalisi, Nadia ; Kuhnert, Peter ; Vargas-Amado, Maria Elena ; Overesch, Gudrun ; St�rk, Katharina D C ; Ruggli, Nicolas ; Jores, Joerg (2022). Seroprevalence of Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae in sows fifteen years after implementation of a control programme for enzootic pneumonia in Switzerland. Veterinary Microbiology, 270:109455.

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Towards risk-based surveillance of African Swine Fever in Switzerland

Citation: Vargas-Amado, Maria Elena ; Carmo, Lu�s Pedro ; Berezowski, John ; Fischer, Claude ; Santos, Maria Jo�o ; Gr�tter, Rolf (2022). Towards risk-based surveillance of African Swine Fever in Switzerland. Preventive veterinary medicine, 204:105661.

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Maps meet myths: Understanding Jahai place naming through Geographical Information Systems

Citation: Villette, Julia ; Burenhult, Niclas ; Purves, Ross S (2022). Maps meet myths: Understanding Jahai place naming through Geographical Information Systems. Journal of Linguistic Geography, 10(1):1-10.

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Automated motif identification: Analysing Flickr images to identify popular viewpoints in Europe’s protected areas

Citation: Hartmann, Maximilian C ; Koblet, Olga ; Baer, Manuel F ; Purves, Ross 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.

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Assessing experienced tranquillity through natural language processing and landscape ecology measures

Citation: Wartmann, Flurina M ; Koblet, Olga ; Purves, Ross S (2021). Assessing experienced tranquillity through natural language processing and landscape ecology measures. Landscape Ecology, 36(8):2347-2365.

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Extracting and modeling geographic information from scientific articles

Citation: Acheson, Elise ; Purves, Ross S (2021). Extracting and modeling geographic information from scientific articles. PLoS ONE, 16(1):e0244918.

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• https://github.com/eacheson/pyscine
• https://github.com/pdfminer/pdfminer
• https://github.com/ eacheson/pyscine

Information extraction from microblogs during disasters

Citation: Zahra, Kiran . Information extraction from microblogs during disasters. 2021, University of Zurich, Faculty of Science.

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Exploring landscape through place names : an interdisciplinary approach

Citation: Villette, Julia . Exploring landscape through place names : an interdisciplinary approach. 2021, University of Zurich, Faculty of Science.

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Streets of London: Using Flickr and OpenStreetMap to build an interactive image of the city

Citation: Bahrehdar, Azam Raha ; Adams, Benjamin ; Purves, Ross S (2020). Streets of London: Using Flickr and OpenStreetMap to build an interactive image of the city. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 84:101524.

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Conceptualisations of landscape differ across European languages

Citation: van Putten, Saskia ; O’Meara, Carolyn ; Wartmann, Flurina ; Yager, Joanne ; Villette, Julia ; Mazzuca, Claudia ; Bieling, Claudia ; Burenhult, Niclas ; Purves, Ross ; Majid, Asifa (2020). Conceptualisations of landscape differ across European languages. PLoS ONE, 15(10):e0239858.

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From online texts to Landscape Character Assessment: Collecting and analysing first-person landscape perception computationally

Citation: Koblet, Olga ; Purves, Ross S (2020). From online texts to Landscape Character Assessment: Collecting and analysing first-person landscape perception computationally. Landscape and Urban Planning, 197:103757.

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• https://github.com/seatgeek/fuzzywuzzy
• https://github.com/olgaches
• https://gist. github.com/drewda

From microtoponyms to landscape using semantics, location, and topography: the case of Wald, Holz, Riet, and Moos in St. Gallen, Switzerland

Citation: Villette, Julia ; Purves, Ross 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(1):109-120.

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Automatic identification of eyewitness messages on twitter during disasters

Citation: Zahra, Kiran ; Imran, Muhammad ; Ostermann, Frank O (2020). Automatic identification of eyewitness messages on twitter during disasters. Information Processing & Management, 57(1):102107.

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Geographic assessment of cancer genome profiling studies

Citation: Carrio-Cordo, Paula ; Acheson, Elise ; Huang, Qingyao ; Baudis, Michael (2020). Geographic assessment of cancer genome profiling studies. Database, 2020:baaa009.

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Extracting perceived landscape properties from text sources

Citation: Koblet, Olga . Extracting perceived landscape properties from text sources. 2020, University of Zurich, Faculty of Science.

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• https://github.com/seatgeek/fuzzywuzzy
• https://github.com/words/lancaster-stemmer
• https://github.com/olgaches
• https://gist. github.com/drewda

Extraction of place descriptions from user-generated content

Citation: Bahrehdar, Azam . Extraction of place descriptions from user-generated content. 2020, University of Zurich, Faculty of Science.

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Hearing the silence: finding the middle ground in the spatial humanities? Extracting and comparing perceived silence and tranquillity in the English Lake District

Citation: Chesnokova, Olga ; Taylor, Joanna E ; Gregory, Ian N ; Purves, Ross 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(12):2430-2454.

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Machine learning for cross-gazetteer matching of natural features

Citation: Acheson, Elise ; Volpi, Michele ; Purves, Ross S (2019). Machine learning for cross-gazetteer matching of natural features. International Journal of Geographical Information Science:1-27.

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• https://github.com/eacheson/machine-learning-gazetteer-matching

Approaching location-based services from a place-based perspective: from data to services?

Citation: Bahrehdar, Azam Raha ; Koblet, Olga ; Purves, Ross S (2019). Approaching location-based services from a place-based perspective: from data to services? Journal of Location Based Services, 13(2):73-93.

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Extracting and modeling the geography of text documents : resources and applications

Citation: Acheson, Elise . Extracting and modeling the geography of text documents : resources and applications. 2019, University of Zurich, Faculty of Science.

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• https://python-visualization.github.io/folium
• https://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/de/home/dienstleistungen/geostat/geodaten- bundesstatistik/boden-nutzung-bedeckung-eignung/arealstatistik-schweiz/bodenbedeckung.html 6https://pandas.pydata.org/ 7https://github.com/eacheson/machine-learning-gazetteer-matching
• https://github.com/eacheson/pyscine 8https://github.com/pdfminer/pdfminer
• https://github.com/eacheson/machine-learning-gazetteer-matching
• https://github.com/pdfminer/pdfminer

Automatically creating a spatially referenced corpus of landscape perception

Citation: Chesnokova, Olga ; Purves, Ross S (2018). Automatically creating a spatially referenced corpus of landscape perception. In: GIR 2018 : 12th Workshop on Geographic Information Retrieval at ACM SIGSPATIAL 2018, Seattle, 6 November 2018, ACM Digital Library.

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Describing and comparing landscapes using tags, texts, and free lists: an interdisciplinary approach

Citation: Wartmann, Flurina M ; Acheson, Elise ; Purves, Ross S (2018). Describing and comparing landscapes using tags, texts, and free lists: an interdisciplinary approach. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 32(8):1572-1592.

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Description and characterization of place properties using topic modeling on georeferenced tags

Citation: Bahrehdar, Azam R ; Purves, Ross S (2018). Description and characterization of place properties using topic modeling on georeferenced tags. Geo-Spatial Information Science, 21(3):173-184.

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Exploring microtoponyms through linguistic and geographic perspectives

Citation: Villette, Julia ; Purves, Ross S (2018). Exploring microtoponyms through linguistic and geographic perspectives. In: 21th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science, Lund, 12 June 2018 - 15 June 2018.

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Understanding eyewitness reports on Twitter during disasters

Citation: Zahra, Kiran ; Imran, Muhammad ; Ostermann, Frank O (2018). Understanding eyewitness reports on Twitter during disasters. In: 15th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management ISCRAM 2018, Rochester (USA), 21 May 2018 - 23 May 2018. ISCRAM, 687-695.

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The other’s perception of a streamflow sample: from a bottle of water to a data point

Citation: Brunner, Manuela ; Pool, Sandra ; Kiewiet, Leonie ; Acheson, Elise (2018). The other’s perception of a streamflow sample: from a bottle of water to a data point. Hydrological Processes:1-6.

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From image descriptions to perceived sounds and sources in landscape: Analyzing aural experience through text

Citation: Chesnokova, Olga ; Purves, Ross S (2018). From image descriptions to perceived sounds and sources in landscape: Analyzing aural experience through text. Applied Geography, 93:103-111.

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Gazetteer matching for natural features in Switzerland

Citation: Acheson, Elise ; Villette, Julia ; Volpi, Michele ; Purves, Ross S (2017). Gazetteer matching for natural features in Switzerland. In: GIR'17 11th Workshop on Geographic Information Retrieval, Heidelberg (Deutschland), 30 November 2017 - 1 December 2017. ACM New York, online.

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Generating spatial footprints from hiking blogs

Citation: Acheson, Elise ; Wartmann, Flurina M ; Purves, Ross S (2017). Generating spatial footprints from hiking blogs. In: COSIT 2017: International Conference on Spatial Information Theory, L'Aquila (I), 4 September 2017 - 8 September 2017. Springer, 5-7.

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A crowdsourced model of landscape preference

Citation: Chesnokova, Olga ; Nowak, Mario ; Purves, Ross S (2017). A crowdsourced model of landscape preference. In: COSIT 2017: International Conference on Spatial Information Theory, L'Aquila (I), 4 September 2017 - 8 September 2017, Dagstuhl Publishing.

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Geographic variability of Twitter usage characteristics during disaster events

Citation: Zahra, Kiran ; Ostermann, Frank O ; Purves, Ross S (2017). Geographic variability of Twitter usage characteristics during disaster events. Geo-Spatial Information Science, 20(3):231-240.

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A quantitative analysis of global gazetteers: Patterns of coverage for common feature types

Citation: Acheson, Elise ; De Sabbata, Stefano ; Purves, Ross S (2017). A quantitative analysis of global gazetteers: Patterns of coverage for common feature types. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 64:309-320.

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Linking VGI for place-based map generalization

Citation: Bahrehdar, Azam ; Purves, Ross S (2016). Linking VGI for place-based map generalization. In: AGILE 2016, Helsinki, 14 June 2016 - 14 June 2016, 1-4.

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Geographies of gazetteers in Great Britain

Citation: De Sabbata, Stefano ; Acheson, Elise (2016). Geographies of gazetteers in Great Britain. In: 24th GIS Research UK (GISRUK 2016) conference, Greenwich, 30 March 2016 - 1 April 2016.

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Comparing digital traces of modern travellers to journeys of two 18th-19th century British poets

Citation: Chesnokova, Olga ; Gregory, Ian N ; Purves, Ross 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(1):45-48.

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