Geodata analysis in environmental and urban research

• Spatially explicit land use modeling
• Alternative geodata sources (social media, citizen science, Earth observation from the International Space Station, etc.) for monitoring the transformation of metropolitan spaces
• Comparative analysis of spatially explicit geodata products for urban land use
• Mapping urban shrinkage processes: a time-series analysis using Earth observation data

Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning

• AI- or ML-based modeling of land take and evaluation of social and ecological impacts
• Investigating the effect of activation functions in U-Nets on the segmentation accuracy of land use data
• Comparison of shuffling strategies in data preparation during the training process of neural networks
• AI-based digitization of analog maps

Urban Development, Smart Cities & Mobility

• On the way to the smart city: Integration of BIM and GIS to improve the planning and construction of (urban) infrastructure in the context of the energy transition/climate adaptation
• 3D modeling of urban landscape configuration to monitor sustainable development based on open geodata
• Car-oriented country? Comparative ecological and economic potential analysis of the German EV charging infrastructure.
• Spatially explicit foot traffic analysis
• Deriving geoinformation (GI) from navigation applications to optimize public transport services (with Dr. Andreas Redecker)

Societal Transformation & Geodata

• Use of microcomputers for topics in agriculture and ecology
• VGI and Big (Geo)Data to analyze societal change with regard to the energy transition, climate mitigation and adaptation, good urban living, prosperity and quality of life
• Energy transition, pandemic and climate change: deriving geodata from social media to investigate changes in mobility behavior
• Using social media to geolocate extremist ideology

Education & Science Communication

• Design and development of interactive learning media to teach Earth observation topics in STEM education
• Integration of geodata into immersive geomedia (Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality/Augmented Virtuality) for problem-oriented knowledge transfer

Crime Analysis & Security

• Potential of current geodata for crime analysis (with PD Dr. Dennis Edler)

Historical Geodata & Landscape Research

• Landscape analysis based on historical maps

Informal Settlements & Social Justice

• Slum mapping and modeling with the IDEAMAPS framework

Infrastructure & Major Events

• Lost places – tracking the infrastructure of major sporting events using geodata