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Bachelor and Master Thesis can be written in German or English
Topics for Bachelor Thesis:
The Open Science movement and shifting requirements by research funders and publishers lead to increasing publication of research data. While special repositories for geospatial data exist, geospatial data is also often published in general purpose research data repositories such as Zenodo, Figshare, or OSF.
This thesis will extend and existing tool (geoextent, written in Python) with capabilities to analyse geospatial datasets from one or more research data repositories. This analysis comprises data retrieval, data analysis (Is the data geospatial? What are the properties?), and comparative data visualisation (Which repository contains data for which part of the Earth?).
Depending on the students interests, the emphasis may be put on the data retrieval and metadata extraction (e.g., including and evaluation of download and system performance, handling huge datasets, supporting more geospatial data formats), or on the visualisation (e.g., interactivity, visual exploration).
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Geospatial metadata have a huge potential to connect research across scientific disciplines. However, they are rarely collected for the main output of science: research papers/articles. In this thesis, and existing free and open source scientific publishing platform (e.g., Janeway, PubPub, Ambra) will be extended so that it collects and displays spatio-temporal metadata for research articles to answer questions such as: Which area of the Earth is covered in the article?
Which time period does the article describe? Which research articles from the same journal analyse areas close to each other? The implementation will be evaluated with an expert user group from the respective publishing platform.
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© Daniel Nüst
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Dr.-Ing. Christin Henzen
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Konsultation mit Praxispartnern möglich!
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Die Bezeichnung geografischer Entitäten ist zeitlich nicht konstant, sondern vom raumzeitlichen Kontext geprägt. Die Arbeit umfasst die Analyse geografischer Entitäten in einem festgelegten raumzeitlichen Fenster sowie die Darstellung der so erlangten Einsichten mit adäquaten Geovisualisierungstechniken (z.B. ArcGIS StoryMap). Vorschläge für den raumzeitlichen Rahmen sind: Veränderung der Bezeichnung von POIs in Dresden von der Weimarer Republik bis heute, oder Einfluss der Herrnhutschen Mission auf die Bezeichnung geografischer Entitäten in Nordamerika. http://ssv.omeka.bucknell.edu/omeka/files/original/37a46a7cb13b24419f78ec220f068864.jpg
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Mr Arne Rümmler M.Sc.
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Das Thema umfasst verschiedene Aspekte rund um die Herkunft/Entstehungsgeschichte von Geodaten. Je nach Interessenlage können Visualisierungs-, Skripting- oder Modellierungskonzepte entwickelt werden.
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Mr Arne Rümmler M.Sc.
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ArcGIS bietet mit seinen Story Maps verschiedene Möglichkeiten Geodaten im Web interaktiv zu publizieren. In der Arbeit sind weitere Lösungen zu recherchieren und anhand selbst entwickelter Kriterien und prototypischer Umsetzungen zu evaluieren.
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Mr Heiko Figgemeier M.Sc.
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Das Thema kann hinsichtlich verschiedener Schwerpunkte betrachtet werden, z.B. Analysieren von Usability-Problemen in einer konkreten Anwendung, einer Gruppe von Anwendungen (z.B. Geo-Dashboards) oder Entwurf von Mustern zur Erstellung nutzerfreundicher Geo-Anwendungen bzw. Durchführung von Usability-Studien.
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Topics for Bachelor or Master Thesis:
The STAC specification is a common language to describe geospatial information, so it can more easily be worked with, indexed, and discovered. Geospatial research data, however, is often published in research data repositories (e.g., Zenodo, OSF, Figshare) so that it is citable and preserved, so that their spatial properties cannot be used to facilitate discovery.
In this work, the implementation of a STAC wrapper for one ore more general purpose research data repositories and/or geospatial research data repositories (e.g., Pangaea, GFZ Data Services) will be conceptualised, implemented (based on existing STAC implementations), demonstrated (using existing STAC clients) and evaluated with an expert user group.
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© Daniel Nüst
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Research compendia capture all aspects of modern computational research and can be seen as the next generation of research papers. They package data, code, and text in an open and reusable way. Despite the limitations for reuse, the usability and familiarity of proprietary GIS systems lead to researchers applying them for their work. This thesis will explore how computational research using ArcGIS can be packaged in a reproducible way.
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© Daniel Nüst
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Reproducibility and replicability of research are cornerstones of science. However, too rarely are even foundational research articles evaluated and confirmed in this way. In this thesis, student and supervisor will jointly identify a set of research articles that have a high impact on an area of geoscientific research and then these works are reproduced (using existing data and methods/software) or replicated (confirming results using different data and methods/software).
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Current search engines return results in almost a fraction of a second to any query submitted by users. This often comes with the drawback of users navigating through a number of irrelevant results. This thesis will explore the impact of adding query disambiguation steps of overall user satisfaction during search and investigate the extent to which users are willing to trade response time with quality of results. The work will involve the development of a prototypical search engine and A/B testing during a user study to gather participants’ feedback.
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© A. Degbelo
Mr Dr. rer. nat Auriol Degbelo
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Semantic annotation is key to improve the findability of geographic resources. Yet, there is still a lack of interfaces supporting this task adequately. This thesis will explore factors that ease the semantic annotation of geospatial resources through the implementation of a web interface that supports the generation of RDF data about geospatial resources in a few clicks. The interface should help users formulate facts about their resources [subject verb object] and support them in describing the spatial/temporal/thematic context of the resources.
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Mr Dr. rer. nat Auriol Degbelo
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Dr.-Ing. Christin Henzen
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In Zusammenarbeit mit Pikobytes
In der Arbeit ist eine Recherche und Evaluierung zu verfügbaren Geodashboards in einem selbst gewählten Thema, z.B. COVID-19, durchzuführen. Es sollen Kernkomponenten von Geo-Dashboards ermittelt werden. Aufbauend darauf soll eine Konzeption und Prototyping eines Geodashboards in einer selbst gewählten Umgebung erfolgen.
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Mr Heiko Figgemeier M.Sc.
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Mr Arne Rümmler M.Sc.
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Within the framework of the research project „Weiterentwicklung des Daseinsvorsorgeatlas für das Land Niedersachsen” (DVAN), we award several Bachelor's or Master's thesis (in the subject area of Desktop-GIS-analysis, location and market research & location analysis). The theses will make a methodological and analytical contribution to the further development in the research project.
In case of DVAN, locations of basic services (e.g. schools, nursing and care facilities, health care facilities or facilities for the supply of goods for daily needs) are visualised in a web-based information system. A central task of regional planning is to support rural areas with the challenges of demographic change. The task of the research project is to implement functionalities to support location decisions. During the research project, functionalities are developed that are intended to support multicriteria decision analysis and help to evaluate and forecast the spatial small-scale supply situation.
Within the framework of your Bachelor's or Master's thesis, you can derive new knowledge through a methodical and content-related examination of catchment area analyses for the sectors "education" or "health" or "retail". The analytical focus with GIS (Desktop GIS; ArcGIS; QGIS) can be accompanied e.g. with contents of real estate economics (location & market research) or spatial planning.
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Mr Falko Krügel M.Sc.
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GI Web applications are often designed for heterogeneous user group with varying characteristics, requirements and expectations. In addition, GI Web applications provide functionalities that range from basic data discovery functionalities to complex map based functionalities. Consequently, the usability of such applications is a major concern in GI Science. By now methods and techniques have been adopted from the software design research to incorporate usability aspects in the development of GI Web applications. Recent research on usability studies in GI Science emphasizes on the methods and techniques to evaluate the usability of these applications and development of generic solutions for GI specific usability problems. However, there is a lack of standards or guidelines for the evaluation of GI specific usability. Therefore, this research aims to use literature and empirical research methods to develop tailored heuristics and guidelines for the evaluation of GI web applications with emphasis on GI user tasks.
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Ms Susanna Abraham M.Sc.
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The Expectation Confirmation Theory – ECT posits that expectations coupled with perceived performance, lead to satisfaction. User expectations are regarded as comparison standards against the performance of the application. They are predictive, reflecting anticipated attributes and behaviour of an application at a point in time. Adopting the ECT theory, allows us to study the relationships between user expectations and the usability aspects for GI web applications. This requires extending the ECT model to capture GI web application characteristics, formulate and evaluate relationships among different elements pertaining to user expectations that have an influence on usability of GI web applications. The main objective is to determine the relationship between of user expectation confirmation and usability of GI web applications.
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Ms Susanna Abraham M.Sc.
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Dr.-Ing. Christin Henzen
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In Zusammenarbeit mit der Juniorprofessur für Didaktik der Geographie und Umweltkommunikation
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Vorliegende heterogene Beispieldatensätze sind in ein vereinheitlichtes Datenschema für wasserwirtschaftliche Querbauwerke (Wehre, Dämme, Fischtreppen etc.) zu transformieren und Passierbarkeit für eine Beispielfischart zu analysieren
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Topics for Master Thesis:
Despite substantial work on semantic integration, approaches that make concrete recommendations on when (not) to integrate two geospatial datasets are still lacking. The aim of this thesis is to propose and test one such approach. The approach is based on a simple annotation strategy of existing geospatial datasets using well-known vocabularies and an immediate recommendation of whether (or not) two datasets can be integrated and/or translate. The ease of use of the approach will be evaluated through a user study.
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© A. Degbelo
Mr Dr. rer. nat Auriol Degbelo
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Metaphors reflect how people think about user interfaces, and people naturally produce spatial metaphors when talking about user interfaces. Though previous work has acknowledged their values in HCI, there is still a lack of techniques to formally describe metaphors and tools to facilitate their analysis. This thesis will use existing taxonomies of image schemas to annotate people’s actions during map interaction and build a tool that help make sense of the metaphors they use. The tool will use text mining techniques and visualization techniques to help answer questions related to metaphors of map interaction.
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© A. Degbelo
Mr Dr. rer. nat Auriol Degbelo
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Dashboard and geo-dashboards are increasingly available, yet there is still a lack of understanding about factors that lead to a positive experience. The aim of this thesis is to shed some light on these factors. To scope the study, the factors to be investigated will be determined based on a review of the existing literature. Examples of factors include: layout, number of views, number of colours, average colour distances. The impact of the factors will be assessed through user experience ratings of different prototypical dashboards.
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Mr Dr. rer. nat Auriol Degbelo
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With online geovisualization becoming increasingly available, techniques are needed to facilitate their findability. The aim of this thesis is advance the state of the start of online geovisualization search. The focus of the thesis will be set based on the background and interest of the student. Possible directions include:
D1, knowledge harvesting: development of a prototype to crawl online geovisualizations, and build knowledge graphs for online geovisualization
D2, ranking: development and testing of a model to effectively rank online geovisualizations
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© A. Degbelo
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Die Arbeit umfasst die Analyse und Evaluation ausgewählter computerlinguistischer Werkzeuge zur algorithmischen Verarbeitung natürlicher Sprache an einem Anwendungsfall. Vorschläge für den Anwendungsfall sind:
- Extraktion von Datenqualitätsinformation aus wissenschaftlichen Artikeln
- Extraction of Data Quality Information From Scientific Papers
- Extraktion raumzeitlicher Daten aus historischen Quellen
- Extraction of Spatiotemporal Data From Historical Sources.
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Mr Arne Rümmler M.Sc.
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Ms Susanna Abraham M.Sc.
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In der Arbeit sollen verfügbare Lösungen zum Erfassen von Provenance (Entstehungsgeschichte/Herkunft von Datensätzen) recherchiert und evaluiert werden. In einer Konzeption und prototypischen Implementierung von Provenance Tracking am Bsp. von R- oder Python-Skripten sollen dann darauf aufbauend eigene Lösungen entwickelt werden.
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Mr Arne Rümmler M.Sc.
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- Requirement analysis for the modelling and application of Linked Data for authoritative geodata
- Selection of applicable authoritative datasets provided by the GeoSN
- Potential fort the integration with external, thematic data sources
- Prototypical implementation
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- Comparison with established formats
- Potential application in an SDI
- Creation and processing capabilities supporting a customized provision of geodata
- Prototypical implementation
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Dr.-Ing. Christin Henzen
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NameDipl.-Medieninf. Daniel Henzen
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