Cartography – MSc Topics

The aim of this thesis is advance the state of the art of online geovisualization search

Develop and evaluate an instance segmentation approach for the extraction of area features from historical map scans and investigate the scalability.

To develop a semi-automatic mapping tool able to calculate the snow cover fraction area at a small scale.

Artifical Intelligence (AI) revolutionizes many aspects of our digital world. However, the “blackbox” AI might lead to an impact on how users trust maps.

Artifical Intelligence (AI) revolutionizes many aspects of our digital world. However, the “blackbox” AI might lead to an impact on how users trust maps.

PPGIS data is increasingly collected understand location-specific human values, perceptions, behavior, and preferences for future land use and development.

The goal of this thesis is to develop a spatial mapping approach for slums toward SDG 11 using urban morphology and topology technique.

Artifical Intelligence (AI) revolutionizes many aspects of our digital world. However, the “blackbox” AI might lead to an impact on how users trust maps.

To develop interactive maps at different scales (spatial, temporal, and spectral) highlighting the condition and the factors that produce stress in plants resul

Academic education of the fundamental concepts and methods of cartography is usually done in the class room, often by frontal lectures.

Assess the usability and value of portraying multi-dimensional, large volume, sensor-derived, dynamic urban data.

Research the use of vector tiles for base layers in thematic mapping.

develop conceptual models and practical examples for the implementation of a City Energy Performance Dashboard in the contextual background of energy transition

The goal of this thesis is to investigate the impact of label placement in mixed reality environments, identifying optimal strategies that enhance spatial knowl

Producing analytics on multidimensional settlement characteristics (intensity, size, access) for evidence-based policy making.

The aim of this thesis is to shed some light on that lead to a positive experience with geodashboards.

In this thesis eventual differences in the action possibilities of using maps based on the affordances of maps in different media should be analyzed.

To analyze user editing patterns, e.g., user focus of geospatial extent, editing frequency.

Undertake a survey of NMAs to determine recent changes in products and interaction with the open source community.

The goal of this research is to a) re-implement two or more classic studies from cartography using modern digital tools; b) to attempt to replicate the findings

Investigate the potential of notebooks for cartographic education.

The goal of this thesis is to explore and identify the risk factors of active mobility in urban environments with multi-source data, extract the knowledge there

Graphic recognition results in class-specific pixel masks calling for transformation into polygons and polylines.

The goal of this thesis is to establish a visualization pipeline for pre-classified point clouds in order to make visual representations of LiDAR data easily un

Research if and how maps can be used to help people make sustainable decisions about travelling.

In this topic, the possibilities and limitations of the influence of new AI solutions will be examined and researched in order to support and promote cartograph

Implementing and testing modifications to existing cartographic means with respect to their ability to tell stories.

This thesis will explore means of addressing the gap in automated metadata generation for maps.

The objective of this MSc topic is to devise a method to visualise expertise of people in the specific domain of geoscience.

To build an AR or VR application that allows users to explore a generalized 3D origin-destination flow map by having grouped routes “exploded” (i.e., disaggrega

For cross-media use a workflow for the derivation of an artistic 3D panorama should be developed.

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To learn a map generalization model for building footprint simplification and aggregation with deep learning, and to proper encode and learn polygon geometries

This thesis aims to incorporate visual effects to facilitate depth perception in Mixed Reality (MR).

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 metap

To design and and implement an approach that allow the use of annotations in both paper and online atlases use the strengths of both media.

The goal of this thesis is to quantify the perceived complexity and cognitive load caused by virtual symbol and label density and evaluate their influence on th

An orthographic view of a globe is a relatively undistorted view of Earth's geography, but the whole surface cannot be seen synoptically at once: the viewe

The implementation of a STAC wrapper will be conceptualised, implemented, demonstrated and evaluated.