Cartography – MSc Topics

Findable Online Geovisualizations

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

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Instance Segmentation for Area Feature Extraction from Historical Map Scans

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

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Ground sensor-based mapping to estimate Snow cover fraction area

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

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Do we trust in MapAI?

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

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Effect of Authoritative Mapmakers on the Trustworthiness of 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.

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PPGIS data quality

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

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Slum Mapping toward SDG 11 using urban morphology and topology

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

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Explainable MapAI

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

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From leaves to forests: How to map stress in plants due to climate change

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

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Developing a location-based “CartoGame” for learning the main concepts of cartography by using GeoGami

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

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Cartographic display of mass real-time urban observations

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

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The design of base map layers

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

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Dashboard design for urban energy performance

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

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Investigating the Impact of Label Placement on Spatial Knowledge Acquisition in Mixed Reality Environments

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

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Graph based data analytics and visualization on multi-dimensional settlement characteristics

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

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Modelling the Visual Complexity of Geodashboards

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

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Prediciting Affordance Differences of Map Use of different media

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

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Analysis of editing behavior patterns of building footprints in OpenStreetMap

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

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Open source data and national mapping agencies

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

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Reproducing and updating historic user studies from cartography and related domains

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

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Use of notebooks for cartography teaching

Investigate the potential of notebooks for cartographic education.

Risks in Active Mobility: Identification, Knowledge Extraction and Visual Communication

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

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Transforming scan segmentation results from historic maps into structured vector data

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

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Sense-Making of Point Clouds for Easy Visual Interpretation

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

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Maps for sustainable travel advice

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

Actionable map ethics

Include ethics in the maps design

Cartography 2.0? Limits and possibilities of designing tourism maps with the support of ChatGPT

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

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Maps Telling Stories

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

Automatic generation of metadata about map content

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

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Visualising Human intelligence, ChatGPT and Geoscience footprints

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

Gaze-directed Flow Map Explosions in AR/VR

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

Creation of an artistic 3D panorama for cross-media use

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

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Topics at the Laser Scanning and DTM Generation group

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Simplification and aggregation of vector building footprints using deep learning models

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

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Improving Users' Depth Perception in Mixed Reality

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

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An analysis Tool for Metaphors used during Map Interaction Tasks

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

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Annotations for the paper and online ITC atlas

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.

Evaluating the Influence of Virtual Object Density on Spatial Learning in Indoor Mixed Reality

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

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Linked Complementary Globes

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

Standardised Geospatial Catalogue Interface for Research Data Repositories

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

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