Cartography & GIS

Cartography & GIS focusses on the techniques for analysing geographical data and for visualizing these on maps.

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09-09-2025

Xucai Zhang successfully defended his PhD

On Wednesday, 3 September 2025, Xucai Zhang successfully defended his doctoral thesis: ‘Deep Learning with Geographic Context: a GeoAI Framework for Urban Prediction’. Supervisors: Prof. Haosheng Huang (Ghent University), Prof. Frank Witlox (Ghent University) Examination committee: Prof. Alain De Wulf (Chair) (Ghent University), Prof. Tao Cheng (University of London), Prof. Nico Van de Weghe (Ghent University), Prof. Ivana Semanjski (Ghent University), Dr. Laure De Cock (Ghent University)

Congratulations, Xucia!

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Research themes

Cartography & GIS focusses on geographical information, as this underpins both the domain of cartography and geographical information science.

A broad multidisciplinarity (computer sciences, archaeology, cognition, sport sciences) characterizes the conducted projects.

Important in the research is the use of modern methodologies (e.g. eye tracking, WiFi tracking, UAVs, etc.) and development of innovative technologies (e.g. navigation apps, 3D webGIS, etc.).

transport, accessiblity and GIS

cartography and map use

historical cartography

4D GIS for archaeology

flood risks

indoor wayfinding

moving objects

GIS in education

Prof. dr. Nico Van de Weghe

GIS spatiotemporal analysis spatiotemporal modelling visual analytics geographical information systems geographical information science moving objects . . .

Prof. dr. Haosheng Huang

location based services mobility analytics apatial cognition mobile HCI urban informatics geospatial AI (GeoAI)

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PhD research

Attribute Trajectory Analysis: Analyzing the Dynamics of Non-Spatial Data as Trajectories

Modelling of the Scene Complexity of Navigation Environments and Visual Areas of Interest for Egocentric Pedestrian Navigation Systems Using Street-View Panoramas