Cartography & GIS

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

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03-07-2024

Zhicheng Zhan successfully defended his PhD

On Tuesday 25 June 2024, Zhicheng Zhan successfully defended his PhD: "Analyzing Crowdsourced Indoor Route Descriptions to Facilitate Indoor Navigation".

Supervisors: Prof Nico Van de Weghe (UGent), Prof Haosheng Huang (UGent).

Members of the examination committee: Chairman: Prof Alain De Wulf (UGent), Prof Georg Gartner (Vienna University of Technology), Prof Philippe De Maeyer (UGent), Dr Pepijn Viaene (HoGent), Dr Laure De Cock (UGent).

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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