Frank Ostermann

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Assistant Professor, Department of Geo-information Processing
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation
Assistant Professor, UT-I-ITC-STAMP

472 Citations
10 h-Index

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Personal profile

Frank joined the ITC in 2014 as an Assistant Professor. His main research interests are collaborative and crowdsourced approaches to creating and processing geographic information, e.g. involving OpenStreetMap, geosocial media, or citizen science, and their impact on reproducibility and representativeness of results. Since 2009, he holds a PhD (Dr. sc. nat.) from the University of Zurich. Previous work includes three years as a post-doctoral researcher at the Joint Research Center of the European Commission, and several years as a research assistant at the Universities of Zurich and Hamburg on EU-funded projects on user-generated geographic content and spatio-temporal data analysis in urban contexts.

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Research Output

Automatic identification of eyewitness messages on twitter during disasters

Zahra, K., Imran, M. & Ostermann, F. O., 1 Jan 2020, In : Information processing & management. 57, 1, p. 1-15 15 p., 102107.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review

7 Citations (Scopus)

Internet of Things in Geospatial Analytics

Kamilaris, A., Ostermann, F. O., Granell, C., Kotsev, A. & Trilles, S., Jan 2020, Manual of Digital Earth. Guo, H., Goodchild, M. F. & Annoni, A. (eds.). Springer

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Academic › peer-review