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Personal profile
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Frank has joined the ITC in 2014 as an Assistant Professor for Cloud and Crowd geo-information processing. His main research interests are the opportunities and challenges of distributed collection, storage, processing and sharing of crowd-sourced and volunteered geographic information. Since 2009, he holds a PhD (Dr. sc. nat.) in Geographic Information Science from the University of Zurich. Previous work includes three years as a post-doctoral researcher at the Joint Research Center of the European Commission, as well as several years as a research assistant at the University of Zurich and Hamburg on several EU-funded projects on user-generated geographic content, and spatio-temporal data analysis and visualization in urban contexts.
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Research Output 2006 2017
Citizen data scientists : an interactive, crowdsourced approach to validation and supervision : powerpoint
Ostermann, F. O., Garcia Chapeton, G. A., Zurita-Milla, R. & Kraak, M. J. 2017 p. 1s-19s 19 p.Research output: Other research output › Other
supervision
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Exploring Vegetation Phenology At Continental Scales : Linking Temperature-Based Indices And Land Surface Phenological Metrics
Zurita-Milla, R., Goncalves, R., Izquierdo-Verdiguier, E. & Ostermann, F. O. 2017 Proceedings of the 2017 conference on big data from space (BiDS '17), 28-30 November 2017, Toulouse, France. Soille, P. & Marchetti, P. G. (eds.). Ispra, p. 63-66 4 p.Research output: Scientific - peer-review › Conference contribution
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Geographic variability of Twitter usage characteristics during disaster events : open access
Zahra, K., Ostermann, F. O. & Purves, R. S. 3 Jul 2017 In : Geo-spatial information science. 20, 3, p. 231-240 10 p.Research output: Scientific - peer-review › Article
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Geo-visual analytics for pest population dynamics
Garcia Chapeton, G. A. & Ostermann, F. O. 2017 Societal Geo-Innovation: short papers, posters and poster abstracts of the 20th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science, 9-12 May 2017, Wageningen, the Netherlands . Bergt, A., Sarjakoski, T., van Lammeren, R. & Rip, F. (eds.). Wageningen: Wageningen University & Research Centre, 5 p.Research output: Scientific - peer-review › Conference contribution
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Mining user-generated geographic content: an interactive, crowdsourced approach to validation and supervision
Ostermann, F. O., Garcia Chapeton, G. A., Zurita-Milla, R. & Kraak, M. J. 2017 Societal Geo-Innovation: short papers, posters and poster abstracts of the 20th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science, 9-12 May 2017, Wageningen, the Netherlands. Bergt, A., Sarjakoski, T., van Lammeren, R. & Rip, F. (eds.). Wageningen: Wageningen University & Research Centre, 6 p.Research output: Scientific - peer-review › Conference contribution
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