Scientific publications

Within the Master program in Geospatial Technologies, our students work together with their supervisors on current scientific problems, which in some cases results in scientific works published in international journals, conferences or workshops. Please find a list of such internationally published works below:

2023

Lorenz Beck & Simge Özdal Oktay (2023). Designing a Cycling Dashboard as a Way of Communicating Local Sustainability. Sustainability 2023, 15(17), 12829; https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/15/17/12829

Li, R., Erickson, D., Belcaid, M., Chinedu, M. F., & Akanbi, O. O. (2023). A Tale of Two Cities: COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy as a Result of Racial, Socioeconomic, Digital, and Partisan Divides. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 12(4), 158. http://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi12040158

2022

Jaskaran Singh Puri & Andre Kotze (2022). Evaluation of SRGAN Algorithm for Superresolution of Satellite Imagery on Different Sensors https://agile-giss.copernicus.org/articles/3/57/2022/

Vicente Tang, Jaskaran Puri & Marco Painho (2022). Mapping a historic neighbourhood through user-generated content: the case of Alfama, Lisbon (Portugal) https://agile-giss.copernicus.org/articles/3/63/2022/

Lucas Casuccio & André Kotze (2022). Corn planting quality assessment in very high-resolution RGB UAV imagery using Yolov5 and Python https://agile-giss.copernicus.org/articles/3/28/2022/

Niraula, P., Mateu, J., & Chaudhuri, S. (2022). A Bayesian machine learning approach for spatio-temporal prediction of COVID-19 cases. Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment, 1-19. doi: 10.1007/s00477-021-02168-w

2021

Mahmood, M., Mateu, J., & Hernández-Orallo, E. (2021). Contextual contact tracing based on stochastic compartment modeling and spatial risk assessment. Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment, 1-25. doi: 10.1007/s00477-021-02065-2

Lai, P.-C. and Degbelo, A. (2021). A comparative study of typing and speech for map metadata creation. In Partsinevelos, P., Kyriakidis, P., and Kavouras, M. (eds) Proceedings of the 24th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science (AGILE 2021), pp. 1–12. doi: 10.5194/agile-giss-2-7-2021

Barros, M., Degbelo, A. and Filomena, G. (2021). Evaluative maps 2.0: a web mapping approach to capture people’s perceptions of a city. Transactions in GIS. doi: 10.1111/tgis.12867

Lucas Braun, Auriol Degbelo, Christian Kray (2021). Geofreebie: a location-based freecycling app to support forced migrant resettlement. Journal of Location Based Services, pp. 27 – 60, January 2021. https://doi.org/10.1080/17489725.2021.1874553

2020

Jefferson Valencia, Fredy Monserrate, Sven Casteleyn, Vincent Bax, Wendy Francesconi, Marcela Quintero (2020). A GIS-based methodological framework to identify superficial water sources and their corresponding conduction paths for gravity-driven irrigation systems in developing countries. Agricultural Water Management, pp. 1 – 9, Volume 232, April 2020, 1060483. http://repositori.uji.es/xmlui/handle/10234/186941

Edorta Iraegui, Gabriela Augusto and Pedro Cabral. Assessing Equity in the Accessibility to Urban Green Spaces According to Dier Functional Levels. ISPRS Int. J. Geo-Inf. 2020, 9, 308. https://www.mdpi.com/2220-9964/9/5/308/pdf

Hassan Omar and Pedro Cabral. Ecological Risk Assessment Based on Land Cover
Changes: A Case of Zanzibar (Tanzania). Remote Sin. 2020, 12, 3114 https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/12/19/3114/pdf

Stavros Sakellariou, Pedro Cabral, Mário Caetano, Filiberto Pla, Marco Painho, Olga Christopoulou , Athanassios Sfougaris, Nicolas Dalezios and Christos Vasilakos. Remotely Sensed Fecha Fusion for Spatiotemporal Geostatistical Analysis of Forest Fire Hazard. Sensores 2020, 20, 5014 https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/20/17/5014/pdf

2019

Degbelo, A. and Teka, B., 2019. Spatial search strategies for open government data: A systematic comparison , in Purves, R. and Jones, C. B. (eds) 13th Workshop on Geographic Information Retrieval (GIR’19). Lyon, France: ACM Press, pp. 2:1–2:10. doi: 10.1145/3371140.3371142. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1911.01097.pdf

Moritz Hildemann, Carlos Delgado, 2019. An adaptable and scalable least cost network for air-taxis in urban areas Study area: Manhattan, New York. In: Kyriakidis, P., Hadjimitsis, D., Skarlatos, D. & Mansourian, A. (Eds.), 2019. Short Papers and Posters from the 22nd AGILE Conference on Geo-information Science. Cyprus University of Technology 17-20 June 2019, Limassol, Cyprus. ISBN 978-90-816960-9-8, Publisher: Stichting AGILE. https://agile-online.org/images/conference_2019/documents/short_papers/40_Upload_your_PDF_file.pdf

Jordan Bates, Tanmoy Chakraborty, 2019. Flood Risk Assessment and Mitigation Using Small Unmanned Aircraft Data. In: Kyriakidis, P., Hadjimitsis, D., Skarlatos, D. & Mansourian, A. (Eds.), 2019. Short Papers and Posters from the 22nd AGILE Conference on Geo-information Science. Cyprus University of Technology 17-20 June 2019, Limassol, Cyprus. ISBN 978-90-816960-9-8, Publisher: Stichting AGILE. https://agile-online.org/images/conference_2019/documents/short_papers/102_Upload_your_PDF_file.pdf

2018

Christoph Brox, Sven Casteleyn, Christian Kray, Marco Painho, Joaquín Huerta and Werner Kuhn. Brain Drain or Brain Gain?  Insights from an Erasmus Mundus Masters Program, In: Mansourian, A., Pilesjö, P., Harrie, L., & von Lammeren, R. (Eds.), 2018. Geospatial Technologies for All : short papers, posters and poster abstracts of the 21th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science. Lund University 12-15 June 2018, Lund, Sweden. ISBN 978-3-319-78208-9. Accessible through https://agile-online.org/images/conferences/2018/documents/shortpapers/68%2068%20Brox%20et%20al.%20AGILE_short%20paper%20brain%20drain%20after%20review%20final%203.4.18.pdf

Pedro Pais Penedos. Precision Agriculture Using Unmanned Aerial Systems: Mapping Vigor’s Spatial Variability On Low-Density Agricultures Using a Canopy Pixel Classification And Interpolation Model, RUN (Repositório Universidade Nova) – http://hdl.handle.net/10362/33277

Sanjeevan Shrestha and Leonardo Vanneschi. Improved Fully Convolutional Network with Conditional Random Fields for Building Extraction, Remote Sens, 2018, 10, 1135. https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/10/7/1135

2017

Llanos-Herrera, L., Navarro-Racines, C. E., Valencia, J., Monserrate, F., Quintero, M. (2017) 30 Arc-Second Historical and Future Scenario Climate Surfaces for Western Honduras, Harvard Dataverse, V1 doi.org/10.7910/DVN/YR7QYP

Duy X. Tran, Nhung T. Nguyen, Hoan V. Kieu (2017) Applying GIS and remote sensing to study the relationship between urbanization and urban heat island in Hanoi, Vietnam.  Southeast Asian Geography Association Conference Proceedings, 28 November-1 December Jakarta, Indonesia. Accepted.

Duy X. Tran, Filiberto Pla, Pedro Latorre-Carmona, Soe W. Myint, Mario Caetano, Hoan V. Kieu (2017) Characterizing the Relationship between Land Use Land Cover Change and Land Surface Temperature. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing., 124, 119-132. doi.org/10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2017.01.001

Akande, A., Costa, A. C., Mateu, J., Henriques, R. (2017). Geospatial Analysis of Extreme Weather Events in Nigeria (1985–2015) Using Self-Organizing Maps. Advances in meteorology, 2017, Article ID 8576150. doi.org/10.1155/2017/8576150

Cabral P, G Augusto, A Akande, A Costa, N Amade, S Niquisse, A Atumane, A Cuna, K Kazemi, R Mlucasse, R Santha (2017). Assessing Mozambique’s exposure to coastal climate hazards and erosion. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 23, 45–52, doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2017.04.002

Raquel Martin-Pozuelo Ojalbo (2017) Open Data Of Crime: A Review Of Spanish Open Data Portals. AGILE 2017 Workshops on Open Data for Open Cities and Geogames, CEUR Workshop Proceedings, ISSN 1613-0073, pp. 12-23.

Ditsuhi Iskandaryan (2017) Open Data And Disaster Management. AGILE 2017 Workshops on Open Data for Open Cities and Geogames, CEUR Workshop Proceedings, ISSN 1613-0073, pp. 24-26.

Marcelo Galvao, Francisco Ramos, Marcus Lamar, Pastor Taco (2017) Dynamic Visualization of Transit Information Using Genetic Algorithms for Path Schematization. In: Ivan I., Horák J., Inspektor T. (eds) Dynamics in GIscience. GIS OSTRAVA 2017. pp. 99-113 (ISBN: 978-3-319-61296-6) doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61297-3_8

2016

Monserrate, Fredy; Valencia Gómez, Jefferson; Quintero, Marcela; Hyman, Glenn; Da Silva, Mayesse; Coppus, Ruben; Bautista, Oscar; Rivera, Ovidio; León, Josue; Manueles, Alexandra (2016) Aumentando la resiliencia climática en el occidente de Honduras: explorando fuentes de agua para pequeños productores rurales . United States Agency for International Development (USAID); Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical (CIAT); Escuela Agrícola Panamericana Zamorano (EAP Zamorano)., Cali, CO. 44 p.

Da Silva, Mayesse; Monserrate, Fredy; Valencia, Jefferson; Quintero, Marcela; Jarvis, Andy (2016) Digital mapping of soil properties in the West of Honduras, Central America, Harvard Dataverse, V2 doi.org/10.7910/DVN/QVXA7U,

Giuffrida, L., Velastegui, J., Ribeiro, S., Costa, A. C. (2016). A quality of life (QoL) Climate index for the United Kingdom, In: M. J. Pereira, M. J. Quintão, M. Ribeiro, A. Soares (Eds.) Geostatistics for Environmental Applications – geoENV 2016: Book of Abstracts, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, July 2016, p. 23. (ISBN: 978-989-98342-7-9)

Mühlbauer, S., Costa, A. C., Caetano, M. (2016) A spatiotemporal analysis of droughts and the influence of North Atlantic Oscillation in the Iberian Peninsula based on MODIS imagery. Theoretical and Applied Climatology 124(3), 703-721. doi.org/10.1007/s00704-015-1451-9

Akande, A., Palmer, T., Ribeiro, S., Costa, A. C. (2016). Spatio-temporal assessment of aridity in northern Nigeria. In: M. J. Pereira, M. J. Quintão, M. Ribeiro, A. Soares (Eds.) Geostatistics for Environmental Applications – geoENV 2016: Book of Abstracts, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, July 2016, p. 10. (ISBN: 978-989-98342-7-9)

2015

Yasmine Megahed, Pedro Cabral, Joel Silva and Mário Caetano (2015) Land Cover Mapping Analysis and Urban Growth Modelling Using Remote Sensing Techniques – Case Study: Greater Cairo Region – Egypt, ISPR IJGI – International Journal in Geo-Information, 4(3), 1750 – 1769

Bhowmik, A. K., Costa, A. C. (2015) Representativeness impacts on accuracy and precision of climate spatial interpolation in data-scarce regions. Meteorological Applications, 22(3), 368-377. doi.org/10.1002/met.1463

2014

Maimatiyiming, M.,  A. Ghulam, T. Teyip, F. Pla, P. Carmona, M. Caetano, M. Sawut, and U. Halik (2014) Effects of spatial pattern of green space on land surface temperature: implications for sustainable urban planning and climate change adaptation, Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 89: 59-66.

Mwambo F, Cabral P. (2014) An application of geographic information systems to model the habitat suitability of Pan troglodytes ellioti in Mount Cameroon National Park in the context of a changing global climate. Journal of Agriculture and Environment for International Development, 108 (1): 63 – 79

Bhowmik, A. K., Costa, A. C. (2014). Data Scarcity or low Representativeness?: What hinders accuracy and precision of spatial interpolation of climate data? In: J. Huerta, S. Schade, C. Granell (Eds.), Connecting a Digital Europe through Location and Place. Proceedings of the AGILE’2014 International Conference on Geographic Information Science, Castellón, Spain, 3-6 June 2014. (ISBN: 978-90-816960-4-3)

Bin yam Tilahun, Tomi Kauppinen, Carsten Keßler, Fleur Fritz (2014) Design and Development of a Linked Open Data-Based Health Information Representation and Visualization System: Potentials and Preliminary Evaluation. JMIR Medical Informatics 2 (2) e31 doi.org/10.2196/medinform.3531

2013

Abdi, A.M. (2013) Integrating Open Access Geospatial Data to Map the Habitat Suitability of the Declining Corn Bunting (Miliaria calandra). ISPRS Int. J. Geo-Inf. 2, 935-954. oi.org/10.3390/ijgi2040935

Cabral P, Augusto G, Tewolde M, Araya Y. (2013) Entropy in Urban Systems, Entropy, 15, 5223-5236

Mühlbauer, S., Costa, A. C. and Caetano, M. (2013). The influence of North Atlantic Oscillation on local drought occurrences in the Iberian peninsula using the Vegetation Temperature Condition Index. In: Conference Proceedings of the 13th SGEM GeoConference on Science and Technologies In Geology, Exploration and Mining. Albena, Bulgaria, June 16-22, 2013, Vol. 2, pp. 903-912. (ISBN: 978-954-91818-8-3; ISSN: 1314-2704)

Mühlbauer, S., Caetano, M. and Costa, A. C. (2013). Recent droughts and the impact on land use and land cover in the Iberian peninsula: a spatiotemporal analysis based on the Vegetation Temperature Condition Index. In: Conference Proceedings of the 13th SGEM GeoConference on Informatics, Geoinformatics And Remote Sensing. Albena, Bulgaria, 16-22 June 2013, Vol. 2, pp. 669-678. (ISBN: 978-619-7105-01-8; ISSN: 1314-2704)

Gonzalez, D. G. and Costa, A. C. (2013). Merging multispectral and pancromatic bands of Landsat using cokriging. In: Conference Proceedings of the 13th SGEM GeoConference on Informatics, Geoinformatics And Remote Sensing. Albena, Bulgaria, 16-22 June 2013, Vol. 2, pp. 639-646 (ISBN: 978-619-7105-01-8; ISSN: 1314-2704)

Bhowmik A., Cabral P. (2013). Space-time Variability of Summer Temperature Field over Bangladesh during 1948-2007. Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2013, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 7974,  2013,   pp 120-135

2012

Nurefsan Gur, Laura Diaz and Tomi Kaupinnen. (2012). GI Systems for Public Health with an Ontology Based Approach. In D. J. a. D. V. E. Jérôme Gensel (Ed.), Multidisciplinary Research on Geographical Information in Europe and Beyond: Proceedings of the AGILE’2012 International Conference on Geographic Information Science, Avignon, France, 24-27 April.(pp. 86-92).

Bayes Ahmed and Raquib Ahmed (2012) Modeling Urban Land Cover Growth Dynamics Using Multi?Temporal Satellite Images: A Case Study of Dhaka, Bangladesh ISPRS Int. J. Geo-Inf. 1(1), 3-31 doi.org/10.3390/ijgi1010003

Williams, Maia; Werner Kuhn, and Marco Painho (2012). The influence of landscape variation on landform categorization. Journal of Spatial Information Science. Number 5 (2012), pp. 51-73. Doi: 10.5311/JOSIS.2012.5.107

Sulçe, A., Drate, P., Costa, A. C., & Painho, M. (2012). Space-time patterns of temperature in Sweden and Europe. In D. J. a. D. V. E. Jérôme Gensel (Ed.), Multidisciplinary Research on Geographical Information in Europe and Beyond: Proceedings of the AGILE’2012 International Conference on Geographic Information Science, Avignon, France, 24-27 April (pp. 343-344).

P. Aragó, C. Granell, J. Huerta, L. Díaz (2012) Evaluación del uso y necesidades de información geoespacial de los profesionales en prevención y extinción de incendios forestales. GeoFocus (Informes y comentarios), 12, 1-13, ISSN 1578-5157

2011

Bhowmik, A., & Cabral, P. (2011). Statistical Evaluation of Spatial Interpolation Methods for Small-Sampled Region: A Case Study of Temperature Change Phenomenon in Bangladesh. In B. Murgante, O. Gervasi, A. Iglesias, D. Taniar & B. Apduhan (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2011 (Vol. 6782, pp. 44-59). Berlin / Heidelberg: Springer.

Kruk, L., Limbu, M. K., Okyay, U., Cabral, P., Costa, A. C., & Painho, M. (2011) An ArcGIS ModelBuilder Application for Comparing Interpolation Methods. Paper presented at the 14th AGILE International Conference on Geographic Information Science, Utrecht 18-21 April 2011, The Netherlands.

Tewolde, M. G., & Cabral, P. (2011). Urban Sprawl Analysis and Modeling in Asmara, Eritrea. Remote Sensing, 3(10), 2148-2165. doi: 10.3390/rs3102148

Bhowmik, A., & Cabral, P. (2011) Damage and Post-cyclone Regeneration Assessment of the Sundarbans Botanic Biodiversity caused by the Cyclone Sidr. Paper presented at the 1st World Sustainability Forum, 1-30 November 2011, Basel, Switzerland.

dela Cruz, P., Cabral, P., & Mateu, J. (2011). Mapping the Quality of Life Experience in Alfama: A Case Study in Lisbon, Portugal. In B. Murgante, O. Gervasi, A. Iglesias, D. Taniar & B. Apduhan (Eds.), ICCSA 2011: Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2011. pp. 269-283. doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21928-3_19

2010
Araya, Y. H., & Cabral, P. (2010). Analysis and Modeling of Urban Land Cover Change in Setubal and Sesimbra, Portugal. Remote Sensing, 2(6), 1549-1563. doi: 10.3390/rs2061549

Bayes Ahmed and Raquib Ahmed (2010) Modeling Urban Land Cover Growth Dynamics Using Multi?Temporal Satellite Images: A Case Study of Dhaka, Bangladesh ISPRS Int. J. Geo-Inf. 1 (1) 3-31 doi.org/10.3390/ijgi1010003

Cristian Martín-Reinhold, Joaquín Huerta, Carlos Granell (2010) gvSIGDroid: An open source GIS solution for the Android platform. Proceedings of the 6th Intl Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies, Volume 2 (WEBIST 2010). Valencia, Spain, Apr 2010, pp.195-199, ISBN 978-989-674-025-2.

Kandel, C., Caetano, M. & Cabral, P. (2010). Forest cover monitoring of Bara district (Nepal) using remote sensing and geographic information systems. Banko Janakari, 20 (1),30-36.

Geisa Bugs, Carlos Granell, Óscar Fonts, Joaquín Huerta, Marco Painho (2010) An assessment of Public Participation GIS and Web 2.0 technologies in urban planning practice in Canela, Brazil. Cities: The International Journal of Urban Policy and Planning, 27 (3): 172-181 ISSN 0264-2751.

Molin, P. & Caetano, M. (2010). An analysis of carbon stock changes in Continental Portugal from 1985 to 2006. Actas do myESIG2010, Conferência Ibérica de Utilizadores de Sistemas de Informação Geográfica, Oeiras.

Mwambo, F., Cabral, P., Caetano, M. & Mateu, J. (2010). Human activities and climatic change modelling on the habitat suitability for the chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes ellioti) in the proposed Mount Cameroon National Park using Maxent. Actas do myESIG2010, Conferência Ibérica de Utilizadores de Sistemas de Informação Geográfica, Oeiras.

Tewolde, M. G., Beza, T. A., Costa, A. C., & Painho, M. (2010). Comparison of different interpolation techniques to map temperature in the southern region of Eritrea. In: Painho, M., Santos, M. Y., Pundt, H. (Eds.). Proceedings of the 13th AGILE International Conference on Geographic Information Science – Geospatial Thinking, Guimarães, Portugal.

2009
Alain Tamayo, Joaquín Huerta, Carlos Granell, Laura Díaz, Ricardo Quirós (2009). gvSOS: A new client for OGC Sensor Observation Service interface standard. Transaction in GIS, 13(s1): 46-61.

Carlos Abargues, Carlos Granell, Laura Díaz, Joaquín Huerta, Arturo Beltrán (2009) Discovery of user-generated geographic data using web search engines. In G. Jedlovec (Ed): Advances in Geoscience and Remote Sensing, In-Tech (Vukovar, 2009), pp. 207-228, ISBN 978-953-307-005-6.