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Alexander Zipf is affiliated with Heidelberg University in Germany and has contributed extensively to research in the field of Social Sciences. Their work primarily spans subfields such as Transportation, Geography, Planning and Development, Global and Planetary Change, Ocean Engineering, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

Their research topics cover a wide range of areas related to geographic information and urban environments, including Geographic Information Systems Studies, Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis, Automated Road and Building Extraction, Data Management and Algorithms, Land Use and Ecosystem Services, Remote-Sensing Image Classification, and Data-Driven Disease Surveillance.

Zipf's recent publications demonstrate a focus on remote sensing, urban data, and volunteered geographic information. Notable papers include:

  • Cross-city matters: A multimodal remote sensing benchmark dataset for cross-city semantic segmentation using high-resolution domain adaptation networks (2023, Remote Sensing of Environment)
  • A spatio-temporal analysis investigating completeness and inequalities of global urban building data in OpenStreetMap (2023, Nature Communications)
  • The evolution of humanitarian mapping within the OpenStreetMap community (2021, Scientific Reports)
  • Volunteered geographic information research in the first decade: a narrative review of selected journal articles in GIScience (2020, International Journal of Geographical Information Systems)
  • Mapping Public Urban Green Spaces Based on OpenStreetMap and Sentinel-2 Imagery Using Belief Functions (2021, ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information)

The scientist frequently collaborates with a group of co-authors, including Sven Lautenbach, Christina Ludwig, Hao Li, Benjamin Herfort, and Michael Schultz.

Their work is often published in venues such as:

  • ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information
  • AGILE GIScience Series
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Transactions in GIS
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Best Publications

  • The Street Network Evolution of Crowdsourced Maps: OpenStreetMap in Germany 2007-2011

    Pascal Neis;Dennis Zielstra;Alexander Zipf

  • Quality assessment for building footprints data on OpenStreetMap

    Hongchao Fan;Alexander Zipf;Qing Fu;Pascal Neis

  • A Comprehensive Framework for Intrinsic OpenStreetMap Quality Analysis

    Christopher Barron;Pascal Neis;Alexander Zipf

  • A geographic approach for combining social media and authoritative data towards identifying useful information for disaster management

    João Porto de Albuquerque;Benjamin Herfort;Alexander Brenning;Alexander Zipf

  • Analyzing the Contributor Activity of a Volunteered Geographic Information Project — The Case of OpenStreetMap

    Pascal Neis;Alexander Zipf

  • A Comparative Study of Proprietary Geodata and Volunteered Geographic Information for Germany

    Dennis Zielstra;Alexander Zipf

  • DEEP MAP: Challenging IT Research In The Framework Of A Tourist Information System

    Rainer Malaka;Alexander Zipf

  • User-Adaptive Maps for Location-Based Services (LBS) for Tourism.

    Alexander Zipf

  • Generating web-based 3D City Models from OpenStreetMap: The current situation in Germany

    Martin Over;Arne Schilling;S. Neubauer;Alexander Zipf

  • Fine-resolution population mapping using OpenStreetMap points-of-interest

    Mohamed Bakillah;Steve Liang;Amin Mobasheri;Jamal Jokar Arsanjani

  • Intelligent systems for tourism

    S. Stabb;H. Werther;F. Ricci;A. Zipf

  • Neural correlates of individual differences in affective benefit of real-life urban green space exposure.

    Heike Tost;Markus Reichert;Markus Reichert;Urs Braun;Iris Reinhard

  • An Advanced Systematic Literature Review on Spatiotemporal Analyses of Twitter Data

    Enrico Steiger;João Porto de Albuquerque;Alexander Zipf

  • Location-based mobile tourist services - first user experiences.

    Barbara Schmidt-Belz;Heimo Laamanen;Stefan Poslad;Alexander Zipf

  • Twitter as an indicator for whereabouts of people? Correlating Twitter with UK census data

    Enrico Steiger;René Westerholt;Bernd Resch;Alexander Zipf

  • Comparison of Volunteered Geographic Information Data Contributions and Community Development for Selected World Regions

    Pascal Neis;Dennis Zielstra;Alexander Zipf

  • Map-based Mobile Services: Theories, Methods and Implementations

    Liqiu Meng;Alexander Zipf;Tumasch Reichenbacher

  • Toward mapping land-use patterns from volunteered geographic information

    Jamal Jokar Arsanjani;Marco Helbich;Mohamed Bakillah;Julian Hagenauer

  • Exploration of spatiotemporal and semantic clusters of Twitter data using unsupervised neural networks

    Enrico Steiger;Bernd Resch;Alexander Zipf

  • Road-based travel recommendation using geo-tagged images

    Yeran Sun Sun;Hongchao Fan;Mohamed Bakillah;Alexander Zipf

  • The use of Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) and Crowdsourcing in Disaster Management: a Systematic Literature Review.

    Flávio Eduardo Aoki Horita;Lívia Castro Degrossi;Luiz Fernando Ferreira Gomes de Assis;Alexander Zipf

  • OpenStreetMap in GIScience: Experiences, Research, and Applications

    Jamal Jokar Arsanjani;Alexander Zipf;Peter Mooney;Marco Helbich

Frequent Co-Authors

Ulrich W. Ebner-Priemer
Ulrich W. Ebner-Priemer Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg
Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg Heidelberg University
Heike Tost
Heike Tost Heidelberg University
Marco Helbich
Marco Helbich Utrecht University
Bernhard Höfle
Bernhard Höfle Heidelberg University
Bin Jiang
Bin Jiang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Till Bärnighausen
Till Bärnighausen Heidelberg University
Linda See
Linda See International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Alexander Brenning
Alexander Brenning Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Wolff Schlotz
Wolff Schlotz Max Planck Society

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