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Ross S. Purves is affiliated with the University of Zurich in Switzerland. Their research work mainly focuses on social sciences and environmental science, with significant contributions in subfields such as geography, planning and development, transportation, global and planetary change, signal processing, and experimental and cognitive psychology.

The scientist's main research topics include geographic information systems studies, land use and ecosystem services, human mobility and location-based analysis, urban green space and health, data management and algorithms, species distribution and climate change, and urban transport and accessibility.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Ross S. Purves cover various aspects of urban science, mobility, and landscape analysis. These include:

  • Points of Interest (POI): a commentary on the state of the art, challenges, and prospects for the future, 2022, Computational Urban Science
  • A comparative analysis of trajectory similarity measures, 2021, GIScience & Remote Sensing
  • From online texts to Landscape Character Assessment: Collecting and analysing first-person landscape perception computationally, 2020, Landscape and Urban Planning
  • Where to improve cycling infrastructure? Assessing bicycle suitability and bikeability with open data in the city of Paris, 2022, Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives
  • Assessing the potential of social media for estimating recreational use of urban and peri-urban forests, 2021, Urban Forestry & Urban Greening

Ross S. Purves has frequently collaborated with several researchers, notably:

  • Benjamin Adams
  • Olga Koblet
  • Flurina M. Wartmann
  • Manuel F. Baer
  • Maximilian C. Hartmann

The scientist has often published in distinguished venues such as:

  • Journal of Spatial Information Science
  • PLoS ONE
  • AGILE GIScience Series
  • Landscape and Urban Planning
  • Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Best Publications

  • Exploring place through user-generated content: Using Flickr to describe city cores

    Livia Hollenstein;Livia Hollenstein;Ross S Purves

  • Geographical information retrieval

    Christopher B. Jones;Ross S. Purves

  • Modelling vague places with knowledge from the Web

    C. B. Jones;R. S. Purves;P. D. Clough;H. Joho

  • Spatial information retrieval and geographical ontologies an overview of the SPIRIT project

    Christopher B. Jones;R. Purves;A. Ruas;M. Sanderson

  • The design and implementation of SPIRIT: a spatially aware search engine for information retrieval on the Internet

    Ross S. Purves;Paul Clough;Christopher B. Jones;Avi Arampatzis

  • How fast is a cow? Cross-Scale Analysis of Movement Data

    Patrick Laube;Ross S. Purves

  • Efficient transmission of vector data over the Internet

    Bisheng Yang;Ross Purves;Robert Weibel

  • A comparative analysis of trajectory similarity measures

    Yaguang Tao;Alan Both;Rodrigo I. Silveira;Kevin Buchin

  • Describing place through user generated content

    Ross S Purves;Alistair J Edwardes;Jo Wood

  • Improved methods for measuring forest landscape structure: LiDAR complements field-based habitat assessment

    Florian Zellweger;Felix Morsdorf;Ross S. Purves;Veronika Braunisch;Veronika Braunisch

  • From text to landscape: locating, identifying and mapping the use of landscape features in a Swiss Alpine corpus

    Curdin Derungs;Ross S. Purves

  • The influence of elevation uncertainty on derivation of topographic indices

    Felix Hebeler;Ross S Purves

  • From online texts to Landscape Character Assessment: Collecting and analysing first-person landscape perception computationally

    Olga Koblet;Ross S. Purves

  • A quantitative analysis of global gazetteers: Patterns of coverage for common feature types

    Elise Acheson;Stefano De Sabbata;Ross S. Purves

  • Crowdsourcing language change with smartphone applications

    Adrian Leemann;Marie-José Kolly;Marie-José Kolly;Ross S Purves;David Britain

  • Nearest neighbours for avalanche forecasting in Scotland—development, verification and optimisation of a model

    R.S Purves;K.W Morrison;G Moss;D.S.B Wright

  • Describing and comparing landscapes using tags, texts, and free lists: an interdisciplinary approach

    Flurina M. Wartmann;Elise Acheson;Ross S. Purves

  • An approach to evaluating motion pattern detection techniques in spatio-temporal data

    Patrick Laube;Ross S. Purves

  • Identifying imprecise regions for geographic information retrieval using the web

    Ross Purves;Paul Clough;Hideo Joho

  • Analysis and visualization of animal movement.

    Judy Shamoun-Baranes;E. Emiel van Loon;Ross S. Purves;Bettina Speckmann

  • Twitter location (sometimes) matters: Exploring the relationship between georeferenced tweet content and nearby feature classes

    Stefan Hahmann;Ross S Purves;Dirk Burghardt

  • Sensitivities and uncertainties of modeled ground temperatures in mountain environments

    Stefanie Gubler;Stefano Endrizzi;Stephan Gruber;Ross S Purves

  • Exploring uncertainty in glacier mass balance modelling with Monte Carlo simulation

    Horst Machguth;Ross S Purves;Johannes Oerlemans;Martin Hoelzle

  • Places in Information Science.

    Ross S. Purves;Stephan Winter;Werner Kuhn

  • Geographic Information Retrieval: Progress and Challenges in Spatial Search of Text

    Ross S. Purves;Paul Clough;Christopher B. Jones;Mark Michael Hall

Frequent Co-Authors

Christopher B. Jones
Christopher B. Jones Cardiff University
Robert Weibel
Robert Weibel University of Zurich
Paul Clough
Paul Clough University of Sheffield
Graham Welch
Graham Welch University College London
Stephan Gruber
Stephan Gruber Carleton University
David E. Sugden
David E. Sugden King's College London
Susanne Boll
Susanne Boll Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg
Michael J. Bentley
Michael J. Bentley Durham University
Natalia Andrienko
Natalia Andrienko Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems
Gennady Andrienko
Gennady Andrienko Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems

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