Coupling weather generation and hydrological modelling

Date: Thursday, July, 10, 2014; 12:30 – 13:30

Place: Techno-Z, ZGIS-meeting room: SC30EG0.E07 (Schillerstraße 30, building 15)

Presenter: Korbinian Breinl (University of Salzburg, Z_GIS)

Hydrological impact assessment is usually conducted by coupling stochastic weather generation with hydrological modelling. Stochastic weather generators simulate synthetic weather data while maintaining statistical properties of the observations. They are typically used when the observation time series are too short or when multiple synthetic realizations of the observations data are required for uncertainty or extreme event analyses. Furthermore, stochastic weather generators can be parameterized to simulate the impact of climate change. Similar to a large variety of hydrological models, numerous types of stochastic weather generators of different levels of complexity are available. This brownbag will give an overview of various applications of such tools, thereby addressing the following topics: - What is the idea behind stochastic weather generators and what type of models do exist? - What types of hydrological models are available? - What is the best model choice for hydrological impact assessment (e.g. flood hazard assessment)? - How can the impact of climate change be simulated with such tools?

UN-SPIDER Tech Advisory Mission Bhutan

Stefan Kienberger from Z_GIS was invited to participate in the Technical Advisory Mission (TAM) to Bhutan. The participation builds on the close relationships between Z_GIS and UN-SPIDER as well as on a history of collaborations with institutions in Bhutan. The mission was led by UN-SPIDER and took place between June 2 – 6, 2014. Key objectives were to identify the existing capacity to use space-based information, analysing the institutional framework to support disaster management through space-based information and identifying limitations. Further information is available at the website of UN-SPIDER

AGEO Award for Eva-Maria Schönauer

At the AGIT opening session, AGEO president Peter Skalicky-Weichselberger presented Z_GIS alumna Eva-Maria Schönauer with the 3rd price in the annual AGEO Award competition. With this award, the Austrian Umbrella Organisation for Geographic Information highlights the best Master theses in Geoinformatics or related subjects at Austrian Universities.

Z_GIS congratulates Ms Schönauer to this impressive achievement and recognition of her thesis titled "Homogenisierung von Stromnetzdaten für INSPIRE".

Congratulations as well to equally ranked first price winners Andreas Partusch (FH Technikum Wien, Intelligent Transport Systems) - "Monte Carlo Simulation for the evaluation of routing results concerning their spatial distribution and variation" and Christoph Schlager (Technische Universität Graz, Institut für Geoinformation ) - "Interoperabler webbasierter Zugriff auf heterogene Sensordaten".

Watch out and be prepared for next year's AGEO Award announcement!

Improved Info Discovery with Recommender Systems

Congratulations to Bernhard Vockner from the Research Studio iSPACE, who today defended his PhD thesis "Enhancing Discovery in Geoportals: Geo-Enrichment, Semantic Enhancement and Recommendation Strategies for Geo-Information Discovery" with distinction!

Mr Vockner successfully presented his innovative work on adding recommender features to geoportals to his PhD committee at Z_GIS. Prof Bartelme (TU Graz) and Prof Car (GUTech Muscat) as discussants confronted the candidate with numerous questions and comments, leading a high level discussion about recent and future developments leading towards 'smarter' and more context aware geoportals.

Key publications within this dissertation are openly available:

• Geo-Enrichment and Semantic Enhancement of Metadata Sets to Augment Discovery in Geoportals by Bernhard Vockner and Manfred Mittlböck ISPRS Int. J. Geo-Inf. 2014, 3(1), 345-367; doi:10.3390/ijgi3010345
• Recommender-based enhancement of discovery in Geoportals by Bernhard Vockner, Mariana Belgiu, Manfred Mittlboeck. International Journal of Spatial Data Infrastructures Research. Vol 7 (2012)
• From Geoportals to Geographic Knowledge Portals by Bernhard Vockner, Andreas Richter and Manfred Mittlböck ISPRS Int. J. Geo-Inf. 2013, 2(2), 256-275; doi:10.3390/ijgi2020256

geoplatform.at as a demonstrator prototype with
enhanced information discovery options

GI_Forum 2014: Join us at AGIT EXPO

 






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The preparations for GI_Forum are already running at full speed! We welcome you on July 1 from ten o'clock at the GI_Forum registration desk.

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