ZORA Publikationsliste

Publikationen

• 2025

  • Artikel in wissenschaftlicher Zeitschrift

    • Kazemi Beydokhti, Mohammad; Duckham, Matt; Griffin, Amy L; Tao, Yaguang; Purves, Ross; Vasardani, Maria (2025). Probabilistic qualitative spatial reasoning with applications to GeoQA. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 39(4):817-846.

• 2024

  • Artikel in wissenschaftlicher Zeitschrift

    • Baer, Manuel F; Wartmann, Flurina; Fagerholm, Nora; Purves, Ross S (2024). Extracting sensory experiences and cultural ecosystem services from actively crowdsourced descriptions of everyday lived landscapes. Ecosystems and People, 20(1):2331761.
    • Komossa, Franziska; Kong, Inhye; Purves, Ross S (2024). What’s in the news? A multiscalar text analysis approach to exploring news media discourses for managing protected areas in Switzerland. Landscape Research, 49(6):823-850.
    • Striedl, Philipp; Majid, Asifa; Purves, Ross S (2024). Sensory, motor, and emotion associations for landscape concepts differ across neighbouring speech communities. Landscape Research, 49(5):704-721.
    • Adams, Benjamin; Dodge, Somayeh; Purves, Ross (2024). Research articles in the GPT era. Journal of Spatial Information Science, (28):1-2.

  • Buchkapitel

    • Burghardt, Dirk; Dunkel, Alexander; Hauthal, Eva; Shirato, Gota; Andrienko, Natalia; Andrienko, Gennady; Hartmann, Maximilian; Purves, Ross (2024). Extraction and Visually Driven Analysis of VGI for Understanding People’s Behavior in Relation to Multifaceted Context. In: Burghardt, Dirk; Demidova, Elena; Keim, Daniel A. Volunteered Geographic Information: Interpretation, Visualization and Social Context. Cham: Springer, 241-264.
    • Backhaus, Norman; Hunziker, Marcel; Purves, Ross S; Siegrist, Dominik (2024). Landschaft und Freizeit. In: Kühne, Olaf; Weber, Florian; Berr, Karsten; Jenal, Corinna. Handbuch Landschaft (2. Auflage). Wiesbaden: Springer (Bücher), 1237-1247.

  • Konferenzbeitrag, Proceedings

    • Kong, Inhye; Purves, Ross S (2024). Locality and transferability: examining pre-built lexicons to elicit landscape values from natural language. In: AGILE: GIScience Series, Proceedings of the 27th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science, 4–7 Sept. 2024., Glasgow (Scotland), 4 September 2024 - 7 September 2024. Copernicus Publications, 1-6.
    • Gomes, Diego; Purves, Ross S; Volpi, Michele (2024). Fine-tuning transformers for toponym resolution: A contextual embedding approach to candidate ranking. In: GeoExT 2024: Second International Workshop on Geographic Information Extraction from Texts at ECIR 2024, Glasgow (Scotland), 24 March 2024. CEUR-WS, 43-51.

  • Working Papers

    • Otero, Iago; Keller, Roger; Reynard, Emmanuel; Cracco, Marina; D'Agostino, Alix; Schlaepfer, Martin A; Honeck, Erica C; Pfund, Jean-Laurent; Guntern, Jodok; Komossa, Franziska; Purves, Ross S; Lehmann, Bernard; Klein, Noëlle; Grêt-Regamey, Adrienne (2024). How can pluralist nature valuation impact Switzerland's biodiversity? Insights from the ValPar.CH project. ValPar.CH – Values of the Ecological Infrastructure in Swiss Parks 2024.4, University of Zurich.

• 2023

  • Artikel in wissenschaftlicher Zeitschrift

    • Hartmann, Maximilian C; Purves, Ross S (2023). Seeing through a new lens: exploring the potential of city walking tour videos for urban analytics. International Journal of Digital Earth, 16(1):2555-2573.
    • Komossa, Franziska; Marino, Daniela; Michel, Annina Helena; Purves, Ross S (2023). Find the one you like! Profiling Swiss parks with user generated content. Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism, 44:100673.
    • Purves, Ross S; Wartmann, Flurina M (2023). Characterising and mapping potential and experienced tranquillity: From a state of mind to a cultural ecosystem service. Geography Compass, 17(11):12726.
    • Ivanovic, Stefan S; Wood, Jo; Purves, Ross S (2023). Evaluation of bicycle sharing scheme data as a proxy for cycling mobility – How COVID-19 measures influenced cycling in Paris. Transportation research interdisciplinary perspectives, 22:100937.
    • Purves, Ross S; Striedl, Philipp; Kong, Inhye; Majid, Asifa (2023). Conceptualizing landscapes through language: the role of native language and expertise in the representation of waterbody related terms. Topics in Cognitive Science, 15(3):560-583.
    • Adams, Benjamin; Dodge, Somayeh; Purves, Ross (2023). Spatial Information Science in 2023. Journal of Spatial Information Science, (26):125-127.
    • Baer, Manuel F; Purves, Ross S (2023). Identifying landscape relevant natural language using actively crowdsourced landscape descriptions and sentence-transformers. Künstliche Intelligenz, 37(1):55-67.
    • Dunkel, Alexander; Hartmann, Maximilian C; Hauthal, Eva; Burghardt, Dirk; Purves, Ross S (2023). From sunrise to sunset: Exploring landscape preference through global reactions to ephemeral events captured in georeferenced social media. PLoS ONE, 18(2):e0280423.

  • Konferenzbeitrag, Proceedings

    • Mariño, Daniela; Moncla, Ludovic; Purves, Ross S (2023). Extracting positive descriptions and exploring landscape value using text analysis in the Cairngorms National Park. In: SIGSPATIAL '23: The 31st ACM International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, Hamburg Germany, 13 November 2023, 44-47.

• 2022

  • Artikel in wissenschaftlicher Zeitschrift

    • Karimi, Mina; Mesgari, Mohammad Saadi; Purves, Ross S (2022). A comparative assessment of machine learning methods in extracting place functionality from textual content. Transactions in GIS, 26(8):3225-3252.
    • Hartmann, Maximilian C; Schott, Moritz; Dsouza, Alishiba; Metz, Yannick; Volpi, Michele; Purves, Ross S (2022). A text and image analysis workflow using citizen science data to extract relevant social media records: Combining red kite observations from Flickr, eBird and iNaturalist. Ecological Informatics, 71:101782.
    • Baer, Manuel F; Purves, Ross S (2022). Window Expeditions: A playful approach to crowdsourcing natural language descriptions of everyday lived landscapes. Applied Geography, 148:102802.
    • Stahl Olafsson, Anton; Purves, Ross S; Wartmann, Flurina M; Garcia-Martin, Maria; Fagerholm, Nora; Torralba, Mario; Albert, Christian; Verbrugge, Laura N H; Heikinheimo, Vuokko; Plieninger, Tobias; Bieling, Claudia; Kaaronen, Roope; Hartmann, Maximilian; Raymond, Christopher M (2022). Comparing landscape value patterns between participatory mapping and geolocated social media content across Europe. Landscape and Urban Planning, 226:104511.
    • Wysling, Laura; Purves, Ross S (2022). Where to improve cycling infrastructure? Assessing bicycle suitability and bikeability with open data in the city of Paris. Transportation research interdisciplinary perspectives, 15:100648.
    • Psyllidis, Achilleas; Gao, Song; Hu, Yingjie; Kim, Eun-Kyeong; McKenzie, Grant; Purves, Ross S; Yuan, May; Andris, Clio (2022). Points of Interest (POI): a commentary on the state of the art, challenges, and prospects for the future. Computational Urban Science, 2(1):20.
    • Ivanovic, Stefan S; Purves, Ross S (2022). Effects of traffic perturbations on bike sharing demand – a case study of public transport strikes and protests in Paris. AGILE: GIScience Series, 3:1-6.
    • Villette, Julia; Burenhult, Niclas; Purves, Ross S (2022). Maps meet myths: Understanding Jahai place naming through Geographical Information Systems. Journal of Linguistic Geography, 10(1):1-10.
    • Hartmann, Maximilian C; Koblet, Olga; Baer, Manuel F; Purves, Ross S (2022). Automated motif identification: Analysing Flickr images to identify popular viewpoints in Europe’s protected areas. Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism, 37:100479.

  • Herausgeberschaft eines wissenschaftlichen Werks

    • Edited by: Purves, Ross S; Koblet, Olga; Adams, Benjamin (2022). London: Ubiquity Press. Unlocking environmental narratives: towards understanding human environment interactions through computational text analysis.

• 2021

  • Artikel in wissenschaftlicher Zeitschrift

    • Hutter, Veronika; Techel, Frank; Purves, Ross S (2021). How is avalanche danger described in textual descriptions in avalanche forecasts in Switzerland? Consistency between forecasters and avalanche danger. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 21(12):3879-3897.
    • Wartmann, Flurina M; Baer, Manuel F; Hegetschweiler, K T; Fischer, C; Hunziker, M; Purves, Ross S (2021). Assessing the potential of social media for estimating recreational use of urban and peri-urban forests. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 64:127261.
    • Wartmann, Flurina M; Koblet, Olga; Purves, Ross S (2021). Assessing experienced tranquillity through natural language processing and landscape ecology measures. Landscape Ecology, 36(8):2347-2365.
    • Tao, Yaguang; Both, Alan; Silveira, Rodrigo I; Buchin, Kevin; Sijben, Stef; Purves, Ross S; Laube, Patrick; Peng, Dongliang; Toohey, Kevin; Duckham, Matt (2021). A comparative analysis of trajectory similarity measures. GIScience and Remote Sensing, 58(5):643-669.
    • Acheson, Elise; Purves, Ross S (2021). Extracting and modeling geographic information from scientific articles. PLoS ONE, 16(1):e0244918.
    • Larsson, Jens; Burenhult, Niclas; Kruspe, Nicole; Purves, Ross S; Rothstein, Mikael; Sercombe, Peter (2021). Integrating behavioral and geospatial data on the timeline: towards new dimensions of analysis. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 24(1):1-13.

• 2020

  • Artikel in wissenschaftlicher Zeitschrift

    • Adams, Benjamin; Dodge, Somayeh; Purves, Ross S (2020). JOSIS' 10th anniversary special feature: part two. Journal of Spatial Information Science, (21):1-4.
    • Das, Rahul Deb; Purves, Ross S (2020). Exploring the potential of Twitter to understand traffic events and their locations in Greater Mumbai, India. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 21(12):5213-5222.
    • Bahrehdar, Azam Raha; Adams, Benjamin; Purves, Ross S (2020). Streets of London: Using Flickr and OpenStreetMap to build an interactive image of the city. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 84:101524.
    • van Putten, Saskia; O’Meara, Carolyn; Wartmann, Flurina; Yager, Joanne; Villette, Julia; Mazzuca, Claudia; Bieling, Claudia; Burenhult, Niclas; Purves, Ross; Majid, Asifa (2020). Conceptualisations of landscape differ across European languages. PLoS ONE, 15(10):e0239858.
    • Adams, Benjamin; Dodge, Somayeh; Purves, Ross (2020). JOSIS' 10th anniversary special feature. Journal of Spatial Information Science, (20):1-4.
    • Koblet, Olga; Purves, Ross S (2020). From online texts to Landscape Character Assessment: Collecting and analysing first-person landscape perception computationally. Landscape and Urban Planning, 197:103757.
    • Bruggmann, André; Fabrikant, Sara I; Purves, Ross S (2020). How can geographic information in text documents be visualized to support information exploration in the humanities?. International Journal of Humanities and Arts Comouting, 14(1-2):98-118.
    • Villette, Julia; Purves, Ross S (2020). From microtoponyms to landscape using semantics, location, and topography: the case of Wald, Holz, Riet, and Moos in St. Gallen, Switzerland. The Professional Geographer, 72(1):109-120.

  • Buchkapitel

    • Leidner, Jochen L; Martins, Bruno; McDonough, Katherine; Purves, Ross S (2020). Text meets space: Geographic content extraction, resolution and information retrieval. In: Jose, Joemon M; Yilmaz, Emine; Magalhães, João; Castells, Pablo; Ferro, Nicola; Silva, Mário J; Martins, Flávio. Advances in Information Retrieval: 42nd European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2020, Lisbon, Portugal, April 14–17, 2020, Proceedings, Part II. Cham (Switzerland): Springer, 669-673.

• 2019

  • Artikel in wissenschaftlicher Zeitschrift

    • Chesnokova, Olga; Taylor, Joanna E; Gregory, Ian N; Purves, Ross S (2019). Hearing the silence: finding the middle ground in the spatial humanities? Extracting and comparing perceived silence and tranquillity in the English Lake District. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 33(12):2430-2454.
    • Purves, Ross S; Winter, Stephan; Kuhn, Werner (2019). Places in information science. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 70(11):1173-1182.
    • Baer, Manuel F; Wartmann, Flurina M; Purves, Ross S (2019). StarBorn: Towards making in‐situ land cover data generation fun with a location‐based game. Transactions in GIS, 23(5):1008-1028.
    • Acheson, Elise; Volpi, Michele; Purves, Ross S (2019). Machine learning for cross-gazetteer matching of natural features. International Journal of Geographical Information Science:1-27.
    • Bahrehdar, Azam Raha; Koblet, Olga; Purves, Ross S (2019). Approaching location-based services from a place-based perspective: from data to services?. Journal of Location Based Services, 13(2):73-93.
    • Dunkel, Alexander; Andrienko, Gennady; Andrienko, Natalia; Burghardt, Dirk; Hauthal, Eva; Purves, Ross S (2019). A conceptual framework for studying collective reactions to events in location-based social media. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 33(4):780-804.
    • Purves, Ross S; Jones, Christopher B (2019). GIR'18 Workshop Report 12th ACM SIGSPATIAL workshop on geographic information retrieval seattle, USA 6th November 2018. SIGSPATIAL special, 10(3):19-20.

• 2018

  • Artikel in wissenschaftlicher Zeitschrift

    • Egorova, Ekaterina; Moncla, Ludovic; Gaio, Mauro; Claramunt, Christophe; Purves, Ross S (2018). Fictive motion extraction and classification. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 32(11):2247-2271.
    • Techel, Frank; Mitterer, Christoph; Ceaglio, Elisabetta; Coléou, Cécile; Morin, Samuel; Rastelli, Francesca; Purves, Ross S (2018). Spatial consistency and bias in avalanche forecasts – a case study in the European Alps. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 18(10):2697-2716.
    • Côte, Muriel; Wartmann, Flurina M; Purves, Ross S (2018). Introduction: The trouble with forest: definitions, values and boundaries. Geographica Helvetica, 73(4):253-260.
    • Wartmann, Flurina M; Acheson, Elise; Purves, Ross S (2018). Describing and comparing landscapes using tags, texts, and free lists: an interdisciplinary approach. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 32(8):1572-1592.
    • Bahrehdar, Azam R; Purves, Ross S (2018). Description and characterization of place properties using topic modeling on georeferenced tags. Geo-Spatial Information Science, 21(3):173-184.
    • Wartmann, Flurina M; Purves, Ross S (2018). Investigating sense of place as a cultural ecosystem service in different landscapes through the lens of language. Landscape and Urban Planning, 175:169-183.
    • Chesnokova, Olga; Purves, Ross S (2018). From image descriptions to perceived sounds and sources in landscape: Analyzing aural experience through text. Applied Geography, 93:103-111.
    • Wartmann, Flurina M; Purves, Ross S (2018). ‘This is not the jungle, this is my barbecho’: semantics of ethnoecological landscape categories in the Bolivian Amazon. Landscape Research, 43(1):77-94.
    • Purves, Ross S; Clough, Paul; Jones, Christopher B; Hall, Mark H; Murdock, Vanessa (2018). Geographic information retrieval: Progress and challenges in spatial search of text. Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval, 12(2-3):164-318.

  • Konferenzbeitrag, Proceedings

    • Chesnokova, Olga; Purves, Ross S (2018). Automatically creating a spatially referenced corpus of landscape perception. In: GIR 2018 : 12th Workshop on Geographic Information Retrieval at ACM SIGSPATIAL 2018, Seattle, 6 November 2018, ACM Digital Library.
    • Das, Rahul Deb; Purves, Ross S (2018). Urban traffic event detection using Twitter data. In: VGI Geovisual Analytics Workshop, colocated with BDVA 2018, Konstanz, 19 October 2018 - 19 October 2018.
    • Das, Rahul Deb; Purves, Ross S (2018). Towards the usefulness of user-generated content to understand traffic events. In: GIScience 2018: 10th International Conference on Geographic Information Science, Melbourne (Australia), 28 August 2018 - 31 August 2018. Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik, 25:1-25:7.
    • Villette, Julia; Purves, Ross S (2018). Exploring microtoponyms through linguistic and geographic perspectives. In: 21th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science, Lund, 12 June 2018 - 15 June 2018.

• 2017

  • Artikel in wissenschaftlicher Zeitschrift

    • Wartmann, Flurina M; Purves, Ross S (2017). What’s (not) on the map: landscape features from participatory sketch mapping differ from local categories used in language. Land, 6(4):79.
    • Grütter, Rolf; Purves, Ross S; Wotruba, Lukas (2017). Evaluating topological queries in linked data using DBpedia and GeoNames in Switzerland and Scotland. Transactions in GIS, 21(1):114-133.
    • Acheson, Elise; De Sabbata, Stefano; Purves, Ross S (2017). A quantitative analysis of global gazetteers: Patterns of coverage for common feature types. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 64:309-320.
    • Baltensweiler, Andri; Walthert, Lorenz; Ginzler, Christian; Sutter, Flurin; Purves, Ross S; Hanewinkel, Marc (2017). Terrestrial laser scanning improves digital elevation models and topsoil pH modelling in regions with complex topography and dense vegetation. Environmental Modelling & Software, 95:13-21.
    • Zahra, Kiran; Ostermann, Frank O; Purves, Ross S (2017). Geographic variability of Twitter usage characteristics during disaster events. Geo-Spatial Information Science, 20(3):231-240.

  • Konferenzbeitrag, Proceedings

    • Acheson, Elise; Villette, Julia; Volpi, Michele; Purves, Ross S (2017). Gazetteer matching for natural features in Switzerland. In: GIR'17 11th Workshop on Geographic Information Retrieval, Heidelberg (Deutschland), 30 November 2017 - 1 December 2017. ACM New York, online.
    • Chesnokova, Olga; Nowak, Mario; Purves, Ross S (2017). A crowdsourced model of landscape preference. In: COSIT 2017: International Conference on Spatial Information Theory, L'Aquila (I), 4 September 2017 - 8 September 2017, Dagstuhl Publishing.
    • Acheson, Elise; Wartmann, Flurina M; Purves, Ross S (2017). Generating spatial footprints from hiking blogs. In: COSIT 2017: International Conference on Spatial Information Theory, L'Aquila (I), 4 September 2017 - 8 September 2017. Springer, 5-7.

• 2016

  • Artikel in wissenschaftlicher Zeitschrift

    • Wartmann, Flurina M; Derungs, Curdin; Purves, Ross S (2016). Characterizing place: an empirical comparison between user-generated content and freelisting data. International Conference on GIScience Short Paper Proceedings, 1(1):336-339.
    • Chesnokova, Olga; Gregory, Ian N; Purves, Ross S (2016). Comparing digital traces of modern travellers to journeys of two 18th-19th century British poets. International Conference on GIScience Short Paper Proceedings, 1(1):45-48.
    • Egorova, Ekaterina; Boo, Gianluca; Purves, Ross S (2016). The ridge went north : Did the observer go as well? Corpus-driven investigation of fictive motion. International Conference on GIScience Short Paper Proceedings, 1(1):92-95.
    • Wirz, Vanessa; Geertsema, Marten; Gruber, Stephan; Purves, Ross S (2016). Temporal variability of diverse mountain permafrost slope movements derived from multi-year daily GPS data, Mattertal, Switzerland. Landslides, 13(1):67-83.
    • Wirz, Vanessa; Gruber, Stephan; Purves, Ross S; Beutel, Jan; Gärtner-Roer, Isabelle; Gubler, Stefanie; Vieli, Andreas (2016). Short-term velocity variations at three rock glaciers and their relationship with meteorological conditions. Earth Surface Dynamics, 4(1):103-123.
    • Derungs, Curdin; Purves, Ross S (2016). Mining nearness relations from an n-grams Web corpus in geographical space. Spatial Cognition & Computation, 16(4):301-322.
    • Reisser, Moritz; Purves, Ross S; Schmidt, Michael W I; Abiven, Samuel (2016). Pyrogenic Carbon in Soils: A Literature-Based Inventory and a Global Estimation of Its Content in Soil Organic Carbon and Stocks. Frontiers in Earth Science:4:80.
    • Reichenbacher, Tumasch; De Sabbata, Stefano; Purves, Ross S; Fabrikant, Sara I (2016). Assessing geographic relevance for mobile search: A computational model and its validation via crowdsourcing. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 67(11):2620-2634.
    • Comber, Alexis; Mooney, Peter; Purves, Ross S; Rocchini, Duccio; Walz, Ariane (2016). Crowdsourcing: It Matters Who the Crowd Are. The Impacts of between Group Variations in Recording Land Cover. PLoS ONE, 11(7):e0158329.
    • Derungs, Curdin; Purves, Ross S (2016). Characterising landscape variation through spatial folksonomies. Applied Geography, 75:60-70.

  • Buchkapitel

    • Huang, Haosheng; Gartner, Georg (2016). Using mobile crowdsourcing and geotagged social media data to study people’s affective responses to environments. In: Capineri, Cristina; Haklay, Muki; Huang, Haosheng; Antoniou, Vyron; Kettunen, Juhani; Ostermann, Frank O; Purves, Ross S. European Handbook of Crowdsourced Geographic Information. London: Ubiquity Press, 385-399.

  • Konferenzbeitrag, Proceedings

    • Bahrehdar, Azam; Purves, Ross S (2016). Linking VGI for place-based map generalization. In: AGILE 2016, Helsinki, 14 June 2016 - 14 June 2016, 1-4.

  • Herausgeberschaft eines wissenschaftlichen Werks

    • Edited by: Capineri, Cristina; Haklay, Muki; Huang, Haosheng; Antoniou, Vyron; Kettunen, Juhani; Ostermann, Frank O; Purves, Ross S (2016). London: Ubiquity Press. European handbook of crowdsourced geographic information.

• 2015

  • Artikel in wissenschaftlicher Zeitschrift

    • Purves, Ross S; Palacio, Damien; Derungs, Curdin (2015). Development and evaluation of a geographic information retrieval system using fine grained toponyms. Journal of Spatial Information Science, (11):1-29.
    • Leemann, Adrian; Kolly, Marie-José; Purves, Ross S; Britain, David; Glaser, Elvira (2015). Crowdsourcing language change with smartphone applications. PLoS ONE, 11(1):online.
    • Egli, Markus; Maisch, Max; Purves, Ross S; Cöltekin, Arzu; Hilbich, Christin (2015). Multi-methodological reconstruction of the lake level at Morgarten in the context of the history of the Swiss Confederation. The Holocene, 25(11):1727-1741.
    • Purves, Ross S; Derungs, Curdin (2015). From space to place: place-based explorations of text. International Journal of Humanities and Arts Comouting, 9(1):74-94.

  • Buchkapitel

    • Ostermann, Frank O; Huang, Haosheng; Andrienko, Gennady; Andrienko, Natalia; Capineri, Cristina; Farkas, K; Purves, Ross S (2015). Extracting and comparing places using Geo-Social Media. In: Mallet, C; Paparoditis, N; Dowman, I; Oude Elberink, S; Raimond, A-M; Rottensteiner, F; Yang, M; Christophe, S; Coltekin, Arzu; Brédif, M. ISPRS Geospatial Week 2015. Göttingen: Copernicus Publications, 311-316.
    • Wartmann, Flurina M; Egorova, Ekaterina; Derungs, Curdin; Mark, David M; Purves, Ross S (2015). More than a list: what outdoor free listings of landscape categories reveal about commonsense geographic concepts and memory search strategies. In: Fabrikant, Sara I; Raubal, Martin; Bertolotto, Michela; Davies, Clare; Freundschuh, Scott; Bell, Scott. Spatial Information Theory. 12th International Conference, COSIT 2015, Santa Fe, NM, USA, October 12-16, 2015, Proceedings. Cham: Springer, 224-243.
    • Egorova, Ekaterina; Tenbrink, Thora; Purves, Ross S (2015). Where snow is a landmark: route direction elements in Alpine contexts. In: Fabrikant, Sara I; Raubal, Martin; Bertolotto, Michela; Davies, Clare; Freundschuh, Scott; Bell, Scott. Spatial Information Theory. 12th International Conference, COSIT 2015, Santa Fe, NM, USA, October 12-16, 2015, Proceedings. Cham: Springer, 175-195.

  • Konferenzbeitrag, Proceedings

    • Sautier, Jerome; Derungs, Curdin (2015). Spatial characteristics of a large web n-gram corpus. In: GIR '15 9th Workshop on Geographic Information Retrieval, Paris, 26 November 2015 - 27 November 2015. ACM Digital Library, online.

• 2014

  • Artikel in wissenschaftlicher Zeitschrift

    • Purves, Ross S; Laube, Patrick; Buchin, Maike; Speckmann, Bettina (2014). Moving beyond the point: An agenda for research in movement analysis with real data. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 47:1-4.
    • Veitinger, Jochen; Sovilla, Betty; Purves, Ross S (2014). Influence of snow depth distribution on surface roughness in alpine terrain: A multi-scale approach. The Cryosphere, 8(2):547-569.
    • Hahmann, Stefan; Purves, Ross S; Burghardt, Dirk (2014). Twitter location (sometimes) matters: Exploring the relationship between georeferenced tweet content and nearby feature classes. Journal of Spatial Information Science, (9):1-36.
    • Venkateswaran, Ramya; Weibel, Robert; Purves, Ross S (2014). Exploring and visualizing differences in geographic and linguistic web coverage. Transactions in GIS, 18(6):852-876.
    • Wirz, Vanessa; Beutel, Jan; Gruber, Stephan; Gubler, Stefanie; Purves, Ross S (2014). Estimating velocity from noisy GPS data for investigating the temporal variability of slope movements. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 14(9):2503-2520.
    • Züst, Fabian; Dahms, Dennis; Purves, Ross S; Egli, Markus (2014). Surface reconstruction and derivation of erosion rates over several glaciations (1Ma) in an alpine setting (Sinks Canyon, Wyoming, USA). Geomorphology, 219:232-247.
    • Zellweger, Florian; Morsdorf, Felix; Purves, Ross S; Braunisch, Veronika; Bollmann, Kurt (2014). Improved methods for measuring forest landscape structure: LiDAR complements field-based habitat assessment. Biodiversity and Conservation, 23(2):289-307.

  • Konferenzbeitrag, Proceedings

    • Veitinger, Jochen; Sovilla, Betty; Purves, Ross S (2014). Slab avalanche release area estimation: a new GIS tool. In: International Snow Science Workshop 2014, Banff (Canada), 29 September 2014 - 3 October 2014, 256-262.
    • Comber, Alexis; Purves, Ross S (2014). Comparing different crowdsourced data: an analysis of Flickr elements, qualities and activities with Geo-Wiki land cover. In: GIScience 2014: Eighth International Conference on Geographic Information Science, Vienna (A), 23 September 2014 - 26 September 2014. Technische Universität Wien, 201-204.
    • Derungs, Curdin; Purves, Ross S (2014). Where’s near? Using web tri-grams to explore spatial relations. In: GIScience 2014: Eighth International Conference on Geographic Information Science, Vienna (A), 23 September 2014 - 26 September 2014. Technische Universität Wien, 158-162.
    • Wartmann, Flurina M; Purves, Ross S (2014). Why landscape terms matter for mapping: A comparison of ethnogeographic categories and scientific classification. In: GIScience 2014: Eighth International Conference on Geographic Information Science, Vienna (A), 23 September 2014 - 26 September 2014. Technische Universität Wien, 192-194.

• 2013

  • Artikel in wissenschaftlicher Zeitschrift

    • Derungs, Curdin; Purves, Ross S (2013). From text to landscape: locating, identifying and mapping the use of landscape features in a Swiss Alpine corpus. International Journal of Geographical Information Science:online.
    • Ostermann, Frank O; Tomko, Martin; Purves, Ross S (2013). User evaluation of automatically generated keywords and toponyms for geo-referenced images. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 64(3):480-499.
    • Gubler, Stefanie; Endrizzi, Stefano; Gruber, Stephan; Purves, Ross S (2013). Sensitivities and uncertainties of modeled ground temperatures in mountain environments. Geoscientific Model Development, 6(4):1319-1336.

  • Buchkapitel

    • Derungs, Curdin; Wartmann, Flurina M; Purves, Ross S; Mark, David M (2013). The meanings of the generic parts of toponyms: use and limitations of gazetteers in studies of landscape terms. In: Tenbrink, Thora; Stell, John; Galton, Antony; Wood, Zena. Spatial Information Theory. Cham: Springer, 261-278.

  • Konferenzbeitrag, Proceedings

    • Palacio, Damien; Derungs, Curdin; Purves, Ross (2013). Creating test collections from user generated content for GIR evaluation. In: GIR'13: 7th ACM SIGSPATIAL Workshop on Geographic Information Retrieval, Orlando, FL, USA, 5 November 2013. Association for Computing Machinery, 82-83.
    • Wider, Thomas; Palacio, Damien; Purves, Ross S (2013). Georeferencing images using tags: application with Flickr. In: The 15th AGILE International Conference on Geographic Information Science, Leuven, Belgium, 14 May 2013 - 17 May 2013, online.

• 2012

  • Artikel in wissenschaftlicher Zeitschrift

    • Shamoun-Baranes, Judy; van Loon, E Emiel; Purves, Ross S; Speckmann, Bettina; Weiskopf, Daniel; Camphuysen, C J (2012). Analysis and visualization of animal movement. Biology Letters, 8(1):6-9.
    • Gschwend, Christian; Purves, Ross S (2012). Exploring geomorphometry through user generated content: comparing an unsupervised geomorphometric classification with terms attached to georeferenced images in Great Britain. Transactions in GIS, 16(4):499-522.
    • Fischer, L; Purves, Ross S; Huggel, Christian; Noetzli, Jeannette; Haeberli, Wilfried (2012). On the influence of topographic, geological and cryospheric factors on rock avalanches and rockfalls in high-mountain areas. Natural Hazards and Earth System Science, 12(1):241-254.
    • Gubler, Stefanie; Gruber, Stephan; Purves, Ross S (2012). Uncertainties of parameterized surface downward clear-sky shortwave and all-sky longwave radiation. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 12(11):5077-5098.

  • Konferenzbeitrag, Proceedings

    • Derungs, Curdin; Palacio, Damien; Purves, Ross S (2012). Resolving fine granularity toponyms: Evaluation of a disambiguation approach. In: GIScience 2012: Seventh International Conference on Geographic Information Science, Columbus, Ohio, 18 September 2012 - 21 September 2012, online.
    • Derungs, Curdin; Purves, Ross S (2012). Measuring topographic similarity of toponyms. In: AGILE 2012, 15th AGILE International Conference on Geographic Information Science, Avignon, FR, 24 April 2012 - 27 April 2012, 30-34.

• 2011

  • Artikel in wissenschaftlicher Zeitschrift

    • Purves, Ross S; Jones, Christopher B (2011). Geographic information retrieval. SIGSPATIAL Special, 3(2):2-4.
    • Rinta, Tiija; Purves, Ross S; Welch, Graham; Stadler Elmer, Stefanie; Bissig, Raffaela (2011). Connections between children's feelings of social inclusion and their musical backgrounds. Journal of Social Inclusion, 2(2):34-57.
    • Purves, Ross S; Edwardes, Alistair J; Wood, Jo (2011). Describing place through user generated content. First Monday, 16(9):3710.
    • Laube, Patrick; Purves, Ross S (2011). How fast is a cow? Cross-scale analysis of movement data. Transactions in GIS, 15(3):401-418.
    • Pozdnoukhov, Alexei; Matasci, Giona; Kanevski, Mikhail; Purves, Ross S (2011). Spatio-temporal avalanche forecasting with support vector machines. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 11(2):367-382.
    • Straumann, Ralph K; Purves, Ross S (2011). Computation and elicitation of valleyness. Spatial Cognition and Computation, 11(2):178-204.

  • Buchkapitel

    • Purves, Ross S (2011). Methods, examples and pitfalls in the exploitation of the geospatial web. In: Hesse-Biber, S N. The Handbook of Emergent Technologies in Social Research. New York: Oxford University Press, 592-624.

  • Konferenzbeitrag, Proceedings

    • Derungs, Curdin; Purves, Ross S; Waldvogel, Bettina (2011). Toponym disambiguation of landscape features using geomorphometric characteristics. In: 11th International Conference of GeoComputation, London, 20 July 2011 - 22 July 2011, 106-110.
    • Stadler, Benjamin; Purves, Ross S; Tomko, Martin (2011). Exploring the relationship between land cover and subjective evaluation of scenic beauty through user generated content. In: 25th International Cartographic Conference, Paris, FR, 3 July 2011 - 8 July 2011.
    • Gschwend, Christian; Purves, Ross S (2011). Comparing Flickr tags to a geomorphometric classification. In: 19th GIS Research UK Annual Conference, Portsmouth, 27 April 2011 - 29 April 2011, 174-178.

• 2010

  • Artikel in wissenschaftlicher Zeitschrift

    • Hollenstein, Livia; Purves, Ross S (2010). Exploring place through user-generated content: Using Flickr to describe city cores. Journal of Spatial Information Science, 1(1):21-48.
    • Wartmann, Flurina M; Purves, Ross S; van Schaik, Carel P (2010). Modelling ranging behaviour of female orang-utans: a case study in Tuanan, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia. Primates, 51(2):119-130.

  • Buchkapitel

    • Laube, Patrick; Purves, Ross S (2010). Cross-scale movement trajectory analysis. In: Haklay, Muki. Proceedings of the GIS Research UK 18th Annual Conference GISRUK 2010. London, UK: University College London, 103-107.

  • Konferenzbeitrag, Proceedings

    • Tomko, Martin; Purves, Ross S (2010). Matterhorn on the horizon: identification of salient mountains for image annotation. In: roceedings of the GIS Research UK 18th Annual Conference GISRUK 2010, University College London (UCL), 14 April 2010 - 16 April 2010. University College London, 359-362.
    • Purves, Ross S; Edwardes, Alistair; Fan, Xin; Hall, Mark; Tomko, Martin (2010). Automatically generating keywords for georeferenced images. In: Proceedings of the GIS Research UK 18th Annual Conference GISRUK 2010, University College London (UCL), 14 April 2010 - 16 April 2010. University College London, 203-207.
    • Piotrowski, Michael; Läubli, Samuel; Volk, Martin (2010). Towards mapping of alpine route descriptions. In: GIR'10: 6th Workshop on Geographic Information Retrieval, Zurich, Switzerland, 18 February 2010 - 19 February 2010, 15-16.

  • Herausgeberschaft eines wissenschaftlichen Werks

    • Edited by: Purves, Ross S; Weibel, Robert (2010). Zurich, Switzerland: s.n.. GIScience 2010: extended abstracts: online extended abstracts of sixth International Conference on Geographic Information Science.

• 2009

  • Artikel in wissenschaftlicher Zeitschrift

    • Tomko, Martin; Purves, Ross S (2009). Venice, city of canals: characterizing regions through content classification. Transactions in GIS, 13(3):295 - 314.
    • Hebeler, Felix; Purves, Ross S (2009). The influence of elevation uncertainty on derivation of topographic indices. Geomorphology, 111(1-2):4-16.
    • Aberegg, Isabelle; Egli, Markus; Sartori, Giacomo; Purves, Ross S (2009). Modelling spatial distribution of soil types and characteristics in a high Alpine valley (Val di Sole, Italy). Studi Trentini di Scienze Naturali, 85:39-50.

  • Buchkapitel

    • Tomko, Martin; Trautwein, Friedjoff; Purves, Ross S (2009). Identification of practically visible spatial objects in natural environments. In: Sester, Monika; Bernard, Lards; Paelke, Volker. Advances in GIScience. Berlin: Springer (Bücher), 1-23.
    • Linsbauer, A; Paul, F; Hoelzle, M; Frey, H; Haeberli, W (2009). The Swiss Alps without glaciers – a GIS-based modelling approach for reconstruction of glacier beds. In: Purves, Ross S; et al. Proceedings of Geomorphometry 2009. Zurich, CH: Department of Geography, University of Zurich, 243-247.
    • Straumann, Ralph K (2009). Experiences in developing landform ontologies. In: Purves, Ross S; Gruber, Stephan; Straumann, Ralph K; Hengl, Tomislav. Geomorphometry 2009 Conference Proceedings. Zurich, CH: Department of Geography, University of Zurich, 17-21.
    • Jones, Christopher B; Purves, Ross S (2009). Geographic information retrieval. In: Liu, Ling; Özsu, M Tamer. Encyclopedia of database systems; Part 7. New York, US: Springer, 1227 -1231.

  • Herausgeberschaft eines wissenschaftlichen Werks

    • Edited by: Purves, Ross S; Gruber, Stephan; Straumann, Ralph K; Hengl, Tomislav (2009). Zurich, CH: Department of Geography, University of Zurich. Geomorphometry 2009 Conference Proceedings.
    • Edited by: Wilde, Erik; Boll, Susanne; Cheverst, Keith; Fröhlich, Peter; Purves, Ross S; Schöning, Johannes (2009). New York, US: Association for Computing Machinery. Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Location and the Web (LocWeb 2009).

• 2008

  • Artikel in wissenschaftlicher Zeitschrift

    • Hebeler, Felix; Purves, Ross S; Jamieson, Stewart S R (2008). The impact of parametric uncertainty and topographic error in ice-sheet modelling. Journal of Glaciology, 54(188):889-919.
    • Machguth, Horst; Purves, Ross S; Oerlemans, Johannes; Hoelzle, Martin; Paul, Frank (2008). Exploring uncertainty in glacier mass balance modelling with Monte Carlo simulation. The Cryosphere, 2(2):191-204.
    • Yang, Bisheng; Purves, Ross S; Weibel, Robert (2008). Variable-resolution Compression of Vector Data. GeoInformatica, 12(3):357-376.
    • Hebeler, Felix; Purves, Ross S (2008). The influence of resolution and topographic uncertainty on melt modelling using hypsometric sub-grid parameterization. Hydrological Processes, 22:3965-3979.
    • Pozdnoukhov, Alexei; Purves, Ross S; Kanevski, Mikhail (2008). Applying machine learning methods to avalanche forecasting. Annals of Glaciology, 49(1):107-113.
    • Jones, Christopher B; Purves, Ross S (2008). Geographical information retrieval. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 22(3):219-228.
    • Jones, Christopher B; Purves, Ross S; Clough, Paul D; Joho, Hideo (2008). Modelling vague places with knowledge from the Web. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 22(10):1045-1065.

  • Buchkapitel

    • Dias, E S; Edwardes, Alistair J; Purves, Ross S (2008). Analysing and aggregating visitor tracks in a protected area. In: Stein, A; et al. Quality Aspects in Spatial Data Mining. Oxfordshire: CRC Press, 1-29.
    • Corripio, Javier G; Purves, Ross S; Rivera, Andrés (2008). Modeling climate-change impacts on mountain glaciers and water resources in the Central Dry Andes. In: Orlove, B; et al. Darkening Peaks: Glacier Retreat, Science, and Society. Berkeley, US: University of California Press, 126-135.
    • Purves, Ross S; Edwardes, Alistair; Sanderson, Mark (2008). Describing the where – improving image annotation and search through geography. In: Csurka, G. Proceedings of the workshop on Metadata Mining for Image Understanding (MMIU 2008). Setúbal: Insticc Press, 105-113.
    • Walz, Ariane; Bebi, Peter; Purves, Ross (2008). A comparison of two techniques for local land-use change simulation in the swiss mountain area. In: Lovett, A; et al. GIS for Environmental Decision-Making. Boca Raton, US: CRC Press, 131-148.
    • Straumann, Ralph K; Purves, Ross S (2008). Delineation of valleys and valley floors. In: Cova, T J; et al. Geographic Information Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Verlag, 320-336.
    • Hebeler, Felix; Purves, Ross S (2008). Modelling DEM data uncertainties for Monte Carlo simulations of ice sheet models. In: Stein, Al; Shi, J; Bijker, W. Quality Aspects in Spatial Data Mining. Boca Raton: CRC Press, 175-196.

  • Konferenzbeitrag, Proceedings

    • Pasley, Robert; Clough, Paul; Purves, Ross S; Twaroch, Florian A (2008). Mapping geographic coverage of the web. In: 16th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM GIS 2008), Irvine, US, 5 November 2008 - 7 November 2008, 1-9.
    • Barker, Emma J; Purves, Ross S (2008). A caption annotation scheme for georeferencing images. In: Proceeding of the 2nd international workshop on Geographic information retrieval, Napa Valley, US, 29 October 2008 - 30 October 2008, 45-46.
    • Brunner, Tobias J; Purves, Ross S (2008). Spatial autocorrelation and toponym ambiguity. In: Proceeding of the 2nd international workshop on Geographic information retrieval, Napa Valley, US, 29 October 2008 - 30 October 2008, 25-26.
    • Tomko, Martin; Purves, Ross S (2008). Characterizing regions through content classification.. In: GIScience 2008 - Fifth International Conference on Geographic Information Science, Park City, Utah, 23 September 2008 - 26 September 2008.
    • Tomko, Martin; Purves, Ross S (2008). Categorical prominence and the characteristic description of regions.. In: Semantic Web meets Geospatial Applications, Girona, Spain, 5 May 2008, 1-9.

• 2007

  • Artikel in wissenschaftlicher Zeitschrift

    • Purves, Ross S; Clough, Paul; Jones, Christopher B; Arampatzis, Avi; Bucher, Benedicte; Finch, David; Fu, Gaihua; Joho, Hideo; Syed, Awase Khirni; Vaid, Subodh; Yang, Bisheng (2007). The design and implementation of SPIRIT: a spatially aware search engine for information retrieval on the Internet. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 21(7):717-745.
    • Yang, Bisheng; Purves, Ross S; Weibel, Robert (2007). Efficient transmission of vector data over the Internet. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 21(2):215-237.

  • Buchkapitel

    • Straumann, Ralph K; Purves, Ross S (2007). Resolution sensitivity of a compound terrain derivative as computed from LiDAR-based elevation data. In: Fabrikant, Sara I; Wachowicz, Monica. The European information society. Leading the way with Geo-information. Berlin: Springer, 87-109.
    • Laube, Patrick; Purves, Ross S; Imfeld, Stephan; Weibel, Robert (2007). Analysing point motion with geographic knowledge discovery techniques. In: Drummond, Jane; Billen, Roland; Joao, Elsa; Forrest, David. Dynamic and Mobile GIS: Investigating Changes in Space and Time. Boca Raton (USA): C R C Press, LLC, 263-286.
    • Edwardes, Alistair; Purves, Ross S (2007). A theoretical grounding for semantic descriptions of place. In: Ware, J Mark; Taylor, George E. Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems 7th International Symposium, W2GIS 2007, Cardiff, UK, November 28-29, 2007. Proceedings. Berlin: Springer, 106-120.

  • Konferenzbeitrag, Proceedings

    • Edwardes, Alistair J; Purves, Ross S (2007). Eliciting concepts of place for text-based image retrieval. In: 4th ACM Workshop on Geographical Information Retrieval, CIKM 2007, Lissabon (P), 6 November 2007 - 10 November 2007. ACM, 15-18.
    • Hebeler, Felix; Purves, Ross S (2007). Modelling DEM data uncertainties for Monte Carlo Simulations of Ice Sheet Models. In: 5th International Symposium on Spatial Data Quality, ITC, Enschede, 13 June 2007 - 17 June 2007.
    • Dias, E S; Edwardes, A J; Purves, Ross S (2007). Analysing and aggregating visitor tracks in a protected area. In: 5th International Symposium on Spatial Data Quality, Enschede, 13 June 2007 - 15 June 2007. ITC - Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation, online.
    • Purves, Ross S; Korup, Oliver (2007). Multiscale analysis of hillslope height for geomorphometry. In: GISRUK 2007 Geographical Information Science Research Conference, Maynooth (Ireland), 11 April 2007 - 13 April 2007, 484-488.
    • Derungs, Curdin; Purves, Ross S (2007). Empirical experiments on the nature of Swiss mountains. In: GISRUK 2007 Geographical Information Science Research Conference, Maynooth (Ireland), 11 April 2007 - 13 April 2007, online.

• 2006

  • Artikel in wissenschaftlicher Zeitschrift

    • Laube, Patrick; Purves, Ross S (2006). An approach to evaluating motion pattern detection techniques in spatio-temporal data. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 30(3):347-374.
    • Campbell, Fay M A; Nienow, Peter W; Purves, Ross S (2006). Role of the supraglacial snowpack in mediating meltwater delivery to the glacier system as inferred from dye tracer investigations. Hydrological Processes, 20(4):969-985.
    • Purves, Ross S; Jones, Christopher B (2006). Geographic Information Retrieval (GIR). Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 30(4):375-377.

  • Buchkapitel

    • Purves, Ross S; Hebeler, F (2006). Uncertainty and terrain data in ice-sheet modelling (Case study). In: Heywood, Ian; Cornelius, Sarah; Carver, Steve. An introduction to Geographical Information Systems (Third edition). Harlow: Pearson, ?.
    • Clough, Paul D; Joho, Hideo; Purves, Ross S (2006). Judging the spatial relevance of documents for GIR. In: Lalmas, Mounia; MacFarlane, Andy; Rüger, Stefan; Tombros, Anastasios; Tsikrika, Theodora; Yavlinsky, Alexei. Advances in Information Retrieval. Berlin: Springer, 548-552.

  • Konferenzbeitrag, Proceedings

    • Purves, Ross S; Heierli, Joachim (2006). Evaluating nearest neighbours in avalanche forecasting - a qualitative approach to assessing information content?. In: International Snow Science Workshop, Telluride CO, 1 October 2006 - 6 October 2006, 701-708.
    • Maggioni, Margherita; Gruber, Urs; Purves, Ross S; Freppaz, Michele (2006). Potential release areas and return period of avalanches: is there a relation?. In: International Snow Science Workshop 2006, Telluride CO, 1 October 2006 - 6 October 2006, online.
    • Purves, Ross S; Clough, Paul D (2006). Judging spatial relevance and document location for Geographic Information Retrieval. In: GIScience 2006, Münster (D), 20 September 2006 - 23 September 2006, 159-164.