Frank Ostermann

Advances in AI enable new approaches to solve existing problems, but they also create new challenges especially concerning the veracity and validity of digital content.

The impact of urban growth varies depending on whether it occurs within or beyond city boundaries.

Although large language models (LLM) have been around for a while, the public release of ChatGPT demonstrated a quantum leap in the abilities of these models to respond to natural

To model air pollution in urban environments while accounting for urban forms using convolutional neural networks (CNN) or Vision Transformers (ViT), open access earth observation

In cities, temperatures are often higher than in the surrounding areas and can also vary locally.

The mechanism by which we observe a phenomenon that unfolds in space and time fundamentally determines what we can learn about that phenomenon.

New and affordable sensors (e.g., Arduino Nano 33 BLE Sense, Sensebox) have greatly increased the potential to collect finer-grained environmental information, especially on topics impacting on hum

As a result of hardware miniaturization and ubiquitous internet access, there is a wealth of user- and sensor-generated geographic content available, from social media activity to private weather s

As a result of hardware miniaturization and ubiquitous internet access, there is a wealth of user- and sensor-generated geographic content available, from social media activity to private weather s

Interest in the formal representation of citizen science comes from portals, platforms, and catalogues of citizen science projects; scientists using citizen science data for their research; and fun