The annual UNIGIS International Academic Excellence Prize is awarded to students having submitted the best MSc theses during the previous academic year, accepted for graduation at one of the UNIGIS partner universities worldwide.
UIA is always proud to present this prize to the author of one of the many outstanding MSc thesis submitted every year, distinguishing and honouring these individuals for an excellent academic achievement!
All UNIGIS partner universities worldwide and their alumni are encouraged to take part in this competition!
Winners of 2016:
1st place: Tim Hernon – UNIGIS UK
The winner of the Academic Excellence Prize for 2016 is Tim Hernon (UNIGIS UK). His thesis showed a novel approach to extract urban land use data from Volunteered Geographic Information (in this case, OpenStreetMap data), successfully tested [...]
2nd place: Nathan Novak – UNIGIS USA
The first runner up is Nathan Patrick Novak (UNIGIS USC) who proposed an elaborate modelling of Sperm Whale habitats within the Central Gulf of Alaska, using a range of geospatial data. You can read his thesis here.
3rd place: Irene Fellner – UNIGIS Salzburg
Irene Fellner (UNIGIS Salzburg) is awarded the third place. In her thesis she presents an innovative way to implement the concept of landmarks in indoor navigation, using a case study at the Vienna University of Economics [...]
Winners of 2015:
Shared 1st place: Vincent van Altena – UNIGIS Amsterdam
Improvement of automatic generalization of manmade water networks for topographic maps by context-dependent pruning
Shared 1st place: Rachel Antcliffe – UNIGIS UK
An evaluation of the Council Tax band as an indicator of household size for small are population estimation
3rd place: Adrianna Valenti – UNIGIS USA
3rd place: Adrianna Valenti - UNIGIS USA
Winners of 2014:
1st place: Heidi El Hosaini – UNIGIS UK
Locating and positioning solar panels in a 3D city model – a case study of Newcastle Heidi El Hosaini (UNIGIS Manchester) had been named the winner of the annual worldwide UNIGIS Master Thesis competition in [...]
2nd place: Trang Minh VoPham, UNIGIS USA
Integrating landsat and California pesticide exposure estimation at aggregated analysis scales: Accuracy assessment of rurality Pesticide exposure estimation in epidemiologic studies can be constrained to analysis scales commonly available for cancer data—census tracts and ZIP [...]
3rd place: Stefan Mayer – UNIGIS Salzburg
An approach to model the thermal demand of buildings. A case study using two districts of Graz. The current paper deals with an approach to model the annual heating and cooling demand of buildings, using [...]