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Dr. Weiming Huang awarded best PhD thesis

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Weiming Huang is awarded in EuroSDR Award winner 2021 for the best PhD thesis related to geoinformation science for his thesis about knowledge-based geospatial data integration and visualisation with Semantic Web technologies. The thesis was presented during the 139th EuroSDR Board of Delegates meeting on October 22, 2021.

Dr. Weiming Huang has been awarded by the European Spatial Data Research for the thesis "Geospatial data and knowledge on the Web - Knowledge-based geospatial data integration and visualisation with Semantic Web technologies" . Since 2016, EuroSDR has recognised outstanding PhD theses in the field of geoinformation science. The award is given to these that contributes to the development withing the field, and is aimed at enhancing the collaboration between academia and mapping and cadastral agencies, and to encourage young researchers (source: SDR).

Integration of geospatial information

With his thesis, written at the department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science at Lund Univeristy, Dr. Weiming Huang has contributed to the integration of geospatial information which is important for analysis such as traffic, spreading of diseases or natural resource management as well as for creating a spatial data infrastructure. Today, various geospatial data sources have inadequate linking between them, and information from various sources tend to be isolated from each other. For applications to be most useful for people working with it, it is of importance to combine all the required information layers. Dr. Weiming Huang have studied the possibilities with Semantic web technologies, a machine-readable web of data. In his thesis, Weiming are looking at Semantic Web technologies as a possibility to merge various sources of geospatial data and other data for improved analysis and usage.

Dr. Weiming is currently a postdoctoral in Singapore financed by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. He will be back in Lund 2023.

Link to the thesis in the Lund University research portal.