Clemens Jacobs, Dipl.-Geogr.

Clemens Jacobs is a PostDoc researcher and PhD Student at the GIScience Research Group of the Institute of Geography in Heidelberg.

Research interests

• Citizen Science
• Data quality
• Biodiversity data
• Geostatistics
• Spatial Data Mining
• GIS

Projects

Data quality assurance in web-based citizen science systems for observations of local fauna and flora (biodiversity) collected by volunteers

Curriculum Vitae

• Since 09/2016: Research Assistant, GIScience research group, Institute of Gepgraphy, Heidelberg University
• Since 05/2014: PhD Student, GIScience research group, Institute of Geography, Heidelberg University
• 09/2012-08/2014: Research Assistant, GIScience research group, Institute of Geography, Heidelberg University
• 07/2008-08/2016: employed at Leiner & Wolff GmbH (fields of work: QS and training of web-based software, flood management, remote sensing)
• 04/2002-09/2008: employed at Spang.Fischer.Natzschka. GmbH (fields of work: environmental studies and planning, GIS, cartography)
• 1996-2002: Studies of Geography, University of Heidelberg; main subjects: GIS, historical maps, floods

Publications

• Jacobs, C., Leiner, R., Wolff, R. (2009): Erfahrungen mit dem europäischen Hochwassermanagementsystem FLIWAS. In: Strobl, J., Blaschke, T., Griesebner, G. (Hrsg.): Angewandte Geoinformatik 2009. Beiträge zum 21. AGIT-Symposium Salzburg, S. 366-371.
• Ditter, R., Jacobs, C., Siegmund, A., Wolff, R. (2010): A Remote Sensing Web Application for Competence Oriented School Education. In: Jekel, T., Koller, A., Donert, K., Vogler, R. (Hrsg.): Learning with Geoinformation V – Lernen mit Geoinformation V, S. 171-180.
• Jacobs, C. und Leiner, R. (2013): Anwendung von GI Methoden zur Qualitätssicherung ehrenamtlich erhobener Biodiversitätsdaten. In: Geoinformatik 2013, Heidelberg.
• Jacobs, C. und Resch, B. (2013): Semi-automatisierte Plausibilitätsprüfung in Citizen Science gestützten Naturbeobachtungen. In: Strobl, J., Blaschke, T., Griesebner, G. und Zagel, B. (Hrsg.): Angewandte Geoinformatik 2013. Beiträge zum 25. AGIT-Symposium Salzburg, S. 350-355.
• Jacobs, C. und Schotthöfer, A. (2015): Citizen-Science-Daten zur Biodiversität: Methoden zur Unterstützung der Qualitätssicherung. In: AGIT  Journal für Angewandte Geoinformatik, 1-2015.
• Eckle, M., Porto de Albuquerque, J., Herfort, B., Zipf, A., Wolff, R., Leiner, R., and Jacobs, C. (2016): Leveraging OpenStreetMap to support flood risk management: A prototype decision support system for the identification of critical infrastructure. In: ISCRAM 2016: The 13th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management.
• Jacobs, C. (2016): Data quality in crowdsourcing for biodiversity research: issues and examples. In: C. Capineri et al. (eds.): European Handbook of Crowdsourced Geographic Information. London: Ubiquity Press. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/bax
• Jacobs C. and A. Zipf (2017): Completeness of Citizen Science Biodiversity Data from a Volunteered Geographic Information Perspective. Geo-Spatial information Science, 2017. Taylor & Francis. DOI: 10.1080/10095020.2017.1288424.
• Mocnik, F.-B., Mobasheri, A., Griesbaum, L., Eckle, M., Jacobs, C., Klonner, C. (2018): A grounding-based ontology of data quality measures. Journal of Spatial Information Science. 16, 1-25.