Dr. Jamal Jokar Arsanjani

Dr. Jamal Jokar Arsanjani war Senior Researcher in der Forschungs­gruppe GIScience des Geographischen Instituts in Heidelberg.

Forschungsschwerpunkte

• Volunteered Geographic Information, Crowdsourced Mapping, Citizen Science
• Geosimulation and Agent-Based Modeling on Environmental Phenomena
• GIS, GeoComputation, Digital Earth, and Spatial Planning
• Remote Sensing and spatio-temporal monitoring of Environment
• Climate Change, Environemental and Urban Informatics
• Big (Geo)Data, Data fusion, and (Geo)Data quality analysis

Courses

• SS 2015: Volunteered Geographic Information in theory and practice
• WS 2015/2016: Volunteered Geographic Information in theory and practice
• WS 2013/2014: Land use and land cover modelling (Jokar & Törnros)

Curriculum Vitae

• Since 2012: Habilitant at GIScience research group, Heidelberg University
• Since 01/2013: Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at GIScience research group, Heidelberg University
• 04/2012–12/2012: PostDoc researcher at GIScience research group, Heidelberg University
• 02/2011–02/2012: Project Assistant at the Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation, University of Vienna, Austria
• 2011–2012: Consultant for UN-SPIDER Project at the United Nations Office in Vienna, Austria
• 2008–2011: PhD Program in GIS and Geoinformation at the Department of Geography and Regional Research, University of Vienna, Austria
• 2009: Research Scholar at the Center for Applied GIS, Department of Geography, University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNCC), USA
• 2004–2007: M.Sc. Studies in Remote Sensing & GIS at Tarbiat Modares University of Tehran, Iran

Publications

• Jokar Arsanjani, J., (2012): Dynamic Land Use/Cover Change Simulation: Geosimulation and Agent-based Modelling, Springer Publication, ISBN: 978-3-642-23704-1.
• Helbich, M., Jokar Arsanjani, J., Leitner, M., (2015): Computational Approaches for Urban Environments. ISBN:978-3-319-11468-2, Springer Press.
• Jokar Arsanjani, J., Zipf, A., Mooney, P., Helbich, M., (2015): OpenStreetMap in GIScience: experiences, research, applications. ISBN:978-3-319-14279-1, Springer Press.
• Jokar Arsanjani, J., Leitner, M., Zipf, A., (2016): Crowdsourced Mapping, a special issue in Cartography and Geographic Information Science, ISSN: 1523-0406, Taylor & Francis.
• Jokar Arsanjani, J., Vaz, E., (2015): Earth Observation and Geoinformation Technologies for Sustainable Development a special issue in Sustainability, ISSN: 2071-1050, MDPI.
• Jokar Arsanjani, J., Tsou, M., (2015): Big Data for Urban Informatics and Earth Observation a special issue in ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information (IJGI), ISSN: 2220-9964, MDPI.

• Jokar Arsanjani, J., Fonte, C., (2015). On the Contribution of Volunteered Geographic Information to Land Monitoring Efforts, in C. Capineri et al., eds. European Handbook of Crowdsourced Geographic Information, Ubiquity Press.
• Jokar Arsanjani, J., Mooney, P., Zipf, A., Schauss, A., (2015): Quality assessment of the contributed land use information from OpenStreetMap versus authoritative datasets. In: Jokar Arsanjani, J., Zipf, A., Mooney, P., Helbich, M., OpenStreetMap in GIScience: experiences, research, applications. ISBN:978-3-319-14279-1, PP. 37-58, Springer Press.
• Jokar Arsanjani, J., Zipf, A., Mooney, P., Helbich, M., (2015): An introduction to OpenStreetMap in GIScience: Experiences, Research, Applications. In: Jokar Arsanjani, J., Zipf, A., Mooney, P., Helbich, M., OpenStreetMap in GIScience: experiences, research, applications. ISBN:978-3-319-14279-1, PP. 1-15, Springer Press.
• Helbich, M., Jokar Arsanjani, J., & Leitner, M. (2015). Computational Approaches for Urban Environments: An Editorial. In M. Helbich, J. Jokar Arsanjani, & M. Leitner (Eds.), Computational Approaches for Urban Environments SE – 1 (Vol. 13, pp. 1–9). Springer International Publishing. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-11469-9_1.
• Bakillah, M., Lauer, J., Liang, S., Zipf, A., Jokar Arsanjani, J., Loos, L., Mobasheri, A., (2014): Exploiting Big VGI to Improve Routing and Navigation Services, a book chapter in Karimi H, Big Data Techniques and Technologies in Geoinformatics, pp. 177–192, ISBN: 978-1-4665-8651-2, DOI: 10.1201/b16524-10.
• Sester, M., Jokar Arsanjani, J., Klammer, R., Burghardt, D., & Haunert, J.-H. (2014). Integrating and Generalising Volunteered Geographic Information. In D. Burghardt, C. Duchêne, & W. Mackaness (Eds.), Abstracting Geographic Information in a Data Rich World SE – 5 (pp. 119–155). Springer International Publishing. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-00203-3_5.

• Tayyebi, A., Tayyebi, A., Vaz, E., Jokar Arsanjani, J., Helbich, M., (2016): Analyzing crop change scenario with the SmartScapeTM spatial decision support system, Land Use Policy (51), pp. 41-53, doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2015.11.002.
• Jokar T., Javidan, R., Nazemosadat, M.R., Jokar Arsanjani, J., Vaz, E., (2015): Spatiotemporal monitoring of Bakhtegan Lake’s areal fluctuations and an exploration of its future status by applying a cellular automata model, Computers and Geosciences, 78, 37-43, doi:10.1016/j.cageo.2015.02.004
• Jokar Arsanjani, J., Mooney, P., Helbich, M., Zipf, A., (2015): An exploration of future patterns of the contributions to OpenStreetMap and development of a Contribution Index, Transactions in GIS.
• Jokar Arsanjani, J. & Vaz, E. (2015): An assessment of a collaborative mapping approach for exploring land use patterns for several European metropolises. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, DOI: 10.1016/j.jag.2014.09.009
• Vaz, E. & Jokar Arsanjani, J. (2015): Predicting Urban Growth of the Greater Toronto Area – Coupling a Markov Cellular Automata with document meta-analysis. Journal of Environmental Informatics, 25(2), 71-80, doi:10.3808/jei.201500299.
• Jokar Arsanjani, J., Bakillah, M.,(2015): Understanding the potential relationship between the socio-economic variables and contributions to OpenStreetMap. International Journal of Digital Earth, 8 (11), 861-876, DOI: 10.1080/17538947.2014.951081.
• Vaz, E., Jokar Arsanjani, J. (2015): Crowd sourced mapping of land use in urban dense environments: An assessment of Toronto. The Canadian Geographer Journal, 59(2), pp. 246–255, DOI: 10.1111/cag.12170
• Bakillah, M., Liang, S. H. L., Mobasheri, A., Jokar Arsanjani, J., Zipf, A., (2014): Fine resolution population mapping using OpenStreetMap points-of-interest. International Journal of Geographical Information Science (IJGIS), 28(9), pp. 1940-1963, DOI: 10.1080/13658816.2014.909045.
• Helbich, M., Jokar Arsanjani, J., (2015): Eigenvector Spatial Filtering for Spatiotemporal Crime Mapping and Spatial Crime Analysis. Journal of Cartography and Geographic Information Science, 42(2), pp.134-148. DOI: 10.1080/15230406.2014.893839
• Jokar Arsanjani, J., Helbich, M., Bakillah, M., Loos, L., (2015). The emergence and evolution of OpenStreetMap: A cellular automata approach. International Journal of Digital Earth. 8(1), 76-90. doi:10.1080/17538947.2013.847125
• Jokar Arsanjani, J., Helbich, M., Bakillah, M., Hagenauer, J., & Zipf, A. (2013). Toward mapping land-use patterns from volunteered geographic information. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 2264-2278. DOI:10.1080/13658816.2013.800871.
• Jokar Arsanjani, J., Helbich, M., Vaz, E., (2013): Spatiotemporal Simulation of Urban growth patterns using agent-based modeling: The case of Tehran. Cities 32; 33-42.
• Jokar Arsanjani, J., Helbich, M., Mousivand, AJ. (2014): A Morphological Approach to Predicting Urban Expansion, Transactions in GIS.18(2), pp. 219-233, DOI: 10.1111/tgis.12031.
• Jokar Arsanjani J., Helbich M, Kainz W, Darvishi B. A (2013): Integration of Logistic Regression and Markov Chain Models to Simulate Urban Expansion, International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation (21), pp. 265-275.
• Bakillah, M., Liang, S.H., Zipf, A., Jokar Arsanjani, J. (2013) Semantic Interoperability of Sensor Data with Volunteered Geographic Information: A Unified Model. ISPRS Int. J. Geo-Information, 2, 766-796.
• Bakillah, M.; M. A. Mostafavi; S.H.L. Liang; A. Zipf, Jokar Arsanjani J., (2012): Fuzzy Query Propagation in Sensor Networks. International Journal On Advances in Intelligent Systems, v5 n3&4 2012.
• Jokar Arsanjani J., Kainz W, Mousivand AJ (2011): Tracking Dynamic Land Use Change Using Spatially Explicit Markov Chain Based on Cellular Automata- the Case of Tehran, International Journal of Image and Data Fusion, Volume 2, Issue 4.
• von Reumont F, Jokar Arsanjani J., Riedl A (2013): Visualisation of geospatial geologic datasets through X3D software: an experiment for WebGIS representation, International Journal of Digital Earth, 6(5), pp. 483-503.
• Darvishi Boloorani A , Rashidian A , Jokar Arsanjani J., Shaygan M. (2012) Developed Approaches of Remote Sensing and GISciences in Health System (Part I: A Literature Review). Hakim Journal, 15 (2) :87-100
• Mobasheri, M. R., M. Chahardoli, J. Jokar Arsanjani, and M. Farajzadeh. (2008). Sugarcane Phenological Date Estimation Using Broad-Band Digital Cameras. American Journal of Agricultural and Biological Science 3(2):468–75.
• Mobasheri, M. R., J. Jokar Arsanjani, P. Ziaeian, and M. Chardoli. (2007). On the Methods of Sugarcane Water Stress Detection Using Terra/Aster Images. American-Eurasian Journal of Agricultural & Environmental Sciences 2(6).

• Jokar Arsanjani J., See L., Milcinski G., Fonte C., Bastin L., Estima J., Lupia F., Fritz S. (2015) Assessment of the added value of openstreetmap for land cover / land use mapping, ISRSE 2015, Berlin, Germany.
• Bakillah, M., Mobasheri, A., Rousell, A., Hahmann, S., Jokar Arsanjani, J., Liang, S.H.L. (2015). Toward a collective tagging Android application for gathering accessibility-related geospatial data in European cities. in proceedings of the 18th AGILE conference, 9-12 June 2015, Lisbon, Portugal.
• Jokar Arsanjani, J., Zipf, A., Mooney, P., Helbich, M. (2015). The contribution of OpenStreetMap to GIScience, Association of American Geographers (AAG), Chicago, USA.
• Jokar Arsanjani, J., (2015). On contribution of Volunteered Geographic Information to land monitoring efforts, Association of American Geographers (AAG), Chicago, USA.
• Jokar Arsanjani, J., (2015). Towards a digital earth through integration of citizen-based sensing and remote sensing in collecting geoinformation of terrestrial objects, 36th International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment (ISRSE-36), Berlin, Germany
• Jokar Arsanjani, J., Vaz, E., Bakillah, M., Mooney, P., (2014). Towards initiating OpenLandMap founded on citizens’ science: The current status of land use features of OpenStreetMap in Europe, in proceedings of the 17th AGILE conference, Castellon, Spain.
• Ebadi, M., Jokar Arsanjani, J., (2014). Crowdsourced-based mapping of historical west-to-east routes from the textual accounts of European travelers, in proceedings of the 17th AGILE conference, Castellon, Spain.
• Jokar Arsanjani, J., Vaz, E., (2014). Bringing citizen science into mapping global landscapes, in Proceedings of the First IMASS conference, Olhao, Portugal
• Helbich M, Jokar Arsanjani J., Leitner M, (2013): Driving Forces of Non-Violent Crimes in Houston, TX: A Spatially Filtered Negative Binomial Model. In Jekel T, Car A, Strobl J and Griesebner G: Geospatial Crossroads. GI_Forum ’13. Proceedings of the Geoinformatics Forum Salzburg. Wichmann: Heidelberg, pp. pending.
• Jokar Arsanjani J., Helbich M, Bakillah M, (2013): Exploiting Volunteered Geographic Information to Ease Land Use Mapping of an Urban Landscape, in proceedings of Urban Data Management Society 2013 conference, London.
• Jokar Arsanjani J., Barron C, Bakillah M, Helbich M, (2013): Assessing the Quality of OpenStreetMap Contributors together with their Contributions, in Proceedings of the 16th AGILE conference, Leuven, Belgium.
• Jokar Arsanjani J., Loos L C, Helbich M, Bakillah M, (2013): Individuals’ contribution to cells: a cellular automata approach for simulation of collaboratively mapped areas, in Proceedings of the 16th AGILE conference, Leuven, Belgium.
• Jokar Arsanjani, J., Helbich, M., Bakillah, M., (2013): Mapping Land Use Features from OpenStreetMap Contributions, GI_Forum conference 2013, Salzburg, Austria.
• Helbich M, Jokar Arsanjani J. (2012): Does Suburbia impact House Prices? An Empirical Evidence from the Metropolitan Area of Vienna, American Association of Geographers 2012, New York, USA.
• Jokar Arsanjani J., Kainz W (2011): Integration of Spatial Agents and Markov Chain Model in Simulation of Urban Sprawl, in Proceedings of AGILE conference 2011, Utrecht, the Netherlands.
• Jokar Arsanjani J., Kainz W, Azadbakht M (2011): Monitoring and Geospatially Explicit Simulation of Land Use Dynamics from Cellular Automata towards Geosimulation- Case Study Tehran, Iran, In Proceedings of ISDIF 2011, China.
• Jokar Arsanjani, J.,Jokar Arsanjani, J., Mousivand, A., Komaki, C.B., (2009): Risk warning and crisis management for dust storm effects on western border of Iran, in Proceeding of the ISPRS symposium, Prague, 261-267, 2009.