Melanie Eckle-Elze

Projects

• Humanitarian OpenStreetMap team (HOT) – Board member 2017-2019
• Mamapa – Board member
• Missing Maps
• OpenFloodRiskMap – A decision support system based on user-generated spatial data for communities in support of emergency response planning in flood management)
• CrowdFDA – Crowdsourcing for Forensic Disaster Analysis
• AGORA

Research Interest

• Volunteered and Crowdsourced Geographic Information
• Applied geoinformation systems and services to support disaster management and humanitarian operations
• Disaster mapping

Publications

• Scholz, S., Knight, P., Eckle-Elze, M., Marx, S., Zipf, A. (2018): Volunteered Geographic Information for Disaster Risk Reduction: The Missing Maps Approach and Its Potential within the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. Remote Sens., 10(8), 1239, doi: 10.3390/rs10081239.
• Loos, S., Barns, K., Bhattacharjee, G., Soden, R., Herfort, B., Eckle-Elze, M., Giovando, C., Girardot, B., Saito, K., Deierlein, G., Kiremidjian, A., Baker, J., Lallemant, D.(2018): Crowd-Sourced Remote Assessments of Regional-Scale Post-Disaster Damage. Proceedings of the 11th National Conference in Earthquake Engineering, Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA. 2018.
• Auer, M.; Eckle-Elze, M.; Fendrich, S.; Griesbaum, L.; Kowatsch, F.; Marx, S.; Raifer, M.; Schott, M.; Troilo, R.; Zipf, A. (2018): Towards Using the Potential of OpenStreetMap History for Disaster Activation Monitoring. ISCRAM 2018. Rochester. NY. US.
• Auer, M.; Eckle-Elze, M.; Fendrich, S.; Loos, L.; Kowatsch, F.; Marx, S.; Raifer, M.; Schott, M.; Troilo, R.; Zipf, A. (2018): Eine Plattform zur Analyse raumzeitlicher Entwicklungen von OpenStreetMap-Daten für intrinsische Qualitätsbewertungen. AGIT Symposium, Salzburg, Austria.
• Mocnik, F.-B., Mobasheri, A., Griesbaum, L., Eckle-Elze, M., Jacobs, C., Klonner, C. (2018): A grounding-based ontology of data quality measures. Journal of Spatial Information Science. 16, 1-25.
• Eckle-Elze, M., Herfort, B., Yan, Y., Kuo, C.-L., Zipf, A. (2017): Towards using Volunteered Geographic Information to monitor post-disaster recovery in tourist destinations. In: Proceedings of ISCRAM 2017 - 14th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response And Management. Albi, France, pp. 1036-1047.
• Klonner, C., Eckle-Elze, M., Usón, T. & Höfle, B. (2017): Quality Improvement of Remotely Volunteered Geographic Information via Country-Specific Mapping Instructions. In: Proceedings of the ISCRAM 2017 Conference. Albi, France, pp. 939-947.
• Yan, Y., Eckle-Elze, M., Kuo, C.-L., Herfort, B., Fan, H., Zipf, A. (2017): Monitoring and Assessing Post-Disaster Tourism Recovery Using Geotagged Social Media Data. International Journal of Geo-Information, ISPRS IJGI. 6(5), 144; doi:10.3390/ijgi6050144
• Griesbaum, L., Eckle-Elze, M., Herfort, B., Raifer, M., Zipf, A. (2017): Partizipative Methoden zur Erfassung und Verarbeitung von Geoinformationen - Das Beispiel OpenStreetMap. HMD Praxis der Wirtschaftsinformatik. Special Issue "Online Participation".
• Porto de Albuquerque, J., Herfort, B.,Eckle-Elze, M. (2016): The Tasks of the Crowd: A Typology of Tasks in Geographic Information Crowdsourcing and a Case Study in Humanitarian Mapping. Remote Sensing. 2016, 8(10), 859; doi:10.3390/rs8100859.
• Eckle-Elze, M., Herfort, B., de Alberquerque, J.P., Leiner, R., Wolff, R., Jacobs, C., Zipf, A. (2016): Leveraging OpenStreetMap to support flood risk management in municipalities: A prototype decision support system. 13th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management. ISCRAM 2016. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
• de Albuquerque, J. P., Eckle-Elze, M., Herfort, B., Zipf, A. (2016). Crowdsourcing geographic information for disaster management and improving urban resilience: an overview of recent developments and lessons learned. In: Capineri, C, Haklay, M, Huang, H, Antoniou, V, Kettunen, J, Ostermann, F and Purves, R. (eds.) European Handbook of Crowdsourced Geographic Information, Pp. 309–321. London: Ubiquity Press. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/bax.w. License: CC-BY 4.0.
• Herfort, B., Eckle-Elze, M., de Albuquerque, J. P., (2016): Being specific about geographic information crowdsourcing: a typology and analysis of the Missing Maps project in South Kivu. 13th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management. ISCRAM 2016. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
• Eckle-Elze, M., de Albuquerque, J.P., Herfort, B., Zipf, A. (2016): Freie Geodaten zur Entscheidungsunterstützung im Hochwassermanagement – Fallbeispiel OpenFloodRiskMap. AGIT 2016, Salzburg, Austria.
• Eckle-Elze, M., de Albuquerque, J. P. (2015): Quality Assessment of Remote Mapping in OpenStreetMap for Disaster Management Purposes. 12th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM). Kristiansand, Norway.
• Herfort, B., Eckle-Elze, M., de Albuquerque, J. P., Zipf, A. (2015): Towards assessing the quality of volunteered geographic information from OpenStreetMap for identifying critical infrastructures. ISCRAM 2015 – 12th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management. Kristiansand, Norway.

Education

• 2011- 2015 Bachelor Studies of Geography at Heidelberg University
• 2015- 2019 Master Studies of Geography at Heidelberg University, Specialization Geoinformatics