Amin Mobasheri

Research Interests

• Open geo-data, Open geo-services & software
• Crowd Sensing and Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI)
• Geo-Web 2.0 and Geo-data Infrastructures
• Applied Remote Sensing
• Geospatial data quality
• Geo-informatics for urban studies
• Geo-informatics for environmental studies

Projects

• CAP4Access – Collective Awareness Platforms for Improving Accessibility in European Cities & Regions
• Intrisic OSM Quality – A framework for measuring the fitness for purpose of OpenStreetMap data based on intrinsic quality indicators
• Web-based GIS for Lloyd's Lists – An Integrated Web-Based Information And Analysis System For Historic Geodata: The Case of Lloyd’s Lists
• GRIPS – GIS system for risk analysis, information and planning for disaster evacuation
• 3D Spatial Data Infrastructure (3D SDI) – The Next Generation (3D) Infrastructures on the Maasvlakte 2, Port of Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Education and Work

• Since 03/2013: Researcher and PhD candidate at GIScience research group, Heidelberg University as well as research and project member at Cluster of Excellence Asia and Europe in a global context, Germany
• Since 01/2016: Managing Editor, Journal of Open Geospatial Data, Software and Standards, Springer-Verlag
• Aug-Sep 2016: Visiting Scholar, Mobility Information Engineering (MIE) lab, Chair of Geoinformation Engineering, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
• Aug-Sep 2015: Visiting Scholar, Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science (ICMC), University of São Paulo, Brazil
• 11/2011–03/2013: Research Associate at section GIS Technology of OTB Research Institute, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
• 2009–2010: Master of Science in Geo-informatics, University of Twente, Faculty of Geo-information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), The Netherlands
• 2003–2008: Bachelor of Science in Computer Software Engineering, Tehran University of Science and Culture, Tehran, Iran

Honors and Awards

• September 2018: Top 1% of reviewers in Assorted on Publons global reviewer database from The Managing director of Publons
• April 2018: Outsanding reviewer award from The Editors of Environment International Journal, ELSEVIER in recognition of the contributions made to the quality of the journal
• 23/08/2015: ICA Research Scholarship award from The International Cartographic Association (ICA) in the 27th International Cartographic Conference (ICC 2015), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• 26/07/2015–31/07/2015: Grant award from IEEE to attend the International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium 2015 (IGARSS 2015), Milan, Italy
• 10/05/2015–15/05/2015: Grant award from the European Commission (COST Action TD1202: Mapping and the Citizen Sensor) to attend the TD1202 COST meeting: Human Sensor and Geographic Information Systems for Disaster Risk Management (HSenSIG), Institute for Systems Engineering and Computers, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
• 06/07/2014–12/07/2014: Grant award from the European Commission - COST Action IC1203 (ENERGIC): European Network Exploring Research into Geospatial Information Crowdsourcing: software and methodologies for harnessing geographic information from the crowd (ENERGIC), to attend the IC1203 COST meeting: VGI and Citizen Science: engaging, creating and understanding, Fiesole, Florence, Italy
• 03/06/2014–06/06/2014: Grant award from ESRI and AGILE Council to attend the 17th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science, Castellón, Spain
• 19/05/2014–28/05/2014: Grant award from the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) to attend the ISPRS Technical Commission VI Symposium, as well as the Geo-informatics summer camp & 11th ISPRS summer school & 5th ISPRS 3S-Summer Students Seminar, Wuhan, China
• 11/2013: Best paper and presentation award for paper entitled: Towards Integrated Web Processing Services for Spatio-temporal Analysis of Geo-data, The Case of Lloyd’s Lists, at the 4th Conference on Scientific Computing and Cultural Heritage (SCCH’13), Heidelberg, Germany
• 01/03/2013–29/02/2016: Full PhD Scholarship award funded by the Excellence Initiative of the German Research Foundation (DFG) to study at GIScience research group, Heidelberg University, Germany

Selected publications

Journal articles

• Mobasheri, A., Zipf, A., Francis. L. (2018). OpenStreetMap Data Quality Enrichment through Awareness Raising and Collective Action Tools – Experiences from a European project. Journal of Geo-spatial Information Science, 21:3, 234-246, DOI: 10.1080/10095020.2018.1493817
• 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.
• Mocnik, F. B., Mobasheri, A., Zipf, A.(2018). Open Source Data Mining Infrastructure for Exploring and Analysing OpenStreetMap. Journal of Open Geospatial Data, Software and Standards, 3: 7, doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s40965-018-0047-6
• Mobasheri, A., Huang. H., Castro Degrossi, L., Zipf, A. (2018). Enrichment of OpenStreetMap data completeness with sidewalk geometries using data mining techniques. Sensors, 18(2), 509.
• Mobasheri, A., Deister, J., Dieterich, H. (2017). Wheelmap: The Wheelchair Accessibility Crowdsourcing Platform . Journal of Open Geospatial Data, Software and Standards, 2: 27, doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s40965-017-0040-5
• Mobasheri, A. (2017). A rule-based spatial reasoning approach for OpenStreetMap Data quality enrichment; Case study of routing and navigation. Sensors, 17(11), 2498.
• Mobasheri, A., Sun, Y., Loos, L., and Ali, A. L. (2017). Are Crowdsourced Datasets Suitable for Specialized Routing Services? Case Study of OpenStreetMap for Routing of People with Limited Mobility. Sustainability, 9(6), 997.
• Senaratne, H., Mobasheri, A., Ali, A.L. , Capineri, C, and Haklay, M. (2017): A review of Volunteered Geographic Information quality assessment methods. International Journal of Geographical Information Science (IJGIS), 31(1), 139-167. DOI:10.1080/13658816.2016.1189556
• Sun, Y., Mobasheri, A. (2017). Utilizing Crowdsourced Data for Studies of Cycling and Air Pollution Exposure: A Case Study Using Strava Data. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 14(3), 274.
• Sun, Y., Mobasheri, A., Hu, X., Wang, W. (2017). Investigating Impacts of Environmental Factors on the Cycling Behavior of Bicycle-Sharing Users. Sustainability , 9(6), 1060.
• Ali A.L., Sirilertworakul, N. , Zipf, A., Mobasheri, A. (2016). Guided Classification System for Conceptual Overlapping Classes in OpenStreetMap. ISPRS Int. J. Geo-Inf. 2016, 5(6), 87; doi:10.3390/ijgi5060087
• Bakillah, M., Liang, S., Mobasheri, A., Jokar Arsanjani, J., & Zipf, A. (2014). Fine-resolution population mapping using OpenStreetMap points-of-interest. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 28(9), 1940-1963.

Book chapters

• Mobasheri, A., Zipf, A., Ducruet, C. (2017). Spatio-temporal data modeling of ship-to-ship interactions in mid-19th-century high seas. A book chapter in César Ducruet, Advances in Shipping Data Analysis and Modeling. Tracking and Mapping Maritime Flows in the Age of Big Data , pp.263-272, 2017, Routledge Studies in Transport Analysis, Taylor and Francis.
• Zipf, A., Mobasheri, A., Rousell, A., Hahmann, S. (2016). Crowdsourcing for individual needs - the case of routing and navigation for mobility-impaired persons, a book chapter in C. Capineri et al., eds. European Handbook of Crowdsourced Geographic Information, Ubiquity Press.
• Bakillah, M., Lauer, J., Liang, S., Zipf, A., Jokar Arsanjani, J., Mobasheri, A., Loos, L. (2014). Exploiting Big VGI to Improve Routing and Navigation Services, a book chapter in Karimi H.A., Big Data Techniques and Technologies in Geoinformatics, CRC Press, Taylor & Francis.

Conference papers

• Castro Degrossi, L., Porto de Albuquerque, J., Restrepo-Estrada, C.E., Mobasheri, A., Zipf, A. (2017). Exploring the geographical context for quality assessment of VGI in flood management domain. The 23rd Americas Conference on Information Systems, Boston, MA, USA.
• Rousell, A., Hahmann, S., Mobasheri, A. (2016). A Two-Tiered Approach to OSM Data collection for Novice Users. The 19th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science. Helsinki, Finnland.
• Hahmann, S., Zipf, A., Rousell, A. Mobasheri, A., Rylov, M., Steiger, E., Loos, L., Lauer, J. (2016). GIS-Werkzeuge zur Verbesserung der barrierefreien Routenplanung aus dem Projekt CAP4Access. AGIT - Journal für Angewandte Geoinformatik. Vol. 2, pp. 328-333. DOI: 10.14627/537622047
• Voss, H., Hahmann, S., Mobasheri, A., Rousell, A., Spindler, R. (2015).Utilizing Viennese Geographic Open Government Data For Better Inclusion Of Mobility-Impaired Persons. European Data Forum (EDF) 2015, Luxembourg.
• Mobasheri, A., Bakillah, M., Zipf, A. (2015). Web Mapping of Geo-tagged Shipping Information; Case Study: The LLOYDS Lists. The 27th International Cartographic Conference (ICC 2015), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
• Mobasheri, A., Bakillah, M., Zipf, A. (2015). Visualizing Sidewalk Information for People with Limited Mobilities; Cartographic Challenges and Requirements. The 27th International Cartographic Conference (ICC 2015), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
• Vahidi, H., Mobasheri, A., Yan, W. (2015). Looking for Human Footprint in Nature: Collaborative Mapping for Monitoring of Self-organized Patterns in Human Trail Systems. The 27th International Cartographic Conference (ICC 2015), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
• Mobasheri, A., Bakillah, M.(2015). Towards a unified infrastructure for automated management and integration of heterogeneous geo-datasets in disaster response. The International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium 2015 (IGARSS 2015), Milan, Italy.
• Mobasheri, A., Bakillah, M., Rousell, A., Hahmann, S., Zipf, A. (2015). On the completeness of sidewalk information in OpenStreetMap, a case study of Germany. The 18th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science, Lisbon, Portugal.
• Bakillah, M., Mobasheri, A., Rousell, A., Hahmann, S., Jokar Arsanjani, J., Liang, S.H.L. (2015). Towards a collective tagging Android application for gathering accessibility-related geospatial data in European cities. The 18th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science, Lisbon, Portugal.
• Hahmann, S., Bakillah, M., Mobasheri, A., Rousell, A. (2015). Integrating options for wheelchair users into an open route planning service: state-of-the-art and open challenges. GI Forum 2015. Salzburg, Austria.
• Rousell, A., Bakillah, M., Hahmann, S., Mobasheri, A. (2015). Extraction of landmarks from OpenStreetMap for use in navigational instructions. The 18th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science, Lisbon, Portugal.
• John, S., Hahmann, S., Zipf, A., Bakillah, M., Mobasheri, A., Rousell, A. (2015). Towards deriving incline values for street networks from voluntarily collected GPS data. GI Forum 2015. Salzburg, Austria.
• Mobasheri, A., Bakillah, M. (2014). Towards Spatio-temporal Data Modeling of Geo-tagged Shipping Information. The 17th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science, Castellón, Spain.
• Vahidi, H., Mobasheri, A., Alimardani, M., Guan, Q., Bakillah, M. (2014). Towards a location-based service for early mental health interventions in disaster response using minimalistic tele-operated android robots technology. ISPRS Technical Commission IV Symposium on Geo-spatial Databases and Location Based Services, Suzhou, China.
• Mobasheri, A., Bakillah, M., Schultes, K., Zipf, A. (2013). Towards Integrated Web Processing Services for Spatio-temporal Analysis of Geo-data, The Case of Lloyd’s Lists. The 4th Conference on Scientific Computing and Cultural Heritage (SCCH’13), Heidelberg, Germany.
• Mobasheri, A., Bakillah, M., Zipf, A., Liang, S.H.L. (2013). QualEvS4Geo: A peer-to-peer system architecture for semi-automated quality evaluation of geo-data in SDI. The IEEE 3rd International Conference on Innovative Computing Technology, London, United Kingdom.
• Bakillah, M., Mobasheri, A., Liang, S.H.L., Zipf, A. (2013). Towards an Efficient Routing Web Processing Service through Capturing Real-time Road Conditions from Big Data. The IEEE 5th Computer Science & Electronic Engineering Conference (CEEC’13), Colchester, United Kingdom.
• Mobasheri, A., van Oosterom, P.J.M., Zlatanova, S. (2013). Semantic annotation of existing geo-datasets, a case study of disaster response in Netherlands. The 29th Urban Data Management Symposium (UDMS 2013), London, United Kingdom.
• Mobasheri, A. (2012). Designing formal semantics of geo-information for disaster response, GISt report No. 60, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands. ISBN: 978-90-77029-34-3, ISSN: 1569-0245.
• Master Thesis
• Mobasheri, A. 2010. Automated quality evaluation in the context of Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI). Master of Science thesis, Faculty of Geo-information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), University of Twente, The Netherlands. Unpublished. (link to presentation slides)

Scientific Project Presentations

• 17.01.2017: OpenStreetMap data quality assessment for routing of people with restricted mobility; development of open source tools and technologies, Final year project evaluation meeting for CAP4Access project at European Commission, Brussels, Belgium.
• 17.01.2017: Public awareness and community engagement in CAP4Access project; Lessons learned from management of piloting activities in Heidelberg, Germany, Final year project evaluation meeting for CAP4Access project at European Commission, Brussels, Belgium.
• 07.07.2016:  VGI data quality assessment: concepts and challenges of intrinsic analysis, at Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation , Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland.
• 26.04.2016:  “Web-based information and analysis system for historic geo-data: the case of LLOYDS lists”, at Institute of Complex Systems, The French National Centre for Scientific Research, Paris, France.
• 17.02.2016: Developed tools for OpenStreetMap data quality assessment, second year project evaluation meeting for CAP4Access project at European Commission, Brussels, Belgium.
• 08.12.2015:  “Modeling and analysis of LLOYDS lists geo-tagged shipping data”, Invited talk at Institute of Complex Systems, The French National Centre for Scientific Research, Paris, France.
• 03.11.2015:Statistical Analysis and Clustering of Geo-tagged Shipping Information; Case Study: The LLOYDS Lists, Project meeting for The LLOYDS Lists project at H-GIS club, Heidelberg University, Germany.
• 14.09.2015:  Open Geospatial Data Quality Assessment and Enrichment. The Case study of Routing and navigation services for people with limited mobility, Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of São Paulo, São Carlos, Brazil.
• 07.04.2015: Assesing the Completeness of Sidewalk Information in OpenStreetMap Data, 4th PCC project meeting of CAP4Access project at Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany.
• 07.04.2015:Developmenet of a Collective Tagging System for collection of accessibility-related geo-information for routing and navigation of people with limited mobility, 4th PCC project meeting of CAP4Access project at Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany.
• 28.01.2015:Quality Assessment of OpenStreetMap data, a Fitness for Use Perspective, first year project evaluation meeting for CAP4Access project at European Commission, Brussels, Belgium.
• 28.01.2015: Collective Tagging System for Geospatial Data Collection, first year project evaluation meeting for CAP4Access project at European Commission, Brussels, Belgium.
• 28.10.2014: Research and Practical Challenges in Assesing the Quality of OpenStreetMap Data, 3rd PCC project meeting of CAP4Access project, Elche, Spain.
• 09.07.2014: Small-scale population estimation using Volluntered Geographic Information (VGI), LabGeo (Geography lab), University of Florence, Italy.
• 12.06.2013: Inspection and Modeling of Geo-tagged Shipping Data, the case of Lloyds lists, Project meeting for The LLOYDS Lists project at Cluster of Excellence Asia and Europe in a Global Context, Heidelberg University, Germany.
• 10.12.2012: 3D Spatial Data Infrastructure, The 2nd Scientific Seminar of GIS in Western Iran with special attention to Spatial Data Infrastructure. Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran. (in Persian)
• 15.11.2012: Applying formal semantics of geo-information for disaster response. Geo-information in Nederland (GIN) 2012 Conference, Apeldoorn, the Netherlands. Invited talk for the special PhD track talks (without publication)
• 08.12.2010: Automated quality evaluation in the context of spatial data infrastructure, research presentation for GIS technology group of TUDelft, Internal group meeting, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands.(link)

Other Scientific Experiences:

• Since 2014:  Scientific reviewer and editor for several indexed journals.
• 2018:  Session Chair Collaborative Crowdsourced Cloud Mapping WG 4, for ISPRS Technical Commission IV Symposium 2018, Delft, the Netherlands.
• 2018:  Scientific committee member and reviewer for ISPRS Technical Commission IV Symposium 2018, Delft, the Netherlands.
• 2018:  Scientific reviewer for International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM 2018), TRACK: Geographic Information Science, Rochester NY, USA.
• 2016:  Scientific reviewer for ISPRS 2016 - XXIII ISPRS Congress, Prague, Czech republic.
• 2016:  Scientific reviewer for The 3rd International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Disaster Management, Vienna, Austria.
• 2016:  Scientific reviewer for Indoor3D 2016 Conference, Athens, Greece.
• 2015: Scientific committee member for The 10th International Conference on Geo-information for Disaster Management (Gi4DM 2015), ISPRS Geospatial Week, Montpellier, France
• 2015:  Scientific reviewer and ambassador for Imperial College Computing Student Workshop (ICCSW’15), Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.
• 2015:  Scientific reviewer for International Conference of Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM 2015), TRACK: Geographic Information Science and Technology (GIS & T) for Crisis Response and Management. University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway
• 2014:  Scientific reviewer and ambassador for Imperial College Computing Student Workshop (ICCSW’14), Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.
• 2014:  Scientific reviewer for International Conference of Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM 2014), TRACK: Geographic Information Science and Technology (GIS & T) for Crisis Response and Management. Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania, USA
• 2013:  Scientific reviewer and ambassador for Imperial College Computing Student Workshop (ICCSW’13), Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.
• 2013: Scientific reviewer for International Conference of Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM 2013), TRACK: Geographic Information Science and Technology (GIS & T) for Crisis Response and Management. Baden-Baden, Germany.
• 2012:  Local Organizing Committee member of The 8th International Conference on Geo-information for Disaster Management (Gi4DM 2012), Enschede, the Netherlands.