Geoinformatics and Cartography – Research projects
Previous projects
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3D data management and visualization
The goal of the project is create new methods for the management and visualisation of 3D geospatial information.
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Advanced processing services in a network-based SDI
The aim of the project is to do research and development on advanced geodata-related processing services in a networked environment.
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Amelioration of GI-teaching in senior secondary schools (PaikkaOppi)
The PaikkaOppi-project develops a learning environment on geographic information for personal and shared use of students on the upper secondary school level.
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Arctic Geoinvest CAGI
In the project Arctic Geoinvest, the aim is to create an innovation and development environment that enhances the use of arctic geoinnovations and their technical applications in the businesses. The focus research areas are arctic geosciences in the innovation centre.
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BONUS BASMATI – Baltic Sea Maritime Spatial Planning for Sustainable Ecosystem Services
Maritime Spatial Planning (MSP) requires a spatially explicit framework for decision-making, and on that background the overall objective of BONUS BASMATI is to develop integrated and innovative solutions for MSP from the local to the Baltic Sea Region (BSR) scale.
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Digital elevation model (DEM) quality, error models and use in spatial analyses
National DEM represents the Earth’s surface forms as a regular mesh of height points and it is part of the national basic spatial data sets.
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EuroGeoNames
In the EGN-project the service implementation of the EuroGeographics’ EuroGeoNames (EGN) data set will be renewed.
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European Location Framework (ELF)
The goal of the project is to develop the European Location Framework (ELF) required to provide up-to-date, authoritative, interoperable, cross-border, reference geo-information for use by the European public and private sectors.
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European Spatial Data Infrastructure Network (ESDIN)
ESDIN (European Spatial Data Infrastructure Network) is a Best Practice Network EU-project.
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Evaluation and demonstration of array database management systems using national geospatial data (RDA-ArrayDB)
In the project RDA-Array DB, we will evaluate two array database management systems (DBMSs) using national geospatial data. The aim is also to demonstrate, how those systems store and retrieve multidimensional geospatial information, and how they carry out simple geospatial analysis tasks.
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Finnish Grid and Cloud Infrastructure (FGCI)
Computing is rapidly developing to be distributed over the internet.
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GeoE3 - A Geospatially Enabled Ecosystem for Europe
GeoE3 is a project co-financed by the Connecting Europe Facility of the European Union that will provide the vital connection between existing and emerging National, Regional and Cross-Border digital services.
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GeoPrivacy
Ever since various GNSS-enabled smart devices started to gain popularity in the society, the amount of personal location data recorded with different fitness apps has increased steadily. This data could be used for example in city planning.
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Geospatial Datasets in the National Data Exchange Layer
The project investigates the special requirements that geospatial data set for the National Data Exchange Layer (NDEL) development.
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Geospatial info-mobility service by real-time data-integration and generalisation (GiMoDig)
In the project the research was done for delivering spatial data from the national topographic databases through network connections to mobile users.
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GSDIG
The Geospatial Statistical Data Integration Service, GSDIG, will address frequent needs to integrate and aggregate spatially located unit data from different sources and with statistical background information.
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Hydrography and identifiers (HY-ID)
Four main research questions of the project.
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Interactive Uncertainty-aware Terrain Analysis for Large Digital Elevation Models (INTUIT)
Digital elevation models (DEMs) are an essential component of spatial data infrastructures.
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LYSTRA - Awareness and activities in the World Natural Heritage Site High Coast and Kvarken Archipelago
The Lystra project will develop joint interpretation and tools to convey knowledge and information about the World Heritage Site High Coast / Kvarken Archipelago in Sweden and Finland. The main goal is to make sure the information includes the latest scientific findings, is easily accessible, engaging and is telling the story of the whole World Heritage Site in a uniform and excellent way in both countries.
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MaaTu
The MaaTu project produces refined spatial data on the occurrence and depth of peat soils using remote sensing, empirical field data, and machine learning methods.
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Map services for outdoor leisure activities supported by social networks (MenoMaps II)
In the project new possibilities for creating map-based leisure services for outdoor activities are investigated.
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Measurement, Monitoring and Environmental Assessment (MMEA)
The aim of the MMEA research consortium is to develop new tools, standards and methods for environmental measurement.
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Multipublishing in supporting leisure outdoor activities (MenoMaps)
The aim of this Tekes- project is to carry out research on the utilization of multipublishing for the purpose of outdoor activities.
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MyGeoTrust
The vision of MyGeoTrust is to create an alternative mobile platform for location-based services that ensures excellent privacy protections for its users.
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Natural Resources Risk Management in GeoIT solutions
LuHaGeoIT project aims to contribute to a more open flow of information on climate change research.
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Quick-response Uncertainty-aware Geocomputation for Very Large Datasets (Quick-GIS)
The Quick-GC project has two main objectives.
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Real-time transformation services in the context of an SDI
The aim of the research in this project is to set up pilot services for coordinate system transformations, schema transformations and generalization to test these functionalities in the context of the national SDI.
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Revolution of Location-based Services (SUPRA)
In our vision consumer-aimed LBSs could be supplied with new kind of contents based on real-time geospatial analysis.
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SDI expert services
The aim of the project is to advance the development of the SDI on the national and on the international level.
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Study on harmonisation of the data models used in topographic data management
The harmonisation of data models will be needed to increase the usability of topographic data collected in municipalities.
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Study on harmonisation of the data models used in topographic data management
The harmonisation of data models will be needed to increase the usability of topographic data collected in municipalities.
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TIIMA - Knowledge Base for Climate-friendly Land Use
The goal of the TIIMA project is to produce versatile open, national data products that can be used for example in flood risk management and in climate aware land use planning.
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Topographic data system: methods for effective and multifaceted use (MaastoArray)
We investigate in the project new ways to use the laser scanning elevation data.
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TUGEVA
During our era of enormous geospatial data (abbr. geodata), the comprehensibility of its contents to people often remains weak and the data contains more and more features and phenomena unknown to its users. However, effective use of these data and understanding phenomena related to geographic features in them require comprehending exactly this unknown information.
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Ubiquitous spatial communication (UbiMap)
The new technologies make it possible for geospatial applications to be adapted to support the varying user tasks in specific contexts.
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Usability of the maps and their graphical interfaces, context-aware maps
By usability of a certain system or a product it is meant that specified users achieve specified goals effectively, efficiently and satisfactorily in a specified context of use.
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VALTAOJA - Utilization of GIS technology and detailed digital elevation models in defining main drains and other water channels
The project aim is to provide definition of a main drain based on geometrical and functional criterion.
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VALUE - Update of the Finnish drainage basin system
The objective of the VALUE-project is to plan and specify the new Finnish drainage basin system.
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VALUE II - Update of the Finnish drainage basin system, phase 2
In VALUE II the aim is to create uncertainty-aware catchment delineations for number of representative geomorphological regions of Finland.
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Versatile use of country-wide laser scanning data (VERSATILE)
The project results benefit the development and updating of spatial data infrastructures, especially the Topographic database, as well as all end users of the country-wide LIDAR data.
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Web Services and geospatial interoperability
Recently ontology research has provided a formal approach for improving the semantic interoperability.
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