Prof. Dr. Patrick Laube

Projects

• Sustainable Protein and Oil Crops: The potential of protein and oil crops for a transformation towards a more sustainable Swiss food system / Co-project leader / ongoing
• Data-based Screening and Monitoring Methods for Tracking Environmental and Social Dynamic around Gold Mines / Project leader / ongoing
• Spatial sustainable finance: Satellite-based ratings of company footprints in biodiversity and water / Co-project leader / ongoing
• Digitising Environmental Impacts using Geospatial Analytics / Co-project leader / completed
• Climate Rating for Real Estate Portfolios / Team member / completed
• BioVaR – Assessing and Digitizing Risk Exposure Resulting from Biodiversity Loss / Co-project leader / completed
• Remote Sensing Metrics for Life Cycle Assessment / Team member / completed
• Tech4SDG – Guiding Swiss Asset Managers towards High-Impact SMEs / Deputy project leader / completed
• Environmental and Social Assessment at Mine Sites using Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics / Project leader / completed
• HistoRiCH: Historical river change – Planning for the future by exploring the mapped past / Project leader / completed
• Fighting bites with bytes: Promoting public health with crowdsourced tick prevention / Team member / completed
• Wind energy potential in close proximity to the rail network of the Rhaetian Railway RhB / Team member / completed
• Wind energy potential in close proximity to the rail network of the Swiss Federal Railways SBB / Team member / completed
• Erosion in Alpine Areas / Team member / completed
• Historizing GINES / Project leader / completed
• Spatio-temporal databases / Project leader / completed
• Formation and future evolution of glacier lakes in Austria / Deputy project leader / completed
• Monitoring Simme and Kander / Team member / completed
• CONSUS – A GIS tool for agricultural planning / Team member / completed
• Visualization of modelled Spatial Development Scenarios within the WSL Research Program "Spatial Requirements of Man and Nature" / Deputy project leader / completed
• Close-range & low-cost Remote Sensing for the Environmental Sciences / Team member / completed
• modularCity / Deputy project leader / completed

Publications

Articles in scientific journal, peer-reviewed

• Wyttenbach, M., Hochreutener, A., Junghardt, J., Schweiter, A., Freuler, F., Laube, P., & Rupf, R. (2026). Monitoring of outdoor winter recreation using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) in the Beverin Nature Park, Switzerland. Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism, 54(101040). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jort.2026.101040
• Scherelis, V., Laube, P., & Doering, M. (2025). Long term hydromorphological changes in two Swiss river floodplains : analyses of historical maps. River Research and Applications, 41(9), 1803–1818. https://doi.org/10.1002/rra.70001
• Bíl, M., Balčiauskas, L., Bílová, M., Cellina, S., Favilli, F., Gačić, D., Guinard, É., Heurich, M., Ivanova, N., Junghardt, J., Keuling, O., Kruuse, M., Kukalaj, Q., Langbein, J., Laube, P., Licoppe, A., Masaryk, P., Maślanko, W., Mayer, M., et al. (2025). Wildlife-vehicle collision liability in Europe : a review of existing approaches and their implications. Journal of Environmental Management, 380(124986). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2025.124986
• Bald, L., Ratnaweera, N., Hengl, T., Laube, P., Grunder, J., Tischhauser, W., Bhandari, N., & Zeuss, D. (2025). Assessing tick attachments to humans with citizen science data : spatio-temporal mapping in Switzerland from 2015 to 2021 using spatialMaxent. Parasites & Vectors, 18(22). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13071-024-06636-4
• Antonelli, M., Laube, P., Doering, M., Scherelis, V., Wu, S., Hurni, L., Heitzler, M., & Weber, C. (2024). Identifying anthropogenic legacy in freshwater ecosystems. WIREs Water, 11(4), e1729. https://doi.org/10.1002/wat2.1729
• Scherelis, V., Döring, M., Antonelli, M., & Laube, P. (2023). Hydromorphological information in historical maps of Switzerland : from map feature definition to ecological metric derivation. Annals of the American Association of Geographers. https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2022.2160693
• Laube, P., Ratnaweera, N., Wróbel, A., Kaelin, I., Stephani, A., Reifler-Baechtiger, M., Graf, R. F., & Suter, S. (2023). Analysing and predicting wildlife–vehicle collision hotspots for the Swiss road network. Landscape Ecology, 38(7), 1765–1783. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-023-01655-5
• Scherelis, V., Döring, M., & Laube, P. (2023). HydroWidth : a small‐scale approach to calculate river width and its variability. Transactions in GIS, 27(5), 1503–1525. https://doi.org/10.1111/tgis.13083
• Grüter, R., Trachsel, T., Laube, P., & Jaisli, I. (2022). Expected global suitability of coffee, cashew and avocado due to climate change. Plos One, 17(1), e0261976. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0261976
• Tao, Y., Both, A., Silveira, R. I., Buchin, K., Sijben, S., Purves, R. S., Laube, P., Peng, D., Toohey, K., & Duckham, M. (2021). A comparative analysis of trajectory similarity measures. GIScience & Remote Sensing, 58(5), 643–669. https://doi.org/10.1080/15481603.2021.1908927
• Bernegger, H., Laube, P., Ochsner, P., Meslec, M., Rahn, H., Junghardt, J., Aurich, I., & Ashworth, S. (2021). Sustain GEOBIM – a new method to simulate sustainable development scenarios for urban areas. Circular Economy and Sustainability, 1(3), 967–976. https://doi.org/10.1007/s43615-021-00092-3
• Catalano, C., Meslec, M., Boileau, J., Guarino, R., Aurich, I., Baumann, N., Chartier, F., Dalix, P., Deramond, S., Laube, P., Lee, A. K. K., Ochsner, P., Pasturel, M., Soret, M., & Moulherat, S. (2021). Smart sustainable cities of the new millennium : towards design for nature. Circular Economy and Sustainability, 1(3), 1053–1086. https://doi.org/10.1007/s43615-021-00100-6
• Jaisli, I., Laube, P., Trachsel, S., Ochsner, P., & Schuhmacher, S. (2019). Suitability evaluation system for the production and sourcing of agricultural commodities. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 161, 170–184. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compag.2018.02.002
• Rohrbach, B., Weibel, R., & Laube, P. (2018). Parameter-free aggregation of value functions from multiple experts and uncertainty assessment in multi-criteria evaluation. Journal of Spatial Information Science, 2018(16), 27–51. https://doi.org/10.5311/JOSIS.2018.16.368
• Rohrbach, B., Laube, P., & Weibel, R. (2018). Comparing multi-criteria evaluation and participatory mapping to projecting land use. Landscape and Urban Planning, 38–50. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2018.04.002
• Long, J. A., Weibel, R., Dodge, S., & Laube, P. (2018). Moving ahead with computational movement analysis. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 32(7), 1275–1281. https://doi.org/10.1080/13658816.2018.1442974
• Rohrbach, B., Anderson, S., & Laube, P. (2015). The effects of sample size on data quality in participatory mapping of past land use. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, 43(4), 681–697. https://doi.org/10.1177/0265813515618578
• Purves, R. S., Laube, P., Buchin, M., & Speckmann, B. (2014). Moving beyond the point : an agenda for research in movement analysis with real data. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 47, 1–4. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2014.06.003
• Bleisch, S., Duckham, M., Galton, A., Laube, P., & Lyon, J. (2013). Mining candidate causal relationships in movement patterns. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 28(2), 363–382. https://doi.org/10.1080/13658816.2013.841167

Books, peer-reviewed

Laube, P. (2014). Computational Movement Analysis. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10268-9

Book chapters, peer-reviewed

• Gudmundsson, J., Laube, P., & Wolle, T. (2017). Movement patterns in spatio-temporal data. In S. Shekhar, H. Xiong, & X. Zhou (Eds.), Encyclopedia of GIS (pp. 1362–1370). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17885-1_823
• Laube, P., Gudmundsson, J., & Wolle, T. (2016). Computer-gestützte Bewegungsanalyse. In W. Freeden & R. Rummel (eds.), Handbuch der Geodäsie (pp. 1–28). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46900-2_68-1

Written conference contributions, peer-reviewed

• Scherelis, V., Laube, P., & Doering, M. (2023). From change detection to change analytics : decomposing multi-temporal pixel evolution vectors [Conference paper]. 12th International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2023), 65:1–65:6. https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.GIScience.2023.65
• Gygax, G., Ratnaweera, N., Tischhauser, W., Smits, T. H. M., Laube, P., & Ott, T. (2023). An oracle for the optimization of underconstrained compositions of neural networks : the tick hazard use case [Conference paper]. In J. J. Schneider, M. S. Weyland, D. Flumini, & R. M. Füchslin (Eds.), Artificial Life and Evolutionary Computation (pp. 24–31). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-23929-8_3
• Bernegger, H. J., Laube, P., Ochsner, P., Meslec, M., Rahn, H., Junghardt, J., Aurich, I., & Ashworth, S. (2022). A new method combining BIM and GIS data to optimise the sustainability of new construction projects in Switzerland [Conference paper]. IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, 1122, 12052. https://doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/1122/1/012052
• Leuschen, L., Laube, P., Eitzenberger, F., Thimm, T., & Helbling, S. (2021). Cultural mapping 4.0 : participatory regional cultural planning in theory and practice [Conference paper]. Proceedings Managing Knowledge in Uncertain Times, 1436–1446.
• Geilhausen, M., & Laube, P. (2018). Deconstructed and inverted multi-criteria evaluation for on-the-fly scenario development and decision-making [Conference paper]. In S. Winter, A. Griffin, & M. Sester (Eds.), 10th International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2018) (Vol. 2018, Issue 27, pp. 27:1–27:7). Dagstuhl Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.GISCIENCE.2018.27
• Sigrist, B., Laube, P., Signer, C., & Graf, R. F. (2016). Close encounters : analyzing disturbance events between deer and visitors in a recreational forest. GISRUK 2016 Proceedings. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-24632
• Indermühle, S., Laube, P., Geilhausen, M., & Zwicker, T. (2014). Multi-criteria aggregation for sensistive parcel-based census data. 8th International Conference on Geographic Information Science, Vienna, Austria, 24-26 September 2014. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-4030

Other publications

• Antonelli, M., Scherelis, V., Wu, S., Laube, P., Döring, M., Hurni, L., Heizler, M., & Weber, C. (2024). Quantitative Analyse von Fliessgewässerökosystemen und ihrer Dynamik anhand digitalisierter historischer Karten. Wasser Energie Luft, 116(4), 259–266. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-32116
• Posth, J.-A., Schwendner, P., Laube, P., & Orpiszewski, T. (2024). Bio-value-at-risk : a concept to assessing the implications of biodiversity risks on portfolio management using geospatial analysis. SSRN. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4784271
• Laube, P., Leuschen, L., Eitzenberger, F., & Thimm, T. (2022). Cultural Mapping 4.0 : neue Wege zur Stärkung der kulturellen Identität der Bodenseeregion. Internationale Bodensee-Hochschule IBH.
• Laube, P., Rahn, H., Bakogiannis, N., Eitzenberger, F., Thimm, T., & Leuschen, L. (2021). Cultural Mapping 4.0 : neue Wege zur Stärkung der kulturellen Identität der Bodenseeregion [Conference poster]. Book of Abstracts INUAS Konferenz 2021, 304–305. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-22303
• Fahrentrapp, J., Geilhausen, M., & Laube, P. (2016, April 18). Budget remote phenotyping : potential and limitations of consumer-grade NIRGB and red edge cameras for early detection of plant leaf diseases. 2nd General Meeting of COST Action FA 1306, Copenhagen, Denmark, 18-20 April 2016.
• Ochsner, P., Geilhausen, M., Laube, P., Döring, M., & Rupf, R. (2015). Innovative Fernerkundungslösungen im Umweltmonitoring. Transfer, 2015(1), 7. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-5358
• Laube, P. (2015). The low hanging fruit is gone. SIGSPATIAL Special, 7(1), 3–10. https://doi.org/10.1145/2782759.2782762
• Jaisli, I., & Laube, P. (2015, June 22). Food production in smallholder farming systems : developing a spatially explicit decision-model for trade opportunities. Tackling World Food System Challenges: Across Disciplines, Sectors, and Scales, Ascona, 22. Juni 2015. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-3737

Oral conference contributions and abstracts

• Posth, J.-A., Schwendner, P., Laube, P., & Orpiszewski, T. (2026, March 10). Bio-value-at-risk : a scenario-based concept to assessing the implications of biodiversity risks on financial portfolio management using geospatial analysis [Conference presentation]. https://doi.org/10.5194/wbf2026-75
• Götz, M., Itten, R., Orpiszewski, T., Hauser, L., & Laube, P. (2023, September). Life cycle approaches for biodiversity impacts of mining and resource extraction : combining remote sensing and life cycle assessment. World Resources Forum, Geneva, Switzerland, 4-6 September 2023.
• Leuschen, L., Laube, P., Helbling, S., Eitzenberger, F., & Thimm, T. (2021). Digital cultural mapping of the Lake Constance cultural heritage using participatory GIS and story-maps. Electronic Imaging & the Visual Arts (EVA), Florence (Online), 14 June 2021.
• Geilhausen, M., Laube, P., Ochsner, P., & Döring, M. (2016). A match made in heaven : a hands-on GIS pipeline unlocks the potential of budget remote sensing. 24th GIS Research UK Annual Conference (GISRUK16), Greenwich, 30 March - 1 April 2016.
• Geilhausen, M., Laube, P., & Tobias, S. (2015). Unlocking the potential of raster-based land use scenarios : a ‘Field to Entity’ approach for realistic scenario visualization. Junge Landschaftsforschung 2015, Birmensdorf, 6. März 2015.

Affiliations

Current Affiliations

PanGeo Nature Risk GmbH: Shareholder and managing director
The ZHAW spin-off PanGeo Nature Risk GmbH aims to provide consulting, analysis, and research services for companies, politicians, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and administrative bodies, as well as trading in licenses and analysis products., Winterthur
03 / 2025 - today

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