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. et al. (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). doi: 10.1016/j.jort.2026.101040.
• Scherelis, V., Laube, P. and Doering, M. (2025) 'Long term hydromorphological changes in two Swiss river floodplains : analyses of historical maps', River Research and Applications, 41(9), pp. 1803–1818. doi: 10.1002/rra.70001.
• Bíl, M. et al. (2025) 'Wildlife-vehicle collision liability in Europe : a review of existing approaches and their implications', Journal of Environmental Management, 380(124986). doi: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2025.124986.
• Bald, L. et al. (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). doi: 10.1186/s13071-024-06636-4.
• Antonelli, M. et al. (2024) 'Identifying anthropogenic legacy in freshwater ecosystems', WIREs Water, 11(4), p. e1729. doi: 10.1002/wat2.1729.
• Scherelis, V. et al. (2023) 'Hydromorphological information in historical maps of Switzerland : from map feature definition to ecological metric derivation', Annals of the American Association of Geographers. doi: 10.1080/24694452.2022.2160693.
• Laube, P. et al. (2023) 'Analysing and predicting wildlife–vehicle collision hotspots for the Swiss road network', Landscape Ecology, 38(7), pp. 1765–1783. doi: 10.1007/s10980-023-01655-5.
• Scherelis, V., Döring, M. and Laube, P. (2023) 'HydroWidth : a small‐scale approach to calculate river width and its variability', Transactions in GIS, 27(5), pp. 1503–1525. doi: 10.1111/tgis.13083.
• Delfgou, C., Bakogiannis, N. and Laube, P. (2023) 'Uncertainty analysis of geodata derived from digital map processing', International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 37(7), pp. 1667–1691. doi: 10.1080/13658816.2023.2206890.
• Grüter, R. et al. (2022) 'Expected global suitability of coffee, cashew and avocado due to climate change', PLOS ONE, 17(1), p. e0261976. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0261976.
• Tao, Y. et al. (2021) 'A comparative analysis of trajectory similarity measures', GIScience & Remote Sensing, 58(5), pp. 643–669. doi: 10.1080/15481603.2021.1908927.
• Bernegger, H. et al. (2021) 'Sustain GEOBIM – a new method to simulate sustainable development scenarios for urban areas', Circular Economy and Sustainability, 1(3), pp. 967–976. doi: 10.1007/s43615-021-00092-3.
• Catalano, C. et al. (2021) 'Smart sustainable cities of the new millennium : towards design for nature', Circular Economy and Sustainability, 1(3), pp. 1053–1086. doi: 10.1007/s43615-021-00100-6.
• Jaisli, I. et al. (2019) 'Suitability evaluation system for the production and sourcing of agricultural commodities', Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 161, pp. 170–184. doi: 10.1016/j.compag.2018.02.002.
• Rohrbach, B., Weibel, R. and 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), pp. 27–51. doi: 10.5311/JOSIS.2018.16.368.
• Rohrbach, B., Laube, P. and Weibel, R. (2018) 'Comparing multi-criteria evaluation and participatory mapping to projecting land use', Landscape and Urban Planning, pp. 38–50. doi: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2018.04.002.
• Long, J. A. et al. (2018) 'Moving ahead with computational movement analysis', International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 32(7), pp. 1275–1281. doi: 10.1080/13658816.2018.1442974.
• Rohrbach, B., Anderson, S. and 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), pp. 681–697. doi: 10.1177/0265813515618578.
• Purves, R. S. et al. (2014) 'Moving beyond the point : an agenda for research in movement analysis with real data', Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 47, pp. 1–4. doi: 10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2014.06.003.
• Bleisch, S. et al. (2013) 'Mining candidate causal relationships in movement patterns', International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 28(2), pp. 363–382. doi: 10.1080/13658816.2013.841167.

Books, peer-reviewed

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

Book chapters, peer-reviewed

• Gudmundsson, J., Laube, P. and Wolle, T. (2017) 'Movement patterns in spatio-temporal data', in Shekhar, S., Xiong, H., and Zhou, X. (eds) Encyclopedia of GIS. Cham: Springer, pp. 1362–1370. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-17885-1_823.
• Laube, P., Gudmundsson, J. and Wolle, T. (2016) 'Computer-gestützte Bewegungsanalyse', in Freeden, W. and Rummel, R. (eds) Handbuch der Geodäsie. Berlin: Springer, pp. 1–28. doi: 10.1007/978-3-662-46900-2_68-1.

Written conference contributions, peer-reviewed

• Scherelis, V., Laube, P. and Doering, M. (2023) 'From change detection to change analytics : decomposing multi-temporal pixel evolution vectors', in 12th International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2023). Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, pp. 65:1–65:6. doi: 10.4230/LIPIcs.GIScience.2023.65.
• Gygax, G. et al. (2023) 'An oracle for the optimization of underconstrained compositions of neural networks : the tick hazard use case', in Schneider, J. J. et al. (eds) Artificial Life and Evolutionary Computation. Cham: Springer, pp. 24–31. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-23929-8_3.
• Bernegger, H. J. et al. (2022) 'A new method combining BIM and GIS data to optimise the sustainability of new construction projects in Switzerland', in IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science. IOP Publishing, p. 012052. doi: 10.1088/1755-1315/1122/1/012052.
• Leuschen, L. et al. (2021) 'Cultural mapping 4.0 : participatory regional cultural planning in theory and practice', in Proceedings Managing Knowledge in Uncertain Times. IFKAD, pp. 1436–1446.
• Geilhausen, M. and Laube, P. (2018) 'Deconstructed and inverted multi-criteria evaluation for on-the-fly scenario development and decision-making', in Winter, S., Griffin, A., and Sester, M. (eds) 10th International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2018). Dagstuhl Publishing, pp. 27:1–27:7. doi: 10.4230/LIPIcs.GISCIENCE.2018.27.
• Sigrist, B. et al. (2016) 'Close encounters : analyzing disturbance events between deer and visitors in a recreational forest', in GISRUK 2016 Proceedings. London: GISRUK. doi: 10.21256/zhaw-24632.
• Indermühle, S. et al. (2014) 'Multi-criteria aggregation for sensistive parcel-based census data', in 8th International Conference on Geographic Information Science, Vienna, Austria, 24-26 September 2014. ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften. doi: 10.21256/zhaw-4030.

Other publications

• Antonelli, M. et al. (2024) 'Quantitative Analyse von Fliessgewässerökosystemen und ihrer Dynamik anhand digitalisierter historischer Karten', Wasser Energie Luft, 116(4), pp. 259–266. doi: 10.21256/zhaw-32116.
• Posth, J.-A. et al. (2024) Bio-value-at-risk : a concept to assessing the implications of biodiversity risks on portfolio management using geospatial analysis. SSRN. doi: 10.2139/ssrn.4784271.
• Laube, P. et al. (2022) Cultural Mapping 4.0 : neue Wege zur Stärkung der kulturellen Identität der Bodenseeregion. Internationale Bodensee-Hochschule.
• Laube, P. et al. (2021) 'Cultural Mapping 4.0 : neue Wege zur Stärkung der kulturellen Identität der Bodenseeregion', in Book of Abstracts INUAS Konferenz 2021. HM Hochschule München, pp. 304–305. doi: 10.21256/zhaw-22303.
• Fahrentrapp, J., Geilhausen, M. and Laube, P. (2016) 'Budget remote phenotyping : potential and limitations of consumer-grade NIRGB and red edge cameras for early detection of plant leaf diseases', in 2nd General Meeting of COST Action FA 1306, Copenhagen, Denmark, 18-20 April 2016.
• Laube, P. (2015) 'The low hanging fruit is gone', SIGSPATIAL Special, 7(1), pp. 3–10. doi: 10.1145/2782759.2782762.
• Ochsner, P. et al. (2015) 'Innovative Fernerkundungslösungen im Umweltmonitoring', Transfer, 2015(1), p. 7. doi: 10.21256/zhaw-5358.
• Jaisli, I. and Laube, P. (2015) 'Food production in smallholder farming systems : developing a spatially explicit decision-model for trade opportunities', in Tackling World Food System Challenges: Across Disciplines, Sectors, and Scales, Ascona, 22. Juni 2015. ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften. doi: 10.21256/zhaw-3737.

Oral conference contributions and abstracts

• Posth, J.-A. et al. (2026) 'Bio-value-at-risk : a scenario-based concept to assessing the implications of biodiversity risks on financial portfolio management using geospatial analysis'. doi: 10.5194/wbf2026-75.
• Götz, M. et al. (2023) 'Life cycle approaches for biodiversity impacts of mining and resource extraction : combining remote sensing and life cycle assessment', in World Resources Forum, Geneva, Switzerland, 4-6 September 2023.
• Leuschen, L. et al. (2021) 'Digital cultural mapping of the Lake Constance cultural heritage using participatory GIS and story-maps', in Electronic Imaging & the Visual Arts (EVA), Florence (online), 14 June 2021.
• Geilhausen, M. et al. (2016) 'A match made in heaven : a hands-on GIS pipeline unlocks the potential of budget remote sensing', in 24th GIS Research UK Annual Conference (GISRUK16), Greenwich, 30 March - 1 April 2016.
• Geilhausen, M., Laube, P. and Tobias, S. (2015) 'Unlocking the potential of raster-based land use scenarios : a 'Field to Entity' approach for realistic scenario visualization', in 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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