Prof. Dr. Patrick Laube

Projects

• QGIS-Plugin «Ausbreitungsmodellierung Rothirsch» / Team member / ongoing
• 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
• Measures to Prevent Bird Strikes at Zurich Airport (ZRH) / Team member / 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
• Data-based Screening and Monitoring Methods for Tracking Environmental and Social Dynamic around Gold Mines / 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

Selected publications

• 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.
• 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.
• 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., 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.
• 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.

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.
• 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. 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.
• 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.
• 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., 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.
• 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

• 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', in World Biodiversity Forum (WBF), Davos, Switzerland, 14-19 June 2026.
• 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. (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

• 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

Shareholder and managing director
PanGeo Nature Risk GmbH, Winterthur
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.
03 / 2025 - today

go back