‘Everything that happens, happens somewhere‘


Collections of achievements during my studies at the University of Salzburg

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Background

My name is Alois Simon and I am a forest scientist working in the field of forest site classification in mountain areas. Since scale and extent are important methodological issues in ecology as well as in geoinformatics, I decided to study Applied Geoinformatics at the University of Salzburg. Thereby, I focused on spatial statistic, simulation, and modelling. The project-related class assignments encouraged solution-oriented and interdisciplinary working and learning. The study program significantly improved my professional skills.

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Projects

In the following, a collection of projects during the MSc program is presented.
In the sense of ‘Everything that happens, happens somewhere‘, it showes the manifold applications and intersections with different domains and disciplines.

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Travel Map

The developed application, helps to document and display personal travel routes. It has a low entrance level and intuitive handling. The user can on demand retrieve the location, enter short messages and add pictures at a mobile device. It is working offline and the user can upload the collected data on request. The created web service is integrated in a private webpage to display the travel routes and the collected data.

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Climate Diagram

This web service allows to create standardised climate diagramms throughout Tyrol. It is based on R Software script running in a docker container on an Apache Tomcat Webserver. The raster climate data is hosted on a GeoServer and provided as a Web Map Service. The visualisation is implemented with OpenLayers.

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Modelling Climate-Sensitive Forest Succession

The forest gap model ForClim, a process-based forest successio
Climate-Sensitive Forest Successionn model, was applied to generate site-specific information on future forest stand development and species composition.

The project was presented at the GI_Week 2021 in Salzburg and published in the Journal: GI_Forum as a full paper.

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MSc Thesis

Title: Integration of hierarchical levels of extent and scale for tree species distribution models of European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) and silver fir (Abies alba Mill.) in mountain forests.
Manuscript-based Master Thesis suppervised by Prof. Dr. Gudrun Wallentin.

Github

https://github.com/simonalois

ResearchGate

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Alois-Simon

Universities

Working Group: Soil and Landscape Ecology, University of Innsbruck

Institut of Forest Ecology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna

Email

DI Dr. Alois Simon
simonalois@web.de