Dr Urska Demsar

Director of Postgraduate Studies (Research)

Senior Lecturer

Researcher profile

Phone

+44 (0)1334 46 3890

Email

urska.demsar@st-andrews.ac.uk

 

Research areas

Dr Urška Demšar is Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Geoinformatics in the School of Geography & Sustainable Development at the University of St Andrews, Scotland, UK. She has a PhD in Geoinformatics from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden and a background in Applied Mathematics from the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. In St Andrews, she is a co-director of the Bell-Edwards Geographic Data Institute.

Her research interests are in spatio-temporal visual analytics and in particular in analysis of movement – a topic on which she is collaborating with movement researchers from other disciplines (movement ecologists, human-computer interaction specialists). She established these interdisciplinary collaborations through her participation in the European COST Action MOVE (Knowledge Discovery from Moving Objects). She is currently Associate Editor of the International Journal of Geographical Information Science and in the period 2015-2019 she was co-chair of the International Cartographic Association commission on Visual Analytics.

More info on her personal website.

PhD supervision

• Xunhua Li
• Ali Moayedi
• Alistair McConnell
• Adam Anthony
• Meixuan Liu

Selected publications

• Open access

  Establishing the integrated science of movement: bringing together concepts and methods from animal and human movement analysis

  Demsar, U., Long, J., Benitez-Paez, F., Brum-Bastos, V., Marion, S., Martin, G., Sekulic, S., Smolak, K., Zein, B. & Sila-Nowicka, K., 19 Feb 2021, (E-pub ahead of print) In: International Journal of Geographical Information Science. Latest Articles, 36 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review

• Open access

  Fusion of wildlife tracking and satellite geomagnetic data for the study of animal migration

  Benitez-Paez, F., Brum-Bastos, V., Beggan , C., Long, J. & Demsar, U., 11 Jun 2021, In: Movement Ecology. 9, 19 p., 31.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Simulation experiment to test strategies of geomagnetic navigation during long-distance bird migration

  Zein, B., Long, J., Safi, K., Kölzsch , A., Wikelski, M., Kruckenberg, H. & Demsar, U., 15 Sept 2021, In: Movement Ecology. 9, 15 p., 46.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Integrated science of movement

  Demsar, U., Long, J. & Sila-Nowicka, K., 21 Dec 2020, In: Journal of Spatial Information Science. 2020, 21, p. 25-31

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Optimizing the use of biologgers for movement ecology research

  Williams, H., Taylor, L., Benhamou, S., Bijleveld, A., Clay, T., de Grissac, S., Demsar, U., English, H., Franconi, N., Gómez-Laich, A., Griffiths, R., Kay, W., Morales, J. M., Potts, J., Rogerson, K., Rutz, C., Spelt, A., Trevail, A., Wilson, R. & Börger, L., 1 Oct 2019, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Journal of Animal Ecology. Early View

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Multi-source data fusion of optical satellite imagery to characterize habitat selection from wildlife tracking data

  Brum-Bastos, V., Long, J., Church, K., Robson, G., de Paula, R. & Demsar, U., Nov 2020, In: Ecological Informatics. 60, 101149.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Potential path volume (PPV): a geometric estimator for space use in 3D

  Demšar, U. & Long, J. A., 29 Apr 2019, In: Movement Ecology. 7, 14 p., 14.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Weather effects on human mobility: a study using multi-channel sequence analysis

  Brum-Bastos, V. S., Long, J. A. & Demsar, U., 23 May 2018, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Computers, Environment and Urban Systems. In press, 22 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Revisiting the past: replicating fifty-year-old flow analysis using contemporary taxi flow data

  Demsar, U., Reades, J., Manley, E. & Batty, M., Mar 2018, In: Annals of the American Association of Geographers. 108, 3, p. 811-828 19 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Analysis of human mobility patterns from GPS trajectories and contextual information

  Sila-Nowicka, K., Vandrol, J., Oshan, T. M., Long, J., Demsar, U. & Fotheringham, S., 2016, In: International Journal of Geographical Information Science. 30, 5, p. 881-906 26 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

 

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