Geospatial Research Group

Geospatial Research Group

Collection and analysis of spatial data at city and regional level. Organization and implementation of spatial data into a database for smart city applications.

Examination of spatial data based on crowdsourcing describing environmental characteristics. Spatial data include physical (noise, air pollution) and social (subjective sense of security) data.

Creating an accurate georeference for archived remote sensing data by implementing modern algorithms proven in photogrammetry. Numerical modelling of geophysical problems that can be described by differential equations using the method of finite differences.

Time series analysis of georeferenced satellite imagery for land use and to detect changes in land tenure systems.

Keywords: crowdsourcing, noise pollution, subjective sense of safety, georeferencing, land use

Participants

References

[1] Molnár, G., & Lengyel, Á. (2025). Orthorectifying Archive Aerial Photos with Rational Polynomial Camera Model.

2] Gilányi, G., & Molnár, G. (2025). Sub-regional Taylor-series modeling of the gravity potential based on von Eötvös’ torsion balance measurements. Acta Geodaetica et Geophysica, 60(3), 335-356.

[3] KATONA, J., Róbert, O. L. Á. H., & Norbert-Szabolcs, S. U. B. A. (2026). Hibakiigazítási eljárások térbeli eloszlásának vizsgálata. GEODÉZIA ÉS KARTOGRÁFIA, 78(3), 13-19.

[4] Kounadi, O., Vallejo-Velázquez, M., Huang, Q., & Pődör, A. (2025). Are Places Where People Feel Safe or Unsafe Similar to Spatial Crime Patterns? Extracting the Collective Truth of the Spatial Crime Perception Gap Using Digital Sketch Maps. Urban Science, 9(10), 397.

[5] Pődör, A., & Tick, A. (2025). Surveillance and Subjectivity: A GIS-Based Study of Fear of Crime and CCTV Distribution. Acta Polytechnica Hungarica, 22(12), 197-214.

[6] Solymosi, R., Parkinson, S., Pődör, A., Khan, S., & Khan, M. (2024). Using computational systematic social observation to identify environmental correlates of fear of crime. Crime Science, 13(1), 45.

[7]     Katona Janos; Gulyas Margit Horoszne: Determination of factors modifying land value based on spatial data. In: Drótos Dániel
          (Drótos Dániel automatizálás) ME/GIK/Automatizálási és Infokommunikációs Intézet ; Vásárhelyi József (Vásárhelyi József beágyazott rendszerek)
          ME/GIK/Automatizálási és Infokommunikációs Intézet ;    Czap László (Czap László Beszédfeldolgozás) ME/GIK/Automatizálási és Infokommunikációs
          Intézet ;    Ivo Petráš (szerk.) Proceedings of the 19th International Carpathian Control Conference (ICCC 2018)

[8]     Molnár, Gábor: Orthocorrection of KH-5 ARGON Satellite Imagery of Aral Sea,
          INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GEOINFORMATICS 17 : 1  pp. 85-92. , 8 p.  (2021)

[9]     Pődör, Andrea ; Szabó, Szilard: Geo-tagged environmental noise measurement with smartphones: Accuracy and perspectives of crowdsourced mapping
          ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING B-URBAN ANALYTICS AND CITY SCIENCE (2021)

[10]     Jakobi, Ákos ; Pődör, Andrea :GIS-Based Statistical Analysis of Detecting Fear of Crime with Digital Sketch Maps:
          A Hungarian Multicity Study ISPRS INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GEO-INFORMATION 9 : 4 Paper: 229 (2020)

Grant and Project Activities

  • ESA-supported HUNEDU project: https://amk.uni-obuda.hu/esa-hunedu/
  • Modelling and Mapping the Spatial Discrepancy between Crime and Fear of Crime. Research projects based on Hungarian–Austrian international cooperation (ANN_22). Duration: 2023–2026. https://scpg.amk.uni-obuda.hu/
  • DSinGIS – CBHE project 585718-EPP-1-2017-1-HU-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP (2017–3069): Establishment of a Doctoral School of Geoinformatics in Uzbekistan.
  • gSmart Project: http://em-gsmart.zgis.net/gsmart — 45696-EM-1-2013-1-AT-ERA MUNDUS-EMA21
  • TÁMOP 4.2.1/B-09/1/KONV-2010-0006: Development of intellectual, organizational and R&D infrastructure at the University of West Hungary, 2010–2013.
  • COST Action TD1202: Mapping and the Citizen Sensor https://www.cost.eu/actions/TD1202/
  • COST Action CA17125: Public Value Capture of Increasing Property Values https://www.cost.eu/actions/CA17125/
  • 530808-TEMPUS-1-2012-1-HU-TEMPUS-JPCR: 2012–2015. www.ge-uz.eu
  • EU TEMPUS Project: 544051-TEMPUS-1-2013-SE-JPCR
  • GiN2K: http://www.gi-n2k.eu/
  • ELFRUS, eENVPLUS: http://www.eenvplus.eu/
  • Tempus GEM: http://tempusgem.zgis.net/ — 510978-TEMPUS-1-2010-1-AT-TEMPUS-JPCR

Cooperating partners

Paris Lodron University of Salzburg (PLUS) (Austria)
Tashkent Institute of Irrigation and Melioration (TIIAME) Tashkent (Uzbekistan)
National University of Public Administration.

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