Projects
I have been involved in a number of national and international research projects, which I will list here, together with my role in the project. The projects marked with an * are the ones where I was substantially involved in writing the proposal (i.e. the core team).
| Duration | Name and Information | Role | |
| 2024-2026 | * Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG),
Program: Austrian Space Applications Program Project: "Virtual Shepherd - Satellitengestütztes Monitoring von Viehherden im alpinen Raum“ Consortium Lead: IEE, TU Graz Principal Investigator (PLUS): Ekanki Sharma, Johannes Scholz Project# FO999910627 Budget: 421k EUR (Funding), 124k EUR (PLUS) |
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| 2024-2027 | * Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG),
Program: EnergieForschung 2023 Project: "Optimierung und Machine Learning für integrierte Klima- und Energiesystemmodelle“ Consortium Lead: PLUS, Z_GIS Principal Investigator (PLUS): Johannes Scholz Project# FO999910946 Budget: 987k EUR (Funding), 114k EUR (PLUS) |
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| 2023-2025 |
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| 2022-2023 | * Cartography and Geographic Information Society
(CaGIS) CaGIS Rising Grant Program 2021 Project “Modeling and Visualizing the Extents of Historical Regions” Principal Investigators: Ivan Majic, Rizwan Bulbul, Johannes Scholz, Karl Grossner, and Eric Delmelle (Graz University of Technology, University of Pittsburgh, University of North Carolina at Charlotte) Budget (funding): $9,848 |
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| 2022-2024 | * Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG),
Program: AI for Green 2021 Project: "ABM4EnergyTransition - Agent-based Simulation of Transition Scenarios for regional Heating and Energy Transformation" Consortium Lead: Johannes Scholz Project No: FO999892237 Budget (Funding): 489k EUR (overall), 129k EUR (TU Graz) |
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| 2022-2025 | * Waldfonds Austria (Federal Ministry for
Agriculture, Regions and Tourism), Ausschreibung 2021 Project: "IGNITE - Improved Assessment of Forest Fire Susceptibility" Budget (Funding): 379k EUR (overall), 63k EUR (TU Graz) |
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| 2022-2024 | * Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG),
Program: Energieforschung (e!Mission), 7. Ausschreibung 2021 Project: "Analyse von Flächen und Energiepotenzialen mittels KI für alternative PV-Systeme als Beitrag zum EAG" Budget (Funding): 585k EUR (overall), 90k EUR (TU Graz, IfG) |
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| 2021-2024 |
* Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG),
Program: ICT of the Future 2020 Project "Data-driven Tourism for Sustainability" Project No: FO999888491 Budget (Funding): 728k EUR (overall), 173k EUR (TU Graz) Website: www.project-dts.eu |
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| 2018-2019 | * Amt der Steirischen Landesregierung (Provincial Government of Styria) Abt. 14 (Wasserwirtschaft, Ressourcen und Nachhaltigkeit) Project “Steirerteich” Total Budget 100k EUR, Budget for TU Graz: 25k EUR Coverage by Austrian Federal Broadcaster ORF: https://steiermark.orf.at/stories/3018202/ |
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| 2018 | * European Environmental Agency Tender “Technical specifications for implementation of CLC+ based on the EAGLE concept – Implementation Phase” Total Budget: 130k EUR, Budget for TU Graz: 25k EUR |
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| 2018 | * TÜBITAK (Turkish Center for Scientific and Technological Research), Informatics and Information Security Research Center, Tender „Support for Feasibility Study on UASIA - The Project of National Land Cover and Land Use of Turkey”. Budget for TU Graz: 13k EUR |
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| 2017-2018 | * European Environmental Agency Tender “Technical specifications for implementation of CLC+ based on the EAGLE concept” Total Budget: 130k EUR, Budget for TU Graz: 12k EUR |
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| 2014-2016 | *ASSIST 4.0 national research project; funded by FFG, Call "Produktion der Zukunft" (future production/manufacturing/industry 4.0) Collaborative Research Project (30 months); Budget: overall project budget: ~3 Mio EUR; overall grant sum: ~1,9 Mio EUR; budget for RSA iSPACE: ~285k EUR; grant sum for RSA: ~230k EUR Goal: development of mobile context-aware systems for an industrial production 4.0. Production 4.0 refers to an intelligent production with that is aware of 3D position and time respectively. |
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| 2013-2016 | *FOCUS - Advances in Forestry Control and Automation Systems International research project (11 Partners from Europe): Collaborative Research Project Grant (30 months): Grant Sum: Approx 4 Mio EUR, Grant for iSPACE: 400k EUR Goal: control and planning of forest-based supply chains; Long term sustainability of European forest-based industries and the development of rural areas require further improvements in the integration and automation of forest related processes, pushing forward precision forestry. |
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| 2012-2015 | MOSIPS - Modeling and Simulation of the Impact of Public Policies on SMEs International research project; funded by European Commission (FP7); duration 36 monts; Goal: to develop a user-friendly policy simulation system allowing forecasting and visualization of the socio-economic potential impact of public policies. |
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| 2009-2010 | Land Information System Austria National research project; funded by FFG (Austrian Space Applications Programme); duration 18 months; funding approx 1.5 mio EUR; Goal: overcome the shortcomings of “classical” land use and land cover datasets for regional, national and European administration and reporting issues. Objective is to develop a new homogeneous database for land use and land cover information, and to generate new contextual information out of existing aerial and satellite images. |
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| 2008-2009 | SOSGuide National research project; funded by FFG, duration 18 months Goal: development of a system that provides contextual Spatial Decision Support for emergency service organizations; |
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| 2007-2008 | Database of Bavarian Dialects in Austria Electronically Mapped International research project; funded by FWF; duration 18 months Goal: digitalization and georeferencing (incl. the development of a spatial database) for linguistic data of Austrian Academy of Sciences |
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| 2006 | ROADS - Realtime online Applications for Decision Support: From Sensors to Decisions International research project; Interreg IIIc; Budget: 300k EUR Objective of all partners (Germany, Norway and Austria) to design and implement of a prototype for sensor data retrieval in real time and a follow up Spatial Decision Support System using OGC standards (SOS, SAS, WMS, WFS, etc.) where applicable |
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| 2006 | Timber Logistics for Timber Association Carinthia National consulting work |
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| 2004-2006 | NetQUEST FHplus funded national Resaerch project; Last-mile spatial optimization of glass fiber cable networks |
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