Published on 30 September 2025
swisstopoEDU – Awards
Many students already received a recognition award from swisstopoEDU for their valuable master’s thesis. Congratulations!
Joris Senn
Exploring multimodal Deep Learning for contextual operator classification in cartographic building generalization
Department of Geography, University of Zurich
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Robert Weibel, Dr. Zhiyong Zhou, Dr. Cheng Fu
swisstopo support by: Dominik Käuferle & Roman Geisthövel
Recognition Award: 1'000.-
.Claudio Steffen
Assessing destabilization patterns of active rock glaciers in the Turtmann Valley incorporating a general typology for destabilized rock glaciers
Department of Geography, University of Zurich
Advisor: Dr. Isabelle Gärtner-Roer & Prof. Dr. Andreas Vieli
swisstopo support by: Holger Heisig
Recognition Award: 1'000.-Flurina Durisch
Long-term evolution of different permafrost landforms on the northern slope of Piz Corvatsch, Engadin
Department of Geography, University of Zurich
Advisor: Dr. Isabelle Gärtner-Roer & Prof. Dr. Andreas Vieli
swisstopo support by: Holger Heisig & Philip Jörg
Recognition Award: 1'000.-
.Pierre Creusot
Unsupervised change detection in VHR images: an example along Swiss Railways tracks
Environmental Computational Science and Earth Observation Laboratory (ECEO) at the EPFL Lausanne
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Devis Tuia & Hugo Porta
swisstopo support by: Tobias Kellenberger
Recognition Award: 500.-
.Xiaolong Lu
Enhancing Land Cover Classification on Imbalanced Dataset with a Multi-expert Model: A Case Study in the Swiss Alps
Environmental Computational Science and Earth Observation Laboratory (ECEO) at the EPFL Lausanne
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Devis Tuia, Prof. Dr. Irena Hajnsek & Valerie Zermatten
swisstopo support by: Tobias Kellenberger
Recognition Award: 1'000.-
.Jan Winkler
Exploring the Swin Transformer Architecture for the Generalization of Building Footprints in Binary Cartographic Maps
Department of Geography, University of Zurich
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Robert Weibel, Dr. Cheng Fu & Dr. Zhiyong Zhou
swisstopo support by: Roman Geisthövel
Recognition Award: 1'000.-
.Nicolas Beglinger
Exploring Deep Learning for Deformative Operators in Vector-Based Cartographic Road Generalization
Department of Geography, University of Zurich
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Robert Weibel, Dr. Cheng Fu & Dr. Zhiyong Zhou
swisstopo support by: Roman Geisthövel
Recognition Award: 1'000.-Aurélie de Jong
Historical Forest Mapping at the Swiss Alpine Treeline
Environmental Computational Science and Earth Observation Laboratory (ECEO) at the EPFL Lausanne
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Devis Tuia, Dr. Benjamin Kellenberger & Thiên-Anh Nguyen
swisstopo support by: Tobias Kellenberger
Recognition Award: 1'000.-Valérie Zermatten
Predicting Land Usage from Aerial Images with Deep Learning: A Case Study in the Valaisan Alps focusing on Class Imbalance
Environmental Computational Science and Earth Observation Laboratory (ECEO) at the EPFL Lausanne
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Devis Tuia & Dr. Benjamin Kellenberger
swisstopo support by: Tobias Kellenberger & Raphaël Bovier
Recognition Award: 1'000.-
.Michael Perna
Étude du GNSS pour véhicules autonomes
Faculté de l’environnement naturel, architectural et construit (ENAC) at the EPFL Lausanne
Advisor: Dr. Jan Skaloud
swisstopo support by: Leïla Kislig
Recognition Award: 1'000.-Roxana Zehtabchi
A century of Rhone glacier changes from terrestrial image photogrammetry
Institute of Geodesy and Photogrammetry, Institute Laboratory of Hydraulics, Hydrology and Glaciology ETH Zurich
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Konrad Schindler & Prof. Dr. Daniel Farinott
swisstopo support by: Philip Jörg
Recognition Award: 750.-Ursin Caduff
Erarbeitung einer Methodik zur Korrektur von hochaufgelösten DTM im Gewässerbereich von Flüssen aufgrund von Querprofilvermessungen
Continuing Education Programme «Geographical Information Science & Systems» (UNIGIS MSc) at the Interfaculty Departement of Geoinformatics (Z_GIS), Paris Lodron University of Salzburg
swisstopo support by: Roberto Artuso
Recognition Award: 1'000.-Anna Vetter
The automatic generalisation of buildings whilst maintaining the settlement structure: A case study based on the 1:50‘000 Swiss National Map Series
Institute for Geoinformation and Cartography, Vienna University of Technology
Advisor: Univ.Prof. Mag.rer.nat. Dr.rer.nat. Georg Gartner, TU Vienna & Mark Wigley, Esri Schweiz AG
swisstopo support by: Dominik Käuferle
Recognition Award: 1'000.-
.Jonas Clerc
Automated Measurement of Passive Targets for Dam Monitoring using an Image-Assisted Theodolite
Institute of Geodesy and Photogrammetry, ETH Zürich
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Andreas Wieser & Dr. Sébastien Guillaume
swisstopo support by: Matthias Kistler
Recognition Award: 1'000.-Thierry Bossard
Evaluation of swissALTI3D with airborne laser scanning data for applications in Glaciology - A case study on glaciers in the upper Mattertal, Switzerland
Department of Geography, University of Zurich
Advisor: PD Michael Zemp
swisstopo support by: Roberto Artuso
Recognition Award: 750.-
.Yves Kunz
Digitale Kartierung für den Geologischen Atlas der Schweiz 1: 25‘000 im Gebiet Engi-Matt-Wissmilen (Kanton Glarus)
Institute of Geological Sciences, University of Bern
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Marco Herwegh
swisstopo support by: Dr. Oliver Kempf
Recognition Award: 1'000.-Stefan Benz
Algorithmen zur automatischen Selektion von Strassennetzwerken - Lösungen für den Übergang vom Topografischen Landschaftsmodell (TLM) zu Massstab 1: 50’000
Department of Geography, University of Zurich
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Robert Weibel
swisstopo support by: Dominik Käuferle
Recognition Award: 1'000.-
.Roy Weiss
Road Network Selection for Small-Scale Maps Using an Improved Centrality Approach
Department of Geography, University of Zurich
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Robert Weibel
swisstopo support by: Cédric Métraux
Recognition Award: 1'000,-
.GIScience Center: Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
Department of Geography, University of Zurich
Prof. Dr. Robert Weibel
Research group recognition award 2013: 2'500.-