Post doctorate in Geovisualization – 18 months

Multi-scale spatiotemporal urban data visualization for urban communication and development

TyCiTy Project

Territories constantly need to evolve in order to face demographic, energetic, environmental, economic and heritage-related challenges. The dual pressure of constrained financial resources and civic expectations calls for tools to predict and explain those evolutions. 3D visualization and mapping tools were designed to meet those needs. However, software solutions struggle to find their place, as they require constant updating. This has led to the generating of numerous, expensive and ill-adapted city modelling generators. The TyCiTy project proposes to design an innovative production tool for 3D modelling of the territory, in order to understand its evolutions and to plan for the future. Its users, whether they are communities or private actors, will be able to create autonomously 3D communication models from their own GIS data, to predict visualization routes, and thus to communicate better on the territory.

The TyCiTy is a SME research project from the Images&Réseaux Centre (2018-2020).

Missions

· To elaborate scenarios for urban data use in collaboration with the users (communities, urban planning agencies, planners);

· To propose methods for the multi-scale spatiotemporal urban data visualization for urban communication and development;

· To participate in the prototyping and to carry out user tests.

Key words

Geomatics, information visualization, urban data models, spatiotemporal data, user tests.

AAU Laboratory (http://aau.archi.fr) – CRENAU team

The Ambiances, Architectures, Urbanités Laboratory is a joint research unit, co-accredited by Centrale Nantes (ECN), CNRS and the Graduate School of Architecture of Nantes (ENSAN). The TyCiTy project is part of the “Building architecture and the urban” axis of the AAU Laboratory. The CRENAU team is the Laboratory’s team in Nantes. Its main duty is to contribute to an ambiances theory centred on the immersive simulation, in situ approach and assistance in architectural and urban projects.

Candidates

PhD in geomatics, geovisualization or information visualization
Desired skills: visualization, user tests, data models, programming
Valuable skills: visual perception, urban planning, architecture

Contact

Vincent Tourre (vincent.tourre@ec-nantes.fr)
Myriam Servières (myriam.servieres@ec-nantes.fr)

Applications will be reviewed from February until the position is fulfilled.