Projects

Ongoing and former projects Digital Geography Lab is involved with.
Current projects
GREENTRAVEL – Greener Urban Travel Environments for Everyone: From Measured Wellbeing Impacts to Big Data Analytics | 2023–2027

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Formerly: Laura Hintsanen, Ashish Shete, Juulia Lehtinen, Mansi Garg

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FOOTPRINTS - Carbon Footprint of Nature-Based Travels: Insights from Digital Footprints | 2026–2029

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FAME/DREAM – Doctoral Education Pilot for Mathematics of Sensing, Imaging and Modeling I 2024-2027

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WinWin4WorkLife – Healthy, inclusive, and sustainable remote work futures as a win-win for employees and employers in urban, rural, and cross-border areas I 2024-2027

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VIMAS – Visitor monitoring and management in protected and recreational areas: new challenges, novel solutions for the Anthropocene | 2024–2027

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CROSSGOV – Governance mechanisms for cross-border functional areas | 2024–2026

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European Regional Development Fund via the

Mobi-Twin – Twin transition and changing patterns of spatial mobility: a regional approach I 2023-2026

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MOBICON – Mobile Big Data for Understanding People in Nature: detecting short and long term changes and their implications to biodiversity conservation | 2022–2027

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, , , , , , Anna Hausmann, , , , Vuokko Heikinheimo

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Mökillä töissä: Etätyön ja monipaikkaisuuden vaikutukset ihmisiin ja yhteiskuntaan | 2025–2027

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Riku Reunamäki

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Location Innovation Hub | 2023–2025

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BORDERSPACE – Tracing Interactions and Mobilities Beyond State Borders: Towards New Transnational Spaces | 2020–2025

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Formerly: Bryan Vallejo, Emily Dovydaitis, Emil Ehnström

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Finished projects
Massadatoilla ymmärrystä Helsingin viheralueiden käytöstä | 2025

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Tatu Leppämäki, Sini Ruohomäki, Mikko Kangasmaa and Tuuli Toivonen.

 

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Sustainable conservation outcomes for protected areas | 2020–2024

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, Ari-Pekka Jokinen,

 

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Urban Air Quality | 2022–2024

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, Vuokko Heikinheimo,

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URBANAGE – Enhanced URBAN planning for AGE-friendly cities through disruptive technologies | 2021–2024

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European Research Council

 
MAPHEL – Mapping the linguistic landscape of the Helsinki metropolitan area: From linguistic groups to discourse communities | 2020–2023

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, , , , , Henrikki Tenkanen, , Vuokko Heikinheimo

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Urban exerciser / Sporttia stadiin | 2018–2023

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Socio-spatial dialogues in the city: Tracing spatial mobilities, social engagement and integration using big data | 2018–2023

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, , , Tiit Tammaru

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& City of Helsinki
Crossing social and spatial borders as an everyday life: Big data to reveal transnational people, their mobilities and spaces | 2017–2023

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Formerly: Samuli Massinen

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MOPA – The rhythms, places and customer groups of multi-local dwelling / Monipaikkaisen asumisen rytmit, paikat ja asiakasryhmät | 2021–2022

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, , , Torsti Hyyryläinen, Manu Rantanen, Pasi Okkonen, Iivari Laaksonen

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Etelä-Savon maakuntaliitto
YLLI – Equality in suburban physical activity environments / Yhdenvertainen liikunnallinen lähiö | 2020–2022

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, , , Marisofia Nurmi, Emil Ehnström, Laura Hintsanen, , Pengyuan Liu, Sonja Koivisto

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HOPE – Healthy Outdoor Premises for Everyone | 2019–2021

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, Age Poom, Joose Helle, ,

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SOMECON – Social media data for conservation science | 2016–2021

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, Vuokko Heikinheimo, Henrikki Tenkanen, Anna Hausmann, Enrico Di Minin, , , ,

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Disentangling factors affecting protected area effectiveness: the role of governance | 2017–2021

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Whose city? Investigating modal equity and parallel realities of accessibility in urban environments with big data | 2019–2020

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Henrikki Tenkanen

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Spatial Planning of Urban Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services | 2017–2020

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Joel Jalkanen, Henna Fabritius

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Science workshops on novel and open data sources and approaches to study urban accessibility and mobility / NECTAR 2019 conference | 2017–2020

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,  , Henrikki Tenkanen, Maria Salonen, ,

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Biking as part of sustainable urban mobility | 2017–2019

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Maria Salonen, Henrikki Tenkanen, ,

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Helsinki Metropolitan Region Urban Research Program
Using computer vision for multimodal analysis | 2017

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MetropAccess – Accessibility analyses in a metropolitan context | 2011–2017

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, Henrikki Tenkanen, Maria Salonen

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Helsinki Metropolitan Region Urban Research Program &