We are an interdepartmental multidisciplinary research group established in 2019 focusing on urban analytics, geographic data science, and 3D city modelling at the School of Design and Environment, National University of Singapore (NUS), the #1 ranked university in Asia and world’s #11 (QS).

Our mission is leveraging spatially enabled data for urban applications, making sense of big geo data in the built environment, and catering disciplines such as architecture, urban planning, and real estate. We put a particular focus on the infrastructure and geospatial technology powering urban analytics and urban informatics (Geomatics, data standardisation, quality of data, and GIScience).

The lab is led by Dr Filip Biljecki, asst prof at NUS Architecture and Real Estate.

We are involved in several international collaborations such as the World Economic Forum (WEF), the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS), and the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC).

Interests and key words:

Geographical Information Science (GIS)
Geospatial machine learning, geographic data science
3D city modelling / 3D GIS
3D urban analytics
Spatial data quality
Building Information modelling (BIM)

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News from our lab

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Participation at Geospatial Kuala Lumpur 2019

We attended the Geospatial KL 2019 International Conference, which features the following three major conferences in one place: 6th …

Urban Analytics Lab

2019-10-03

3D GeoInfo 2019 in Singapore: a success. Thanks everyone!

We are very pleased to have had this year’s 3D GeoInfo hosted in Singapore. The 14th edition of the conference, co-organised by …

Urban Analytics Lab

2019-09-28

Update on the GeoBIM benchmark

An investigation into the implementation state of open standards in software is currently ongoing through the ISPRS/EuroSDR ‘GeoBIM …

Urban Analytics Lab

2019-09-27

Current trends, challenges, and gaps of contemporary 3D cadastre

A significant number of studies has been carried out to establish 3D cadastre solutions to improve the registration of multi-level …

Urban Analytics Lab

2019-09-26

Paper on quality of BIM-GIS conversion

Much work has been done on quality of geoinformation and interoperability between BIM and GIS. However, the intersection of the two - …

Urban Analytics Lab

2019-09-26

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Projects and themes

3D cadastre

BIM-GIS interoperability

Integration of Building Information Modelling (BIM) and GIS

Urban Modelling and Smart Cities

Harnessing geographic information in the urban context.

Big Data in Real Estate

Leveraging urban analytics in real estate

3D Machine Learning

Augmentation of 3D city models with machine learning techniques

GeoBIM Benchmark

Reference study on software support for open standards of city and building models

Openings

Job ads, scholarships, and fellowships

Please check the openings page for more information how to join us.

Teaching

Our education activities

We are involved in teaching master courses and supervising master theses. Are you looking for a thesis topic? Please check the teaching page for more information.