Month: October 2014

  • An assessment of a collaborative mapping approach for exploring land use patterns for several European metropolises

    A new research paper entitled “An assessment of a collaborative mapping approach for exploring land use patterns for several European metropolises” has been published in International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation. Abstract: Until recently, land surveys and digital interpretation of remotely sensed imagery have been used to generate land use inventories. These techniques however,…

  • 6th Fachaustausch Geoinformation in Heidelberg

    On 29 October 2014 the 6th Fachaustausch Geoinformation took place at the fantastic venue of the Print Media Academy. The event brings together people and institutions from industry, administration and science, to exchange and discuss most recent advances in the broad field of geoinformation. The organization of the Fachaustausch is led by the GeoNet.MRN, a…

  • Pelagios – Linking Data about the Past through Geography

    The second talk of the semester is approaching quickly. We cordially invite you to the colloquium talk, 30.10.14, “Pelagios – Linking Data about the Past through Geography” which will be held by Dr. Rainer Simon, AIT, Vienna and Leif Isaksen and Pau de Soto Canamares, University Southampton. Feel free to find more detailed information under…

  • Disastermappers Heidelberg- Educating Today the Disaster Mappers of Tomorrow

    Starting this winter semester the disastermappers heidelberg initiative is organizing a colloquium to provide a platform for all interested volunteers, students and lecturers to share ideas, experience and knowledge on disaster mapping. The events will consist of guest lectures, in which researchers and practitioners of humanitarian aid organizations will present their work and show ways…

  • ISPRS Innsbruck Summer School of Alpine Research 2015 in Obergurgl/Austria – Close Range Sensing Techniques in Alpine Terrain

    Together with colleagues from all over Europe we are organizing a Summer School of Alpine Research, which takes place from 5.7.2015-11.7.2015 in Obergurgl, Tyrol, Austria. Motivated students from geosciences/Earth sciences, environmental sciences, geomatics, GIScience, remote sensing, computer science, etc. will be working together in multidisciplinary teams to address challenges in Alpine Research using state of…

  • Upcoming Talk by Stefan Hahmann

    The first talk of the semester is approaching quickly. Thus, we cordially invite you to our first colloquium talk of the semester which will be held by Dr. Stefan Hahmann. He recently joined our group for conducting postdoc research. His presentation will provide insight into his previously done research, which took place at the Technical…

  • Abschlussarbeiten: Wissensorte in der Stadt – Internationale Bauaustellung Heidelberg IBA

    Themen für Abschlussarbeiten (Master, Bachelor, Lehramt) // pot. Hiwi-Arbeit Wissen schafft Stadt /// Wissensorte in der Stadt Erleben der Wissensorte der Stadt in Raum & Zeit In der Abteilung Geoinformatik werden mehrere Themen für Abschlussarbeiten im Rahmen des IBA-Kandidaten-Projektes „Wissensorte in der Stadt“ vergeben. Diese können an verschiedene Niveaus (Bachelor, Master, Diplom, Lehramt) angepasst werden…

  • Call for Manuscript Proposal Submissions to “Crowdsourced Mapping”: A Special issue to CaGIS

    CALL FOR MANUSCRIPT PROPOSAL SUBMISSIONS “Crowdsourced Mapping” To be published as a Special Content Issue of the International Journal “Cartography and Geographic Information Science” (CaGIS) Edited by Dr. Jamal Jokar Arsanjani 1 & Prof. Michael Leitner 2 & Prof. Alexander Zipf 1 1 GIScience Research Group, Department of Geography, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany 2 Department…

  • Two open thesis topics related to the improvement of OpenStreetMap data

    As has been announced earlier in our blog, there are open thesis topics within the EU-project CAP4ACCESS. Heidelberg University’s GIScience Research Group is a project partner of CAP4ACCESS. Other project partners include UCL, Fraunhofer and sozialhelden.de with their wheelmap.org project. The goal of CAP4ACCESS is to improve the accessibility of mobility-restricted people, in particular those…

  • Geography BBQ at the beach

    Geography Matters! We all know that and in becomes even more obvious when a university has direct beach access which makes it easy to have BBQ directly by the sea. Also the GIScience Heidelberg BBQs are lots of fun in the garden as documented here, but last weekends BBQ of the Department of Geography at…

  • Geography Colloquium talk on VGI at University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB)

    The series of colloquium presentations in the winter term 2014 at the Department of Geography at University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) was opened by a talk by Alexander Zipf who is a guest at the UCSB Center of Spatial Studies as reported earlier. This talk presented an overview of some of the investigations on…

  • Programme GI-Colloquium Winter Term 14/15

    We are pleased to announce the programme of our colloquium for the next winter term. We are proud to present a series of high quality talks given by outstanding researchers of their respective fields. A detailed schedule including locational information can be found at our Institute website. Abstracts describing the talks can be found here.