Month: November 2014

  • Successfull OSM Workshop by Disaster Mappers Heidelberg

    Here you find a report on the OSM Workshop that has been organized last week at the Department of Geography, Heidelberg University by the Disaster Mappers Heidelberg. There are further options for events to work on OSM in Heidelberg e.g. as next Wednesday (3rd December) for the “OpenStreetMap und Wheelmap Mapping Party” or the Wednesday…

  • Two successfully completed PhDs @ GIScience HD

    Last week two colleagues successfully defended their PhDs within the GIScience Research Group at Heidelberg University. The first was the PhD thesis entitled “Exploring and Simulating Spatial Patterns of Urban Growth Using Data-driven and knowledge-based Approaches” by Mr. Hossein Shafeezadeh Moghaddam. The main focus was the development and evaluation of different spatiotemporal modeling strategies for…

  • OpenStreetMap in GIScience: Experiences, Research, and Applications

    We are pleased to announce that a book edited by Dr. Jamal Jokar Arsanjani, Prof. Alexander Zipf, Dr. Peter Mooney, and Dr. Marco Helbich,  entitled “OpenStreetMap in GIScience: Experiences, Research, and Applications” is already in-press. The edited book will be published by Springer in its “Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography” series, edited by Cartwright, W., Gartner,…

  • Joint OpenStreetMap & Wheelmap Mapping Party on the 3rd December!

    On the occasion of the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, the GIScience group invites interested persons to a joint OpenStreetMap & Wheelmap Mapping Party. This event is part of the EU project CAP4ACCESS. Have you ever considered how you can get from A to B in (not only) Heidelberg using a wheelchair? Which places…

  • MUSIEKE – Multidimensional Perceptibility of Cultural Heritage

    The newly funded multidisciplinary research project MUSIEKE investigates the perceptibility and visibility of cultural heritage in multiple dimensions in urban, landscape, museum and virtual spaces. Three-dimensional (3D) data acquisition, processing, modeling and web-based visualization & analysis will provide fundamental input to the derivation and explanation of complex causal relationships of cultural heritage in time and…

  • Upcoming Talks in our Colloquium: Prof. Jan-Henrik Haunert and Prof. Gilberto Camara

    The next talks of the semester are approaching quickly. We cordially invite you to the following two colloquium talks: 25.11.14, “Algorithms for focus-and-context maps”, Prof. Dr..-Ing. Jan-Henrik Haunert 27.11.14, “Big Earth Observation Databases: infrastructure and spatiotemporal analysis”, Prof. Dr. Gilberto Camara. Both will be held in the course of this week. You can find more…

  • Visual Crowds for Geo- and Environmental Sciences Conference Heidelberg

    In this workshop, we want to tie two threads of research together: human computation is an important factor in both geoscience and computer vision research. In geosciences, OpenStreetMap is one of the major projects , but this is only one of numerous recent advances. In environmental sciences huge amounts of data are collected, such as…

  • Heidelberg Crisis Mappers Colloquium next Wednesday

    Here you find a report on the last Mapping Party at Heidelberg University organized by the Heidelberg Crisis Mappers with Kate Chapman, the Executive Director of the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) giving a lecture and then there is an invitation to join the upcoming Crisis Mapping Colloquium on Wednesday (26 Nov 2014, 16-18 clock, Dep.…

  • Call for Applications: Research Group GIScience (Kleine Forschergruppe Geoinformatik) and Field Trip (Geländepraktikum / Übung) to Greece

    Location and Dates The field course will take place from 21-29 April 2015 in Greece. Instructors Bernhard Höfle and Martin Hämmerle Rationale The availability and coverage of high-resolution and highly accurate 3D point clouds of the Earth surface, including the terrain surface as well as raised objects on the bare earth (e.g. trees and debris),…

  • Geographic information analysis and web-based geoportals to explore malnutrition in Sub-Saharan Africa

    In our new paper we present a systematic literature review on geographic information analysis and web-based geoportals to explore malnutrition in Sub-Saharan Africa. 563 articles are identified from the searches, from which a total of nine articles and eight geoportals meet inclusion criteria. The review suggests that the spatial dimension of malnutrition is analyzed most…

  • GIScience Heidelberg visit ACM Sigspatial conference

    Last week members of the GIScience Research Group were attending the International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems in Dallas. Beside the interesting welcome note given by Luc Vincent talking about the Google Street View project and further follow-up keynote talks, the first conference day was opened up for full day workshops covering various…

  • Collaboration with Kathmandu Living Labs: innovative teaching for improving resilience against disasters with collaborative maps

    Germany is the leading country when it comes to OpenStreetMap (OSM), and here this online map as well as the OSM data are well recognized. But what about other parts of the world? What kind of possibilities can OSM offer for fostering development and building resilience against disasters? Last Friday the students attending of the…