Month: November 2014
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MayaArch3D: 60-seconds-science-countdown
The project MayaArch3D presents itself in the “60-seconds-science-countdown” in the context of the “Wissenschaftsjahr 2014” (Year of Sciences 2014) of the german Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). The Year of Sciences 2014 is a series of events and projects dealing with impact of the digitisation on our society. Check out the video at: http://www.digital-ist.de/aktuelles/60-seconds-science-countdown/mayaarch3d.html
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CfP Deutscher Kongress für Geographie 2015 in Berlin
Wir möchten Sie herzlich zu unserer Fachsitzung “Räumliche Analyse und Modellierung in geographischer Forschung” im Rahmen des Deutschen Kongress für Geographie einladen, der von 1. bis 6. Oktober 2015 in Berlin stattfinden wird. Beiträge zu unserer Sitzung können bis 11. Januar 2015 online hier eingereicht werden: https://www.congressa.de/dkg-2015/CallForAbstracts/?session_id=120 Sitzungsleiter_innen: Alexander Brenning, Bernhard Höfle Inhalt der Fachsitzung…
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LVISA video tutorials
Watch out” New video tutorials of “how to use our LVISA system” are available at http://www.youtube.com/user/TheLRGHeidelberg The videos give an introduction of the general usage of LVISA as well as an introduction of the visualization, exploration and analysis of LVISA reference data as well as of own (external) data. LVISA is a novel system for…
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Call for participation at workshop entitled “Visual Crowds for Geo- and Environmental Sciences”
Dear colleagues, The Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing (IWR) and GIScience Research Group are organizing a workshop for joining the crowdsourcing research communities of GIScience and computer vision. The workshop will take place on Tuesday Dec 9, 2014 and it is going to be a very inspiring event for both parties. It is also very…
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TV broadcast: Information fusion infrastructure for remote-sensing and in-situ sensor data to model people dynamics
The German TV station NDR broadcasted a short interview (in German) with Florian Hillen (Univ. Osnabrück) talking about our paper on Information Fusion Infrastructure for Remote Sensing and In-Situ Sensor Data to Model People Dynamics in the International Journal of Image and Data Fusion. Vol. 5(1), pp. 54-69. DOI: 10.1080/19479832.2013.870934, by Hillen, F., Höfle, B.,…
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London – Washington D.C. – Jakarta – San Francisco – Heidelberg?! MissingMaps Project
Putting the world’s most vulnerable people on a map and thereby reduce the vulnerability of disaster prone regions before they can even cause serious harm – that is the objective of the MissingMaps Project. A great idea put together by Doctors Without Borders (MSF), British and American Red Cross and the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap team (HOT).…
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Ravenstein-Förderpreis 2014 for automated map labelling
Two our colleagues, Maxim Rylov and Andreas Reimer have received a Ravenstein Recognition award from the German Cartographic Society. Their work in automation of map lettering has been recognized by jury members as a compelling and relevant topic that is undoubtedly interesting to all who concerns oneself with digital cartography. Their considerable achievements are the…
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CALL FOR PAPERS: Special Issue “20 Years of OGC: Open Geo-Data, Software, and Standards”
Dear Colleagues, The year 2014 marks the 20th anniversary of the creation of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC). After two decades, OGC standards have become a key enabler of geospatial interoperability, delivering significant societal, economic and scientific benefits by integrating digital location resources into commercial and institutional processes worldwide. Emerging technologies such as cloud computing,…
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Upcoming Talk by Sabrina Marx on Participatory Sensing
The third GIScience talk of the semester is approaching quickly. We cordially invite you to the colloquium talk, 06.11.14, “Smartphones vs. LiDAR for agricultural monitoring: A Participatory Sensing approach to derive 3D Crop Height Models”, which will be held by Sabrina Marx, GIScience Research Group, Heidelberg University. Feel free to find more detailed information under…
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Disaster Mapping Party Heidelberg – contribute to Missing Maps project
Dear friends of Disaster Mapping, to a great start in the DisasterMappers Colloquium on the last Wednesday of each now has the first chance to become active. Together with MSF, British and American Red Cross and HOT OSM we want to celebrate the start of the Missing Maps Project also in Heidelberg. As DisasterMappers, we…