Month: March 2015

  • How to detect post-harvest growth from terrestrial LiDAR point clouds in precision agriculture? Read the new paper about comparative classification analysis

    The new paper “Comparative classification analysis of post-harvest growth detection from terrestrial LiDAR point clouds in precision agriculture” has just been finally released in the ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2015.03.003 Citation Koenig, K., Höfle, B., Hämmerle, M., Jarmer, T., Siegmann, B. & Lilienthal, H. (2015): Comparative classification analysis of post-harvest growth detection…

  • COST ENERGIC meeting in Heidelberg

    Within March 26-27, a COST ENERGIC meeting of working group 2 (WG2) on spatial data quality and infrastructures took place in Heidelberg. The COST ENERGIC stands for European Network Exploring Research into Geospatial Information Crowdsourcing: software and methodologies for harnessing geographic information from the crowd. The meeting was hosted by GIScience research group. The meeting…

  • History Scanned in 3D – Jupiter Column of Ladenburg

    Within our interdisciplinary collaborative research project MUSIEKE (Multidimensional Perceptibility of Cultural Heritage) the Jupiter Column (“Iupittergigantensäule”) of Ladenburg was scanned in 3D and in very high detail for the first time. Our colleagues from the IWR (FCGL Group of Hubert Mara) performed the measurement campaign. In this report (in German) the SWR 4 radio station…

  • How to combine OpenStreetMap and Airborne Laser Scanning data for updating Digital Elevation Models?

    The answer can be found in our most recent paper “Updating Digital Elevation Models via Change Detection and Fusion of Human and Remote Sensor Data in Urban Environments” that has just been finally released in the International Journal of Digital Earth. You can find a preprint version of the article freely accessible here: http://koenigstuhl.geog.uni-heidelberg.de/publications/2015/Hoefle/Klonner_et_al_2015_preprint.pdf Citation…

  • Deriving sidewalk information using citizen science becomes #ProjectOfTheWeek

    We are happy to report that our task designed for the citizen science platform crowdcrafting.org was selected as their #ProjectOfTheWeek. This will help us to finish our experiment to derive information about sidewalks using Mapillary street level imagery with the support of the crowd very soon. Sidewalk information is an important resource for accessible route…

  • Open Position PostDoc Geoinformatics Heidelberg University

    A full-time PostDoc position is available at the GIScience Research Group at the Department of Geography of Heidelberg University. The aim is to contribute to the research at the GIScience Research Group and to start building an own junior research group including the mentoring of PhD students. The candidate should have a demonstrated research track…

  • City of Mannheim shows appreciation to Open Data engagement of GIScience group

    On friday 3/13, Melanie Eckle, Steffen John and Stefan Hahmann of the GIScience group Heidelberg were invited to a special event at Mannheim town hall. The city of Mannheim showed appreciation to the engagement of the GIScience group during the Open Data Day in Mannheim. Melanie Eckle (distaster mappers Heidelberg) gave a presentation about the…

  • Deadline Extended: VGI Quality Session at ISSDQ 2015

    Dear colleagues, We are happy to inform you that the deadline for paper submission for almost all events at the ISPRS Geospatial Week 2015 is extended to 15 April 2015 in order to faclicitate a consistent logistics and because of several demands to extend the deadline. This applies also to our session on “Quality analysis…

  • UNESCO World Heritage Site Lorsch Abbey – Ladenburg Discourses of Daimler and Benz Foundation

    Bernhard represented the GIScience discipline in the Ladenburg Discourse of the Daimler and Benz Foundation on the “Digital Model” of the UNESCO World Heritage Site Lorsch Abbey, which took place 13-14 March 2015 in Ladenburg. The Ladenburg discourse was organized by Susanne Krömker from the IWR of the Heidelberg University. The main aim of the…

  • Annual Meeting 2015 of DGPF: German Society for Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Geoinformation

    The GIScience group Heidelberg participated actively in the 2015 Annual Meeting of the DGPF (German Society for Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Geoinformation), which took place 16-18 March 2015 in Cologne. Bernhard hold a keynote lecture on “LiDAR Point Cloud Information and Web Infrastructure for 3D Vegetation Analysis”, which was embedded in a special Workshop on…

  • This week extended OpenRouteService Demo @ CeBIT

    This week you have the chance to visit a demonstration of our extended and specialized routing services based on OpenRouteService and the IBM Cloud solutions at the international computer fair CeBIT. Please visit our partner Heidelberg Mobil at the IBM booth | hall 2 A10 in the CeBIT “Cloud Area” from March 16. – 20.…

  • Major Update for OpenRouteService Frontend

    Last few months, we have been working hard on a new Web frontend for OpenRouteService.org. The new service provides all features from the old OpenRouteService (Check the advanced version from the Options page) but is much faster and also covers all of Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia! Also further new route profiles will come within…