Month: May 2015

  • Mapping Support Event for Nepal at ISCRAM conference 2015 in Norway

    As members of the disastermappers heidelberg and the GIScience Research Group Benjamin Herfort and Melanie Eckle were presenting their research at this years ISCRAM conference in Kristiansand, Norway. ISCRAM being a conference for researchers and practitioners in the field of disaster and emergency management, they also used this situation to set up a spontaneous Mapping…

  • GIScience Walk & Talk

    Heidelberg offers many nice hiking trails in the Odenwald mountains and some colleagues from GIScience group Heidelberg along with their visiting guest Ahmed Loai Ali used an opportunity for some walking and talking along the paths of Königstuhl up to Bierhelderhof enjoying the food in the romantic beergarden on the hills above the city. While…

  • Mon-Shieh Yang successfully completes his PhD

    Mon-Shieh Yang successfully defended his PhD thesis at the National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) in Taiwan. We cordially congratulate him! Mon-Shieh was member of the Heidelberg GIScience Team for almost one year (until May 2015). He was performing research with the LiDAR Research Group (LRG) where he investigated the derivation of novel LiDAR-based roughness measures…

  • New Portal for GeoNet.MRN – the Network Geoinformation of the Metropole Region Rhine-Neckar e.V.

    Recently the new portal for GeoNet.MRN – the “Network Geoinformation of the Metropole Region Rhine-Neckar e.V.” has been published at http://www.geonet-mrn.de. It is based on the Enterprise Portal technology of the GeoNet.MRN member Fasihi GmbH Ludwigshafen. Thanks to Fasihi for this kind support! The portal includes news and events by GeoNet.MRN e.V itself and also…

  • GIScience Colloquium Talk on Classification Accuracy in VGI: Ahmed Loai Ali

    The semester proceeds quickly and another talk is already approaching: We are happy to announce the next presentation in our Heidelberg University GIS colloquium which will be given by Ahmed Loai Ali from Bremen University (Cognitive Systems Research Group). Ahmed will talk about accuracy issues when classifying volunteered geographic information (VGI). See a full description…

  • Bachelor thesis about accessibility mapping in Heidelberg castle gardens

    In the scope of the CAP4ACCESS project, we announce a bachelor thesis (PDF, description in German) on the topic of wheelchair accessibility mapping using the example of the Heidelberg castle gardens. The main scientific research question deals with the suitability of VGI data (e.g. OpenStreetMap, Wheelmap) for mapping the accessibility of points and ways for…

  • Stellenausschreibung Clustermanager GeoNet.MRN (Netzwerk Geoinformation der MRN)

    Das Netzwerk GeoNet.MRN e.V. ist ein Verbund von Firmen, Verbänden, Hochschulen und Verwaltung in der Metropolregion Rhein-Neckar. Es hat sich unter anderem zum Ziel gesetzt, lokale Akteure zu vernetzen und den Wissenstransfer zu Geoinformation zwischen Praxis und Forschung zu verbessern, die Sichtbarkeit der Geoinformationsbranche zu verbessern und das Bewusstsein der Bedeutung von Geoinformation über die…

  • Presentation on Open Data this Wednesday at disastermappers Heidelberg Colloquium

    The disastermappers Heidelberg invite to a talk by Oliver Rack within the ‘disastermappers Heidelberg’ colloquium series at the Institute of Geography Heidelberg University. Oliver Rack is the founder of the Open Data Initiative Rhein-Neckar and will report about the situation of the Open Data Movement in the region and discuss recent projects. The presentation will…

  • Combining Social Media and Authoritative Data towards identifying useful Information for Disaster Management

    A Study on the Twitter usage in the River Elbe Flood of June 2013 In recent years, social media emerged as a potential resource to improve the management of crisis situations such as disasters triggered by natural hazards. Although there is a growing research body concerned with the analysis of the usage of social media…

  • Today: disastermappers-Heidelberg ‘on Tour’ : Mapping for Nepal continued

    After the earthquake in Nepal just over two weeks ago, the country has been hit again by a serious earthquake. Many places have so far not received any assistance due to a lack of maps. After earlier Disaster Mapping events at the Institute of Geography at Heidelberg University and continuous activities in between, the “disastermappers…

  • This semester’s colloquium series of the “Heidelberg Geographical Society” (HGG) starts

    The lecture program of Heidelberg Geographical Society (Heidelberger Geographische Gesellschaft, HGG) begins next Tuesday, Mai 19 2015, with the Student Lecture. The students Caroline Esser, Fabian Heßlinger and Christian Berberich will report on the large field trip to Ladakh in north-western India. After the presentation the HGG invites you to the opening of the event…

  • GIScience Colloquium Talk about Analysing Landscape Structure with Graph Theory

    The next talk in our GIScience colloquium will be given by a well-travelled researcher. Mr Alan Kwok Lun Cheung from the School of Environment, University of Auckland in New Zealand will talk about how to spatiotemporally analyse landscape structures with methods from graph theory. We are pleased to invite you to this interesting talk: Topological…