Day: 31 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…