Month: July 2015

  • Editor’s choice – Information fusion infrastructure for remote-sensing and in-situ sensor data to model people dynamics

    Our paper “Information fusion infrastructure for remote-sensing and in-situ sensor data to model people dynamics” by Hillen et al. (2014) has been selected by the editor of the International Journal of Image and Data Fusion to be freely accessible for downloading (editor’s choice). The paper presents a novel concept for an information fusion infrastructure to…

  • Invitation to the 2nd GeoNet.MRN GeoBusiness Breakfast (28. July Heidelberg) of the Network Geoinformation of the Metropolitan Region Rhine-Neckar

    Die Leiner & Wolff GmbH läd am Dienstag, den 28.7.2015 herzlich zum zweiten GeoNet.MRN Business-Frühstück des Netzwerks Geoinformation der Metropolregion Rhein-Neckar (GeoNet.MRN) ein! 8.30 – 9.00 Uhr Ankommen mit Frühstückssnack und informeller Austausch 9.00 – 9.30 Uhr Vorstellung der Leiner & Wolff GmbH 9.30 – 10.00 Uhr Ausklang Ort: Leiner & Wolff GmbH, Hauptstraße 90…

  • Post-disaster damage assessment – combining remote sensing image analysis and crowdsourcing (Dr. Norman Kerle, ITC), GIScience HD Colloquium, Wednesday 22.07.15

    We cordially invite anybody to our final GIScience colloquium in this summer term. Dr. Norman Kerle from ITC will talk about Post-disaster damage assessment – combining remote sensing image analysis and crowdsourcing on Wednesday, Jul 22, 2015, 4:00 pm, at Hörsaal, Berliner Straße 48, Institute of Geography, Heidelberg University Following a disaster event a rapid…

  • OpenRouteService Update to Version 2.2

    It has been less than two months since the major update of OpenRouteService. Today we announce the next sound update of the service. In this release, we were mostly concentrated on fixing bugs both on the server and client sides. The full list of changes can be found on github. We summarize some improvements below…

  • The Past, Present and Future of Cartography – Talk by Prof. Kainz

    We cordially invite everybody to another interesting talk in the anniversary GIScience Colloquium Series at Heidelberg University. Univ.-Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Wolfgang Kainz (Professor for Cartography and Geoinformation, Institut for Geographie and Regional Research, University of Vienna) will talk on Thursday, Jul 16, 2015, 4.15 pm in the Lecture Hall, Berliner Straße 48, Heidelberg about the…

  • ISPRS Innsbruck PhD Summer School of Alpine Research 2015

    The first summer school of its kind on Close Range Sensing Techniques in Alpine Terrain took place in Obergurgl, Ötztal Valley, Austria, from July 5 – 11 2015. The event was co-hosted by the ISPRS, the main organizer University of Innsbruck and several other European universities including the GIScience Group of Heidelberg University. More than…

  • Talk on Smart Urbanism by Prof. Matthew W. Wilson (Kentucky/Harvard): Quantified Self-City-Nation

    We cordially invite everybody to an open presentation on our colloquium series tomorrow (Tuesday, 14.07.2015) at 10am by Dr. Matthew W. Wilson to the Department of Geography, Heidelberg University Lecture Hall EG, Berliner Straße 48, 69198 Heidelberg. The title of the talk is Quantified Self-City-Nation. New devices and techniques have emerged to better quantify an…

  • GIScience @AGIT/GI Forum conference 2015

    Last week members of the GIScience Research Group were attending the AGIT – Symposium and Exhibit for applied Geoinformatics in Salzburg. Beside the interesting welcome note given by Manfred Hauswirth from TU Berlin talking about the impact of Linked Data, the Internet of Things, and Clouds for Geospatial Information Systems, further keynotes and conference talks…

  • Visit to Hambach Castle

    Recently the members of the Department of Geography, Heidelberg University visited Hambach Castle nearby across the Rhine valley in Rhineland-Palatinate. It is considered the symbol of the German Democracy movement because of the Hambacher Fest from 1832. (see playmobil photo) The trip of the institute included a nice hike through the hilly forests, a guided…

  • OpenRouteService at the Heidelberg wheelchair marathon

    On last Saturday we braved the tropical heat and used the occasion of the 13th international wheelchair marathon in Heidelberg to inform the public about our recent developments regarding wheelchair accessible route planning with OpenRouteService. We are thankful for the interesting conversations with people from Germany, Denmark, Japan, England and France and for their valuable…

  • Talk “Mixed-Scale Spatial Autocorrelation” in Osnabrück

    Last Tuesday, René Westerholt gave a talk about the assessment of spatial autocorrelation within social media data. It was part of the regular colloquium of the Institute for Geoinformatics and Remote Sensing at Osnabrück University. The talk provided an overview of challenges that occur due to the spatially and semantically mixed nature of social media…

  • MappingParty 4 India and Chile at Heidelberg University

    on Wednesday, July 8, we invite you to a mapping event organized by students, similar to the earlier mapping events in Heidelberg, where numerous people had participated. This time we chose two regions which suffer on the one hand from high vulnerability and many natural hazards and where on the other hand OpenStreetMap still has…