Month: November 2015

  • Geographical prioritization of social network messages in near real-time using sensor data streams: an application to floods

    Social networks have been used to overcome the problem of incomplete official data, and provide a more detailed description of a disaster. However, the filtering of relevant messages on-the-fly remains challenging due to the large amount of misleading, outdated or inaccurate information. Extending earlier work a new paper presented this week at Geoinfo 2015 presents…

  • Castle accessibility mapping is part of a short documentary

    Our efforts related to the mapping of the accessibility of places and ways at Heidelberg castle are now part of a short documentary produced by Beirat von Menschen mit Behinderung Heidelberg (Advisory Board of people with disabilities Heidelberg), with whom we cooperate in the scope of the CAP4ACCESS project. As a follow-up of this event,…

  • The provenance and use of geospatial Big Data (Paul Longley) and Small area profiling through geodemographics (Guy Lansley)

    This Friday, November 27th 2015 we invite you to two highly interesting presentations from well-known colleagues from the Department of Geography, University College London (UCL). Prof. Dr. Paul Longley will talk about “The provenance and use of geospatial Big Data” at 10-11am s.t. This presentation reports on the research activities of the Consumer Data Research…

  • Explore! The Power of Maps. Results of the Heidelberg Missing Maps Mapathon

    Last week we organized a special Mapping event in the scope of the Geography Awareness Week in cooperation with the Missing Maps team and great support by students of the seminar “Disaster Management with GIS” and the disastermappers Heidelberg. The students created a blog post explaining the motivation as well as the outcome of the…

  • A Week full of GIScience Events

    This week is busy with several GIScience events in Heidelberg: – Monday started with a talk of Dr. Inga Back on the PermaSAR project in the HCE colloquium series. – On Tuesday our project “Wissen für die Stadt” (Knowledge for the City) participates in a workshop about the related IBA candidate “Zukunfts- und Wissensspeicher Energie…

  • Reallabor/Urban Office TP 4: Workshop zum Wissensspeicher

    Am Dienstag, den 24. November 2015, nimmt das Teilprojekt 4 (Geoinformatik, IFEU) “Wissen schaffen für die Stadt – neue Methoden der Bürgerbeteiligung durch interaktive Stadtplanung im Web 2.0 am Beispiel der Energiewende” an einem Workshop der Stadtwerke teil. Im Rahmen des “IBA_KANDIDAT #033 Zukunfts- und Wissensspeicher Energie und Technik” geht es um die Ausgestaltung des…

  • Permafrost in Climate Change – Effects on Humans and the Environment. Presentation by Inga Beck next Monday

    In the course of this semester’s “Heidelberg Bridge” Colloquium by the Heidelberg Center for the Environment (HCE) Dr. Inga Beck from GIScience Heidelberg (Lidar Research Group) will give a public presentation and discussion on the topic “Permafrost in Climate change – effects on human and environment“. The talk will be in German. Date and time:…

  • Public Workshop – Multidimensional Perceptibility of Cultural Heritage (MUSIEKE)

    Workshop: Kulturerbe: Erfassbar – Sichtbar – Erfahrbar Ergebnisse und Erfahrungen aus Forschungsprojekten zur Sicht- und Erfahrbarmachung von Kulturerbe 1. Dezember 2015 09:30-15:00 Uhr ZAK | Zentrum für Angewandte Kulturwissenschaft und Studium Generale Rüppurrer Str. 1a, Haus B 76137 Karlsruhe Zur Anmeldung Flyer (PDF, ca. 1MB) Programm 9:30-9:45 Get Together 9:45-9:55 Prof. Dr. Caroline Y. Robertson-von…

  • High-end survey capacities at GIScience for research and teaching in and around Heidelberg

    At the chair of GIScience, highly accurate RTK GNSS surveying is used for teaching and research. In the area in and around Heidelberg, surveys within the same coordinate reference system are now possible thanks to a fixed point recently installed by the group on the top of a university building. Teaching projects similar to the…

  • 3D-MicroMapping of Big 3D Geo-Datasets in the Web (3D-MAPP)

    Our new research project 3D-MAPP develops a web-based methodology to obtain digital geodata via the combination of data analysis by human and machine. Through a quick and easy-to-use 3D Web visualization users are able – in a few seconds – to solve 3D micro mapping tasks, which can hardly or even not be solved by…

  • GIScience HD participated in 1st International Land Use Symposium

    Between November 11-13 our group actively participated in the 1st edition of the International Land Use Symposium (#ILUS2015) held in Dresden. The symposium was organized by the Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development (IÖR, also based in Dresden), who greatly braved the challenges of organizing this symposium for the first time and who…

  • Missing Maps Mapathon @ Geography Awareness Week @ Heidelberg University

    Next week is “Geography Awareness Week” and in this week we organize a voluntary OpenStreetMap Mapping Party. We invite you all cordially to join us mapping for a good purpose. Let`s celebrate the international “Geography Awareness Week” and learn more about the power of maps! How? With a Missing Maps Mapathon! When? Nov/18/2015 – 18.15…