Day: 26 February 2016
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GIScience Research Group Heidelberg becomes Member of the Missing Maps Project
The GIScience Research Group at Heidelberg University is happy to announce their official membership in the Missing Maps Project. The objective of the Missing Maps Project is to map the most vulnerable places in the developing world, in order that international and local NGOs and individuals can use the maps and data to better respond…
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Assessing the suitability of GlobeLand30 for mapping land cover in Germany
A new publication on the suitability of the new global land cover map of 2010 called GlobeLand30 for mapping European landscapes in particular, Germany and a cross comparison with crowdsourced and authoritative datasets. Abstract: Global land cover maps have been widely employed as the base layer for a number of applications including climate change, food…