News of Heidelberg University’s GIScience Research Group.
Posted in Events on Mar 31st, 2016
We cordially congratulate our team member David Jonietz on the successful defence of his PhD! The studies about Agent-Based Models of Individual and Collective Place Formation were performed at Augsburg University with Prof. Timpf as first supervisor. We wish him all the best for the future.
Posted in Jobs on Mar 24th, 2016
English Version:
The GIScience Research Group at Heidelberg University is offering a position as senior researcher or Postdoc (100%, TVL) in Geoinformatics. The candidate shall contribute to at least one of our related projects such as http://www.geog.uni-heidelberg.de/gis/wegovnow.html (EU HORIZON2020) or http://www.geog.uni-heidelberg.de/gis/land_sense.html (EU HORIZON2020), http://www.geog.uni-heidelberg.de/gis/cap4access_en.html or from national agencies (DFG et al), e.g. http://www.geog.uni-heidelberg.de/gis/dfg_en.html or [...]
Posted in Events, OSM, Teaching, VGI Group on Mar 22nd, 2016
Last Friday, 18th March, Carolin Klonner and Melanie Eckle of the GIScience Research Group were invited to give a workshop on “Crisis Mapping with OpenStreetMap” in scope of the DFG Graduate School “Natural Risk in a Changing World” Spring School at the University of Potsdam. The PhD candidates were introduced to current research and practices [...]
Posted in Teaching on Mar 21st, 2016
4 Tutoren für die Betreuung der Lehrveranstaltung „Datenorganisation“ gesucht
Es sind zum Sommersemester 2016 4 Tutorenstellen zu je 40 Stunden zu besetzen.
Aufgaben:
- Aktive Mitarbeit bei der Vor- und Nachbereitung der genannten Lehrveranstaltung
- Weitgehend eigenständige Durchführung der Lehrveranstaltung
Erwünschte Qualifikationen:
- Solide Grundkenntnisse im Bereich Datenbanken, ER-Modell
- Erfahrungen mit MS Access
- Verlässlichkeit
- Eigenständige Arbeitsweise
Interessenten schreiben bitte zeitnah eine [...]
Posted in Events on Mar 18th, 2016
This week the Kick-Off Meeting of a recently started collaboarative project on “Crowdsourcing for Forensic Disaster Analysis” (CrowdFDA) took place at GIScience Heidelberg University together with partners from the Geophysical Institute of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) (Dr. Bijan Khazai) as member in the Center for Disaster Management and Risk Reduction Technology (CEDIM, KIT) [...]
Posted in Events on Mar 11th, 2016
Yesterday, the Heidelberg CAP4Access team contributed to an symposium on the topic of inclusive society that was held in the old congress hall in the historic center of Heidelberg. The symposium was organized by Stiftung Lebenshilfe Heidelberg. We have presented some of our latest CAP4Access developments, particularly the accessible route planning profile of OpenRouteService, on [...]
Posted in 3D, Lidar Group, Research on Mar 7th, 2016
In order to optimize agricultural processes, near real-time spatial information about in-field variations, such as crop height development (i.e., changes over time), is indispensable. This development can be captured with a LiDAR system. However, its applicability in precision agriculture is often hindered due to high costs and unstandardized processing methods.
In [...]