Month: March 2016

  • PhD Defence of David Jonietz

    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.

  • Open Position in Geoinformatics, Heidelberg University : Senior Researcher / PostDoc : Analysis, Enrichment & Integration of VGI, OSM, Big Spatial Data

    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 http://www.geog.uni-heidelberg.de/gis/crowd_fda_en.html…

  • GIScience HD contributes to Crisis Mapping Workshop for the “Natural Risk in a Changing World“ Spring School at Potsdam University

    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…

  • Student Tutors wanted for new Course in Data Organization

    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 –…

  • Crowdsourcing for Forensic Disaster Analysis – Kick-Off Meeting

    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) and…

  • CAP4Access participated in symposium on inclusive society in Heidelberg

    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…

  • Autonomously Operating Low-Cost Static Terrestrial LiDAR

    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 our new study we…