Month: May 2016

  • Revised set of tools published – CAP4Access e-Newsletter No. 4, May 2016

    CAP4Access e-Newsletter No. 4, May 2016 Revised set of tools published Dear Readers, The project has entered its third and final year at the start of 2016. After a successful project review in mid-February, the revised set of tools has now been made public. All CAP4Access tools deal with accessibility of the built environment and…

  • Twitter Analysis in Space and Time

    The topic of the “Akademische Mittagspause” (“academic lunch break” – a kind of open brown bag series for the public) at Heidelberg University is this semester is “Do you speak Math?“. In total more then 60 different presentations are given in the “Peterskirche”, Plöck 70, 69117 Heidelberg on a daily basis Monday to Friday, 13.00…

  • Upcoming talk: Deriving urban land use from image data

    On next Monday, Dr. Tessio Novack from the Technical University of Munich (photogrammetry and remote sensing research group) will give the second presentation in our currently running GIScience colloquium lecture series. He will introduce some of the main approaches for deriving land use information from remote sensing imagery. Further, potentials and limitations of corresponding techniques…

  • Human Dynamics in the Mobile and Big Data Era

    The Special Issue: Human Dynamics in the Mobile and Big Data Era of the International Journal of Geographical Information Science (IJGIS), Volume 30, Issue 9 is now available online on Taylor & Francis Online. This issue includes our article: Exploration of spatiotemporal and semantic clusters of Twitter data using unsupervised neural networks Enrico Steiger, Bernd…

  • Report on Trail Valley Creek Research Station

    The Tusaayaksat Magazine reports on the research activities at the Trail Valley Creek Research Station, Canada, where members of the LiDAR research group (Inga Beck, Sabrina Marx & Bernhard Höfle) captured in-situ data within the PermaSAR research project last summer: “Climate change research in our own backyard“, p. 58-63.

  • OSM Mapathon for Regional Planning in Togo at GIScience HD on June 8th

    Save the date: On Wednesday June 08 it’s time again to start a OSM mapping event at the Department of Geography Heidelberg University. We want to continue this semester adding to previously successful mapping events organized by students, the disastermappers HD and GIScience HD in Heidelberg. For many places in the world there are no…

  • Citizen Science: First International ECSA Conference 2016

    On 19th to 21st May, the European Citizen Science Association (ECSA) held its first international conference in Berlin. The event attracted scientists, practitioners, and of course citizens engaged in scientific projects from all over the world. Several tracks of presentations and discussions highlighted the current hot topics in citizen science, like learning and education through…

  • HCE/IWR presentation: Feature Extraction of Discrete Manifolds from Archaeological Findings to Cultural Landscapes (Dr. H. Mara, IWR)

    As a member of both HCE (Heidelberg Center for the Environment) and IWR (Interdiciplinary Center for Scientific Computing) we are happy to make you aware of todays public presentation in the HCE colloquium series “Heidelberger Brücke”: Title: Feature Extraction of Discrete Manifolds from Archaeological Findings to Cultural Landscapes Lecture and discussion with Dr. Hubert Mara,…

  • Urban Landuse, Flood Risks, VGI quality and GIS in humanitarian NGOs – save the date for GIScience presentations

    Earlier this semester Dr. Chiao-Ling started the GIScience colloqium series already with a presentation about An Ontology-based Semantic Interoperability Framework for Geospatial Information. Now stay tuned and save the date for the further presentations in this semester: Deriving urban land use from image data – potentials, limitations and main approaches (Dr. Tessio Novack) Mo, 30.05.2016,…

  • Assessing Data Quality of OSM Buildings and Landuse Revisited :: GIScience Heidelberg contributes to 8th Dresden Land Use Symposium

    On the May 11 and 12, the 8. Dresdener Flächennutzungssymposium (the 8th Symposium of development, monitoring and usages of landuse Dresden) took place in Dresden, Germany. The symposium aims to bring together industry, academy and local government, in order to demonstrate and exchange latest developments in methods, tools and software for the management of landuse…

  • GIScience HD contributes to Int. Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management

    GIScience Heidelberg regularily contributes to the ISCRAM conferences. This year we again have four papers dealing with different aspects on crowdsoured geographic information (e.g. OpenStreetMap) in disaster response and management (e.g. OpenFloodRiskMap). Eckle, M., Herfort, B., Alberquerque, J., Leiner, R., Wolff, R., Jacobs, C., Zipf, A. (2016): Leveraging OpenStreetMap to support flood risk management: A…

  • RNZ-Zeitungsflirt 2016 über die Geoinformatik

    “Mit Geoinformatik zur knusprigen Pizza Margherita” – so lautet der Beitrag von Helen Sandbrink in der Sonderbeilage “Zeitungsflirt 2016” der Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung (RNZ) vom 10. Mai 2016. Frau Sandbrink beschreibt ihre Sicht auf die Geoinformatik, die sie durch einen Besuch am Geographischen Institut gewinnen konnte. Quelle: Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung (Nr. 107/2016), Seite 5 in der Sonderbeilage “Zeitungsflirt 2016”,…