Month: September 2016

  • HeKKsaGOn – GIScience takes part in the 5th Japanese-German University Presidents’ Conference

    Melanie Eckle and Benjamin Herfort represented the GIScience Research Group at the 5th Japanese-German University Presidents’ Conference that was held on 29th and 30th of September in Karlsruhe. The German-Japanese University Consortium HeKKSaGOn was founded in July 2010 as an association of three German (Heidelberg, Karlsruhe, Göttingen) and three Japanese (Kyoto, Sendai, Osaka) universities. We…

  • Maptember in Brussels – GIScience Research Group at the HOT summit, SOTM 2016 and Missing Maps Meeting

    Brussels became the global center for OpenStreetMap enthusiasts, humanitarians and researchers during the last week. The 2nd HOT Summit was held on the 22nd September and was complemented by a Missing Maps Mapathon in the evening. From 23rd – 25th September the State of the Map conference opened their doors for the global OpenStreetMap community.…

  • Wheelmap event led by CAP4ACCESS team is part of a short documentary movie

    Our efforts related to the mapping of wheelchair accessible places at the Freiwilligentag 2016 in Heidelberg are now part of a short documentary movie made by the FreiwilligenAgentur Heidelberg. The movie focuses on 6 projects promoting social inclusion of disabled people and can be watched on YouTube.

  • LandSense Kick-Off Meeting – EU Citizen Science Observatory on Landuse

    this week sees the Kick-Off Meeting of a new EU Horizon 2020 project called LandSense at International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IASA) Laxemburg Austria. The overall aim of the LandSense project is to build an innovative citizen observatory in the field of LandUse LandCover (LULC), which collects data both actively (through citizens) and passively…

  • HeiGIT is starting to move into Mathematikon

    recently the first few members of the Navigation Intelligence and Location Based Services group of the Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation Technology (HeiGIT) – which is currently being established based on core funding from the Klaus-Tschira Foundation Heidelberg – moved into their new offices at Mathematikon Heidelberg. The group works on services like OpenRouteService and related…

  • Talk on Mapping the Crowd at Spatial Cognition Colloquium by A. Zipf and PhD of Ahmed Loai Ali

    today Dr. Ahmed Loai Ali successfully defended his Phd on “Enhancing Data Classification Quality of Volunteered Geographic Information” at Bremen Spatial Cognition Center with Prof. Freksa (Bremen) as first and Prof. Zipf (Heidelberg) as second reviewer. We congratulate Ahmed to his good results! The groups collaborated also earlier (see ref. below) and Ahmed Loai Ali…

  • ISPRS Innsbruck Summer School of Alpine Research 2017 – Close Range Sensing Techniques in Alpine Terrain

    Do you want to learn a lot about geodata acquisition and sensing, in a beautiful and challenging high mountain environment, enjoy the evenings with colleagues and professors above 2000m altitude? If yes, here you can find the answer: Join our summer school in 2017 (16-22 July)! https://www.uibk.ac.at/geographie/summerschool (Flyer) This summer school is designed for any…

  • Call-for-Papers: 37. Wissenschaftlich-Technische Jahrestagung der DGPF

    The Call-for-Papers is available for the Annual Meeting 2017 of the German Society for Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Geoinformation (DGPF) in Würzburg-Schweinfurt, 8-10 March 2017. Featured topic of the conference is Cultural Heritage. Deadline of submission is 31 October 2016!

  • Beyond 3-D: The New Spectrum of LiDAR Applications for Earth and Ecological Sciences

    Capturing and quantifying the world in three dimensions (x,y,z) using light detection and ranging (lidar) technology drives fundamental advances in the Earth and Ecological Sciences (EES). However, additional lidar dimensions offer the possibility to transcend basic 3-D mapping capabilities, including i) the physical time (t) dimension from repeat lidar acquisition and ii) laser return intensity…

  • CAP4ACCESS team active on the Freiwilligentag 2016 in Heidelberg

    On the occasion of the Freiwilligentag 2016 (September 17th), organised by the MRN GmbH to realize charitable projects based on volunteer engagement, the CAP4Access team from GIScience group of Heidelberg university contributed by leading a Wheelmap mapping event at Heidelberg. Wheelmap.org is a map for finding wheelchair accessible places and it is run by one…

  • Report on the 7th PCC meeting and 2nd Expert Workshop for CAP4Access project

    The 7th PCC meeting for CAP4Access project took place on September 8th in Bonn. The meeting was focused on presentations and discussions regarding the works that have been progressed since the last meeting and more importantly, clarifying and planning on what remains to be done for the final deliverables by end of the year. From GIScience…

  • GeoNet.MRN participates in conference „Deutschland intelligent vernetzt“, Oct. 12th, Ludwigshafen

    GeoNet.MRN beteiligt sich an der Konferenz „Deutschland intelligent vernetzt“ am 12. Oktober im Pfalzbau, Ludwigshafen. Das regionale Geoinformations-Netzwerk ist in die Vorbereitung und Durchführung der Session „Digitalisierung in der Wirtschaft“ und „Daten als gemeinsame Ressource“ eingebunden. In der Session „Digitalisierung in der Wirtschaft“ stellen wir das Konzept des „Atlas der digitalen Region Rhein-Neckar“ vor. In…