Month: January 2017

  • LandSense Stakeholder workshop 25.-26.01.2017

    During last weeks LandSense stakeholder at IIASA workshops various tools relevant for VGI data capture, Quality assessment and beyond were discussed. Potential hotshots for validation and improvement of OSMLanduse were FotoQuest and LacoWiki. Also discussed were platforms for hobby bird fans or for spatial data geeks. http://www.geog.uni-heidelberg.de/gis/land_sense.html http://osmlanduse.org

  • GIScience / disastermappers heidelberg in “Jetzt” magazine of Süddeutsche Zeitung

    Last week we had a special guest for our New Years Mapathon: Nadja Schlüter, a journalist of the popular youth magazine “Jetzt” of the Süddeutsche Zeitung. Nadja had heard about the Missing Maps related activities at our institute during an interview with MSF UK and visited us to learn more about our work and disaster…

  • Joint GeoTech Workshop with Heidelberg Mobil and HeiGIT

    Today colleagues from Heidelberg Mobil International GmbH (HDMI) and Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation Technology (HeiGIT) met in Mathematikon to discuss current trends and activities in developing and advancing Geoinformation Technologies. Several presentations were given and fruitful discussions covered a broad range of topics that the two institutions are actively working on. Topics ranged from automated…

  • Invitation: Colloquium Talk by Prof. Shunichi Koshimura on Earth Observation in Tsunami Disaster Response and Management

    We cordially invite all interested to our forthcoming talk in the GIScience colloquium next Monday, January 30, on the use of satellite imagery, which is becoming more and more accessible and available in near real-time, for risk analysis and disaster response. Prof. Shunichi Koshimura presents evidence of the value of earth observation, used in combination…

  • DeepVGI: Deep Learning with Volunteered Geographic Information

    Deep learning techniques, esp. Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), are now widely studied for predictive analytics with remote sensing images, which can be further applied in different domains for ground object detection, population mapping, etc. These methods usually train predicting models with the supervision of a large set of training examples. However, finding ground truths especially…

  • 2nd Call for full Journal and Workshop Papers on VGI_Analytics (AGILE2017) Deadline March 15

    VGI-Analytics 2017 is the 4th workshop in a series of AGILE pre-conference workshops Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) and social media data have become part of our everyday lives over the past few years. Whereas in the early beginnings of crowd-sourced data the collection occurred primarily to isolated, individual platforms, contribution patterns are now beginning to be…

  • OpenRouteService introduces E-bike and Level of Fitness

    We have been busy working on some new features within the OpenRouteService which are especially suited for bicyclists. For starters we introduced an electronic bicycle profile which especially comes in handy for accessibility analyses considering elevation information. To this end you will notice that inclines will not have such a large impact on the reachability…

  • 3rd PhD Colloquium of Geoinformatics (DGK and DGPF) – Deadline extended for contributions unitl 30 January 2017

    Dear PhD students working on algorithms in Geoinformatics be aware that we have extended the deadline for submissions to the 3rd PhD Colloquium of the DGK Section on Geoinformatics and the DGPF Working Group on Geoinformatics, which takes place in Würzburg, March 7, 2017 (prior to the DGPF Annual Meeting). The main goal is to…

  • CAP4Access Comes to a Close

    On Tuesday 17th January, the CAP4Access/MyAccessible.EU came to a close after three years with the successful completion of the final European Commission review meeting in Brussels. Reviewers were highly pleased with the outcomes of the project, both on the technical and societal fronts. At GIScience in Heidelberg, through the EC FP7 project we have extended…

  • Reminder: OSM Mapathon for South Sudan with MSF/Ärzte ohne Grenzen on January 19th

    you are most welcome to participate in our first 2017 OSM Mapathon at the Institute of Geography, Heidelberg University. The data is needed by MSF/Doctors without Borders/Ärzte ohne Grenzen for their work on medical services in Sudan. Here you can find further Information in detail. When: Thursday. 19.01.2017, 18:00 pm Where: Hörsaal, Berliner Straße 48,…

  • Call for Papers: Workshop on Urban Spatial Analytics

    Together with Prof. João Porto de Albuquerque (University of Warwick), we will chair an interactive session at this year’s Annual International Conference at the Royal Geographical Society in London. The session deals with urban spatial analytics and crowdsourced geographic information for smarter cities, with an emphasis on spatial methodology and applications of these to explicitly…

  • Invitation: Colloquium Talk by Dr. Yingwei Yan on Using User-Generated Content for Agricultural Pest Management

    We cordially invite all interested to our forthcoming talk in the GIScience colloquium next Monday, January 16, on agricultural pest management solutions based on pest observations from farmers. Dr. Yingwei Yan reports on how sensemaking algorithms which can be used to evaluate this kind of volunteered geographic information, and to make forecasts of pest infestations provided…