News of Heidelberg University’s GIScience Research Group.
Today we present the latest version and details on the technical API of OpenRouteService at the 7th GeoIT WhereCamp Conference Berlin. Tim from the Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation Technology (HeiGIT) will talk about
Consuming Open Data for Highly Customizable Route Planning
He will show some examples of the very rich feature set and API of OpenRouteService like many [...]
Posted in Crowd Analyser, Research on Nov 29th, 2017
Statistical parameters often vary across geographic landscapes. For instance, when the the variance of georeferenced random variables is not stable, this might hint on variegated processes or contextual conditions in different sub-regions. Analysing such heterogeneous areas is challenging because an explicit consideration of this so-called spatial heterogeneity is required. Various approaches exist that take account [...]
Posted in Events on Nov 29th, 2017
On November 23d, the 9th “Fachaustausch Geoinformation“, a yearly networking event for professionals in the geodata and geoinformation domain organised by GeoNet.MRN, took place in Heidelberg’s Print Media Academy. GIScience research group at Heidelberg University and HeiGIT (Heidelberg Center for Geographic Information Technology) presented current research and projects at the event’s exhibition. Theresia Bauer, Baden-Württemberg’s Minister [...]
Posted in Publications, Services on Nov 27th, 2017
Finding the shortest path through open spaces is a well-known challenge for pedestrian routing engines. A common solution is routing on the open space boundary, which causes in most cases an unnecessarily long route. A possible alternative is to create a subgraph within the open space. In a recently published paper authors from GIScience Research [...]
Posted in Events on Nov 24th, 2017
we cordially invite everybody interested to our next open GIScience colloquium talk
State of the Art of Event Detection from Geo-tagged Twitter Data
Diao Lin
Chair of Cartography, Technical University of Munich
Time and date: Mon, November 27, 2:15 pm
Venue: INF 348, Room 015, Department of Geography, Heidelberg University
The speaker tries to give a structured and comprehensive overview of [...]
Posted in 3D, Lidar Group, Research on Nov 24th, 2017
The Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing (IWR) at Heidelberg University is a leading institution in research and education in scientific computing in a multitude of interdisciplinary topics - covering science, engineering and humanities. Computational methods are a very important foundation in GIScience / Geoinformatics with particular focus on the investigation of geospatial data and geospatial [...]
Posted in 3D, Cultural Heritage, Digital Humanities, Lidar Group, Publications, Research on Nov 22nd, 2017
Not undercover but on the cover: We were selected as cover story of the ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, Volume 6, Issue 11.
In our research on “Historic Low Wall Detection via Topographic Parameter Images Derived from Fine-Resolution DEM“, we apply rapid landscape line detection to extract historic vegetable garden walls based on topographic [...]
Posted in Events on Nov 21st, 2017
The regional GI Conference “Fachaustausch Geoinformatik” of the GeoNet.MRN is taking place on this Thursday Nov 23rd at the Print Media Academy Heidelberg. Prof. Alexander Zipf is giving one keynote about analysis and usage potential of free and open geodata. He will present some of the related work of the GIScience Research Group Heidelberg and [...]
Posted in Events on Nov 18th, 2017
Here you find some impressions from the regional tournament of the First League League (FLL), that today took place for the first time at Mathematikon Heidelberg and was co-organized by NanoGiants Academy e.V. and IWR (Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing) Heidelberg University. This is part of a world wide event with over 1000 teams participating. School [...]
Posted in Events on Nov 17th, 2017
Members of the GIScience Research Group Heidelberg and Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation Technology (HeiGIT) had a really great visit to the fancy “Haus der Astronomie” (Wow, the architecture mimics a spiral galaxy!), the Max Plank Institute of Astronomie and the historic Landessternwarte Königstuhl (state observatory) from 1898. An interactive trip through the galaxy and beyond was [...]