Day: 19 January 2018
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OSMlanduse.org + Remote Sensing = New conterminous land use data set for Germany released – filling gaps in OSM through machine learning
Land use data created by humans (OSM) was fused with satellite remote sensing data, resulting in a conterminous land use data set without gaps. The first version is now available for all Germany at OSMlanduse.org. When human input (OSM data) was absent a machine generated missing land use information learning from human inputs and using…
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Love Maths? – GIScience HD visits “MatheLiebe” Exhibition Heidelberg
This week the GIScience research group Heidelberg and HeiGIT visited the exhibition “MatheLiebe” in Heidelberg. The exhibition demonstrates that: • Mathematics is understandable not only for scientists, but for everyone, • that mathematics is interesting and useful and full of exciting surprises, • and that mathematics is important for technological progress and for our everyday…