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Month: May 2018

  • Routing for Accessibility – new Project with City of Heidelberg

    Accessibility is a widely discussed topic and there are a growing number of efforts to sensitise European cities and municipalities to the topic. A focus of such efforts is the facilitation of easy access to public places for everyone, including those with walking disabilities, balance and visual disorders, as well as people requiring the use…

  • Overview GIScience Colloquium Heidelberg SoSe 2018

    wie in jedem Semester findet auch im Sommersemester 2018 das Geoinformatik-Kolloquium am Geographischen Institut statt. Hierzu möchten wir Sie herzlich einladen! Internationale Gäste berichten aus ihren interessanten Forschungsprojekten. Nutzen Sie die Gelegenheit, sich über die neuesten Entwicklungen in der Geoinformatik und in angrenzenden Forschungsfeldern zu informieren und mit Forschern aus aller Welt zu diskutieren! Das…

  • disastermappers heidelberg OSM Mapathons this semester

    as mentioned earlier this Monday will see the first of our disastermappers heidelberg Mapathons this summer semester. But this will definitely not be your only chance to participate in some collaborative OSM mapping or learning how to work with OSM data this semester at Heidelberg University. So here is the current schedule. This should help…

  • Talks at Heidelberg Center for the Environment (HCE) “Heidelberg Bridge” Colloquium SoSe 2018

    As a founding member of Heidelberg Center for the Environment (HCE) we want to share the dates for the HCE’s “Heidelberg Bridge” Colloquium series. This semester the Institute of Geography is involved with two presentations and one of these is from the GIScience group with Dr. Sven Lautenbach talking about his work on ecosystem services.…

  • Colloquium on Advances in Remote Sensing Image Search and Retrieval from Large Archives

    We cordially invite everybody interested to our next open GIScience colloquium talk The speaker is Prof. Begum Demir Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Technical University of Berlin When: Monday 07.05.2018, 2:15 pm Where: INF 348, room 015 (Institute of Geography, Heidelberg University) Recent Advances in Remote Sensing Image Search and Retrieval from Large Archives During the last…

  • Semester Start Mapathon with Kathmandu Living Labs

    Dear Students, Mappers and Employees, we would like to invite you to the first mapathon, mapping party, mapswipeathon of this semester, which will be focusing on Nepal. (Just in time with the upcoming talk at the HGG on tuesday.) 😀 When? 07.05.2018, 6 pm Where? Geographisches Institut, Berliner Straße 48 Our mapathon is organized in…

  • Information Extraction from LiDAR Intensity Data and Multispectral LiDAR Technology

    LiDAR is a consolidated technology for topographic mapping and 3D reconstruction, which is implemented in several platforms On the other hand, the exploitation of the geometric information has been coupled by the use of laser intensity, which may provide additional data for multiple purposes. This option has been emphasized by the availability of sensors working…