News of Heidelberg University’s GIScience Research Group.
Posted in 3D, Events, Lidar Group on Jun 29th, 2018
On Wednesday, Roderik Lindenbergh from TU Delft (NL) gave an exciting talk on robust geometry extraction in large spatial point clouds in the frame of the IWR colloquium at the Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing. With focus on robust and novel methods of geoinformation extraction from these special datasets, the audience was taken on a [...]
We would like to introduce our new little analysis tool Critical Numbers for projects of the HOT Tasking Manager. (You can find this blogpost and the code for the tool at our GitHub repository.) The Critical Numbers webapp is an easy way to visualize how much of a project is mapped and validated - results [...]
Meet us in Salzburg at the AGIT30 conference and get to know the ohsome platform, that has been introduced recently! Our colleague Fabian Kowatsch will give a talk on Thursday, July 5th:
M. Auer, M. Eckle, S. Fendrich, F. Kowatsch, L. Loos, S. Marx, M. Raifert, M. Schott, R. Troilo, A. Zipf. Ohsome – eine Plattform [...]
Posted in 3D, Events, Lidar Group on Jun 25th, 2018
Everyone interested is cordially invited to the talk of Prof. Roderik Lindenbergh (TU Delft, NL) on Robust geometry extraction in large spatial point clouds in the frame of the IWR Colloquium at the Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing.
When: Wednesday, 27th June 2018, 14:15
Where: Conference Room (5th [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 21st, 2018
Dear Students, Dear Colleagues,
it’s time for another disastermappers workshop. And since the weather is so nice, we will go outside and learn something about mobile data collection! :)
When? 27.06.2018, 4 pm - 7 pm
Where? Geographisches Institut, Berliner Straße 48
Data Collection in the field has always been important geographic information and today this is widely done [...]
Posted in Crowd Analyser, Events, Publications on Jun 19th, 2018
This week our GIScience Heidelberg team member Rene Westerholt most successfully defended his PhD! Congratulations! Very well deserved!
The thesis is located at the interface between spatial analysis methodology and the characteristics of spatially superimposed random variables. Three types of contributions are presented:
(i) the interactions of spatial analysis techniques with spatially superimposed random variables
are investigated;
(ii) novel [...]
Posted in Digital Humanities, OSM, Research, Uncategorized, VGI Group on Jun 17th, 2018
The GIScience group attended the AGILE 2018 conference to present about a diversity of topics. More participants than ever have attended the conference in Lund, Sweden (12–15 June 2018). They discussed scientific topics related to the general theme of the conference, Geospatial Technologies for All.
The following short papers have been presented and been published in [...]
Posted in 3D, Lidar Group, Press release, Research on Jun 16th, 2018
This morning, the Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung (RNZ) published an article (in German) about our research on 4D LiDAR for snow cover monitoring. The angle for the article by Doris Burger is the Environmental Research Station Schneefernerhaus near the summit of the Zugspitze, where members of the 3DGeo recently acquired a highly temporal 3D time series dataset of [...]
Posted in Events, Lidar Group, Research on Jun 15th, 2018
We cordially invite everybody interested to our next open GIScience colloquium talk
The speaker is Lukas Winiwarter
TU Wien, Department of Geodesy and Geoinformation, Research Group Photogrammetry
When: Monday 18.06.2018, 2:15 pm
Where: INF 348, room 015 (Institute of Geography, Heidelberg University)
Classification of 3D Point Clouds using Deep Neural Networks
Per-point classification (semantic labeling) is an important step in processing topographic 3D [...]
Posted in Teaching on Jun 14th, 2018
How are Wikipedia/Wikimedia volunteers supporting disaster management? What role does their engagement all around open source and open data play? What are the latest developments and innovations in humanitarian contexts and how are they defined and addressed?
These questions were discussed in the first block of the Disaster 2.0 seminar last week. Daniel Mietchen, Biophysicist at [...]