Month: October 2018
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On the Way to Platial Analysis: Can Geosocial Media Provide the Necessary Impetus? – Proceedings of the First Workshop on Platial Analysis (PLATIAL’18)
The proceedings of the PLATIAL’18 workshop (organized by R Westerholt, F-B Mocnik, and A Zipf) have been published: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1475269 The concept of “place” is about to become one of the major research themes in the discipline of geographical information science (GIScience), as well as in adjoining fields. Briefly put, while locations provide objective references (e.g.,…
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New method for drainage ditch extraction from airborne LiDAR point clouds
In our most recent 3DGeo publication, colleagues from KU Leuven together with us developed a new method to extract drainage ditches from LiDAR point clouds in a fully automatic process. Ditches are often absent in hydrographic geodatasets and their mapping would benefit from a cost and labor effective alternative to field surveys. We propose and…
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Mit offenen Daten Grünflächen in Städten neu entdecken – Projekt „meinGrün“ startet
Im Projekt „meinGrün“ entwickeln Partner aus Wissenschaft, kommunaler Praxis und Wirtschaft unter Leitung des Leibniz-Instituts für ökologische Raumentwicklung (IÖR) die Grundlagen für neuartige, interaktive Informationsangebote. Ziel ist es, Grünflächen in Städten genauer zu beschreiben und zu zeigen, wie man sie gut erreichen kann. Nutzer der Grünflächen können diese bewerten und Stadtverwaltungen erhalten Hinweise auf Verbesserungspotenzial.…
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HeiGIT at the ‘Fachtagung Katastrophenvorsorge’
Last week the ‘Fachtagung Katastrophenvorsorge‘ took place in Berlin. The annual symposium, organized by the German Red Cross, brings various actors together involved in national and international disaster risk reduction. Our workshop, which we were running together with the Federal Office of Civil Protection and Disaster Assistance (BBK) and the German Aerospace Centre (DLR), focused…
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HeiGIT/GIScience and disastermappers at GeOnG 2018
Over the next couple of days, CartONG are again organizing the biannual GeOnG conference– a great occasion for humanitarian actors, volunteer communities and humanitarian and GIS service providers to mingle and exchange current ideas, challenges and lessons learned. This year the main theme is ““Perfection” versus “Good Enough” in Information Management: Adjusting to context, scale,…
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Mutual Influences of Material and Immaterial Flows. The Case of Traditions at Selected Examples Within Swedish Folk Music Culture
F-B Mocnik presents about mutual influences of material and immaterial flows at the example of tradition at the “Spaces and Flows” conference. Feel welcome to join on 26 October at 10:20 am. Space and time both shape how we disseminate information in the context of tradition. As a result of incorporating knowledge, ideas, and points…
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HeiGIT/GIScience and German Red Cross formalize their partnership through Memorandum of Understanding
We are happy to announce the now also formal cooperation of our GIScience research group and the German Red Cross (GRC)! On October 10th Christof Johnen, Head of International Cooperation at the GRC Headquarters and head of HeiGIT/GIScience Alexander Zipf signed a Memorandum of Understanding to strengthen the strategic partnership to conduct joint activities related…
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Innsbruck Summer School of Alpine Research 2019 – Registration now online
The deadline for registration for our Innsbruck Summer School of Alpine Research 2019 is approaching (30 November 2018). If you want to learn most recent close-range sensing technology from leading experts in an amazing environment and venue, the Ötztal Alps in Austria, you should definitely consider to apply for participation. All details regarding learning objectives,…
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Successfull PhD Defence of Michael Schultz about tropical deforestation monitoring using Landsat time series and breakpoint detection
Last week our team member Dr. Michael Schultz successfully defended his PhD Defence about Tropical deforestation monitoring using Landsat time series and breakpoint detection at Wageningen University and Research (WUR). It was supervised by Prof. Dr M. Herold (Professor of Geo-information Science and Remote Sensing at Wageningen University & Research). We congratulate cordially! Keep up…
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Fachaustausch Geoinformation Heidelberg 2018: Vorläufiges Programm und Anmeldung sind Online
Fachaustausch Geoinformation DIE JÄHRLICHE NETZWERKKONFERENZ DES GEONET.MRN Vorläufiges Programm und Anmeldung sind nun online. In vielen Bereichen des digitalen Wandels kommt Geoinformation eine tragende Rolle zu. Die zum 10. Mal stattfindende Jahreskonferenz des GeoNet.MRN – der Fachaustausch Geoinformation – nimmt sich dieses Themas an. Die Konferenz findet dieses Jahr am Donnerstag, den 29. November 2018,…
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Hyperspectral and LiDAR Fusion Using Deep Three-Stream Convolutional Neural Networks
Our feature paper “Hyperspectral and LiDAR Fusion Using Deep Three-Stream Convolutional Neural Networks” is now published online. Recently, convolutional neural networks (CNN) have been intensively investigated for the classification of remote sensing data by extracting invariant and abstract features suitable for classification. In this paper, a novel framework is proposed for the fusion of hyperspectral…