Month: April 2019

  • Landcover monitoring with emphasis on vegetation under the climatic change pressure using multitemporal and multisource remote sensing data fusion

    The new project on landcover monitoring with emphasis on vegetation under the climatic change pressure using multitemporal and multisource remote sensing data is a collaboration project funded in the framework of 4EU+ Flagship 4: Biodiversity and Sustainable Developement with Markéta Potůčková (Department of Applied Geoinformatics and Cartography, Charles University Prague) as PI of the project.…

  • MapSwipe for Change Detection Analysis

    The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) , the Heidelberg Institute of Geoinformation Technology (HeiGIT) , and the wider MapSwipe Community started working on an MapSwipe extension to monitor changes in satellite imagery. The goal of the two-month project is to extend the app with new functionalities that would allow the users to compare two satellite images…

  • Start of HCE’s series of talks on “Changing Climate”

    The Heidelberg Center for the Environment‘s public series of talks “Heidelberger Brücke” is starting today! This semester’s topic is “Changing Climate”. Today, Prof. Dr. Birgit Schneider, University of Potsdam, Department of Arts and Media, speaks in German about the role of images in communication of climate change: “Klimabilder. Die Rolle der Bilder für die Kommunikation des…

  • Colloquium on Suburban Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions

    We cordially invite everybody interested to our next open GIScience colloquium talk The speaker is Dr. Jochen Albrecht Professor for Computational and Theoretical Geography, Hunter College, City University of New York When: Monday 29.04.2019, 2:15 pm Where: INF 348, room 015 (Institute of Geography, Heidelberg University) The Geography of Suburban Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions The common…

  • OSHDB: a framework for spatio-temporal analysis of OpenStreetMap history data

    Earlier we published several blogposts introducing the ohsome platform and its parts (e.g. the ohsome API for example, which was often showcased here in the blog) and its backbone the OSHDB (very recently version 0.5 was published). A recent open access journal article gives even more background to the system, as shown below: Raifer, M,…

  • Projekt “TARDUR” startet: Open-Source-Routenplanung mit zeitabhängigen Beschränkungen

    Zeitabhängige Sperrungen und Nutzungsbeschränkungen von Straßen werden bislang in keiner frei verfügbaren Software zur Routenplanung genutzt. In dem im März gestarteten Projekt “TARDUR – Temporal Access Restrictions for Dynamic Ultra-Flexible Routing” gehen die Universität Heidelberg und die Firma GraphHopper dieses Problem an. Das Projekt wird im Rahmen der Förderrichtlinie Modernitätsfonds (“mFUND”) mit insgesamt 100.000 Euro…

  • GIScience / HeiGIT at ICT for Development, Kampala – Usage and Analyses of OpenStreetMap for Development

    The 11th Information Communications Technology for Development (ICT4D) Conference brings together hundreds of public, private and civil society organizations, eager to share practical insights on applying digital technology to development, humanitarian, and conservation challenges. Participants share how they are using innovations in information and communications technology to increase impact in addressing humanitarian and development challenges.…

  • meinGrün Umfrage: Wofür nutzen Sie städtische Grünflächen?

    Alle Jahre wieder blühen die Kirschbäume vor unserem Institutsgebäude in voller Pracht und laden Passanten allen Alters ein zum Verweilen. Städtische Grünflächen wie diese leisten einen wichtigen Beitrag zur urbanen Lebensqualität, indem sie viele Funktionen wie Naturerfahrung, sozialen Austausch und Erholung ermöglichen. Jedoch eignet sich nicht jeden Grünfläche gleichermaßen für jeden Einzelnen und jede Aktivität.…

  • Project “TARDUR” starts: Open-source routing with time-dependent restrictions

    Time-dependent restrictions and temporal road closures are so far not considered in any freely available software for route planning. Heidelberg University and the company GraphHopper aim to address this issue in their joint project “TARDUR – Temporal Access Restrictions for Dynamic Ultra-Flexible Routing”. The project started in March and is supported by the Federal Ministry…

  • HGG series of talks on “Zukunft Erde” (future earth)

    The series of HGG talks this semester is starting soon. This years main topic is  “Zukunft Erde“. See below for the flyer and program and join us for the presentations. Ort der Abendvorträge Kleiner Hörsaal (HS2) des Kirchhoff -Instituts für Physik (KIP) Im Neuenheimer Feld, Gebäude INF 227 (gegenüber Mensa) Program SoSe 2109: Dienstag, 7.…

  • Hiding the Institute of Geography

    As each year our institute is again and again hiding in spring behind these beautiful blossoms. But each time this is really ohsome 😉 and amazing! Enjoy! 

  • TdLab Geography contributed to Heidelberg Physics Graduate Days

    The “TdLab Geography” (Dr. Nicole Aeschbach) developed a “Decarbonization Lab” as part of the course “Climate Science and its Implications” taught by Prof. Dr. Werner Aeschbach at the Heidelberg Physics Graduate Days at Heidelberg University. About 50 doctoral students of the Heidelberg Graduate School of Fundamental Physics (HGSFP) worked on creative and effective measures as…