Day: 29 April 2019

  • 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…