IT IS HOT! So you are looking for a more shady pedestrian route through the urban jungle? You might then prefer some routes that go through public green spaces with trees and bushes. Thank goodness we are working already on such green and also shady routing together with some partners in the mFund project meinGrün. [...]
Monthly Archive for June, 2019
Program for State of the Map (SotM 2019) Heidelberg has been released
Posted in Events on Jun 28th, 2019
The program for ‘State of the Map‘ (SotM) as been released, and early bird ticket prices are still available until 7th of July. See the website for all the details 2019.stateofthemap.org
#OpenStreetMap talks, workshops & discussions as mappers across the world come to #Heidelberg, #Germany from 21st to 23rd of September.
Also do not forget to [...]
Estimating OpenStreetMap Missing Built-up Areas using Pre-trained Deep Neural Networks
Posted in Events, Publications, VGI Group on Jun 26th, 2019
Recently a new paper about Estimating OpenStreetMap Missing Built-up Areas using Pre-trained Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) has been presented at the AGILE GIScience conference 2019 in Cyprus.
Although built-up areas cover only a small proportion of the earth’s surface, these areas are closely tied to most of the world’s population and the economic output, which makes the [...]
Colloquium on image processing for geomorphological and hydrological monitoring
Posted in 3D, Events, Lidar Group, Research on Jun 26th, 2019
We cordially invite everybody interested to our next open GIScience colloquium talk!
The speaker is Dr. Anette Eltner
TU Dresden, Institute of Photogrammetry und Remote Sensing
When: Monday 01.07.2019, 2:15 pm
Where: INF 348, room 015 (Institute of Geography, Heidelberg University)
Image processing for geomorphological and hydrological monitoring
The potential of images to answer research questions in geosciences is vast. Earth observation [...]
Kick-off field campaign for AHK-4D project
Posted in 3D, Lidar Group, Research on Jun 26th, 2019
From 22 - 25 June, the first field visit within the project AHK-4D - High-resolution and high-frequency monitoring of the rock glacier Äußeres Hochebenkar (AHK) in Austria took place in the Austrian Alps.
The aim of this project is to develop a methodology to quantify the magnitudes and frequencies of individual surface change processes of a [...]
Methodological aspects of the spatial analysis of geosocial media feeds: from locations towards places
Posted in Publications on Jun 25th, 2019
A new journal article about Methodological aspects of the spatial analysis of geosocial media feeds: from locations towards places has just been published in gis.science Vol 2 2019. It covers some main aspects and findings of the PhD Thesis of our team member Rene Westerholt (now at Warwick UK) and relates those to the analysis of place in [...]
ISSAR19 - Third Innsbruck Summer School of Alpine Research
Posted in 3D, Events, Lidar Group, Research, Teaching on Jun 21st, 2019
Close-range sensing techniques in Alpine terrain have been taught in the frame of a bi-annual ISPRS summer school since 2015. This week, a group of 40 young researchers (mainly PhD students) is participating in the third edition of the summer school to learn about various sensors, processing techniques, and analysis methods for different topics in [...]
Estimating tree height from TanDEM-X data at the northwestern Canadian treeline
Posted in Lidar Group, Publications, Research on Jun 18th, 2019
A new paper on tree height estimation from TanDEM-X data has just been published in Remote Sensing of Environment. The article finds that tree height can be predicted using TanDEM-X metrics (backscatter, bistatic coherence, and interferometric height) in the sparse forest patches of the Arctic treeline zone at the transition from forest to tundra. Taking [...]
3DGeo at the Geospatial Week 2019
Posted in Lidar Group, Publications, Research on Jun 14th, 2019
This week, the 3DGeo participated in the ISPRS Geospatial Week 2019 with two presentations among the sessions of the Laser Scanning Workshop with many interesting talks and poster.
Presentations were given by Ashutosh Kumar in the Machine Learning Session and Katharina Anders in the Change Detection Session.
Highlight: The work by Ashutosh Kumar on feature relevance in [...]
The potential of Open Geospatial Data to address the Sustainable Development Goals- Geospatial World Magazine Article on how HOT and HeiGIT are supporting current approaches
Posted in Events, Publications on Jun 7th, 2019
Geospatial data is key for empowering citizens around the globe and to achieve the SDGs— if geodata is made openly available and easy to be put to use. The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) is in this regard coordinating and supporting humanitarian action and community resilience through open mapping.
The GIScience Research Group has supported HOT’s work [...]