The production of Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) is a type of human behavior which emerges via direct and indirect interactions with the physical environments described by these data. The nature of these interactions and the extent to which they rely on physical presence in the mapped area may affect the quality of the resulting digital [...]
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Posted in Events on May 15th, 2018
The organizers are happy to announce that list of accepted papers at the VGI ALIVE workshop are available. Therefore a prelimnary draft agenda of the workshop at AGILE 2018 in Lund has been posted. Looks like an interesting and promising programme!
Stay tuned for further updates and join us for discussions and collaborative sessions in [...]
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Posted in Events, OSM, Publications, VGI Group on May 12th, 2018
With the aim of rapidly estimating the updated state of the CORINE land-cover map at the frequency with which the OpenStreetMap (OSM) dataset is edited and extended, we propose an approach for automatically associating widely used OSM tags to Level 1 and Level 2 CORINE land-cover classes. This association is probabilistic and is undertaken based [...]
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Posted in Events, Teaching on May 6th, 2018
wie in jedem Semester findet auch im Sommersemester 2018 das Geoinformatik-Kolloquium am Geographischen Institut statt.
Hierzu möchten wir Sie herzlich einladen! Internationale Gäste berichten aus ihren interessanten Forschungsprojekten. Nutzen Sie die Gelegenheit, sich über die neuesten Entwicklungen in der Geoinformatik und in angrenzenden Forschungsfeldern zu informieren und mit Forschern aus aller Welt zu diskutieren!
Das Geoinformatik-Kolloquium findet [...]
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Posted in Events, Teaching on May 5th, 2018
as mentioned earlier this Monday will see the first of our disastermappers heidelberg Mapathons this summer semester. But this will definitely not be your only chance to participate in some collaborative OSM mapping or learning how to work with OSM data this semester at Heidelberg University. So here is the current schedule. This should help [...]
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Posted in Events on May 4th, 2018
As a founding member of Heidelberg Center for the Environment (HCE) we want to share the dates for the HCE’s “Heidelberg Bridge” Colloquium series. This semester the Institute of Geography is involved with two presentations and one of these is from the GIScience group with Dr. Sven Lautenbach talking about his work on ecosystem [...]
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Posted in Events on May 3rd, 2018
We cordially invite everybody interested to our next open GIScience colloquium talk
The speaker is Prof. Begum Demir
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Technical University of Berlin
When: Monday 07.05.2018, 2:15 pm
Where: INF 348, room 015 (Institute of Geography, Heidelberg University)
Recent Advances in Remote Sensing Image Search and Retrieval from Large Archives
During the last decade, a huge number of [...]
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Posted in Events, Teaching on May 2nd, 2018
Dear Students, Mappers and Employees,
we would like to invite you to the first mapathon, mapping party, mapswipeathon of this semester, which will be focusing on Nepal. (Just in time with the upcoming talk at the HGG on tuesday.) :D
When? 07.05.2018, 6 pm
Where? Geographisches Institut, Berliner Straße 48
Our mapathon is organized in collaboration with the Kathmandu [...]
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Posted in Events, Lidar Group, Research on Apr 27th, 2018
We cordially invite everybody interested to our next open GIScience colloquium talk
The speaker is Evelyn Schmitz
Master student, FARO Europe GmbH & Co. KG, Korntal-Münchingen
When: Monday 30.04.2018, 2:15 pm
Where: INF 348, room 015 (Institute of Geography, Heidelberg University)
Voxel-based change analysis of hypertemporal terrestrial laser scanning point clouds of the research campus ARENA2036 including factory interior for the development [...]
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Posted in Events, OSM, Services, Software on Apr 21st, 2018
The Ohsome OSM history analytics platform, developed at HeiGIT, will be presented at the following conferences:
ISCRAM in Rochester, NY, USA (20th - 23rd of May)
In the short paper for the International Conference for Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management we illustrate the specific potential of the ohsome platform for disaster activations by means of two relevant case [...]
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