News of Heidelberg University’s GIScience Research Group.
Prof. Alexander Zipf has been invited to give the keynote at GIS DAY 2021 at McGILL University (Montréal, Canada) on Tuesday 19. Jan. 2021. The theme of the whole GIS Day at McGill is Humanitarian Mapping and the talk will talk about:
“Analysing and Improving OpenStreetMap for Humanitarian Aid with Data Mining and GeoAI”
Agenda: (EST time [...]
Globales Gletschermonitoring - Chance & Herausforderungen
Der Vortrag zu diesem Thema von Dr. Isabelle Gärtner-Roer vom World Glacier Monitoring Service der Universität Zürich zu diesem Thema findet am Dienstag, den 19. Januar um 19 Uhr online statt.
Im Rahmen der internationalen Gletscherbeobachtung werden Gletscher in den verschiedensten Regionen systematisch und kontinuierlich beobachtet. Weltweit werden Massenbilanzen von über [...]
Posted in Events on Dec 24th, 2020
The GIScience Research Group with the 3D Geospatial Data Processing Group and the team at HeiGIT (Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation Technology) do send you the best wishes for a peaceful holiday season and a successful New Year. Thank you for your cooperation, efforts and interest in our work.
We hope [...]
Many things will be different this year when celebrating Christmas, but disastermappers heidelberg think that the few people that you are going to meet should still get a nice OSM-based presents. This is why we want to invite you to join our annual “Christmas Workshop” and learn how to create nice posters, post cards and [...]
Posted in Events, External Projects, Press release on Dec 9th, 2020
On 8th November 2020, the Anticipation Hub has been officially launched and we are happy to announce that the Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation Technology (HeiGIT gGmbH) acts as as a partner of the platform right from the start.
The Anticipation Hub is a knowledge exchange platform on anticipatory action in terms of humanitarian aid [...]
Posted in Call for papers, Events on Dec 5th, 2020
Deadline extended to 21.12.2020
18th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM 2021)
May 23-26, 2021, VIRTUAL, Interactive ONLINE EVENT
https://www.drrm.fralinlifesci.vt.edu/iscram2021/
Track: Geospatial Technologies and Geographic Information Science for Crisis Management (GIS)
https://www.drrm.fralinlifesci.vt.edu/iscram2021/files/CFP/ISCRAM2021-Track10-Geospatial_Technologies
New Deadline for paper submissions: December 21, 2020
Track Description
With crisis and hazardous events being an “inherently spatial” problem, geospatial information and technologies have been [...]
Klimawandel und Biodiversitätsverlust – das unglückliche Zusammenspiel von Zeit und Raum
lautet der Titel des nächsten Vortrags in der Vortragsreihe „Klimawandel – Herausforderungen für die Menschheit“ der Heidelberger Gesellschaft für Geographie e.V. (HGG).
Prof. Dr. Marcus Koch (Universität Heidelberg) trägt hierzu am Dienstag 08.12.2020 um 19 Uhr vor:
Der Prozess des Verlustes der biologischen Vielfalt läuft ungebremst auf [...]
On December 8th at 6.30 pm the next international mapathon organized by the disastermappers heidelberg takes place! This time we map together with MAMAPA, an integration project for migrants and refugees from Mannheim, CartONG, LECLARA Larabanga and OSM Ghana.
We will map HOT-Tasks 8839 and 9928, the former including the city of Wa in northwestern Ghana, [...]
Posted in Call for papers, Events on Nov 30th, 2020
3rd CALL FOR PAPERS – 18th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM 2021)
May 23-26, 2021, Virginia, USA – https://www.drrm.fralinlifesci.vt.edu/iscram2021/ Virginia Tech
Track: Geospatial Technologies and Geographic Information Science for Crisis Management (GIS)
https://www.drrm.fralinlifesci.vt.edu/iscram2021/files/CFP/ISCRAM2021-Track10-Geospatial_Technologies
Deadline for paper submissions: December 6, 2020
* Track Description
With crisis and hazardous events being an “inherently spatial” problem, geospatial information and [...]
Next week the HOT Summit will take place. The conference takes already place for the sixth time and it is the fifth consecutive time that we from HeiGIT/GIScience Heidelberg do contribute a session. This years topic is 10 Years of Humanitarian OpenStreetMap: The Past, Present, and Future of Humanitarian Mapping. It will be a one day [...]