News of Heidelberg University’s GIScience Research Group.
After the successful GeOnG conference 2018 in chambery we want to thank the organizers and all participants. We contributed in several ways, as already highlighed in our previous blogpost. Now, we also want to share our slides and workshop material with everyone interested.
Round table discussion:
Machine Learning, AI & satellite imagery: what impact on humanitarian mapping: [...]
Das Wintersemester hat begonnen und damit auch die Vortragsreihe der Heidelberg Geographischen Gesellschaft HGG. Wir möchten Sie herzlich einladen an den Vorträgen der HGG teilzunehmen. Das Rahmenthema dieses Semester lautet:
Reisen für die Wissenschaft
Expeditionen, Exkursionen und Explorationen
Die Vorträge dieses Semester:
”And Germany pays you for asking us these questions?” Humangeograhische Reflexionen über das ethnologische Fremdverstehen
Prof. Dr. [...]
HeiGIT/GIScience member Sven Lautenbach acted both as part of the boards of directors and as an instructor at the 10th Summer School for Spatial epidemiology, social media, and urban health that took place at the Humboldt University in Bielefeld. This year’s summer school aimed at the use of social media to capture spatial patterns in [...]
Posted in Events on Nov 2nd, 2018
HeiGIT ran a workshop on geodata for sustainable development at the Sustainable Development in Action conference organized by the Heidelberg Center for Environment and Momentum Novum at Heidelberg University.
Our workshop provided an overview about the importance of geodata to tackle the sustainable development goals (SDG) of the United Nations, highlighted the importance of bridging [...]
Posted in Events, OSM, Research, VGI Group on Oct 29th, 2018
Last week the ‘Fachtagung Katastrophenvorsorge‘ took place in Berlin. The annual symposium, organized by the German Red Cross, brings various actors together involved in national and international disaster risk reduction. Our workshop, which we were running together with the Federal Office of Civil Protection and Disaster Assistance (BBK) and the German Aerospace Centre (DLR), focused [...]
Posted in Events on Oct 29th, 2018
Over the next couple of days, CartONG are again organizing the biannual GeOnG conference- a great occasion for humanitarian actors, volunteer communities and humanitarian and GIS service providers to mingle and exchange current ideas, challenges and lessons learned.
This year the main theme is ““Perfection” versus “Good Enough” in Information Management: Adjusting to context, scale, [...]
Posted in 3D, Events, Lidar Group, Research on Oct 23rd, 2018
The deadline for registration for our Innsbruck Summer School of Alpine Research 2019 is approaching (30 November 2018). If you want to learn most recent close-range sensing technology from leading experts in an amazing environment and venue, the Ötztal Alps in Austria, you should definitely consider to apply for participation.
All details regarding learning objectives, keynote [...]
Posted in Events on Oct 22nd, 2018
Last week our team member Dr. Michael Schultz successfully defended his PhD Defence about
Tropical deforestation monitoring using Landsat time series and breakpoint detection
at Wageningen University and Research (WUR). It was supervised by Prof. Dr M. Herold (Professor of Geo-information Science and Remote Sensing at Wageningen University & Research). We congratulate cordially! Keep up the good [...]
Posted in Events on Oct 18th, 2018
Fachaustausch Geoinformation
DIE JÄHRLICHE NETZWERKKONFERENZ DES GEONET.MRN
Vorläufiges Programm und Anmeldung sind nun online.
In vielen Bereichen des digitalen Wandels kommt Geoinformation eine tragende Rolle zu. Die zum 10. Mal stattfindende Jahreskonferenz des GeoNet.MRN – der Fachaustausch Geoinformation – nimmt sich dieses Themas an. Die Konferenz findet dieses Jahr am Donnerstag, den 29. November 2018, wie gewohnt, in [...]
We are happy to announce that we are going to be part of INTERGEO 2018 in Frankfurt this week on October 16.-18. This event being the “global hub of the geospatial community” has quite something to offer with hundreds and hundreds of innovative companies showcasing their products and visions.
We are joining up with the Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy [...]