News of Heidelberg University’s GIScience Research Group.
Posted in 3D, Events, Lidar Group on Dec 1st, 2021
This week on 29 November, it was announced that our team member Nina Krašovec received Nahtigal Award from the Faculty of Arts of the University of Ljubljana (UL) for her master’s thesis “Detection of standing dead trees using leaf-on and leaf-off UAV-borne laser scanning point cloud data in mixed forests”. The research was conducted under [...]
Der nächste Vortrag der Heidelberger Geographischen Gesellschaft HGG findet am Dienstag, 02. November 2021, 19:15 Uhr ONLINE statt:
Dienstag, 30. November 2021, 19:15 Uhr
Prof. Dr. Alexander Brenning (Universität Jena)
Hangrutschungsmodellierung unter dem Einfluss von Klima- und Landnutzungswandel mit Data-Science-Methoden
Regionalskalige empirische Gefährdungsanalysen für Naturgefahren nutzen Innovationen der Datenwissenschaften, um gefährdete Reliefeinheiten präziser und effizienter zu identifizieren. Im Kontext von [...]
On Friday, November 26th, Dr. Carolin Klonner (GIScience Research Group) and Melanie Eckle-Elze (HeiGIT) will be supporting the Urban Context Unit of German Red Cross (GRC) in the “Data and Digitalisation in Urban Humanitarian Action” session at the Virtual Conference of the Red Cross Red Crescent Urban Collaboration Platform 2021.
The focus of the session is [...]
Posted in 3D, Events, Lidar Group, Research, Teaching on Nov 25th, 2021
Registration for our Innsbruck Summer School of Alpine Research 2022 is now open (until 15 January 2022). If you want to learn innovative practical and methodological skills to characterize complex terrain and object features using close-range and remote sensing techniques - apply now!
The Summer School in the Ötztal Alps in Austria will be [...]
Posted in Events, Research, Traffic, VGI Group on Nov 23rd, 2021
Diesen Donnerstag, 25.11.2021, werden wir unser Kooperationsprojekt SocialMedia2Traffic beim Fachaustausch Geoinformation zum Thema “Smarte Region Rhein-Neckar” vorstellen.
Aktuelle Verkehrsinformationen sind eine Voraussetzung für Navigationslösungen, um die beste Route und genaue Reisezeiten zu ermitteln. Diese sind momentan jedoch nicht offen verfügbar. Im Projekt SocialMedia2Traffic entwickeln eine Methode, um Verkehrsinformation aus georeferenzierten Social-Media-Daten zu extrahieren [...]
Also this year HeiGIT is participating at the HOT summit with the topic of “The Evolution of Local Humanitarian Open Mapping Ecosystems: Understanding Community, Collaboration, and Contribution”. Again the conference will be virtual and is organized in three blocks across several time zones to allow global participation.
Benjamin Herfort from HeiGIT will give [...]
Posted in 3D, Digital Earth, Events, Lidar Group, Research on Nov 18th, 2021
On Tuesday, 16 November 2021, Dr Katharina Anders defended her PhD research with great success.
In her dissertation, Katharina developed methods on 4D change analysis to extract natural surface changes from near-continuous LiDAR time series of dynamic landscapes.
Congratulations, Katharina, for this excellent research - we are very proud to have you in our team and wish [...]
Posted in Events, OSM, Services, Software, Teaching on Nov 14th, 2021
Recently videos with our contributions by HeiGIT to the FOSS4G conference were put online. Did you miss the event? Now you can watch whenever you like :-)
Benni by HeiGIT explains who to use the ohsome.org framework to develop an OSM Confidence Index to support humanitarian mapping
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWkISL4qbME
FOSS4G 2021 Using the ohsome framework to develop an OSM [...]
Posted in 3D, Events, Lidar Group, Research, Teaching on Nov 8th, 2021
A virtual alumni event of the Innsbruck Summer School of Alpine Research will take place on Tuesday, 7th December, 15:00-17:00.
Close- and remote sensing techniques turned to essential methods for mapping and quantifying processes in mountain environments. Many different sensor systems, platforms and analysis approaches are available for observing and monitoring dynamic patterns [...]
Posted in Events, Transdisciplinarity, Uncategorized, VGI Group on Nov 4th, 2021
After three interesting years, the Waterproofing Data Project (WPD) comes to an end. Starting with a workshop in Brazil and several field trips, Corona times started and we had to rethink and reorganize our plans for the second half of the project. Our final workshop day in Heidelberg was also planned to be in person [...]