News of Heidelberg University’s GIScience Research Group.
Posted in Events on Nov 21st, 2017
The regional GI Conference “Fachaustausch Geoinformatik” of the GeoNet.MRN is taking place on this Thursday Nov 23rd at the Print Media Academy Heidelberg. Prof. Alexander Zipf is giving one keynote about analysis and usage potential of free and open geodata. He will present some of the related work of the GIScience Research Group Heidelberg and [...]
Asher Yair Grinberger (Jerusalem) has been awarded a prestigious Alexander von Humboldt PostDoc Fellowship. He will join the GIScience Research Group Heidelberg later this summer to work for two years on developing theory & methods related to Big Spatial Data. We are looking forward working with him in Heidelberg.
But you have the chance to meet [...]
Posted in Events on Mar 27th, 2017
Last week, the German FOSSGIS conference about Free and Open Source GIS software was held in Passau. GIScience was also there with a small delegation, presenting some of our current research topics, from routing, to data analysis and machine learning. The talks (in German language) are already available on youtube, for example:
Routenplanung durch Flächen (by [...]
Posted in Events on Mar 26th, 2017
Last week saw the Workshop on Crowd Assisted Sensing, Pervasive Systems and Communications (CASPer 2017) at the 15th IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications. Here you find some impressions from the event. Alexander Zipf participated as invited panelist at the panel session of CASPer 2017. The panel discusses processing unstructured Big Data and [...]
This week you still have the chance to meet colleagues from HeiGIT team at CeBIT 2017 in Hannover.
We present Smart GeoServices for Smart Cities in Halle 7 at the Smart City Forum booth together with our colleagues from heidelberg mobil.
in case you are this week not at CeBIT in the north of Germany, but rather at FOSSGIS in the south, you have the chance meet us also there and listen to several presentations on OSM work at HeiGIT and GIScience HD by our team member Martin Raifer.
The main talk will be on OSM-History-Analysis based [...]
Posted in Events on Mar 10th, 2017
Crowd assisted sensing and crowdsourcing, as well as their underlying pervasive systems and communications are a fast growing research area and one of the enabling technologies of smart cities and smart infrastructures, as well as important building blocks in healthcare monitoring and vehicular technologies. Crowd assisted sensing (often called participatory sensing) opens new ways for [...]
Posted in Events on Feb 9th, 2017
Last month GIScience Heidelberg (Prof. Zipf) participated in the First United Nations World Data Forum. This was a high level event including many organisations that generate and analyse data related to achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
For this we need a huge amount of data about [...]
Posted in Press release on Jan 4th, 2017
Heidelberg University reports about some of the work of the GIScience research group and at the Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation Technology (HeiGIT), which is currently being established and core funded by the Klaus Tschira Stiftung.
The short reports are available in English and in German. Enjoy!
Check some of the Online Services by GIScience & HeiGIT
Posted in Events on Nov 11th, 2016
We cordially invite all interested to our forthcoming talk in the GIScience colloquium next Monday about analysis of big spatial data from multiple sources (sensor data, social media). Dr. Jiaoyan Chen presents ways to improve results obtained with traditional data mining techniques for spatio-temporal prediction for a China smog use case.
Predictive Analytics and Knowledge Reasoning [...]