News of Heidelberg University’s GIScience Research Group.
Posted in Events, TdLab Geography on Aug 9th, 2019
On 8 August 2019, Dr. Nicole Aeschbach (TdLab Geography) attended the launch event for the IPCC special report on climate change, desertification, land degradation, sustainable land management, food security, and greenhouse gas fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems (SRCCL) at the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) in Geneva, Switzerland. After an introduction by Hoesung Lee, Chair of the [...]
Today, June 5 is the #WorldEnvironmentDay. World Environment Day is the United Nations day for encouraging worldwide awareness and action to protect our #environment. Above all, World Environment Day is the “people’s day” for doing something to take care of the Earth. That “something” can be local, national or global. This is a good opportunity to [...]
Posted in Events, TdLab Geography on May 26th, 2019
Nicole Aeschbach (TdLab Geography / Transdisciplinarity Lab) participated in the ICCA 2019. The German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, the State of Baden-Württemberg and the City of Heidelberg jointly hosted the International Conference on Climate Action in Heidelberg on 22 and 23 May 2019. It was great to meet active [...]
Posted in 3D, Digital Earth, Lidar Group, Research on Apr 30th, 2019
The new project on landcover monitoring with emphasis on vegetation under the climatic change pressure using multitemporal and multisource remote sensing data is a collaboration project funded in the framework of 4EU+ Flagship 4: Biodiversity and Sustainable Developement with Markéta Potůčková (Department of Applied Geoinformatics and Cartography, Charles University Prague) as PI of the [...]
Posted in Events on Apr 29th, 2019
The Heidelberg Center for the Environment’s public series of talks “Heidelberger Brücke” is starting today! This semester’s topic is “Changing Climate”.
Today, Prof. Dr. Birgit Schneider, University of Potsdam, Department of Arts and Media, speaks in German about the role of images in communication of climate change:
“Klimabilder. Die Rolle der Bilder für die Kommunikation des Klimawandels”.
Where: Im [...]
Posted in Events, TdLab Geography, Teaching on Apr 13th, 2019
The “TdLab Geography” (Dr. Nicole Aeschbach) developed a “Decarbonization Lab” as part of the course “Climate Science and its Implications” taught by Prof. Dr. Werner Aeschbach at the Heidelberg Physics Graduate Days at Heidelberg University. About 50 doctoral students of the Heidelberg Graduate School of Fundamental Physics (HGSFP) worked on creative and effective measures as [...]
Posted in Events on Mar 6th, 2019
GIScience will be present with two participants (Nicole Aeschbach, TdLab Geographie) and Sven Lautenbach (HeiGIT) at the german IPCC conference. Our contributions aim at highlighting the potential of GIScience and transdisciplinary research for climate change adaptation and climate change mitigation. Examples are the german climate protection map, green or pleasant routing (e.g. meinGrün ) and [...]
We cordially invite everybody interested to our next open GIScience colloquium talk
The speaker is Dr. Benjamin Bechtel
from the Institute of Geography / Center for Earth System Research and Sustainability,
Universität Hamburg www.clisap.de cen.uni-hamburg.de
When: Thursday 08.03.2018, 14ct
Where: INF 348, room015 (Institute of Geography, Heidelberg University)
Abstract:
New observations of urban climates – remote sensing and [...]
Posted in Events on May 5th, 2017
we cordially invite everybody interested to our next open GIScience colloquium talk
on Mon, May 08, 2.15 pm,
at the Department of Geography, Heidelberg University, Im Neuenheimer Feld 348, Lecture Hall, Room 015.
The presentation will be given by Harm Bartholomeus (Wageningen).
The topic is:
Investigating Tropical Forests with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and LiDAR
Constant monitoring of tropical forests is important [...]
Posted in Lidar Group, Research on Sep 11th, 2015
Malnutrition is a challenge to the health and productivity of populations and is viewed as one of the five largest adverse health impacts of [...]