Tag: Colloquium

  • GIScience Colloquium talk on Semantic Signatures for Social Sensing in Smart Environments by Prof. Janowicz

    we cordially invite everybody interested to our next open GIScience colloquium talk Semantic Signatures for Social Sensing in Smart Environments Prof. Dr. Krzysztof Janowicz Associate Professor for Geographic Information Science and Geoinformatics at the Geography Department of the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA Time and date: Mon, July 3, 2.15 pm Venue: INF 348, Room…

  • GIScience Colloquium Talk on Remote sensing in hazard and disaster monitoring, April 24

    we cordially invite everybody interested to our next open GIScience colloquium talk on Mon, April 24, 2.15 pm, at the Department of Geography, Heidelberg University, Im Neuenheimer Feld 348, Lecture Hall, Room 015. The presentation will be given by Prof. Dr. Christine Pohl (Osnabrück). The topic is: The role of multimodal and multitemporal remote sensing…

  • Two talks on Tsunami Modeling ended GIScience Colloquium WS16/17

    the GIScience Heidelberg colloquium series winter semester 2016/17 finished last week with even two presentations about Modeling Tsunami based risks and exposure. We were happy to hear first an overview from Andreas Schäfer vom KIT’s CEDIM about his PhD on Developing a Global Tsunami Risk Model. Thanks for our partners in the HeiKA CrowdFDA project…

  • GIScience Colloquium Series WS 2016/2017 (MO 14pm)

    The GIScience Colloquium at Heidelberg University this semester is already in full swing with two presentations the last weeks. Today we will enjoy another interesting talk by Dr. Franz-Benjamin Mocnik about  Maps Telling Stories , but here you can find the full list of presentations for this semester. Everybody is cordially invited to join the…

  • Upcoming talk: Deriving urban land use from image data

    On next Monday, Dr. Tessio Novack from the Technical University of Munich (photogrammetry and remote sensing research group) will give the second presentation in our currently running GIScience colloquium lecture series. He will introduce some of the main approaches for deriving land use information from remote sensing imagery. Further, potentials and limitations of corresponding techniques…

  • Semantic interoperability of geodata: Colloquium talk by Dr. Chiao-Ling Kuo on

    We are happy to invite you to the first colloquium talk of the current summer semester. Next Monday, our new group member (visiting scientist) Dr. Chiao-Ling Kuo from the Academia Sinica (Taiwanese academy of sciences). She will talk about ontology integration and geospatial information semantic interoperability. Don’t miss this interesting and stimulating talk! Dr. Chiao-Ling…

  • Today: Colloquium Talk about Mobile Mapping

    Today, our guest Professor Nüchter (University of Würzburg) will present a novel algorithm for correcting vehicle positions along trajectories. In the face of recent developments such as autonomous driving, this is a highly interesting and inspiring topic. Looking forward to your participation! Prof. Dr. Andreas Nüchter, Mobile Mapping with SLAM, Lecture Hall BST 48, 04.15pm…

  • Detection, modelling and visualisation of space-related emotions from user-generated content: First colloquium talk of the semester by Eva Hauthal

    The new semester has just begun, and therefore a further series of colloquium talks will start soon. We are pleased to announce an upcoming talk by Dr.-Ing. Eva Hauthal who will make the start. She is currently fellow of the Institute for Cartography at the Technical University of Dresden. In her talk she will introduce…

  • Colloquium Talk by Guibo Sun

    This week Dr. Guibo Sun will talk about different correlates that affect the walking behaviour around metro stations in Beijing. Guibo is working as a research associate at the Chinese University of Hongkong (Institute of Earth and Space Information Science). Please find a more elaborate abstract on our web page. Built-environment correlates of walking from…

  • GIScience Colloquium Talk on Classification Accuracy in VGI: Ahmed Loai Ali

    The semester proceeds quickly and another talk is already approaching: We are happy to announce the next presentation in our Heidelberg University GIS colloquium which will be given by Ahmed Loai Ali from Bremen University (Cognitive Systems Research Group). Ahmed will talk about accuracy issues when classifying volunteered geographic information (VGI). See a full description…

  • This weeks talk: Florian Hillen about Geo-Information Fusion for Digital Earth

    We are pleased to invite you to another interesting talk in our colloquium series. Florian Hillen (Institute for Geoinformatics and Remote Sensing, University of Osnabrück) will talk about new ways of combining different real-time data sources in Digital Earth applications. Geo-Information Fusion: Gaining additional value for real-time Digital Earth applications Lecture Hall, BST 48, Thursday,…

  • Invitation to this weeks public Colloquium Talk on Indoor Mapping by Michael Peter (Stgt.)

    We cordially invite anybody this week to the first Colloquium Talk in this semester of our “5 years anniversary series”. The title is: Indoor mapping by reverse-engineering of existing plans and analysis of pedestrian traces and the presentation is given by Michael Peter from Stuttgart University (IFP) on Thursday, Apr 23, 2015, 4.15 pm. The…