Posted in Publications, VGI Group on Jun 3rd, 2018
The effective monitoring of land-use and land-cover changes (LULCC) is a basic requirement for understanding socio-enviromental processes of local to global scales. Remote sensing data and methods have long been established as the most effective approach for monitoring LULCC. The potential for further increasing the effectiveness of this approach is proportional to the astonishingly large [...]
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Posted in Events, Teaching on Mar 4th, 2018
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 [...]
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Posted in Lidar Group, Publications, VGI Group on Feb 19th, 2018
Crowdsourcing has been widely applied to extract information from 2D geodata sources such as satellite imagery. In this new study published in the ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing we apply this technique to the growing field of 3D point cloud analysis. This work has been conducted in our 3D-MAPP Project which was funded [...]
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Posted in Publications on Oct 11th, 2017
Recently the full Special Issue “Online Participation” of the German journal “HMD Praxis der Wirtschaftsinformatik” has been published online by Springer.
It also includes our invited overview article about online participation in the context of geographic information, especially OpenStreetMap (in German). It is available open access:
Griesbaum, L., Eckle, M., Herfort, B., Raifer, M., Zipf, A. (2017): [...]
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Posted in Publications on Sep 17th, 2017
We are currently guest-editing a special issue on “urban geoinformatics” in the Taylor & Francis journal “Geo-Spatial Information Science”. On this occasion, we’d like to encourage you to submit your crowdsourcing-related work emphasizing urban issues:
Title: Crowdsourcing for Urban Geoinformatics
Deadline: 30 October 2017
Guest editors:
Hongchao Fan, Wuhan University, (hongchao.fan@whu.edu.cn)
João Porto de Albuquerque, University of Warwick, (J.Porto@warwick.ac.uk)
René Westerholt, [...]
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Posted in Events on Sep 8th, 2017
This year the capital of Canada will become the gathering place for the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) and Missing Maps community and partners.
September 12th/13th the Missing Maps members will come together for their annual meeting to discuss current projects, challenges, ideas and future plans. The next two days, September 14th/15th, the HOT Summit will provide [...]
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Posted in Research on Jun 30th, 2017
In the aftermath of a disaster, knowing the condition of buildings, infrastructure, and utilities is critical to both immediate response and long-term recovery efforts. The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) is often asked to help identify damage to buildings and other assets in the affected region. In the past, limitations in post-disaster [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on May 30th, 2017
On the occasion of the international Bike2Work Day the radio Berlin Brandenburg (RBB) conducted a short interview with Prof. Alexander Zipf (GIScience HD/ HeiGIT). It was about current research and development work at the GIScience Research Group Heidelberg and HeiGIT, which involve the use of user-generated geodata for investigations between cycling behaviour and health, as well as [...]
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Posted in Events on May 12th, 2017
The “Dresdner Flächennutzungssymposium” is an annual event aimed at fostering the discussions about current devolepment regarding land use changes in Germany. During two days experts from government agencies, private companies and research institutions come together and elaborate the latest trends in different session. This years symposium took place from May 3-4. Almost all presentations covered [...]
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Posted in Publications, VGI Group on May 7th, 2017
Tourism is a economically highly important industry. It is, however, vulnerable to disaster events. Geotagged social media data, as one of the forms of volunteered geographic information (VGI), has been widely explored to support the prevention, preparation, and response phases of disaster management, while little effort has been put on the recovery phase. A recently [...]
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