News of Heidelberg University’s GIScience Research Group.
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 7th, 2019
Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) such as OpenStreetMap (OSM) can be a rich resource for many applications. Therefor VGI-projects have to mitigate between the requirements of the the volunteers and the machines. On the one hand, the data format should be simple and general in order to make contributing to the project easy for the volunteers. [...]
Posted in OSM, Publications, Research, Uncategorized, VGI Group on Nov 24th, 2018
Data quality and fitness for purpose can be assessed by data quality measures. Existing ontologies of data quality dimensions reflect, among others, which aspects of data quality are assessed and the mechanisms that lead to poor data quality. An understanding of which source of information is used to judge about data quality and fitness for [...]
Posted in Jobs on Jan 23rd, 2018
Open Position:
Software Developer (Web) Geoinformation Technology
(OSM)
Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation Technology (HeiGIT) and GIScience Research Group
In the context of research projects at HeiGIT and the GIScience Research Group we offer the position of a Software Developer Geoinformation Technology in Heidelberg (full-time or part-time).
Depending on your experience the tasks are related to at least one of [...]
Posted in Events on Jan 20th, 2018
we cordially invite everybody interested to our next open GIScience colloquium talk
Context-Aware Movement Analysis: An Application to Similarity Search of Trajectories
Dr. Mohammad Sharif
Department of Geographic Information Systems, Faculty of Geomatics Engineering, K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
Time and date: Mon, January 22, 2:15 pm
Venue: INF 348, Room 015, Department of Geography, Heidelberg University
Studying movement [...]
Posted in Jobs on Jul 9th, 2017
Open Position:
Software Engineer Geoinformation Technology / OpenStreetMap
Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation Technology (HeiGIT)
In order to promote technology transfer and applied research in the area of Geoinformatics, the Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation Technology (HeiGIT) is currently being established with the support of the Klaus-Tschira Foundation. http://www.heigit.org. This is to be continued in the future as an [...]
Posted in Events on Oct 18th, 2016
We cordially invite all interested to our forthcoming talk next Monday about the cross-cutting theme of smart city research. Dr Jochen Wendel from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology will report about an open data infrastructure that allows data storage, data exchange, data analysis, as well as data visualization across projects and domains. He illustrates [...]
this week sees the Kick-Off Meeting of a new EU Horizon 2020 project called LandSense at International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IASA) Laxemburg Austria.
The overall aim of the LandSense project is to build an innovative citizen observatory in the field of LandUse LandCover (LULC), which collects data both actively (through citizens) and [...]
Posted in Events, Press release, Research, Services on Jul 8th, 2016
A major project funded by the Klaus Tschira Foundation (KTS) Heidelberg is starting this July. The KTS will support the establishment of the “Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation Technology” ( HeiGIT for short) within the Institute of Geography at Heidelberg University.
This new project aims at improving knowledge and technology transfer from fundamental research into practice [...]
Posted in Events, Publications on Jun 15th, 2016
Today Enrico Steiger is presenting the following paper at AGILE 2016 conference Helsinki:
Lee, M., Steiger, E. Zipf, A. (2016): Clustering and Analyzing Air Pollution Data using Self-Organizing Maps. 19th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science. Helsinki, Finnland.
In Geographic Information Science the rise in the availability of spatial data paved ways for increased research in [...]
Posted in Events on Oct 7th, 2015
The First Workshop on Data Mining for Smart Cities (DMCities 2015) will be held in conjunction with the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining series (ICDM) on 14 Nov 2015, in Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA.
Prof. Alexander Zipf from GIScience Heidelberg will give an invited Keynote Speach on
“Mapping the Urban Crowd - Mining the dynamic [...]