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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Posted in Events, OSM on Sep 28th, 2016
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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Posted in Events on Apr 9th, 2015
Dear colleagues,
The deadline for submission of contributions to our AGILE workshop called RICH-VGI has been extended to April 30, 2015. We call for short papers and extended abstracts for the Workshop:
RICH-VGI: enRICHment of volunteered geographic information (VGI):
Techniques, practices and current state of knowledge
Workshop @ the 18th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science
Lisboa, Portugal.
Tuesday 9 June 2015
In [...]
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Posted in Events on Jan 21st, 2015
We call for papers for the Workshop:
RICH-VGI: enRICHment of volunteered geographic information (VGI):
Techniques, practices and current state of knowledge
Workshop @ the 18th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science
Lisboa, Portugal.
Tuesday 9 June 2015
In recent years we have witnessed the rapid emergence of olunteered Geographical Information (VGI) projects. VGI is being applied more and more [...]
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