Tag: social media

  • Most Cited Article in Transactions in GIS is on systematic literature review on spatiotemporal analyses of Twitter data

    The following article is the Top Most Cited Article of the last two years in the international journal “Transactions in GIS”. (Wiley) An Advanced Systematic Literature Review on Spatiotemporal Analyses of Twitter Data Steiger, E.; Porto de Albuquerque, J.; Zipf, A. (2015): An advanced systematic literature review on spatiotemporal analyses of Twitter data. Transactions in…

  • GIScience Colloquium Talk on Reconstructing Travelers Semantic Trajectories

    we cordially invite everybody interested to our next open GIScience colloquium talk Travel History: Reconstructing Travelers Semantic Trajectories Based on Heterogeneous Social Footprints Amon Veiga Santana Heidelberg University, Institute of Geography, GIScience Research Group Time and date: Mon, December 18, 2:15 pm Venue: INF 348, Room 015, Department of Geography, Heidelberg University Travel specialized services on…

  • GIScience Colloquium Talk on Geospatial Visual Analytics Applications

    we cordially invite everybody interested to our next open GIScience colloquium talk Geospatial Visual Analytics Applications for Predictive Analysis Dr. Alexandra Diehl University of Konstanz, Department of Computer and Information Science, Data Analysis and Visualization Time and date: Mon, December 11, 2:15 pm Venue: INF 348, Room 015, Department of Geography, Heidelberg University In this…

  • GIScience Colloquium talk on Event Detection from Geo-tagged Twitter Data by Diao Lin

    we cordially invite everybody interested to our next open GIScience colloquium talk State of the Art of Event Detection from Geo-tagged Twitter Data Diao Lin Chair of Cartography, Technical University of Munich Time and date: Mon, November 27, 2:15 pm Venue: INF 348, Room 015, Department of Geography, Heidelberg University The speaker tries to give…

  • Healthy Routing presented at the SemGeoSoc Workshop

    The current status of ou Healthy Routing research was presented in the SemGeoSoc Workshop hosted by the Zürich University and organized by prominent researchers in the area of geoinformatics. The workshop offered the opportunity for presenting and discussing ongoing work on the areas of location-based services supported by VGI, social media, citizen & science and…

  • GIScience contributions to 20th AGILE conference in Wageningen, Netherlands

    This year AGILE celebrated its 20th birthday and conference from May 10 – 12 at Wageningen University, Netherlands. The conference organizers chose “societal geo-information” to be the main theme of the research presented. The GIScience Research Group Heidelberg was represented by its members Tessio Novack, Franz-Benjamin Mocnik and Benjamin Herfort. On Tuesday, the day before…

  • Monitoring and Assessing Post-Disaster Tourism Recovery Using Geotagged Social Media Data

    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…

  • ISPRS Best Paper Award on human activity patterns for Dr. Wei Huang

    Recently the paper “Understanding human activity patterns based on space-time-semantics” by Wei Huang, and Songnian Li (Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada) has been selected as the best paper published in 2016 (volumes 111-122) in the ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. Dr. Wei Huang is since late 2016 team member of the GIScience Research Group.…

  • Workshop on “spatial urban analytics with user-generated geodata”

    We’ve recently finalised the programme of a workshop on “spatial urban analytics with user-generated geographic information”. The event is conjoined with the 2017 International Conference at the Royal Geographical Society in London and is co-chaired by René Westerholt (GIScience Heidelberg). We received methodological as well as empirical contributions, which reflects the breadth of the complex…

  • Impressions from CASper Workshop and PerCom

    Last week saw the Workshop on Crowd Assisted Sensing, Pervasive Systems and Communications (CASPer 2017) at the 15th IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications. Here you find some impressions from the event. Alexander Zipf participated as invited panelist at the panel session of CASPer 2017. The panel discusses processing unstructured Big Data and…

  • A graph-based strategy for matching points-of-interests from different VGI sources

    Several urban studies have been increasingly relying on spatial data provided by Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) sources. The matching of features across different VGI projects may serve to assess and improve the reliability and completeness of VGI data. In a recent study, we first provide a short discussion on the similarity measures often used for…

  • Big Data Analytics Panel at the International Workshop on Crowd Assisted Sensing, Pervasive Systems and Communications (CASPer 2017) at IEEE PerCom

    Crowd assisted sensing and crowdsourcing, as well as their underlying pervasive systems and communications are a fast growing research area and one of the enabling technologies of smart cities and smart infrastructures, as well as important building blocks in healthcare monitoring and vehicular technologies. Crowd assisted sensing (often called participatory sensing) opens new ways for…