News of Heidelberg University’s GIScience Research Group.
Posted in 3D, Digital Earth, Lidar Group, Research, Teaching on Feb 26th, 2020
The last days of field work in Erg Chebbi continued at the star dune to wrap up final tasks: filling gaps in the data, adding some dune arms to the ground penetrating radar data, … All data acquisition at the star dune was concluded successfully, although the group was off to a late start. The [...]
Posted in 3D, Digital Earth, Research, Teaching on Feb 25th, 2020
After three days of hard work in the field, Sunday was halftime workshop at HeidelErg. with diverse topics all around dunes, with and beyond the data collected in ErgChebbi.
Manuel Herzog introduced the first results from the geophysical measurements with regards to dune stratification. Ground penetrating radar in combination with Electrical Resistivity Tomography [...]
Posted in 3D, Digital Earth, Lidar Group, Research, Teaching on Feb 23rd, 2020
During the first three days of the field course in Erg Chebi, data collection focussed on the star dune with groups of students applying different techniques of geophysical and topographic surveying. Today, data was checked to plan the remaining three field days. A recap of this intermediate data revision will follow. For today, we’d like [...]
Posted in 3D, Digital Earth, Lidar Group, Research, Teaching on Feb 22nd, 2020
This week, the research groups Geomorphology and 3DGeo of the Institute of Geography at Heidelberg University are conducting a field course in the aeolian sand dune field Erg Chebbi in Morocco. The current field course is the second edition of “HeidelErg“.
The aim is to teach students different methods of data acquisition for physical geography, on [...]
Posted in Teaching on Jan 24th, 2020
A week ago, students from the seminar “User-Generated Geographic Data in Disaster Risk Management and Humanitarian Aid” carried out a survey about urban flood risk in Handschuhsheim. The “field day” was organised by Carolin Klonner and Melanie Eckle (the teachers of the seminar) in cooperation with Kai Schaupp and Dr. Raino Winkler of the environmental [...]
Posted in 3D, Digital Earth, Lidar Group, Publications, Research, Teaching on May 29th, 2019
Very interesting terrestrial laser scanning and terrestrial and UAV image datasets of different Alpine sites in Austria have just been openly provided on PANGAEA. The data are related to the first (2015) and second (2017) edition of the Innsbruck Summer School of Alpine Research - Close Range Sensing Techniques in Alpine Terrain and can, for [...]
Posted in Teaching on May 20th, 2019
This year, Sabrina Marx and Martin Hilljegerdes were teaching the block course “GIS 2” at the Heidelberg Center for Latin America (HCLA) in Santiago de Chile. The course is part of the international Master program “Governance of Risks and Resources”, offered by Heidelberg University in cooperation with Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and Universidad de [...]
Posted in Events, TdLab Geography, Teaching on Apr 13th, 2019
The “TdLab Geography” (Dr. Nicole Aeschbach) developed a “Decarbonization Lab” as part of the course “Climate Science and its Implications” taught by Prof. Dr. Werner Aeschbach at the Heidelberg Physics Graduate Days at Heidelberg University. About 50 doctoral students of the Heidelberg Graduate School of Fundamental Physics (HGSFP) worked on creative and effective measures as [...]
Posted in 3D, Digital Earth, Lidar Group, Teaching on Feb 1st, 2019
As part of the lecture “Geodatenerfassung”, geography students in their first semester turned theory of digital geodata acquisition into practice. Based on their aims and requirements, the students acquired geodata with different methods and sensors. Using a high-end Riegl VZ-2000i terrestrial laser scanner, two groups captured the old town of Heidelberg and a limestone [...]
Posted in 3D, Digital Earth, Lidar Group, Teaching on Oct 16th, 2018
Yesterday, the practical field trip in the Erg Chebbi ended and the majority of the group arrived safely in Heidelberg. Another part of the group and the equipment are still on their way back via car and ferry.
After several days in the field, we are already very excited to start working on the large amount [...]