GIScience News Blog
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Prof. Dr. Alexander Zipf hält Vortrag zum Thema “Klimaschutz und humanitäre Hilfe: Unterstützung aus der Geoinformatik”
Am 23. September 2023 hält Herr Prof. Dr. Alexander Zipf, Scientific and Managing Director bei HeiGIT und Professor für Geoinformatik / GIScience (GIS) an der Universität Heidelberg, einen Vortrag zum Thema “Klimaschutz und humanitäre Hilfe: Unterstützung aus der Geoinformatik”. Staatliche Institutionen und humanitäre Organisationen benötigen möglichst detaillierte Informationen zur Lage und Situation vor Ort. Nur…
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HeiGIT at the GIScience Conference in Leeds
HeiGIT and GIScience members Adam Rousell, Anne Schauss, Christina Ludwig and Nir Fulman were invited to present their work at the 12th International Conference on Geographic Information Science in Leeds. The conference took place from September 12-15. The first day was dedicated to workshops and tutorials, while short and full papers, as well as posters…
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HeiGIT contributes to German Congress for Geography and Young Congress for Geography 2023
From 19th until 23th September 2023 the 62nd German Congress for Geography (DKG) and Young Congress for Geography (JGK) will take place at the Goethe-Universität Frankfurt. The congress under the motto “Planetary Futures” aims to become a lively and vibrant place for scientific exchange on current issues, important research questions and societal problems. HeiGIT will contribute with…
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Kick-off: AImon5.0 – Real-time monitoring of gravitational mass movements for critical infrastructure risk management with AI-assisted 3D metrology
In September 2023, our new research project AImon5.0 has been kicked-off. In this project the open-source frameworks HELIOS++ and py4dgeo of the 3DGeo research group will be combined to enhance current approaches for operational risk monitoring. AImon5.0 is an interdisciplinary collaboration project of the 3DGeo research group with DMT GmbH & Co. KG (project leader),…
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Impressions from Silvilaser 2023
Last week, our PhD student, Hannah Weiser, joined Silvilaser 2023 at University College London (UCL). The conference covers cutting-edge science and technology from the laser scanning and forest communities, which is a perfect match for Hannah’s PhD topic and 3DGeo research in general. The week started off with interesting workshops on Tuesday using some of…
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Expanding Disaster Management Capabilities with openrouteservice
In the context of disaster management, time is of the essence. Quick and accurate response can make all the difference in saving lives and mitigating damage. That’s why the openrouteservice (ORS) for Disaster Management is taking a step forward by expanding its coverage to larger areas. This upgrade is set to improve the possibilities of…
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Version 1.0 of the ohsome quality API and ohsome dashboard
At HeiGIT and in particular within the ohsome team, we strive to provide valuable insights into OpenStreetMap (OSM) data. The ohsome API offers aggregated statistics on the evolution of OSM elements since 2020. These are made easily accessible by the ohsome dashboard. With the ohsome quality API, previously called ohsome quality analyst (OQT), we continue…
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Happy, Green Cities: Nina Krašovec’s Geospatial Exploration of Urban Vegetation
Until recently, Nina Krašovec was a research assistant at the GIScience research group. This article is the result of an interview, where she spoke about her work at the time and her motivations. We would like to use this article as an opportunity to express our appreciation of her work at HeiGIT and to wish…
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Taginfo goes ohsome
Did you know that the OpenStreetMap (OSM) taginfo site now lets you access the ohsome dashboard? This allows you to gain refined insights into the usage stats of specific keys and tags. Taginfo is the main source for statistics about keys, tags and current tag usage. In most cases, you have to acces a localized…
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HeiGITs Disaster Portal in Radiobeitrag vorgestellt
Campusreporter Nils Birschmann hat mit Prof. Alexander Zipf über unser Disaster Portal gesprochen. Das Interview wurde über Radio Regenbogen ausgestrahlt. Hier könnt ihr euch den Beitrag in voller Länge anhören: Audiobeitrag: Das Disaster Portal – sichere und schnell verfügbare Datengrundlagen im Katastrophenfall Darum geht’s: Im Katastrophenfall sind Hilfskräfte auf aktuelle Ortsdaten der betroffenen Region angewiesen: Welche…
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Visualizing OQT API Results in QGIS
Using the ohsome dashboard, it is possible to explore quality estimation for OpenStreetMap (OSM) data from the ohsome quality analyst (OQT) for arbitrary regions. Also, OQT does provide an API to programmatically fetch quality estimation for a lot of different regions in one request. Chances are that one wants to visualize the results on a…
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Bachelor’s thesis: Using OSM for location analyses of residential real estate projects – an extrinsic analysis of data quality
In his bachelor’s thesis, supervised by HeiGIT’s apl. Prof. Dr. Sven Lautenbach, Lars Reckhaus examined the suitability of OpenStreetMap (OSM) for location analyses in the context of residential real estate projects. Typically, such analyses require the use of a variety of data sources and are mostly performed manually. For this reason, they tend to be…
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