Month: December 2014
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The Disaster Mappers Heidelberg look back at an exiting year 2014
Here you can find their Blogpost about last years crisis mapping activities. Congratulations and keep up the good work!
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The “Visual Crowds for Geo- and Environmental Sciences” workshop
As it had been already announced, the workshop titled “Visual Crowds for Geo- and Environmental Sciences” was held on Dec 9, 2014. The workshop aimed at bringing scholars from crowdsourcing and GIScience communities in order to figure out the potentials of crowds in environmental monitoring efforts and GIScience studies. In total, 48 participants from different universities…
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OpenStreetMap and Mapsurfer.NET help to search for missing people
We know many examples when VGI data (e.g., OpenStreetMap, Wikimapia, etc.) help to cope with effects of various humanitarian disasters all over the world. The reason of using open crowd-sourced data is clear. The geographic data are available for free. If, for some reason, data are missing for a specific region, it is not a…
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We wish you a merry Christmas
The GIScience Heidelberg team wishes a merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all readers of our blog! Thank you for your great interest in our work and stay tuned in 2015.
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Cancelled: GI Colloquium Talk on Thu 18 Dec 2014
We have to cancel the talk in GIScience Colloquium on Thu 18 December 2014.
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GIScience group covered by Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung
Our #mapforaccess mapping party has been covered in yesterdays issue of the local newspaper Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung (~80,000 copies per day in the Rhine-Neckar region). Enjoy reading! (Click to enlarge) Online version here.
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New paper published: ‘Effects of Reduced Terrestrial LiDAR Point Density on High-Resolution Grain Crop Surface Models in Precision Agriculture.’
We are happy to announce that a new paper with the title Effects of Reduced Terrestrial LiDAR Point Density on High-Resolution Grain Crop Surface Models in Precision Agriculture has been published in the special issue Agriculture and Forestry: Sensors, Technologies and Procedures in the journal Sensors: 3D geodata play an increasingly important role in precision…
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This week: Talk by Florian Hillen
The last talk in 2014 is approaching quickly. We cordially invite you to the colloquium: 18.12.14, Lecture Hall Berliner Straße 48: “Geo-Information Fusion: Gaining additional value for real-time Digital Earth applications” Feel free to find more detailed information under http://www.geog.uni-heidelberg.de/gis/veranstaltungen.html
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MayaArch3D @ SFB933/HCCH Joint Workshop
The GIScience Reserarch Group Heidelberg contributed to the workshop „Aktuelle Formen der Präsentation und Edition beschrifteter Artefakte“ through a presentation about the joint project MayaArch3D which was given by Lukas Loos. The workshop took place at the International Science Forum Heidelberg and was jointly organized by the DFG SFB 933 „Materiale Textkulturen“ and the Heidelberg…
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Sino-German Workshop “Multi-dimensional Global Mapping and Services”
The Sino-German workshop on Multi-dimensional Global Mapping and Services was jointly organized by Prof. Dr. Qing Zhu at Southwest Jiaotong University (SWJTU) and Prof. Dr. Alexander Zipf at Heidelberg University. The workshop was supported by the Sino-German Center for Research Promotion, and was held in the new campus of Southwest Jiaotong University on December 2…
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Vacant PostDoc Position in Geoinformatics
A PostDoc position is available in the GIScience Research Group (http://uni-heidelberg.de/gis), Department of Geography of the Heidelberg University within a third-party funded research project at the intersection of 3D geodata processing and analysis of user-generated content (e.g. VGI). The GIScience Research Group has a strong emphasis on 3D data processing and analysis (including LiDAR research).…