Month: October 2015
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Specialization in Geoinformatics in Master of Geography Degree at Heidelberg University
Since this winter semester it is now possible to formally specialize in “Geoinformatics” within the Master of Science “Geography” Degree at Heidelberg University, Institute of Geography. When a certain amount of courses and credit points in this Masters programme are taken from courses related to Geoinformatics, then the student can have this specialization subject be…
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Deadline Extended: Special Issue “Big Data for Urban Informatics and Earth Observation” ISPRS Journal of Geo-Information
The Deadline for the special issue on “Big Data for Urban Informatics and Earth Observation” of the ISPRS Journal of Geo-Information has been extended by April 30, 2016. For further information, please contact the special issue guest-editors for further information. Dr. Jamal Jokar Arsanjani (GIScience Heidelberg) Prof. Ming-Hsiang (Ming) Tsou Guest Editors This Special Issue is…
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Talk ‘3D-Geoinformation aus Laserscanningdaten’ at workshop ‘The future courtroom’
At Thursday, 22nd of October, the GIScience LiDAR Research Group (LRG) contributed to the workshop ‘The future courtroom‘ (website in German) with a talk introducing the analysis of 3D Geodata and the connections to forensic science. Martin Hämmerle presented a selection of LRG projects covering a wide range of applications and use cases, from crowd…
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Exploring spatiotemporal and semantic clusters of Twitter data using unsupervised neural networks
The investigation of human activity patterns from location-based social networks like Twitter is a promising example of how to infer relationships and latent information for the characterization of urban structures. While there is a growing research body performing spatial analysis on social media data, the high dimensionality, complexity and granularity of social media information still…
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Detection, modelling and visualisation of space-related emotions from user-generated content: First colloquium talk of the semester by Eva Hauthal
The new semester has just begun, and therefore a further series of colloquium talks will start soon. We are pleased to announce an upcoming talk by Dr.-Ing. Eva Hauthal who will make the start. She is currently fellow of the Institute for Cartography at the Technical University of Dresden. In her talk she will introduce…
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Merging volunteered and expert accessibility data
On Tuesday 13 October, we have been more than happy to host volunteers of SAP in the course of the “SAP month of service” as our guests. They have supported us to merge volunteered data about accessibility from wheelmap.org and expert data about accessibility from Heidelberg Hürdenlos (a local accessibility platform). Heidelberg Hürdenlos contains more…
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Invitation to “Fachaustausch Geoinformation Heidelberg” (25.11.2015), Programme available
Einladung zur Regionalkonferenz des Netzwerks Geoinformation GeoNet.MRN am 25.11.2015 in der Print Media Academy Heidelberg Bereits zum siebten Mal veranstaltet das Geoinformationsnetzwerk der Metropolregion Rhein-Neckar GeoNet.MRN den Fachaustausch Geoinformation in Heidelberg. Die Veranstaltung dient dem Erfahrungsaustausch zwischen Interessenten, Experten, Nutzern und Entscheidungsträgern aus Wirtschaft, Wissenschaft, Politik und Verwaltung über Anwendungsmöglichkeiten und aktuelle Themen in der…
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Again New University Rankings: “Heidelberg is the best university in Germany and surges ahead to 37th worldwide”
Heidelberg University reports: According to a recent report the Best Global Universities Ranking ranks Heidelberg University as the best university in Germany and 37th worldwide. Just recently the Times Higher Education Ranking (THE) had been published. Also there it has been announced that Heidelberg University scored at place 37 internationally and place 2 in Germany.…
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Help Validating 2015 Nepal Earthquake IDP Camp Sites in OpenStreetMap
GIScience HD member and disastermapper Bennie reports: The 2015 Nepal earthquake that struck Nepal on 25th April with a magnitude of 7.8 destroyed many building completely or in a manner that they can easily be collapsed by aftershocks. Therefore, many people left their homes and slept outside in tent cities and camp sites in open…