Month: January 2018

  • Colloquium Presentation: Datacubes: A Step Towards Analysis-Ready Big Data (Prof. Peter Baumann)

    we cordially invite everybody interested to our next open GIScience colloquium talk! Prof. Dr. Peter Baumann / Computer Science, Jacobs University, Bremen Friday, January 19 2018, 10.15 am, INF 348, Room 013, Heidelberg University, Institute for Geography Datacubes form an enabling paradigm for serving massive spatio-temporal Earth data in an analysis-ready way by combining individual files…

  • Zwei besondere öffentliche Vorlesungen zur Geodatenerfassung

    Liebe Studierende aller Semester und Studiengänge, ich möchte Sie herzlich zu zwei besonderen Veranstaltungen im Rahmen der Vorlesung “Geodatenerfassung” in die Geographie einladen, die Sie sicher interessieren könnten: Montag, 22.01.2018 um 9.15 im gHS (INF 230, COS): Spezialvorlesung: Amtliche Geodaten bei der Stadt Heidelberg: Gewinnung, Nutzung und Vorhaltung. Hubert Zimmerer, Leiter des GIS der Stadt…

  • New Real-time OSM service provides custom up-to-date Extracts of OpenStreetMap Data

    Disaster events damage human infrastructure and its surroundings within seconds. To support humanitarian logistics, the Disaster OpenRouteService needs the latest, most accurate data available. While crowd-sourcing OSM updates during disasters proved very successful, there is not yet a convenient way of automatically accessing up-to-date OSM data for specific regions of interest. Addressing this need, HeiGIT…

  • Deep Learning with Satellite Images and Volunteered Geographic Information

    Recently, deep learning has been widely applied in pattern recognition with satellite images. Deep learning techniques like Convolutional Neural Network and Deep Belief Network have shown outstanding performance in detecting ground objects like buildings and roads, and the learnt deep features are further applied in some prediction tasks like poverty and population mapping. On the…

  • Open Position: Software Developer: OpenStreetMap Routing Services, Backend & Algorithms

    Software Engineer OSM Routing Services, Backend & Algorithms Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation Technology (HeiGIT) You genuinely enjoy developing open source Geoinformation Services used by thousands on a daily basis? You are a highly motivated Java Backend Developer? And you love using and enhancing OpenStreetMap for high-performance services for global coverage? Then we actually might have…

  • GIS @ ISCRAM – Call for SHORT PAPERS – DL: Jan 21

    15th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM 2018) May 20-23, 2018, Rochester, NY, USA https://iscram2018.rit.edu/submissions Track: Geospatial Technologies and Geographic Information Science for Crisis Management (GIS) https://iscram2018.rit.edu/sites/rit.edu.iscram2018/files/docs/ISCRAM_2018_track_GIS.pdf Deadline for paper submissions: December 10, 2017 Track Description With disasters and disaster management being an “inherently spatial” problem, geospatial information and technologies…

  • OSM Climate Protection Map went Global

    Over the last weeks the recently introduced Climate Protection Map (Klimschutzkarte.de) has been extended to cover the whole world and features now also some new layers. The Global Climate Protection Map is based on user-contributed data from OpenStreetMap. It allows interested citizens to share information and find out about topics related to climate protection and sustainability,…

  • Workshop zu “3D-Geländemethoden in den Geowissenschaften” (15.-16.3.2018 in Heidelberg)

    Die 3D-Initiative in den Geowissenschaften organisiert einen Workshop zu “3D-Geländemethoden in den Geowissenschaften” (14-16. März in Heidelberg) mit speziellem Fokus auf Workflows. Der Workshop wird von der Geoinformatik Heidelberg mitorganisiert. Willkommen sind alle Interessierten an 3D und Geo: ForscherInnen, Studis, PraktikerInnen, usw.. Eine kostenfreie Anmeldung ist aus organisatorischen Gründen zwingend nötig. Weitere Infos finden Sie…

  • Abstract submission to EGU 2018 – 3D Point Clouds in Geosciences: Capturing, Analysis and Visualization (Deadline 10 Jan 2018)

    Short abstract submission for the EGU General Assembly in Vienna 8–13 April 2018 is still open until 10 January 2018 (13:00 CET). We organize a session with special focus on 3D Point Clouds in Geosciences: Capturing, Analysis and Visualization. We would be very happy to receive your research and promote it in this special EGU…