Author: Bernhard Höfle
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GIScience and Interdisciplinary Mountain Research
Dr. Martin Rutzinger, an expert in interdisciplinary mountain research and GIScience, joins our research group in February 2014 as guest researcher. Martin is with the Institute for Interdisciplinary Mountain Research (IGF) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) in Innsbruck. His research focuses on bridiging methodologies of remote sensing and geoinformatics for Earth observation and…
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Digital Earth Science Forum “Digital Earth Innovations” at the University of Osnabrueck starts European cooperation
The International Digital Earth Science Forum organized by Institute for Geoinformatics and Remote Sensing (IGF), the Youth Commission of the International Society for Digital Earth (ISDE) and the Association for the Promotion of Geoinformatics in Nothern Germany (GiN e.V.) took place on 4th of December 2013 at the University of Osnabrueck inside the botanical garden.…
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Open position (50%) in GIScience and Laser Scanning
More detailed information can be found here [in German]: http://koenigstuhl.geog.uni-heidelberg.de/~bhoefle/2013/2013_WissMitarbeiterIn_Geoinformatik_Heidelberg.pdf
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3D-LiDAR and GIS for Gully Detection in Peru
Cushion peatlands are typical features of the high altitude Andes in South America. Due to the adaptation to difficult environmental conditions, they are very fragile ecosystems and therefore vulnerable to environmental and climate changes. Peatland erosion has severe effects on their ecological functions, such as water storage capacity. Thus, erosion monitoring is highly advisable. Erosion…
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Call for participation: Digital Earth Science Forum in Osnabrück
Digital Earth Science Forum “Digital Earth Innovations” in Osnabrueck on the 4th of December 2013. The Digital Earth Science Forum is aimed at students and young researchers as well as experienced scientists in the research field of Digital Earth. The forum provides the possibility to listen to innovative presentations by invited speakers, discuss participants’ scientific…
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New Video: Geography meets 3D High-Tech at the University of Heidelberg
The students of this year’s LiDAR course “HydroChange 2013” present their research project on a multi-media website including a film documentary of their field work. Enjoy Geography meeting 3D High-Tech!
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New PhD student position in GIScience
We offer a new position in the area of crowdsourcing of 3D geoinformation within the PhD Graduate School Crowdanalyser. More info can be found here: 2013_crowdanalyser_phd_position. Deadline: 30 Oct. 2013
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Digital Geoarchaeology 2013 Conference in Heidelberg
Our GIScience group is supporting the conference Digital Geoarchaeology 2013 – New Technologies for Interdisciplinary Human-Environmental Research, which takes place in Heidelberg from 7-8 November 2013. The LiDAR Research Group will co-organize a one-day workshop on LiDAR in Geoarchaeology – Terrestrial Laser Scanning in Theory and Practice on 9 November 2013. Having its major focus…
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Most Downloaded Article of Journal Computers, Environment and Urban Systems (CEUS)
Our article Boosting the predictive accuracy of urban hedonic house price models through airborne laser scanning by Helbich, Jochem, Mücke and Höfle has reached the top position of the most downloaded papers from the journal Computers, Environment and Urban Systems (CEUS).
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New Press Release: On the Sunny Side
The next issue of the German magazine Business Geomatics will present our research project HedALS in a short press article. The article highlights the results of our research on integrating 3D-GIS based variables derived from LiDAR point clouds into hedonic house price modeling. – Read the article in Business Geomatics 4/2013: p. 19 [in German]…
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LiDAR Research Group investigates one of the most impressing caves in Germany
Researchers of the GIScience research group of the Institute of Geography, the Institute of Environmental Physics of the University of Heidelberg and the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities acquired a highly accurate 3D topographic point cloud of the Dechenhöhle, which is attached to the Speleology Museum Dechenhöhle Caves. Terrestrial laser scanning and low-cost sensing…
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We congratulate our visiting fellow Dr. Michael Vetter for his PhD
Yesterday, Michael Vetter received his PhD from the Vienna University of Technology for his thesis “Airborne laser scanning terrain and land cover models as basis for hydrological and hydraulic studies”. Michael was visiting fellow in our research group in summer 2011 and performed parts of his thesis together with the LiDAR Research Group of the…