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Author: Bernhard Höfle

  • Geographic information analysis and web-based geoportals to explore malnutrition in Sub-Saharan Africa

    In our new paper we present a systematic literature review on geographic information analysis and web-based geoportals to explore malnutrition in Sub-Saharan Africa. 563 articles are identified from the searches, from which a total of nine articles and eight geoportals meet inclusion criteria. The review suggests that the spatial dimension of malnutrition is analyzed most…

  • CfP Deutscher Kongress für Geographie 2015 in Berlin

    Wir möchten Sie herzlich zu unserer Fachsitzung “Räumliche Analyse und Modellierung in geographischer Forschung” im Rahmen des Deutschen Kongress für Geographie einladen, der von 1. bis 6. Oktober 2015 in Berlin stattfinden wird. Beiträge zu unserer Sitzung können bis 11. Januar 2015 online hier eingereicht werden: https://www.congressa.de/dkg-2015/CallForAbstracts/?session_id=120 Sitzungsleiter_innen: Alexander Brenning, Bernhard Höfle Inhalt der Fachsitzung…

  • TV broadcast: Information fusion infrastructure for remote-sensing and in-situ sensor data to model people dynamics

    The German TV station NDR broadcasted a short interview (in German) with Florian Hillen (Univ. Osnabrück) talking about our paper on Information Fusion Infrastructure for Remote Sensing and In-Situ Sensor Data to Model People Dynamics in the International Journal of Image and Data Fusion. Vol. 5(1), pp. 54-69. DOI: 10.1080/19479832.2013.870934, by Hillen, F., Höfle, B.,…

  • 6th Fachaustausch Geoinformation in Heidelberg

    On 29 October 2014 the 6th Fachaustausch Geoinformation took place at the fantastic venue of the Print Media Academy. The event brings together people and institutions from industry, administration and science, to exchange and discuss most recent advances in the broad field of geoinformation. The organization of the Fachaustausch is led by the GeoNet.MRN, a…

  • ISPRS Innsbruck Summer School of Alpine Research 2015 in Obergurgl/Austria – Close Range Sensing Techniques in Alpine Terrain

    Together with colleagues from all over Europe we are organizing a Summer School of Alpine Research, which takes place from 5.7.2015-11.7.2015 in Obergurgl, Tyrol, Austria. Motivated students from geosciences/Earth sciences, environmental sciences, geomatics, GIScience, remote sensing, computer science, etc. will be working together in multidisciplinary teams to address challenges in Alpine Research using state of…

  • Co-Chair of Geoinformatics Working Group @ DGPF

    The Working Group of Geoinformatics of the German Society for Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Geoinformation (DGPF) is led by Prof. Jan-Hendrik Haunert from the University of Osnabrück. The working group deals with research questions related to Geo-Information Systems (GIS), such as the integration of GIS and image data, GIS analysis algorithms and geospatial data infrastructures.…

  • The Chilean newspaper El Mercurio reports about our VGI research

    The Chilean newspaper El Mercurio has released an article about Heidelberg’s research on VGI and Neogeography in their Science and Technology section in the issue of 14 July 2014. El Mercurio, Santiago de Chile (No. 41.265), p. A11: Neogeografía: La geografía evoluciona al alero de las redes sociales.

  • GIScience runs against cancer

    The GIScience together with colleagues from Health & Society participated as team Geo4Health in the charity Run Against Cancer (NCT-LAUFend gegen Krebs) on 11 July 2014 organized by the National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT). The run took place on university campus Im Neuenheimer Feld (2.5 km lap around the Theoretikum and University Hospital). We…

  • Methods to measure potential spatial access to delivery care in low- and middle-income countries

    A case study in rural Ghana Access to skilled attendance at childbirth is crucial to reduce maternal and newborn mortality. Several different measures of geographic access are used concurrently in public health research, with the assumption that sophisticated methods are generally better. Most of the evidence for this assumption comes from methodological comparisons in high-income…

  • Mon-Shieh Yang from Taiwan joins GIScience Team

    Mr. Mon-Shieh Yang, a senior PhD candidate from the National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), Department of Earth Sciences, has been awarded a grant of the National Science Council (NSC) of Taiwan to join the LiDAR Research Group (LRG) of the Chair of GIScience Heidelberg from July 2014 to April 2015. His research will focus on…

  • Artic Permafrost @ Colloquium GIScience on 23 July 2014

    Talk within the Colloquium GIScience on An Attempt to Use InSAR Methods to Detect Vertical Movements in Arctic Permafrost Regions by Inga May, Alfred-Wegener Institute (AWI) Potsdam Wednesday, 23.07.2014, 11:15-12:00h, Hörsaal Geogr. Institut, Berliner Str. 48 As permafrost is a subsurface phenomenon, and not directly visible from space, surface features, representing the permafrost situation underneath,…

  • AGILE Workshop – Digital Earth: What the hack?

    On June 3, 2014, we organised a pre-conference one-day workshop titled Digital Earth: What the hack? in Castellon de La Plana, under the auspices of the International Society of Digital Earth (http://www.digitalearth-isde.org/) and 7th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science – Connecting a Digital Europe through Location and Place (http://www.agile-online.org/). Hackathons and mapathons are revolutionising…