Author: GIScience HD
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Programm der Heidelberger Geographischen Gesellschaft WS1920
Das Programm der Heidelberg Geographischen Gesellschaft (HGG) für das WinterSemester 2019/2020 ist verfügbar. Im Namen des Vorstands der HGG laden wir alle Interessierten herzlich zu den Vorträgen ein. Das Rahmenthema lautet: Die Welt 30 Jahre nach dem Mauerfall © Dr. Susanne Schmidt Grenzen manifestieren sich auf unterschiedlichste Weise in Raum und Zeit: sowohl sichtbare und physische Grenzen,…
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Call for Papers: Transaction in GIS – Special Issue on “Geographical and Cultural Aspects of Geo-Information – Issues and Solutions”
The colleagues from GIScience Dr Tessio Novack, Dr Michael Schultz, and Prof. Alexander Zipf, together with Dr Yair Grinberger from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, are editing a Special Issue of Transactions in GIS on Geographical and Cultural Aspects of Geo-Information – Issues and Solutions. We are welcoming high-quality contributions related, but not limited, to…
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2 Days left to Register for the 1st Climathon in Heidelberg am 26.-27. Oct 2019 am EMBL mit Unterstützung von HeiGIT/GIScience Heidelberg
only a 2 days left for Pre-Registration 1st Climathon in Heidelberg am 26.-27. Oct 2019 am EMBL mit Unterstützung von HeiGIT/GIScience Heidelberg We are happy to share that GIScience Heidelberg/HeiGIT participate in the 1st Climathon in Heidelberg on Sat/Sun 26.-27. Oct 2019 at EMBL Heidelberg with a challenge on the following topic: Boost bicycle usage through…
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Studying the impact of built environments on human mental health in everyday life – a review of methods published
Rapid worldwide urbanization benefits humans in many aspects, but the prevalence of common psychiatric disorders is increased in urban populations. While the impact of city living and urban upbringing on mental health is well established, it remains elusive which of the multiple factors of urban living convey risk and resilience for mental disorders. For example,…
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geoActive, neues Open Space-Konzept für Fachaustausch Geoinformation Heidelberg am 28.11.2019
Der Fachaustausch Geoinformation Heidelberg des GeoNet.MRN wird dieses Jahr geoActive! Im Fokus sind dieses Jahr Themen Mobilität und Baustellen in der Session mobiActive! sowie Klimawandel und Nachhaltigkeit in der Session climateActive! geoActive orientiert sich am Konzept der Open Space-Konferenz. Sie sind herzlich eingeladen! Treffen Sie Fachleute und Gleichgesinnte. Bringen Sie Ihr eigenes Thema mit! Tauschen…
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Join us for the 1st Climathon in Heidelberg 26.-27. Oct 2019
We are happy to share that GIScience Heidelberg/HeiGIT participate in the 1st Climathon in Heidelberg on Sat/Sun 26.-27. Oct 2019 at EMBL Heidelberg with a challenge on the following topic: Boost bicycle usage through more attractive bicycle routes Identify factors that make a bike route attractive and develop a prototype estimating these factors to facilitate…
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Tools for Disaster Risk Reduction by HeiGIT – Celebrating the International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction
Today we celebrate the International Day for #DisasterRiskReduction. HeiGIT offers a growing set of tools and services that support humanitarian aid during and before disasters. Examples include work in the context of the Missing Maps initiative, like conceptualising and extending microtasking apps like MapSwipe, as well as services for analysing MapSwipe data and making it…
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Studying the impact of built environments on human mental health in everyday life – a review of methods
Rapid worldwide urbanization benefits humans in many aspects, but the prevalence of common psychiatric disorders is increased in urban populations. While the impact of city living and urban upbringing on mental health is well established, it remains elusive which of the multiple factors of urban living convey risk and resilience for mental disorders. For example,…
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Big Spatial Data Analytics of Geodata in the Cloud – Festive Colloquium 50 anniversary URZ
The computing center (URZ) of Heidelberg University will be celebrating its 50th anniversary on Friday 11th October 2019 with a festive colloquium. Prof. Dr. Alexander Zipf gives a speech on Big Spatial Data Analytics of geodata in the cloud. Examples from the work of the Department of Geoinformatics of the University of Heidelberg and the…
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Using OSM data to generate scenes for LiDAR simulations in HELIOS
A new tutorial for the 3DGeo‘s LiDAR simulation software HELIOS has been posted to the repository’s wiki page. It shows a simple way to generate scenes of real landscapes including building and vegetation models as well as terrain from NASA JPL’s SRTM data. When applied to OSM data in the city of Vienna, the obtained…
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Classification of 3D ALS Point Clouds using End-To-End Deep Learning
In a new publication, we show how deep neural networks can be used in an end-to-end manner for the classification of 3D point clouds from airborne laser scan data. The research, based on the award-winning diploma thesis of Lukas Winiwarter at TU Wien, has now been published in “PFG – Photogrammetrie, Fernerkundung, Geoinformation“, the Journal…
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Conversing about place – Talk by Prof. Stephan Winter, Melbourne in GIScience Colloquium Heidelberg 30.09.2019
We cordially invite everybody interested to our next open GIScience colloquium talk! The speaker is Prof. Dr. Stephan Winter from Melbourne University, Australia. When: Monday 30.09.2019, 2:00 pm Where: INF 348, room 015 (Institute of Geography, Heidelberg University) Title: Conversing about place ‘Place’ is used here as antithesis to traditional, geometry-based geographic information systems’ capture,…