Author: Lilly Tinzmann

  • New paper “Urban Heat Island Intensity Prediction in the Context of Heat Waves: An Evaluation of Model Performance”

    Aner Martinez-Soto, Johannes Fürle and Alexander Zipf published the paper „Urban Heat Island Intensity Prediction in the Context of Heat Waves: An Evaluation of Model Performance“. It was presented at the 9th International Conference on Time Series and Forecasting in Gran Canaria, Spain, on 12th – 14th July 2023. Due to Climate Change urban heat…

  • 13th International Symposium on Digital Earth

    From 11th until 14th July 2023 the 13th International Symposium on Digital Earth took place at Athens Greece Harokopio University. As a member of the International Symposium on Digital Earth (ISDE) Prof. Dr. Alexander Zipf was invited to deliver a speech at one of the ISDE sessions. ISDE is an international organization principally promoting academic…

  • New Publication in “Nature Communication” on the unequal distribution of building data in OSM

    Benjamin Herfort and his colleagues Sven Lautenbach, João Porto de Albuquerque, Jennings Anderson and Alexander Zipf published an article in the renowned journal Nature Communications (Impact Factor 2023: 17.7). In their article, they address the uneven distribution of OpenStreetMap data worldwide, which can have an impact on research results and humanitarian operations. They provide solutions…

  • Looking back at FOSS4G Conference 2023

    Figure 1: FOSS4G 2023, QGIS daily openings This years FOSS4G conference took place from 26 June – 2 July 2023 in beautiful Prizren, Kosovo. Since 2006 FOSS4G, the largest global gathering for geospatial software, is organized by the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo). This year workshops, presentations, discussions, cooperation and developing of geospatial tools and softwares…

  • Call for Papers: Workshop on Geocomputational Analysis of Socio-Economic Data

    Published: 30. June 2023 Figure from ACM SIGSPATIAL  You have published an original research contribution on Geocomputational Analysis of Socio-Economic Data, or have a work-in-progress paper that would fit the topic?We invite you to contribute to the workshop on Geocomputational Analysis of Socio-Economic Data at the International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems in…

  • OEV: Analysing attributes of remarkable elements (2/4)

    After introducing the OSM Element Vectorisation Tool earlier this week, we now want to show possible use cases and specific examples of what the tool can do. This first of three use cases takes a closer look at the data in the region of Heidelberg, Germany. We will use the concept of archetypes to identify…

  • Öffentlicher Vortrag am 16. Mai: Klimawandel, Mobilität und das steigende Risiko von Infektionskrankheiten in Deutschland

    Öffentlicher Vortrag am 16. Mai: Klimawandel, Mobilität und das steigende Risiko von Infektionskrankheiten in Deutschland

    Am Dienstag, den 16. Mai, werden die Besuchenden des öffentlichen Vortrags “Klimawandel und Infektionskrankheiten in Bezug auf Gesundheitswesen und Mobilität” Einblicke von fünf Experten erhalten, die derzeit Pionierarbeit bei der Erforschung einer der größten Bedrohungen für die öffentliche Gesundheit in Deutschland leisten. Die Veranstaltung findet in deutscher und englischer Sprache im Mathematik-Hörsaal im Erdgeschoss des…

  • Private Vehicles Greenhouse Gas Emission Estimation at Street Level for Berlin Based on Open Data

    Since the transportation sector is one of the major greenhouse gas (GHG) emitters that has not seen significant emission reductions in the last decades, it requires special attention from policymakers. However, estimations of traffic emissions often rely on huge amounts of actual traffic data whose availability is limited. Therefore, Ulrich et al. now propose an…

  • Launch: A New Online Mapping Application Helps UndercoverEisAgenten on the Trail of Permafrost

    The UndercoverEisAgenten team have developed a new online mapping application to monitor permafrost thaw. From now on, interested citizen scientists can directly contribute online to collect reliable and up-to-date data on the thawing of Arctic permafrost landscapes- and thus improve the basis for climate predictions. The Arctic is warming about twice as fast as the…

  • Recent feature additions to Ohsome Quality analysT

    Introduction Since the release of the ohsome quality analyst (short OQT) in February of last year, we have been working on developing an accessible yet powerful toolkit which provides end users insights on the quality of OpenStreetMap (OSM) data. An overview of the functionality additions made to OQT over this time period can be found…