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  • Call for Abstracts for PhD Colloquium on “Methods for analysing spatiotemporal data”

    Call for Abstracts: 5th PhD Colloquium on “Methods for analysing spatiotemporal data” 1-2 Oct 2020 in Dortmund, Germany The Division on Geoinformatics (Abteilung Geoinformatik) of the German Geodetic Commission (Deutsche Geodätische Kommission, DGK) and the Working Group on Geoinformatics (Arbeitskreis Geoinformatik) of the German Society for Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Geoinformation (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Photogrammetrie,…

  • Invitation to GIScience colloquium talks related to Humanitarian Aid

    We are happy to annouce two higly interesting upcomming presentations in the GIScience colloquium in the next weeks. Everybody interested is invited to join the presentations and the discussion afterwards. The use of geoinformatics at the German Red Cross Katharina Lorenz, DRK e.V. ‑ Generalsekretariat, Berlin Mon, January 27, 2.15 pm (Lecture Hall (room 015),…

  • Recap: Keynote on Smart Cities

    Already in October 2019 Prof. Zipf was invited to give a keynote on “User Generated Geoinformation for Smart Cities” at the “Smart Cities, Smart Data, Smart Governance” ISPRS Conference at CEPT University in Ahmedabad (known for the Gandhi-Ashram), where he also participated as speaker in the inaugural session and acted as session chair for a…

  • Seasons Greetings from GIScience Heidelberg & HeiGIT, have a great New Year 2020

    Dear friends and colleagues, we wish you a relaxing and peaceful holiday season and all the very best for a happy and prosperous New Year. The most important event of this turbulent year was for us the founding of HeiGIT gGmbH as nonprofit company. Now we are looking forward to future joint activities in 2020…

  • 2nd International Workshop Point Cloud Processing

    From 4-5 December 2019, the 2nd International Workshop Point Cloud Processing was co-organized by euroSDR, the German Society for Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Geoinformation (DGPF) and the Institute for Photogrammetry (ifp) at the University of Stuttgart. The aim of the workshop was to present and discuss the processing and evaluation of point clouds focusing on…

  • Invited talk at the Spatial Data Science Symposium 2019, Santa Barbara

    The Center for Spatial Studies, Department of Geography at the University of California, Santa Barbara is hosting the Spatial Data Science Symposium 2019 this coming week with the title “Setting the Spatial Data Science Agenda” Over 40 selected participants will gather to discuss the future of Spatial Data Science at this expert meeting. Instead of…

  • 5 Years Missing Maps- Achievements and future work and how to visualize the Missing Maps impact using ohsome

    Happy Birthday Missing Maps! On the occasion of the recently launched Missing Maps 5 Years Birthday Blog, that also highlighted our latest Missing Maps related HeiGIT and ohsome projects, we put together an overview of our years with and within the Missing Maps. November 2014 the Missing Maps project was launched by the British and…

  • Graduate Celebration 2019

    On 29 November 2019, we celebrated together with the graduates of 2018/2019 of Bachelor and Master of Science in Geography, and also School Education (Lehramt) at the ceremony in the venue of the Neue Aula of Heidelberg University. Moreover, Prof. Carl Zillich gave an interesting talk about perspectives, controversies and visions of the International Building…

  • disastermappers heidelberg get-together 2019: 03.Dec 2019

    Hello dear friends of disaster mapping, Another busy disastermappers heidelberg year is coming to an end. After events and meetings in  Heidelberg as well as Würzburg, Kiel, Salzburg and Berlin all around the topic of disaster mapping, we want to use the start in the Advent season to get feedback on the past events and…

  • TdLab Geographie im Klimawandel-Diskurs

    An der Schnittstelle von Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft positioniert sich das TdLab Geographie in dieser Woche mit zwei Aktivitäten. Am 25.11.2019 präsentierte Dr. Nicole Aeschbach gemeinsam mit Prof. Dr. Werner Aeschbach (Institut für Umweltphysik, Universität Heidelberg) im Rahmen eines sehr gut besuchten Vortrags bei der von Students for Future und Fridays for Future Heidelberg organisierten „Public…

  • meinGrün Vorstellung auf geoActive Heidelberg

    HeiGIT|GIScience HD beteiligt sich auch dieses Jahr am Fachaustausch geoActive (28.11.2019,  12.00 – 16.00 Uhr, halle02, Heidelberg) des GeoNet.MRN. In diesem Jahr werden wir als Teil des Open Space Konzeptes den aktuellen Stand der App meinGrün vorstellen und Informationen zu den Hintergründen des Projektes liefern. Das Projekt hat es sich als Ziel gesetzt, die Nutzung…

  • Reminder: Deadline next week Fri 06.12.2019: GIS Track ISCRAM 2020 at Virginia Tech

    : CALL FOR PAPERS for the GIS track at 17th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM 2020) May 24-27, 2020, Virginia, USA https://www.drrm.fralin.vt.edu/iscram2020/ Track: Geospatial Technologies and Geographic Information Science for Crisis Management (GIS) https://www.drrm.fralin.vt.edu/iscram2020/files/CFP/ISCRAM2020-Geospatial_Technologies_and_GIS.pdf Deadline for paper submissions: December 6, 2019 Track Description With disasters and disaster management being…