Category: Events
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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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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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HeiGIT support for Humanitarian Village and Mapathon at Humanitarian Congress in Berlin 2019
On October 17/18th the Humanitarian Congress is organized in Berlin by Médecins Sans Frontières/Ärzte ohne Grenzen (MSF), Médecins du Monde/Doctors of the World (MdM), German Red Cross (GRC) and Berlin Chamber of Physicians. For more than 20 years, this congress brings together actors from the medical and humanitarian, governmental, media, and research world. These come together…
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Brownbag Presentation by Jennings Anderson (University of Colorado Boulder) on OpenStreetMap data analysis
We cordially invite you to a Brownbag presentation by our Guest Researcher Dr. Jennings Anderson! When? Tuesday, 8/10/2019, 1-2.30 pm Where? Seminar room 15, INF 348 Jennings is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Colorado Boulder exploring new approaches to analytical infrastructures for big, peer-produced geospatial datasets, specifically OpenStreetMap. His dissertation work involved designing…
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MapSwipe 2.0: Reimagining how a mobile app can support humanitarian response worldwide
In 2015, MapSwipe began as a solution to a complex question: how do we better identify where communities and populations are, allowing mapping to be more efficient and effective? Using a simple mobile app, volunteers are able to swipe through a series of satellite images, tapping in areas where they find features. MapSwipe can be…
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Nicole and Werner Aeschbach contributed to the LCOY Heidelberg
Nicole Aeschbach (Head of TdLab Geography) and Werner Aeschbach (Professor at the Institute of Environmental Physics, Heidelberg University) contributed to the Local Conference of Youth (LCOY) which took place from 4 to 6 October 2019 in Heidelberg. In their talk, Nicole and Werner presented the basic science of climate change, covering observations and impacts of…
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Mapathon at “JKG” during German Congress for Geography 2019
This year the bi-annual German Congress for Geography was held in Kiel in northern Germany. The conference is the main platform for German speaking researchers to exchange recent research results in the field of geography. Besides this, a growing number of events are being organized by students and “young” geographers as part of the “Youth…
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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,…
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2nd International Conference “Our Climate – Our Future: Regional Perspectives on a Global Challenge” in Berlin
From 23 to 25 September 2019, the 2nd International Conference “Our Climate – Our Future: Regional Perspectives on a Global Challenge” of the Helmholtz Climate Initiative “Regional Climate Change” (REKLIM) took place in Berlin, Germany. The conference programme included keynote speeches, oral presentations, poster presentations, networking opportunities and a number of additional discussion platforms. Six…
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State of the Map and HOT Summit in Heidelberg
Over the last few days, Heidelberg has been host to the annual HOT Summit and State of the Map conference with a combined attendance of over 800 people. The HOT summit ran from the 19th-20th September and had over 200 attendees from more than 40 different countries. The SotM conference, running from the 21st to…
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TdLab Geographie am K3 Kongress zu Klimakommunikation
„Klimakommunikation in Zeiten gesellschaftlicher Transformation“ lautete das Motto des „K3 Kongress zu Klimawandel, Kommunikation und Gesellschaft“ am 24. und 25. September 2019 am Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT). Im Rahmen von Keynotes, Foren, Workshops und anderen Formaten bot die Tagung die Gelegenheit zum intensiven Austausch zwischen Wissenschaft und Kommunikationspraxis zu den drei Themenschwerpunkten „Klimakommunikation“, „Klimahandeln“…
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Follow-up BMBF/MOST project “ER3DS” meeting at National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan
Within the BMBF-funded project ER3DS (Emission Reduction in Smart Cities Using 3D Spatial Sensing and Analysis) a second workshop and exchange visit was organized and hosted by the National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) in Tainan, Taiwan, from 16 September to 19 September 2019. The first day included two lectures at the Dept. of Geomatics (Prof.…