Category: Events
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Call for papers for DGPF Annual Conference 2020 in Stuttgart (Deadline 31 Oct 2019)
We would like to invite you to contribute actively to the DGPF Annual Conference 2020 (Jahrestagung) in Stuttgart. Deadline for abstract submissions (500-1500 words) is 31 October 2019. Our Working Group for Geoinformatics is looking forward to recent research and workbench insights covering the full range of methods in geoinformatics. Go for it and submit…
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Recap of HeiGIT @ FOSS4G 2019
First of all, thanks to everybody who attended our ohsome lab on OpenStreetMap History Analysis at last weeks FOSS4G in Bucharest. Even though there were eleven (!) tracks running in parallel, and our lab was not in the same location as the program track, we had some interested participants. Their affiliation ranged from public institutions…
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Die MS Wissenschaft ist in Heidelberg
Bis zum 01.09.2019 kann die Austellung auf der MS Wissenschaft zum Thema “Künstliche Intelligenz” in Heidelberg besucht werden. Wir waren da und sind begeistert! Für die Ausstellung hat das HeiGIT gemeinsam mit dem Alfred-Wegener-Institut für Polar- und Meeresforschung in Potsdam das Mitmach-Exponat Mensch und Maschine – Forschung im Team entwickelt.
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HeiGIT presents ohsome Lab at FOSS4G 2019 Bucharest
This week, the annual conference FOSS4G (Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial) is taking place in Bucharest, Romania. The conference is organized by The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) and attracts over 1000 professionals from industry and academia each year. The HeiGIT Big Spatial Data Team will present the ohsome platform and related tools such as the…
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Place in GIScience Paper at Platial 2019
The International Symposium on Platial Information Science PLATIAL’19 will be held this year at the University of Warwick in September 5-6. The programme has just been published and includes a paper from our research group about a systematic literature review about Place in the GIScience Community. As the first PLATIAL’2018 symposium held in Heidelberg 2018…
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Interested in time-dependent routing?
We are delighted to invite you to join a workshop on open-source routing with time-dependent restrictions, see http://giscienceblog.uni-hd.de/2019/04/17/project-tardur-starts-open-source-routing-with-time-dependent-restrictions/. The workshop is taking place on Friday before the State of the Map conference, 20th September 2019 in Heidelberg. It is free of charge and will last from 9:00 to 16:00 with a lunch break in between.…
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HeiGIT beim Tag der offenen Tür im Auswärtigem Amt, 17.-18. August
Wer steckt eigentlich hinter Missing Maps? Und wie können auch Sie in dem humanitären Mappingprojekt aktiv werden? Besuchen Sie uns heute beim Tag der offenen Tür im Auswärtigem Amt an unserem gemeinsamen Stand mit dem Deutschen Roten Kreuz. Weitere Informationen finden Sie hier. Wir freuen uns auf Sie.
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TdLab Geography at IPCC SRCCL launch event
On 8 August 2019, Dr. Nicole Aeschbach (TdLab Geography) attended the launch event for the IPCC special report on climate change, desertification, land degradation, sustainable land management, food security, and greenhouse gas fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems (SRCCL) at the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) in Geneva, Switzerland. After an introduction by Hoesung Lee, Chair of the…
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HeiGIT beim Tag der offenen Tür beim Auswärtigen Amt
Am 16. und 17. August öffnet das Auswärtige Amt in Berlin die Tore für die Öffentlichkeit. An diesen Tagen kann nicht nur das Auswärtige Amt selbst besichtigt werden, verschiedene Diplomaten, Vertreter verschiedener Ministerien, Einrichtungen und Organisationen werden vor Ort sein, um aktuelle Projekte und Ideen vorzustellen. In diesem Rahmen wird es auch einen „Humanitären Raum“…
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Successfull PhD defence by Michael Auer on 3D WebGIS
Last month Dr. Michael Auer successfully defended his PhD on Advancing 3D WebGIS – browser-based Methods for Visualization and Analysis and their Integration in Virtual Research Environments in the Context of Cultural Heritage . We congratulate cordially! We are happy to have Michael with us as in the Big Spatial Data Analytics team of HeiGIT…
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Colloquium on Place in GIScience
We cordially invite everybody interested to our next open GIScience colloquium talk! The speaker is Dr. René Westerholt from the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies, University of Warwick, UK. When: Monday 29.07.2019, 2:15 pm Where: INF 348, room 015 (Institute of Geography, Heidelberg University) Place in GIScience – A human geographic overview of the components to…
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OpenStreetMap (OSM) Workshop at the University of Jena
Last week, GIScience Heidelberg successfully held two collaborative workshops about OpenStreetMap (OSM) at the Department of Earth Observation in Jena. Dr. Chistian Thiel and his team from the University of Jena kindly organized the event. Three members of the GIScience Research Group and the Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation Technology (HeiGIT), Dr. Michael Schultz, Benjamin Herfort…