Category: Events
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GeOnG Conference 2018: Workshop Materials and Slides
After the successful GeOnG conference 2018 in chambery we want to thank the organizers and all participants. We contributed in several ways, as already highlighed in our previous blogpost. Now, we also want to share our slides and workshop material with everyone interested. Round table discussion: Machine Learning, AI & satellite imagery: what impact on…
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Reisen für die Wissenschaft: Expeditionen, Exkursionen und Explorationen – HGG programme WS1819
Das Wintersemester hat begonnen und damit auch die Vortragsreihe der Heidelberg Geographischen Gesellschaft HGG. Wir möchten Sie herzlich einladen an den Vorträgen der HGG teilzunehmen. Das Rahmenthema dieses Semester lautet: Reisen für die Wissenschaft Expeditionen, Exkursionen und Explorationen Die Vorträge dieses Semester: ”And Germany pays you for asking us these questions?” Humangeograhische Reflexionen über das…
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Linking GIScience and spatial epidemiology at the 10th Summer School for Spatial epidemiology, social media, and urban health
HeiGIT/GIScience member Sven Lautenbach acted both as part of the boards of directors and as an instructor at the 10th Summer School for Spatial epidemiology, social media, and urban health that took place at the Humboldt University in Bielefeld. This year’s summer school aimed at the use of social media to capture spatial patterns in…
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HeiGIT at Sustainable Development in Action
HeiGIT ran a workshop on geodata for sustainable development at the Sustainable Development in Action conference organized by the Heidelberg Center for Environment and Momentum Novum at Heidelberg University. Our workshop provided an overview about the importance of geodata to tackle the sustainable development goals (SDG) of the United Nations, highlighted the importance of bridging…
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HeiGIT at the ‘Fachtagung Katastrophenvorsorge’
Last week the ‘Fachtagung Katastrophenvorsorge‘ took place in Berlin. The annual symposium, organized by the German Red Cross, brings various actors together involved in national and international disaster risk reduction. Our workshop, which we were running together with the Federal Office of Civil Protection and Disaster Assistance (BBK) and the German Aerospace Centre (DLR), focused…
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HeiGIT/GIScience and disastermappers at GeOnG 2018
Over the next couple of days, CartONG are again organizing the biannual GeOnG conference– a great occasion for humanitarian actors, volunteer communities and humanitarian and GIS service providers to mingle and exchange current ideas, challenges and lessons learned. This year the main theme is ““Perfection” versus “Good Enough” in Information Management: Adjusting to context, scale,…
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Innsbruck Summer School of Alpine Research 2019 – Registration now online
The deadline for registration for our Innsbruck Summer School of Alpine Research 2019 is approaching (30 November 2018). If you want to learn most recent close-range sensing technology from leading experts in an amazing environment and venue, the Ötztal Alps in Austria, you should definitely consider to apply for participation. All details regarding learning objectives,…
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Successfull PhD Defence of Michael Schultz about tropical deforestation monitoring using Landsat time series and breakpoint detection
Last week our team member Dr. Michael Schultz successfully defended his PhD Defence about Tropical deforestation monitoring using Landsat time series and breakpoint detection at Wageningen University and Research (WUR). It was supervised by Prof. Dr M. Herold (Professor of Geo-information Science and Remote Sensing at Wageningen University & Research). We congratulate cordially! Keep up…
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Fachaustausch Geoinformation Heidelberg 2018: Vorläufiges Programm und Anmeldung sind Online
Fachaustausch Geoinformation DIE JÄHRLICHE NETZWERKKONFERENZ DES GEONET.MRN Vorläufiges Programm und Anmeldung sind nun online. In vielen Bereichen des digitalen Wandels kommt Geoinformation eine tragende Rolle zu. Die zum 10. Mal stattfindende Jahreskonferenz des GeoNet.MRN – der Fachaustausch Geoinformation – nimmt sich dieses Themas an. Die Konferenz findet dieses Jahr am Donnerstag, den 29. November 2018,…
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Visit Openrouteservice this week at INTERGEO 2018 in Frankfurt at the BKG booth
We are happy to announce that we are going to be part of INTERGEO 2018 in Frankfurt this week on October 16.-18. This event being the “global hub of the geospatial community” has quite something to offer with hundreds and hundreds of innovative companies showcasing their products and visions. We are joining up with the Federal Agency for Cartography and…
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EuroGEOSS Workshop: Crowdsourcing Land Use Map Validation
At the recent EuroGEOSS Workshop in Geneva, LandSense researchers from IIASA and Heidelberg University hosted an interactive mapping session to showcase the power of crowdsourcing for map validations as announced earlier. Using the openly available Land Cover Validation Platform (LACO-Wiki), participants collaboratively validated a land use and land cover map of Geneva, which brings together data…