Category: Events
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Call for Abstracts – Dreiländertagung OVG – DGPF – SGPF 2019 in Wien
Die 39. wissenschaftlich-technische Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Photogrammetrie, Fernerkundung und Geoinformation (DGPF) wird in Kooperation mit der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Vermessung und Geoinformation (OVG) und der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Photogrammetrie und Fernerkundung (SGPF) im Rahmen der Dreiländertagung (DLT 2019) vom 20. bis 22. Februar 2019 in Wien stattfinden. Wissenschaftler/innen, Entwickler/innen und Anwender/innen aus den…
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Meet HeiGIT/GIScience @HOT Summit/ FOSS4G in Dar es Salaam
HeiGIT/GIScience Research Group is looking forward to present our latest research, services and developments at the HOT Summit/ FOSS4G in beautiful Dar es Salaam. Sabrina Marx and Melanie Eckle of the Geoinformation for Humanitarian Aid group will provide an overview of our latest projects and ideas, and current collaborative projects with the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team.…
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Towards the statistical analysis and visualization of places
The concept of place recently gains momentum in GIScience. In some fields like human geography, spatial cognition or information theory, this topic already has a longer scholarly tradition. This is however not yet completely the case with statistical spatial analysis and cartography. Despite that, taking full advantage of the plethora of user-generated information that we…
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Meet us at State of the Map 2018 Milan: Ohsome talks and workshop ahead!
In a few days – THIS Saturday July, 29. – the State of the Map 2018 Conference in Milan will opening its doors with many interesting talks and workshops related to OpenStreetMap. HeiGIT and the GIScience Research Group at Heidelberg University will be there with several persons and give the following presentations and even a…
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EU Sentinel 2 osmlanduse.org fusion @ Toulouse Space show
Another chapter in machine human fusion land use device narrative: new Sentinel 2 osmlanduse.org product results based on OpenStreetMap plus Sentinel 2 data plus Machine Learning were presented at ToulouseSpaceShow 2018 during a European Space Agency (ESA) Research and User Support (RUS) event. Stay tuned: The new product will soon be available for all EU…
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HOT End of semester Mapathon and BBQ
Flood events caused serious harm in wide areas of Japan and Sri Lanka over the last couple of weeks. Heavy rain, floods and landslides occured in South West area of Japan and monsoon rains have caused severe flooding in the Kurunagala and Puttalam districts of Sri Lanka. The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) has received requests…
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HeiGIT/GIScience@FOSS4G 2018
FOSS4G 2018 is only 42 days away and we are excited to present our Openrouteservice for Disaster Management there. Furthermore, we will provide insights on the potential of the ohsome platform for the HOT community. Check out the program for further details. We hope to see you in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, August 27 –…
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Successfull PhD Defence of GIScience Group Member Julian Bruns
Our GIScience Research Group team member Julian Bruns has recently defended his PhD at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) at the FZI in the project BigGIS. Congratulations Julian, well done! The topic of the thesis was “Robust Modeling of Spatio-Temporal Dependencies and Hot Spots” at the Institut für Informationswirtschaft und Marketing at KIT.
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Colloquium on Open Source Foundations for Spatial Decisions Support Systems
We cordially invite everybody interested to our next open GIScience colloquium talk The speaker is Prof. Jochen Albrecht Professor of Computational and Theoretical Geography, Hunter College, City University of New York When: Monday 16.07.2018, 2:15 pm Where: INF 348, room 015 (Institute of Geography, Heidelberg University) Open Source Foundations for Spatial Decisions Support Systems Spatial Decision Support…
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AGIT30 was ohsome (and awesome)
Members of the HeiGIT team were presenting parts of our work at this years AGIT/GI_Forum conference in Salzburg, Austria (as already announced in a previous blogpost). Julian Bruns was presenting the results of a joint work with the KIT and his old employer, the FZI, which is published in the GI-Forum journal (English conference running in parallel to the…