Category: Events
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Ending the semester with GIScience colloquium discussions
The winter semester 2017/2018 just has ended last week at Heidelberg University. The final GIScience colloquium presentation was given by Ross Purves (University of Zurich). After his talk we had a good discussion with members of the GIScience Research Group about VGI research and beyond. Looking forward to continue this soon. Stay tuned for the…
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disastermappers heidelberg/GIScience support for MAnnheimer MAPAthons (MAMAPA)- Integration and humanitarian contribution
The first mapathon in the MAMAPA framework was held on January 23, 2018 at the Abendakademie in the city center of Mannheim. Project organizer Robert Danziger, Board member at CartONG and member of the disastermappers heidelberg, presented the project in several different locations in Mannheim in the weeks leading to the event. Immigrant language and…
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Semester Ending Mapathon and Open Group Meeting
disastermappers heidelberg want to invite you to our last mapathon in this winter term! This time, we will be mapping the rural areas of Tanzania in eastern Africa. There will be a Skype interview with Janet Chapman of the Tanzania Development Trust, who will give us an overview on the mapping activities in this area.…
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Today Two free GIS Events @Heidelberg
Today you have the choice to select between two interesting GIS related events @Heidelberg with contributions by GIScience Group Heidelberg University: Geobasierte Modelle. 14. Modellierungstag Rhein-Neckar am 1. Februar 2018 (in German, @Mathematikon HD, 14.00-18.00) European Citizen Science Association Webinar on #citizenscience for monitoring urban landscape dynamics (in English, Online-Webinar, 16:30-17:30) It’s your choice. Enjoy!…
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CFP: VGI-ALIVE Workshop at AGILE 2018, Lund, Sweden
VGI-ALIVE – AnaLysis, Integration, Vision, Engagement Tuesday 12th June 2018, Lund, Sweden, Workshop at AGILE 2018 Introduction to the VGI-ALIVE Workshop The steady rise of data volume shared on already established and new Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) and social media platforms calls for advanced analysis methods of user contribution patterns, leads to continued challenges in data fusion, and…
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14. Modellierungstag Rhein-Neckar am 1. Februar 2018
1. Februar 2018 – 14:00 Uhr Mathematikon Im Neuenheimer Feld 205 Konferenzraum 5. Etage 69120 Heidelberg Der Modellierungstag Rhein-Neckar eröffnet Praktikern und Wissenschaftlern die Gelegenheit, Innovationen zur Diskussion zu stellen, Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschiede der verwendeten Modellierungsansätze herauszuarbeiten und den gegenseitigen Erfahrungsaustausch zu pflegen. Weitere Informationen finden Sie hier: http://www.modellierungstag.de/ Programm 14:00 Michael Winckler (IWR, Universität…
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ECSA Webinar on #citizenscience for monitoring urban landscape dynamics with GIScience Heidelberg
Join the next ECSA webinar on “Citizen Science for monitoring urban landscape dynamics”! The European Citizen Science Association (ECSA) will host a webinar on the topic of “Citizen Science for monitoring urban landscape dynamics”. The webinar will include two talks: Assessing urban green space in Vienna (by Gebhard Banko and Barbara Birli from the Austrian Environmental…
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Colloquium Presentation on Delineating and Describing Landscapes and Landform Elements (Prof. Ross Purves)
we cordially invite everybody interested to our next open GIScience colloquium talk Delineating and describing landscapes and landform elements: challenges and novel methodological approaches Prof. Dr. Ross Purves Head of Geocomputation Unit, Department of Geography, University of Zurich Time and date: Mon, January 29, 2:15 pm Venue: INF 348, Room 015, Department of Geography, Heidelberg University…
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Colloquium Presentation on Context-Aware Movement Analysis (Dr. Mohammad Sharif)
we cordially invite everybody interested to our next open GIScience colloquium talk Context-Aware Movement Analysis: An Application to Similarity Search of Trajectories Dr. Mohammad Sharif Department of Geographic Information Systems, Faculty of Geomatics Engineering, K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran Time and date: Mon, January 22, 2:15 pm Venue: INF 348, Room 015, Department…
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Love Maths? – GIScience HD visits “MatheLiebe” Exhibition Heidelberg
This week the GIScience research group Heidelberg and HeiGIT visited the exhibition “MatheLiebe” in Heidelberg. The exhibition demonstrates that: • Mathematics is understandable not only for scientists, but for everyone, • that mathematics is interesting and useful and full of exciting surprises, • and that mathematics is important for technological progress and for our everyday…
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Colloquium Presentation: Datacubes: A Step Towards Analysis-Ready Big Data (Prof. Peter Baumann)
we cordially invite everybody interested to our next open GIScience colloquium talk! Prof. Dr. Peter Baumann / Computer Science, Jacobs University, Bremen Friday, January 19 2018, 10.15 am, INF 348, Room 013, Heidelberg University, Institute for Geography Datacubes form an enabling paradigm for serving massive spatio-temporal Earth data in an analysis-ready way by combining individual files…
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GIS @ ISCRAM – Call for SHORT PAPERS – DL: Jan 21
15th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM 2018) May 20-23, 2018, Rochester, NY, USA https://iscram2018.rit.edu/submissions Track: Geospatial Technologies and Geographic Information Science for Crisis Management (GIS) https://iscram2018.rit.edu/sites/rit.edu.iscram2018/files/docs/ISCRAM_2018_track_GIS.pdf Deadline for paper submissions: December 10, 2017 Track Description With disasters and disaster management being an “inherently spatial” problem, geospatial information and technologies…