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  • Vortrag zur amtlichen Geodatenerfassung der Stadt Heidelberg

    Im Rahmen der Vorlesung “Geodatenerfassung” wird am Montag, 25. Juli 2016, 9:15h, Hörsaal Berliner Str. 48, Herr Hubert Zimmerer zur Amtlichen Geodatenerfassung in Heidelberg referieren. Herr Zimmerer ist Abteilungsleiter des Geographisch Technisches Informationssystems (GTIS) am Vermessungsamt der Stadt Heidelberg. Herr Zimmerer bringt eindrückliche Beispiele aus Heidelberg mit und wird einen direkten Praxisbezug der gelernten Theorie…

  • Establishing the “Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation Technology” at Heidelberg University – A new project funded by the Klaus Tschira Foundation (KTS)

    A major project funded by the Klaus Tschira Foundation (KTS) Heidelberg is starting this July. The KTS will support the establishment of the “Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation Technology” ( HeiGIT for short) within the Institute of Geography at Heidelberg University. This new project aims at improving knowledge and technology transfer from fundamental research into practice…

  • Location matters – GIS in the humanitarian sector – Presentation by S. Sudhoff (CartONG)

    On next monday, Sandra Sudhoff will give a public talk on the integration of GIS and other IT technologies with the humanitarian sector. Sandra is technical director at CartONG, a french NGO commited to providing geotools, geodata and professional guidance to decision makers and respondents in emergency relief and humanitarian aid. Like GIScience Heidelberg CartONG…

  • Let’s go biking – celebrating 200 years of the invention of the bicycle in Mannheim

    please vote for the project of collaboratively visualizing the hidden bicycle in the city plan of Mannheim in order to celebrate the invention of the bicycle 200 years ago in Mannheim. (Deadline June 10th) Wer hat’s erfunden? Monnem! GeoNet.MRN e.V. möchte das im Stadtplan verborgene Radmuster sichtbar machen. Nächstes Jahr feiert die Stadt Mannheim das…

  • Carlo Ratti from MIT Senseable City Lab talks in Heidelberg today

    Professor Carlo Ratti, Director of the Senseable City Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), US is giving a public presentation this evening in the context of the Internationale Bauausstellung IBA Heidelberg – Wissen schafft Stadt. He will present some of his works and ideas with respect to the senseable city and how this…

  • Volunteered geographic (mis)information? Measuring quality in crowdsourced maps – Colloquium Presentation by Andrea Ballatore this Monday

    We invite anybody interested to the following open talk in our GIScience colloquium series this Monday: Volunteered geographic (mis)information? Measuring quality in crowdsourced maps Dr. Andrea Ballatore Dept of Geography, Environment and Development Studies Birkbeck, University of London Lecturer in GIS and Big Data Analytics Mon, June 27, 2016, 2.15 pm, Institute of Geography, Heidelberg…

  • PhD Defence Lucy Mburu on Geographic Criminal Profiling

    This Friday – the hottest day of the year so far – Lucy Waruguru Mburu from the GIScience Research Group Heidelberg University successfully defended her PhD thesis on Criminal Geographic Profiling methods. Her thesis is entitled: “ A Framework for Prediciting Criminal Behavior and Area-Specific Crime Risk through Retrospective Analysis of Geographic Data“. Complemented by…

  • Utilising social media data for transport planning and traffic management

    Dr. Enrico Steiger (GIScience Heidelberg) will give a invited presentation about “Utilising social media data for transport planning and traffic management” on 4pm – 5:30pm, Thu, 23 Jun ’16 at Room CS101, Department of Computer Science, Warwick University UK Sustainable Cities Global Research Priority JOINT GRP / WISC SEMINAR The overall aim of the talk…

  • WeGovNow WebPage is live – Towards #WeGovernment

    The WeGovNow Towards #WeGovernment: Collective and participative approaches for addressing local policy challenges Establishing citizens as partners in the delivery of public services. A new type of citizen engagement platform, expanding the viability of and capacity for citizen coproduction in the public sector. WeGovNow and its 12 partner organisations are building upon earlier research and…

  • GIScience participates in ESNC-Kick-off Meeting in Heidelberg (Heidelberg Mobil International, Mathematikon this Tuesday)

    ESNC-Kick-off Meeting Satellitennavigation in Baden-Württemberg und Polen am 21. Juni 2016 von 10 bis 12 Uhr in Heidelberg bei Heidelberg Mobil International GmbH, Mathematikon – mittlerer Bauteil, Berliner Str. 41, 69120 Heidelberg More Info and Registration: http://www.esnc-bw.de/de/anmeldung-2 Die wirtschaftliche Bedeutung der Satellitennavigation ist enorm.* Unsere Infrastruktur ist auf die Helfer aus dem All angewiesen und…

  • Clustering and Analyzing Air Pollution Data using Self-Organizing Maps

    Today Enrico Steiger is presenting the following paper at AGILE 2016 conference Helsinki: Lee, M., Steiger, E. Zipf, A. (2016): Clustering and Analyzing Air Pollution Data using Self-Organizing Maps. 19th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science. Helsinki, Finnland. In Geographic Information Science the rise in the availability of spatial data paved ways for increased research…

  • Heidelberg Mobil moves into Mathematikon Heidelberg

    The IT company Heidelberg Mobil International (HDM-I) just moved into their new offices in the new Mathematikon Heidelberg. They are now neighbours to both the Institute of Geography and the Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing (IWR) at Heidelberg University. HDM-I is a spin-off of the European Media Laboratory (EML) founded by the Klaus-Tschira Foundation (KTS)…