Category: Events
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GIScience HD Group Impressions
Just before the last colloquium we spontaneously made some group photos of some members of the GIScience Heidelberg team…
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Festakt und Tagung des “Reallabor Urban Office in Heidelberg”
Am 2. und 3. Juni 2016 feierte das Heidelberger Reallabor “Urban Office – Nachhaltige Stadtentwicklung in der Wissensgesellschaft” mit einer Fachtagung das mittlerweile eineinhalbjährige Bestehen dieses experimentellen Wissenschafts- und Projektformates. Es soll Wissenschaft und Praxis näher zusammenbringen, mit dem Ziel gemeinsam an Lösungen für eine nachhaltige Stadt in der Wissensgesellschaft von Morgen zu arbeiten. Das…
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Mapping Sokodé – OSM Mapathon as Remote Support to enable local development
This Wednesday June 08 students of the “Citizens as sensors” seminar will organize a mapping event to support local development in Sokodé (Togo) at the Department of Geography Heidelberg University. Thereby they want to add to previously successful mapping events organized by students, the disastermappers HD and GIScience HD in Heidelberg. For many places in…
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Flood risk assessment at the future Mexico City International Airport – GIScience Colloquium presentation today
We cordially invite any interested person to another public talk in our GIScience colloquium series this monday. The topic is: Flood risk assessment at the future Mexico City International Airport Dr. Carolina Ramírez-Núñez / visiting scientist GIScience Heidelberg, CONACYT, National Council of Science + Technology, Mexico Date: Mon, June 6, 2016, 14:15 pm, Location: Heidelberg…
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Report on the International Workshop on Maritime Flows and Networks (WIMAKS’16)
The second international workshop on maritime flows and networks was organized by the World Seastems European FP7 project during 25th-27th of April 2016 at the Institute of Complex Systems of French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), Paris. The workshop contained 12 sessions, 3 keynote speeches and 33 paper presentations which were given by 72 participants. The…
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RIOSCRAM 2016 – ISCRAM Conference in Rio de Janeiro
Last week Carolin Klonner, Melanie Eckle and Benjamin Herfort attended the 13th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management in Rio de Janeiro. The ISCRAM community is globally active and brings together researchers, academics, practitioners as well as policy makers to promote research and development of information systems for crisis management. This…
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Twitter Analysis in Space and Time
The topic of the “Akademische Mittagspause” (“academic lunch break” – a kind of open brown bag series for the public) at Heidelberg University is this semester is “Do you speak Math?“. In total more then 60 different presentations are given in the “Peterskirche”, Plöck 70, 69117 Heidelberg on a daily basis Monday to Friday, 13.00…
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Upcoming talk: Deriving urban land use from image data
On next Monday, Dr. Tessio Novack from the Technical University of Munich (photogrammetry and remote sensing research group) will give the second presentation in our currently running GIScience colloquium lecture series. He will introduce some of the main approaches for deriving land use information from remote sensing imagery. Further, potentials and limitations of corresponding techniques…
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OSM Mapathon for Regional Planning in Togo at GIScience HD on June 8th
Save the date: On Wednesday June 08 it’s time again to start a OSM mapping event at the Department of Geography Heidelberg University. We want to continue this semester adding to previously successful mapping events organized by students, the disastermappers HD and GIScience HD in Heidelberg. For many places in the world there are no…
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Citizen Science: First International ECSA Conference 2016
On 19th to 21st May, the European Citizen Science Association (ECSA) held its first international conference in Berlin. The event attracted scientists, practitioners, and of course citizens engaged in scientific projects from all over the world. Several tracks of presentations and discussions highlighted the current hot topics in citizen science, like learning and education through…
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HCE/IWR presentation: Feature Extraction of Discrete Manifolds from Archaeological Findings to Cultural Landscapes (Dr. H. Mara, IWR)
As a member of both HCE (Heidelberg Center for the Environment) and IWR (Interdiciplinary Center for Scientific Computing) we are happy to make you aware of todays public presentation in the HCE colloquium series “Heidelberger Brücke”: Title: Feature Extraction of Discrete Manifolds from Archaeological Findings to Cultural Landscapes Lecture and discussion with Dr. Hubert Mara,…
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Urban Landuse, Flood Risks, VGI quality and GIS in humanitarian NGOs – save the date for GIScience presentations
Earlier this semester Dr. Chiao-Ling started the GIScience colloqium series already with a presentation about An Ontology-based Semantic Interoperability Framework for Geospatial Information. Now stay tuned and save the date for the further presentations in this semester: Deriving urban land use from image data – potentials, limitations and main approaches (Dr. Tessio Novack) Mo, 30.05.2016,…