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  • Geospatial Analysis of Disasters – Workshop on Measuring Welfare impacts of Emergency Relief, Heidelberg

    Natural disasters and man-made catastrophes pose a serious threat to the stability and prosperity of countries and the well-being and lives of many individuals worldwide. Methodological advances and better availability of geospatial data are revolutionizing research on economic development after disasters and the allocation and effects of disaster relief and other forms of humanitarian aid.…

  • LiDAR Processing Short Course – Combining 3D Laser Scanning with Geological Research

    Following up on the joint field trip to the Peloponnese in Greece this spring, the GIScience Group, welcomed Lisa Bingham and Andreas Habel, two scientists from the University of Stavanger, Department of Petroleum Engineering, for a two-day workshop (Dec 9 and 10, 2015) on LiDAR processing. The main objective of the LiDAR workshop was to…

  • UPDATE: Official Opening Ceremony of Mathematikon

    Klaus Tschira Stiftung presents Wing A to Heidelberg University Heidelberg University reports that mathematicians and computer scientists at Heidelberg University will be able to teach and conduct research together under one roof in the future, instead of being spread across various locations. The institutes and facilities of the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science and…

  • GIScience visits Christmas-Market at Heidelberg Castle

    We are happy to share some impressions. Enjoy and have a nice Christmas time!

  • Nachlese Fachaustausch Geoinformation des GeoNet.MRN 2015

    Bereits zum siebten Mal fand am 25.11.2015 in Heidelberg der Fachaustausch Geoinformation des Netzwerks Geoinformation der Metropolregion Rhein-Neckar GeoNet.MRN e.V. statt. Dieses Jahr unter der Schirmherrschaft des Ministeriums für Wissenschaft Forschung und Kunst Baden-Württemberg. Die ca. 140 Teilnehmer ließen sich von der packenden Atmosphäre der Print Media Academy und dem hochkarätigen Vortragsprogramm begeistern. Unter dem…

  • CrowdAnalyser Talk and Workshop on Big Data and Socioeconomic Analysis by Professor Paul Longley

    By the end of November, Professor Paul Longley and his colleague Guy Lansley (both from Department of Geography, University College London) visited our group as part of the last CrowdAnalyser workshop. Both of them gave really inspiring talks. Paul talked about the provenance and use of big data (largely focussing on social media). Guy, in…

  • Scientific Computing and Open Data, 10th Modelling Day Heidelberg

    Tomorrow on Dezember 3rd 2015 the “10th Modelling Day” will take place in the “Print Media Academy” in Heidelberg. Start is at 14:00pm. This years overarching topic is “Open Data”. There will be three contributions related to GIScience Heidelberg: – Prof. Dr. Alexander Zipf will talk about “Challenges and Potential of Open Geodata for Geographic…

  • The provenance and use of geospatial Big Data (Paul Longley) and Small area profiling through geodemographics (Guy Lansley)

    This Friday, November 27th 2015 we invite you to two highly interesting presentations from well-known colleagues from the Department of Geography, University College London (UCL). Prof. Dr. Paul Longley will talk about “The provenance and use of geospatial Big Data” at 10-11am s.t. This presentation reports on the research activities of the Consumer Data Research…

  • Explore! The Power of Maps. Results of the Heidelberg Missing Maps Mapathon

    Last week we organized a special Mapping event in the scope of the Geography Awareness Week in cooperation with the Missing Maps team and great support by students of the seminar “Disaster Management with GIS” and the disastermappers Heidelberg. The students created a blog post explaining the motivation as well as the outcome of the…

  • A Week full of GIScience Events

    This week is busy with several GIScience events in Heidelberg: – Monday started with a talk of Dr. Inga Back on the PermaSAR project in the HCE colloquium series. – On Tuesday our project “Wissen für die Stadt” (Knowledge for the City) participates in a workshop about the related IBA candidate “Zukunfts- und Wissensspeicher Energie…

  • Reallabor/Urban Office TP 4: Workshop zum Wissensspeicher

    Am Dienstag, den 24. November 2015, nimmt das Teilprojekt 4 (Geoinformatik, IFEU) “Wissen schaffen für die Stadt – neue Methoden der Bürgerbeteiligung durch interaktive Stadtplanung im Web 2.0 am Beispiel der Energiewende” an einem Workshop der Stadtwerke teil. Im Rahmen des “IBA_KANDIDAT #033 Zukunfts- und Wissensspeicher Energie und Technik” geht es um die Ausgestaltung des…

  • Permafrost in Climate Change – Effects on Humans and the Environment. Presentation by Inga Beck next Monday

    In the course of this semester’s “Heidelberg Bridge” Colloquium by the Heidelberg Center for the Environment (HCE) Dr. Inga Beck from GIScience Heidelberg (Lidar Research Group) will give a public presentation and discussion on the topic “Permafrost in Climate change – effects on human and environment“. The talk will be in German. Date and time:…