Category: Events

  • Missing Maps Mapathon @ Geography Awareness Week @ Heidelberg University

    Next week is “Geography Awareness Week” and in this week we organize a voluntary OpenStreetMap Mapping Party. We invite you all cordially to join us mapping for a good purpose. Let`s celebrate the international “Geography Awareness Week” and learn more about the power of maps! How? With a Missing Maps Mapathon! When? Nov/18/2015 – 18.15…

  • Today: Colloquium Talk about Mobile Mapping

    Today, our guest Professor Nüchter (University of Würzburg) will present a novel algorithm for correcting vehicle positions along trajectories. In the face of recent developments such as autonomous driving, this is a highly interesting and inspiring topic. Looking forward to your participation! Prof. Dr. Andreas Nüchter, Mobile Mapping with SLAM, Lecture Hall BST 48, 04.15pm…

  • Invitation to 2nd CrowdAnalyser Workshop with speaker Prof. Paul Longley (UCL London)

    On behalf of the research training group “CrowdAnalyser” at Heidelberg University (www.uni-heidelberg.de/crowdanalyser), we would like to invite you to participate in our second “CrowdAnalyser Workshop 2015”. The objective of this workshop is to bring together academics and practitioners that are interested in exploring knowledge and developing methods, operational frameworks and systems for spatio-temporal data generated…

  • Presentations of Heidelberg Geographical Society this semester about Challenge Metropolis

    The public talks of the Heidelberg Geographical Society do start this Tuesday evening (19 pm). The theme of the talks this semester is “Challenge Metropolis – urban development in the age of globalization“. The first talk will be given by the new faculty member at the Department of Geography of Heidelberg University, Jun.Prof. Anna Growe…

  • Being a Polar Researcher

    Mid of October Inga Beck was invited by a local primary school to talk about her research and to give the students an impression about the work of a Polar Researcher. The entire school (around 200 children and 15 teachers) gathered in the assembly hall of the school and listened carefully to the presentation. Beside…

  • Lajos-Lóczy-Medal for Prof. Peter Meusburger

    Senior Professor distinctus Dr. Dr.h.c. Peter Meusburger recently received the honorable Lajos Lóczy Plaque. This medal is awarded to him by the Hungarian Geographical Society for his contribution to the Hungarian geography. It is the highest scientific award of the Hungarian geography. Congratulations Peter!

  • Autumn in Heidelberg @GIScience

    We are happy to share with you some impressions from a colourful autumn in Heidelberg. Some members of GIScience Research Group Heidelberg University.

  • Andreas Reuter appointed Senior Professor at Heidelberg University

    Prof. Dr. Ing. Andreas Reuter, Managing Director of the Heidelberg Institute of Theoretical Studies (HITS) gGmbH and Scientific and Managing Director of the European Media Laboratory GmbH (EML) has been appointed Senior Professor at Heidelberg University. The expert for information technologies will develop further the IT infrastructure for data-driven science. Congratulations Andreas! Here is the…

  • Talk ‘3D-Geoinformation aus Laserscanningdaten’ at workshop ‘The future courtroom’

    At Thursday, 22nd of October, the GIScience LiDAR Research Group (LRG) contributed to the workshop ‘The future courtroom‘ (website in German) with a talk introducing the analysis of 3D Geodata and the connections to forensic science. Martin Hämmerle presented a selection of LRG projects covering a wide range of applications and use cases, from crowd…

  • Detection, modelling and visualisation of space-related emotions from user-generated content: First colloquium talk of the semester by Eva Hauthal

    The new semester has just begun, and therefore a further series of colloquium talks will start soon. We are pleased to announce an upcoming talk by Dr.-Ing. Eva Hauthal who will make the start. She is currently fellow of the Institute for Cartography at the Technical University of Dresden. In her talk she will introduce…

  • Save the Date: 10. Modellierungstag “Open Data” Heidelberg

    On Dezember 3rd 2015 the “10th Modelling Day” will take place in the “Print Media Academy” in Heidelberg. Start is at 14:00pm . From GIScience Heidelberg there will be two contributions: Prof. Dr. Alexander Zipf will talk about “Herausforderungen und Potenziale offener Geodaten für räumliche Modellierungen in Wirtschaft und Wissenschaft” and Benjamin Herfort gives a…

  • Merging volunteered and expert accessibility data

    On Tuesday 13 October, we have been more than happy to host volunteers of SAP in the course of the “SAP month of service” as our guests. They have supported us to merge volunteered data about accessibility from wheelmap.org and expert data about accessibility from Heidelberg Hürdenlos (a local accessibility platform). Heidelberg Hürdenlos contains more…