Category: Events
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Program of our ISSDQ session on “Quality analysis of Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) towards effective use” is online
The program of our special session SS1 on “Quality analysis of Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) towards effective use” at the 9th International Symposium on Spatial Data Quality (ISSDQ 2015) has been published online. ISSDQ is an event at the ISPRS Geospatial Week 2015 in Montpellier – La Grande Motte, France. The session is scheduled on…
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GIScience Heidelberg @ Intergeo 2015 Stuttgart 15-17 Sept. 2015
The fair INTERGEO 2015 is taking place in Stuttgart, Germany 15.-17. September 2015. The GIScience Research Group Heidelberg University will be present at the joint booth of the GeoNet.MRN, the Network Geoinformation of the Metropolitain Region Rhine-Neckar. There you will also find further members of the GeoNet.MRN, like the companies Heidelberg Mobil, geomer and Leiner…
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Save the date: Regional GIS Conference in Heidelberg 25. November 2015
Once again the “Fachaustausch Geoinformation” will be organized by the Geo-Network of the Metropolitain Region Rhine-Neckar GeoNet.MRN” in Heidelberg on 11/25/2015. The event serves the networking and exchange of experience between interested parties, experts, users and decision-makers from business, science, politics and government on applications and current issues of regional data and geographic information systems.…
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20 years of KTS – a cornerstone for Geoinformatics in Heidelberg
The Klaus Tschira Foundation (KTS) Heidelberg can look back to 20 successful years of history since its foundation in 1995 (www.20jahrekts.de). The foundation of the European Media Laboratory (EML) in 1997 also had a great impact on Geoinformatics in Heidelberg, with Alexander Zipf being the first PhD student there in the first EML research project…
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European Chapter of the Society for Digital Earth (ISDE) Inaugural Meeting at JRC
The Kick-Off Meeting of the European Chapter of the Socienty for Digital Earth (ISDE) was held last week at the EU Joint Research Center (JRC) in Ispra. Prof. Alexander Zipf attended the meeting on behalf of GIScience Research Group Heidelberg University. Digital Earth is a global initiative to construct a comprehensive virtual representation of the…
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Invitation to the 2nd GeoNet.MRN GeoBusiness Breakfast (28. July Heidelberg) of the Network Geoinformation of the Metropolitan Region Rhine-Neckar
Die Leiner & Wolff GmbH läd am Dienstag, den 28.7.2015 herzlich zum zweiten GeoNet.MRN Business-Frühstück des Netzwerks Geoinformation der Metropolregion Rhein-Neckar (GeoNet.MRN) ein! 8.30 – 9.00 Uhr Ankommen mit Frühstückssnack und informeller Austausch 9.00 – 9.30 Uhr Vorstellung der Leiner & Wolff GmbH 9.30 – 10.00 Uhr Ausklang Ort: Leiner & Wolff GmbH, Hauptstraße 90…
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Post-disaster damage assessment – combining remote sensing image analysis and crowdsourcing (Dr. Norman Kerle, ITC), GIScience HD Colloquium, Wednesday 22.07.15
We cordially invite anybody to our final GIScience colloquium in this summer term. Dr. Norman Kerle from ITC will talk about Post-disaster damage assessment – combining remote sensing image analysis and crowdsourcing on Wednesday, Jul 22, 2015, 4:00 pm, at Hörsaal, Berliner Straße 48, Institute of Geography, Heidelberg University Following a disaster event a rapid…
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The Past, Present and Future of Cartography – Talk by Prof. Kainz
We cordially invite everybody to another interesting talk in the anniversary GIScience Colloquium Series at Heidelberg University. Univ.-Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Wolfgang Kainz (Professor for Cartography and Geoinformation, Institut for Geographie and Regional Research, University of Vienna) will talk on Thursday, Jul 16, 2015, 4.15 pm in the Lecture Hall, Berliner Straße 48, Heidelberg about the…
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ISPRS Innsbruck PhD Summer School of Alpine Research 2015
The first summer school of its kind on Close Range Sensing Techniques in Alpine Terrain took place in Obergurgl, Ötztal Valley, Austria, from July 5 – 11 2015. The event was co-hosted by the ISPRS, the main organizer University of Innsbruck and several other European universities including the GIScience Group of Heidelberg University. More than…
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Talk on Smart Urbanism by Prof. Matthew W. Wilson (Kentucky/Harvard): Quantified Self-City-Nation
We cordially invite everybody to an open presentation on our colloquium series tomorrow (Tuesday, 14.07.2015) at 10am by Dr. Matthew W. Wilson to the Department of Geography, Heidelberg University Lecture Hall EG, Berliner Straße 48, 69198 Heidelberg. The title of the talk is Quantified Self-City-Nation. New devices and techniques have emerged to better quantify an…