Category: Events
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Invitation to GIScience Colloquium: An Agent-Based Model of Individual and Collective Place Formation
We cordially invite any interested person to the next GIScience Heidelberg colloquium presentation this week on Thursday, 18 June 2015, 2.00 p.m. in the Lecture Hall, Institute of Geography, Heidelberg University, Berliner Str. 48, 69120 HD. The title of the talk is “An Agent-Based Model of Individual and Collective Place Formation” and will be given…
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Bernd Resch receives Theodor-Körner Award
At a ceremony at the University of Vienna Bernd Resch (Heidelberg University and University of Salzburg) received the Theodor-Körner Award in the category of medicine, natural sciences and technology. The Price was awarded by the Austrian Ministry of Transportation, Innovation and Technology (bmvit). In his work, Bernd Resch focuses on assessing human emotions with a…
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RICH-VGI workshop at 18th AGILE conference, Lisbon
Our AGILE workshop called RICH-VGI (enRICHment of volunteered geographic information (VGI): Techniques, practices and current state of knowledge) was held on June 9, 2015 in Lisbon as part of the 18th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science of the Association of Geographic Information Laboratories in Europe (AGILE) with comparatively a large number of participants. The…
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Colloquium Talk by Guibo Sun
This week Dr. Guibo Sun will talk about different correlates that affect the walking behaviour around metro stations in Beijing. Guibo is working as a research associate at the Chinese University of Hongkong (Institute of Earth and Space Information Science). Please find a more elaborate abstract on our web page. Built-environment correlates of walking from…
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Andreas Reimer successfully defends his PhD on Cartographic Modeling for Automated Map Generation
Last week our GIScience team member Dr. Andreas Reimer successfully defended his PhD at TU Eindhoven (Promotor: Prof. Dr. Bettina Speckmann, Eindhoven and Co-promotor: Prof. Dr. W.A. Mackaness, Edinburgh). The topic of the PhD thesis was “Cartographic modelling for automated map generation” and includes a range of fascinating research on cartography, ranging from schematizing and…
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Missing Maps visit Heidelberg and New Mapping Event on Monday May 8th.
Members of the Missing Maps project, Doctors without Borders, the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (H.O.T) and the British Red Cross paid a visit to the disastermappers heidelberg beginning of last week to discuss new ideas and further collaboration. The day started with a lecture about Crowdsourced Information for Disaster Risk Management that was held by Melanie…
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Report on Human Sensor and Geographic Information Systems for Disaster Risk Management (HSenSIG) training school
On the dates of 11 to 15th of May, the European Commission (COST Action TD1202: Mapping and the Citizen Sensor) organized a training school on Human Sensor and Geographic Information Systems for Disaster Risk Management (HSenSIG) hosted by the Institute for Systems Engineering and Computers at University of Coimbra, Portugal. Our colleague, Prof. João Porto Albuquerque was invited…
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Mapping Support Event for Nepal at ISCRAM conference 2015 in Norway
As members of the disastermappers heidelberg and the GIScience Research Group Benjamin Herfort and Melanie Eckle were presenting their research at this years ISCRAM conference in Kristiansand, Norway. ISCRAM being a conference for researchers and practitioners in the field of disaster and emergency management, they also used this situation to set up a spontaneous Mapping…
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GIScience Walk & Talk
Heidelberg offers many nice hiking trails in the Odenwald mountains and some colleagues from GIScience group Heidelberg along with their visiting guest Ahmed Loai Ali used an opportunity for some walking and talking along the paths of Königstuhl up to Bierhelderhof enjoying the food in the romantic beergarden on the hills above the city. While…
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GIScience Colloquium Talk on Classification Accuracy in VGI: Ahmed Loai Ali
The semester proceeds quickly and another talk is already approaching: We are happy to announce the next presentation in our Heidelberg University GIS colloquium which will be given by Ahmed Loai Ali from Bremen University (Cognitive Systems Research Group). Ahmed will talk about accuracy issues when classifying volunteered geographic information (VGI). See a full description…
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Presentation on Open Data this Wednesday at disastermappers Heidelberg Colloquium
The disastermappers Heidelberg invite to a talk by Oliver Rack within the ‘disastermappers Heidelberg’ colloquium series at the Institute of Geography Heidelberg University. Oliver Rack is the founder of the Open Data Initiative Rhein-Neckar and will report about the situation of the Open Data Movement in the region and discuss recent projects. The presentation will…
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Today: disastermappers-Heidelberg ‘on Tour’ : Mapping for Nepal continued
After the earthquake in Nepal just over two weeks ago, the country has been hit again by a serious earthquake. Many places have so far not received any assistance due to a lack of maps. After earlier Disaster Mapping events at the Institute of Geography at Heidelberg University and continuous activities in between, the “disastermappers…