Category: Events
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This semester’s colloquium series of the “Heidelberg Geographical Society” (HGG) starts
The lecture program of Heidelberg Geographical Society (Heidelberger Geographische Gesellschaft, HGG) begins next Tuesday, Mai 19 2015, with the Student Lecture. The students Caroline Esser, Fabian Heßlinger and Christian Berberich will report on the large field trip to Ladakh in north-western India. After the presentation the HGG invites you to the opening of the event…
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GIScience Colloquium Talk about Analysing Landscape Structure with Graph Theory
The next talk in our GIScience colloquium will be given by a well-travelled researcher. Mr Alan Kwok Lun Cheung from the School of Environment, University of Auckland in New Zealand will talk about how to spatiotemporally analyse landscape structures with methods from graph theory. We are pleased to invite you to this interesting talk: Topological…
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CAP4ACCESS team active on the European protest day of equal rights for people with disabilities
On the occasion of the European protest day for equal rights of people with disabilities the Heidelberg advisory board of people with disabilities organised an event at Heidelberg castle. Every year on these specific days, particular organizations plan relevant activities in order to raise awareness of the needs of disabled people including those with limited…
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This weeks talk: Florian Hillen about Geo-Information Fusion for Digital Earth
We are pleased to invite you to another interesting talk in our colloquium series. Florian Hillen (Institute for Geoinformatics and Remote Sensing, University of Osnabrück) will talk about new ways of combining different real-time data sources in Digital Earth applications. Geo-Information Fusion: Gaining additional value for real-time Digital Earth applications Lecture Hall, BST 48, Thursday,…
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Nepal Disaster Mapping Heidelberg University
Following the earthquake which struck Nepal on April 25 hundreds of volunteers worldwide come together to map out disaster affected areas through the coordination of the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) and the local partner in Kathmandu, the Kathmandu Living Labs team. Disastermappers Heidelberg joined the efforts on monday evening by organizing a first mapping event.…
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Mapping for wheelchair users at Heidelberg castle gardens
On the occasion of the European protest day for equal rights of people with disabilities the Heidelberg advisory board of people with disabilities organises an event at Heidelberg castle tomorrow (30/4) from 2pm to 5pm. Our local CAP4ACCESS team is happy to join this event by leading mapping efforts to fill some data gaps in…
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Disaster OpenRouteService for Nepal
Facing the most severe earthquake for the past decades, Nepal and especially the Kathmandu area show unimagineable devastations. In order to provide emergency and rescue forces with near real time information concerning infrastructural conditions of roads and buildings the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (H.O.T.) as part of the OpenStreetMap Community coordinates the crisis mapping activities for…
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Disaster Mapping for Nepal this Monday 17:00 Heidelberg University
On Saturday Nepal was hit by a massive earthquake that devastated large parts of Kathmandu as well as many suburbs and remote mountain villages and towns. A few hours later the first mapping actions were started by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (H.O.T.). These are coordinated with the Kathmandu Living Labs team, a resident of Kathmandu…
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Invitation to this weeks public Colloquium Talk on Indoor Mapping by Michael Peter (Stgt.)
We cordially invite anybody this week to the first Colloquium Talk in this semester of our “5 years anniversary series”. The title is: Indoor mapping by reverse-engineering of existing plans and analysis of pedestrian traces and the presentation is given by Michael Peter from Stuttgart University (IFP) on Thursday, Apr 23, 2015, 4.15 pm. The…
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European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2015: 3D Spatial Data, Analysis, Visualization and Infrastructures in Geosciences – From 3D Point Clouds to Information
The GIScience Group Heidelberg participated actively in the EGU 2015 in Vienna, giving talks of current LiDAR research in the PICO Session “3D Spatial Data, Analysis, Visualization and Infrastructures in Geosciences – From 3D Point Clouds to Information“. Kristina gave a talk on “LiDAR Vegetation Investigation and Signature Analysis System (LVISA)” and presented the LVISA…
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Colloquium Series Summer 2015 of Heidelberg Center for the Environment
As a funding member of the Heidelberg Center for the Environment (HCE) at Heidelberg University the GIScience Research Group wants to make you aware and invite you also to the open lecture series “Heidelberg Bridge” of the HCE in addition to our GIScience colloquium series. The HCE “Heidelberg Bridge” programme offers topics from different areas…