Category: Events
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Visual Crowds for Geo- and Environmental Sciences Conference Heidelberg
In this workshop, we want to tie two threads of research together: human computation is an important factor in both geoscience and computer vision research. In geosciences, OpenStreetMap is one of the major projects , but this is only one of numerous recent advances. In environmental sciences huge amounts of data are collected, such as…
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Heidelberg Crisis Mappers Colloquium next Wednesday
Here you find a report on the last Mapping Party at Heidelberg University organized by the Heidelberg Crisis Mappers with Kate Chapman, the Executive Director of the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) giving a lecture and then there is an invitation to join the upcoming Crisis Mapping Colloquium on Wednesday (26 Nov 2014, 16-18 clock, Dep.…
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GIScience Heidelberg visit ACM Sigspatial conference
Last week members of the GIScience Research Group were attending the International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems in Dallas. Beside the interesting welcome note given by Luc Vincent talking about the Google Street View project and further follow-up keynote talks, the first conference day was opened up for full day workshops covering various…
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CfP Deutscher Kongress für Geographie 2015 in Berlin
Wir möchten Sie herzlich zu unserer Fachsitzung “Räumliche Analyse und Modellierung in geographischer Forschung” im Rahmen des Deutschen Kongress für Geographie einladen, der von 1. bis 6. Oktober 2015 in Berlin stattfinden wird. Beiträge zu unserer Sitzung können bis 11. Januar 2015 online hier eingereicht werden: https://www.congressa.de/dkg-2015/CallForAbstracts/?session_id=120 Sitzungsleiter_innen: Alexander Brenning, Bernhard Höfle Inhalt der Fachsitzung…
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London – Washington D.C. – Jakarta – San Francisco – Heidelberg?! MissingMaps Project
Putting the world’s most vulnerable people on a map and thereby reduce the vulnerability of disaster prone regions before they can even cause serious harm – that is the objective of the MissingMaps Project. A great idea put together by Doctors Without Borders (MSF), British and American Red Cross and the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap team (HOT).…
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Ravenstein-Förderpreis 2014 for automated map labelling
Two our colleagues, Maxim Rylov and Andreas Reimer have received a Ravenstein Recognition award from the German Cartographic Society. Their work in automation of map lettering has been recognized by jury members as a compelling and relevant topic that is undoubtedly interesting to all who concerns oneself with digital cartography. Their considerable achievements are the…
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Disaster Mapping Party Heidelberg – contribute to Missing Maps project
Dear friends of Disaster Mapping, to a great start in the DisasterMappers Colloquium on the last Wednesday of each now has the first chance to become active. Together with MSF, British and American Red Cross and HOT OSM we want to celebrate the start of the Missing Maps Project also in Heidelberg. As DisasterMappers, we…
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6th Fachaustausch Geoinformation in Heidelberg
On 29 October 2014 the 6th Fachaustausch Geoinformation took place at the fantastic venue of the Print Media Academy. The event brings together people and institutions from industry, administration and science, to exchange and discuss most recent advances in the broad field of geoinformation. The organization of the Fachaustausch is led by the GeoNet.MRN, a…
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Disastermappers Heidelberg- Educating Today the Disaster Mappers of Tomorrow
Starting this winter semester the disastermappers heidelberg initiative is organizing a colloquium to provide a platform for all interested volunteers, students and lecturers to share ideas, experience and knowledge on disaster mapping. The events will consist of guest lectures, in which researchers and practitioners of humanitarian aid organizations will present their work and show ways…
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ISPRS Innsbruck Summer School of Alpine Research 2015 in Obergurgl/Austria – Close Range Sensing Techniques in Alpine Terrain
Together with colleagues from all over Europe we are organizing a Summer School of Alpine Research, which takes place from 5.7.2015-11.7.2015 in Obergurgl, Tyrol, Austria. Motivated students from geosciences/Earth sciences, environmental sciences, geomatics, GIScience, remote sensing, computer science, etc. will be working together in multidisciplinary teams to address challenges in Alpine Research using state of…
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Upcoming Talk by Stefan Hahmann
The first talk of the semester is approaching quickly. Thus, we cordially invite you to our first colloquium talk of the semester which will be held by Dr. Stefan Hahmann. He recently joined our group for conducting postdoc research. His presentation will provide insight into his previously done research, which took place at the Technical…
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Geography Colloquium talk on VGI at University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB)
The series of colloquium presentations in the winter term 2014 at the Department of Geography at University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) was opened by a talk by Alexander Zipf who is a guest at the UCSB Center of Spatial Studies as reported earlier. This talk presented an overview of some of the investigations on…