Category: Events
-
GIScience runs against cancer
The GIScience together with colleagues from Health & Society participated as team Geo4Health in the charity Run Against Cancer (NCT-LAUFend gegen Krebs) on 11 July 2014 organized by the National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT). The run took place on university campus Im Neuenheimer Feld (2.5 km lap around the Theoretikum and University Hospital). We…
-
Artic Permafrost @ Colloquium GIScience on 23 July 2014
Talk within the Colloquium GIScience on An Attempt to Use InSAR Methods to Detect Vertical Movements in Arctic Permafrost Regions by Inga May, Alfred-Wegener Institute (AWI) Potsdam Wednesday, 23.07.2014, 11:15-12:00h, Hörsaal Geogr. Institut, Berliner Str. 48 As permafrost is a subsurface phenomenon, and not directly visible from space, surface features, representing the permafrost situation underneath,…
-
We congratulate Arne Schilling for defending his PhD!
Last friday our former team member Arne Schilling successfully defended his PhD! Congratulations for that! The topic was about “3D Spatial Data Infrastructures for Web-Based Visualization” and included his work on developing SDIs for 3D landscape and city models evaluating and advancing OGC proposal for 3D visualization like the Web 3D Service (W3DS) and integrating…
-
Volunteered Geographic Information for Disaster Management: new publications, talks and course
How can we explore geographical relations between social media and authoritative data to enhance information extraction for disaster management? How can collaborative maps of OpenStreetMap be used for supporting risk analysis and emergency planing? These two questions were explored recently by researchers of the GIScience group working on the use of Volunteered Geographic Information for…
-
Successful PhD Defense of Pascal Neis
On Tuesday, 17th of June, our former group member Pascal Neis successfully defended his PhD thesis! The subject of his PhD was about investigating the quality of OpenStreetMap contributions. Pascal’s PhD comprises eight journal papers. In addition he also published many conference contributions. Furthermore, he developed the first version of OpenRouteService (ORS), which was the…
-
GIScience Heidelberg @ Santiago de Chile
The Heidelberg Center for Latin America (HCLA) in Santiago de Chile offers a Master of Science in Governance of Risk and Resources. This cooperative venture between the Geography institutes of Heidelberg University, the Universidad Catolica de Chile and the Universidad de Chile focuses on the (political and economic) controllability of problem-driven interaction between humans and…
-
GIScience HD BBQ
meet the team and enjoy the food and sun!
-
GIS and LiDAR workshop at National Taiwan University, Taipei
The one-day workshop on the Orientation and Processing of Airborne Laser Scanning data, OPALS – From Points to Models, took place at the National Taiwan University in Taipei on 9 April 2014. The workshop was organized by the LiDAR Research Group of the GIScience Group at the Heidelberg University (Bernhard Höfle, Sabrina Marx), the Department…
-
Conference call: Remote Sensing and GIS for Monitoring of Habitat Quality
The conference web site: http://rsgis4hq.geo.tuwien.ac.at The International Workshop Remote Sensing and GIS for Monitoring of Habitat Quality, organized by GEO TU Wien and the Centre for Ecological Research of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, will connect scientists, practitioners and stakeholders from the domains of remote sensing, GIS and habitat conservation, to discuss how recent developments…
-
Knowledge Based Urbanism – Science Places in the City – proposal nominated as “IBA Kandidat”
The future city of knowledge is the main topic of the “Internationale Bauausstellung Heidelberg” (IBA)., an international 10 years project. This week a selection of the project proposals answering the first call of proposal were invited to defend their ideas publicly to the IBA board of trustees at the “Alte Feuerwache”. Our proposal about raising…
-
GiN Award for René Westerholt
Our group member René Westerholt has recently won the “GiN Nachwuchsförderpreis” (a German young researchers award) for his master thesis. He graduated in the end of 2012 at the University of Osnabrück. The thesis deals with push-based data transmission in the course of web-based geoprocessing. The encountered approach is based on a technique called Web…