Category: Events
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AGILE PhD School, 2013
Lucy from the GIScience group had the opportunity to participate at the 2nd AGILE PhD school, a forum for PhD students to discuss their research studies, exchange ideas and experiences, and identify possibilities for collaborative research. The school which was organized by the AGILE group took place between 30 September and 02 October 2013 at…
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Aktuelles Programm Fachtagung: Web 2.0 und Social Media in Katastrophenschutz und Hochwassermanagement
Das Programm für die Fachtagung “Web 2.0 und Social Media in Katastrophenschutz und Hochwassermanagement” am 17.10.2013 wurde aktualisiert und ist nun online verfügbar. Erfreulicherweise konnten zahlreiche hochkarätige Referenten gewonnen werden, so dass ein spannender Austausch zwischen Forschung und Praxis zu erwarten ist. Wir freuen uns sehr auf Ihre Teilnahme an dieser Veranstaltung im Studio Villa…
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Digital Geoarchaeology 2013 Conference in Heidelberg
Our GIScience group is supporting the conference Digital Geoarchaeology 2013 – New Technologies for Interdisciplinary Human-Environmental Research, which takes place in Heidelberg from 7-8 November 2013. The LiDAR Research Group will co-organize a one-day workshop on LiDAR in Geoarchaeology – Terrestrial Laser Scanning in Theory and Practice on 9 November 2013. Having its major focus…
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GIScience -Symposium 2013 in Salzburg, Austria
Bernd, Kristina, Enrico, Günther and Johannes from our group were happy to participate in the two-day GIScience -Symposium 2013, which was organized by the Doctoral College GIScience, University of Salzburg. Salzburg’s GIScience PhD students provided insights into their topics and presented interesting intermediate research outcomes, covering a wide range of topics. Talks in the field…
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Visiting the National University of Ireland, Maynooth
The Alexander von Humboldt foundation has granted a short European research stay at the department of computer science, National University of Ireland in Maynooth, in support of the osmAGENT project. Jamal as the manager of the osmAGENT project visited the target institute in particular Dr. Peter Mooney and his colleagues in order to collaborate further…
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gis.SCIENCE special issue GEOINFORMATIK 2013
The issue 3/2013 (Vol. 26) of the journal gis.SCIENCE by Wichmann has been published. It contains selected full review paper (e.g. on context-aware 3D geovisualization or on the analysis of tourist activity from Flickr fotos) from the conference GEOINFORMATIK 2013, that was held at Heidelberg University this year. The cover features a screenshot from OSM-3D.org…
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Call for Particiption: Conference “Web 2.0 und Social Media in Disaster Prevention and Flood Risk Management” Heidelberg, 17.10.2013
Call for Participation: Conference “Web 2.0 und Social Media in Disaster Prevention and Flood Risk Management” Heidelberg, 17.10.2013 The summer 2013 floods which hit areas in parts of Germany and adjacent countries devastated large areas and caused a huge amount of economic losses. Against the backdrop of this “centennial flood” this conference deals with the…
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Updated Programme for Conference “Web 2.0 und Social Media in Katastrophenschutz und Hochwassermanagement”
The draft programme and list of presentations for the conference “Web 2.0 und Social Media in Katastrophenschutz und Hochwassermanagement” has been updated. A very promising list of experts in Disaster Response, CrowdMapping, Social Media, GIScience etc. will gather at Studio Villa Bosch, Heidelberg on 17.10.2013. Further there will be two social events (icebreaker and cool…
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LiDAR Research group attends the Workshop on “UAV-based Remote Sensing Methods for Monitoring Vegetation”
The Workshop on UAV-based Remote Sensing Methods for Monitoring Vegetation was held at the University of Cologne, Germany. Around 120 participants discussed the topics UAVs, Vegetation Monitoring, Hyperspectral Vegetation Analysis, Multispectral Vegetation Analysis, 3D-Approaches, Vegetation Indices, Laserscanning and Stereo Photogrammetry. The LiDAR Research Group, represented by Kristina Koenig, attends the Workshop with two posters, dealing…
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Maptember: GIScience group members at SotM 2013
This year the State of the Map conference was held at Aston University, Birmingham, UK. The SotM is the conference on all things OpenStreetMap and at the same time a friendly meetup for hobbyists and professionals alike. Speakers from our group were Christopher Barron and myself. Here is a shot of Christopher during his presentation…
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Save the Date: Fachaustausch Geoinformation. Heidelberg, 27.11.2013
The date of this years “Fachaustausch Geoinformation. Heidelberg” is November 27th 2013. As always it takes place in the Print Media Academy and will encompass a set of interesting talks from Science and the GIS Community. This years main topics for the three sessions are: “Planen & Bauen”, “Geomedizin” und “Virtuelle Räume”. Further information are…