Category: Events

  • ISPRS Laser Scanning Workshop – 2nd Call for Papers

    Laser Scanning 2013 is the 8th event of a series of ISPRS workshops covering various aspects of spaceborne, airborne and mobile laser scanning, and all terrestrial 3D ranging sensors. The workshop would like to bring together experts from different disciplines which are focused on the modeling and application of point cloud data acquired from laser…

  • Blog on Volunteered Geographic Information for Crisis Mapping

    This semester we are doing a course on “Volunteered Geographic Information for Crisis Mapping” It deals with Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI), the Fundamentals and its Applications in Humanitarian Affaris and Crisis Management. Within the course we have started a Blog on VGI and Crisis Mapping http://vgi4crisismapping.blogspot.de/

  • VGI ACTIVITY Workshop at AGILE – Full Papers and Position Papers now available for access

    The ACTIVITY workshop was a pre-conference workshop at the 16th AGILE Conference in Leuven, Belgium on May 14th, 2013. The GIScience research group of the University of Heidelberg showed up actively by presenting two presentations by Jamal Jokar on “Individuals’ contribution to cells: a cellular automata approach for simulation of collaboratively mapped areas” and Christopher…

  • April Activites Redux

    A. Reimer was holding up the HD-Banner at a recent Dagstuhl Seminar: Not everyone was working on subway map automation, but most attendees had worked on graph or network simplification of one kind or the other. The Seminar was very productive and we heeded Dagstuhl’s motto The group I was part of made good inroads…

  • next GIScience Colloquium on Intelligent Maps

    “Intelligent maps; the role of data models” (Dr. Mohsen Kalantari, University of Melbourne, Lecturer in Geomatics & Associate Director of the Centre for Spatial Data Infrastructures and Land Administration (CSDILA)) Mo, 06.05.2013, 14.00 (Uni HD, GI, Berliner Str. 48, Hörsaal) feel invited to join!

  • Walk & Talk of GIScience Research Group

    the GIScience Research Group hiked a bit around Heidelberg. Here is a view from the world famous Philosopher’s way taken during that walk…

  • The program of the VGI ACTIVITY Workshop is online

    The latest program of our WORKSHOP: “Action and Interaction in Volunteered Geographic Information” (ACTIVITY) to be held at the 16th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science in Leuven, Belgium. is online now.

  • 3D-GIScience Session @ EGU 2013 General Assembly in Vienna

    3D Spatial Data, Analysis, Visualization and Infrastructures in Geosciences – From 3D Point Clouds to Information This session brings together researchers aiming at increasing the availability, understanding, and use of 3D spatial data (e.g. 3D laser point cloud) and services to support research in geomorphology in particular and the geosciences in general. Taking place on…