Category: Events
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HGG-Vortrag Di 30.11.: Hangrutschungsmodellierung unter dem Einfluss von Klima- und Landnutzungswandel mit Data-Science-Methoden, Prof. Brenning
Der nächste Vortrag der Heidelberger Geographischen Gesellschaft HGG findet am Dienstag, 02. November 2021, 19:15 Uhr ONLINE statt: Dienstag, 30. November 2021, 19:15 Uhr Prof. Dr. Alexander Brenning (Universität Jena) Hangrutschungsmodellierung unter dem Einfluss von Klima- und Landnutzungswandel mit Data-Science-Methoden Regionalskalige empirische Gefährdungsanalysen für Naturgefahren nutzen Innovationen der Datenwissenschaften, um gefährdete Reliefeinheiten präziser und effizienter zu…
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HeiGIT and GIScience at Virtual Conference of the Red Cross Red Crescent Urban Collaboration Platform 2021
On Friday, November 26th, Dr. Carolin Klonner (GIScience Research Group) and Melanie Eckle-Elze (HeiGIT) will be supporting the Urban Context Unit of German Red Cross (GRC) in the “Data and Digitalisation in Urban Humanitarian Action” session at the Virtual Conference of the Red Cross Red Crescent Urban Collaboration Platform 2021. The focus of the session…
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Innsbruck Summer School of Alpine Research 2022 – Registration now open
Registration for our Innsbruck Summer School of Alpine Research 2022 is now open (until 15 January 2022). If you want to learn innovative practical and methodological skills to characterize complex terrain and object features using close-range and remote sensing techniques – apply now! The Summer School in the Ötztal Alps in Austria will be the…
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HeiGIT participation at HOT Summit 2021
Also this year HeiGIT is participating at the HOT summit with the topic of “The Evolution of Local Humanitarian Open Mapping Ecosystems: Understanding Community, Collaboration, and Contribution”. Again the conference will be virtual and is organized in three blocks across several time zones to allow global participation. Benjamin Herfort from HeiGIT will give a talk…
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Successful PhD defense of Katharina Anders
On Tuesday, 16 November 2021, Dr Katharina Anders defended her PhD research with great success. In her dissertation, Katharina developed methods on 4D change analysis to extract natural surface changes from near-continuous LiDAR time series of dynamic landscapes. Congratulations, Katharina, for this excellent research – we are very proud to have you in our team…
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FOSS4G 2021 Videos with HeiGIT contributions online – OSM data quality and MapSwipe
Recently videos with our contributions by HeiGIT to the FOSS4G conference were put online. Did you miss the event? Now you can watch whenever you like 🙂 Benni by HeiGIT explains who to use the ohsome.org framework to develop an OSM Confidence Index to support humanitarian mapping https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWkISL4qbME FOSS4G 2021 Using the ohsome framework to…
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Research and Career Network: Close-range Sensing Techniques in Alpine Terrain – Alumni Event
A virtual alumni event of the Innsbruck Summer School of Alpine Research will take place on Tuesday, 7th December, 15:00-17:00. Close- and remote sensing techniques turned to essential methods for mapping and quantifying processes in mountain environments. Many different sensor systems, platforms and analysis approaches are available for observing and monitoring dynamic patterns and extracting…
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Waterproofing Data Project: Sharing experiences and accessing impacts
After three interesting years, the Waterproofing Data Project (WPD) comes to an end. Starting with a workshop in Brazil and several field trips, Corona times started and we had to rethink and reorganize our plans for the second half of the project. Our final workshop day in Heidelberg was also planned to be in person…
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HGG Vortrag Dienstag 02.11.: Experiences from Designing Knowledge Graphs for Environmental Intelligence (K. Janowicz, UCSB)
Der nächste Vortrag der Heidelberger Geographischen Gesellschaft HGG findet am Dienstag, 02. November 2021, 19:15 Uhr ONLINE statt: Prof. Dr. Krzysztof Janowicz (University of California Santa Barbara (USCB), Department of Geography) Künstliche Intelligenz & Big Data im Silicon Valley: Erfahrungen aus der Gestaltung eines geografischen Wissensgraphen für Umweltintelligenz Das Silicon Valley gehört international zu den…
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meinGrün, Tardur und SocialMedia2Traffic bei der mFUND Konferenz 2021
Letzte Woche konnten wir bei der digitalen mFUND Konferenz drei unserer Projekte einem interessierten Publikum vorstellen. Im Fachforum “Die „15-Minuten-Stadt“ datenbasiert ermöglichen” haben wir gezeigt, wie die meinGrün App, das meinGrün Webportal und die angegliederten Dienste Städte dabei unterstützen könnten, die Erreichbarkeit von öffentlichen Grünflächen zu verbessern. Dabei zeigten sich auch Anknüpfungspunkte zu weiteren mFUND…
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Successful end of the 25 Mapathon Project
On October 12th the “25 Mapathon project” was finalized with an exceptionally successful public online mapathon. Around 20 participants with various professional backgrounds mapped 2273 buildings in three hours to support a flood preparedness project of the GRC in Togo. Furthermore, they shared their experiences and once more demonstrated how much fun it can be…