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  • CALL FOR PAPERS: GIS track of ISCRAM, International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management

    CALL FOR PAPERS 15th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM 2018) May 20-23, 2018, Rochester, NY, USA https://iscram2018.rit.edu/submissions Track: Geospatial Technologies and Geographic Information Science for Crisis Management (GIS) https://iscram2018.rit.edu/sites/rit.edu.iscram2018/files/docs/ISCRAM_2018_track_GIS.pdf Deadline for paper submissions: December 03, 2017 Track Description With disasters and disaster management being an “inherently spatial” problem, geospatial…

  • The impacts of environmental factors on cycling behavior

    As it is widely accepted, cycling tends to produce health benefits and reduce air pollution. Policymakers encourage people to use bikes by improving cycling facilities as well as developing bicycle-sharing systems (BSS). It is interesting to investigate how environmental factors influence the cycling behavior of users of bicycle-sharing systems, as users of bicycle-sharing systems tend…

  • New paper on the integration of geographic information into survey research

    We recently published a new paper on the integration of geographic information into survey research. The paper is the outcome of a collaborative effort with colleagues from the Leibnitz Institute for the Social Sciences (GESIS) in Mannheim and from the University of Salzburg (Z_GIS) and it provides an overview of how the consideration of geographic…

  • Mobile low-cost 3D camera maize crop height measurements under field conditions

    Maps of the spatial distribution of crop heights can strongly support agriculture in terms of efficiency and yield optimization. Recently published results of experiments of the 3D Spatial Data Processing research group describe an approach to easily extend regular agricultural machines with low-cost sensors for capturing crop heights while the machine is in the field.…

  • 20 Anniversary Special Issue on VGI Analytics published in GSIS

    The Special Issue: Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) – Analytics ( Vol 20, Issue 3) has been published by Taylor & Francis in the Open Access Journal Geo-Spatial Information Science (GSIS) – celebrating the journal`s 20th anniversary. Guest Editors: Peter Mooney, Alexander Zipf, Jamal Jokar Arsanjani, and Hartwig H. Hochmair http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/tgsi20/20/3?nav=tocList GSIS is now indexed in…

  • Special Issue “Online Participation” of “HMD Praxis der Wirtschaftsinformatik” has been published with paper on OpenStreetMap

    Recently the full Special Issue “Online Participation” of the German journal “HMD Praxis der Wirtschaftsinformatik” has been published online by Springer. It also includes our invited overview article about online participation in the context of geographic information, especially OpenStreetMap (in German). It is available open access: Griesbaum, L., Eckle, M., Herfort, B., Raifer, M., Zipf,…

  • LandSense is Project of the Week @ “Doing It Together Science”.

    The EU H2020 project LandSense (A Citizen Observatory and Innovation Marketplace for Land Use and Land Cover Monitoring) has been featured as project of the week by “Doing It Together Science“. http://togetherscience.eu/blog/project-of-the-week-10-landsense. Thanks to our partners at IASA etc. for this! In addition to organizing mapathons and related research research activities, in the context of…

  • The OpenStreetMap folksonomy and its evolution

    The comprehension of folksonomies is of high importance when making sense of Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI), in particular in the case of OpenStreetMap (OSM). So far, only little research has been conducted to understand the role and the evolution of folksonomies in VGI and OSM, which is despite the fact that without a comprehension of…

  • Open land cover from OpenStreetMap and remote sensing

    In a recently published study (1), we produced a web based land use land cover (LULC) product based on OSM tags which are constantly updated by contributors/volunteers, and present a Remote Sensing based solution when tags were absent for a test site. We harness the combined benefit of an open source and ever-growing machine generated…

  • GIScience group members at the ISPRS Geospatial Week 2017 in Wuhan, China

    Last week (Sept. 18-22, 2017), our six colleagues, Prof. Alexander Zipf, Doctoral Candidate Xuke Hu, Dr. Hongchao Fan, Dr. Martin Hämmerle, Dr. Zhiyong Wang, and Dr. Wei Huang, participated in the ISPRS Geospatial Week 2017 held in Wuhan, China. In the opening ceremony on Sept. 18, 2017, the U.V. Helava Award was presented to Dr.…

  • Call for Papers on “Urban Geoinformatics”

    We are currently guest-editing a special issue on “urban geoinformatics” in the Taylor & Francis journal “Geo-Spatial Information Science”. On this occasion, we’d like to encourage you to submit your crowdsourcing-related work emphasizing urban issues: Title: Crowdsourcing for Urban Geoinformatics Deadline: 30 October 2017 Guest editors: Hongchao Fan, Wuhan University, (hongchao.fan@whu.edu.cn) João Porto de Albuquerque,…

  • Study “Multiscale analysis and reduction measures of urban carbon dioxide budget based on building energy consumption” published

    The 3D spatial data processing group had the opportunity to collaborate with the team of Prof. Tzu-Ping Lin from National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, within the frame of a study dealing with carbon emission reduction measures in urban environments. One option of reducing carbon emission by buildings is to install photovoltaic (PV) panels in…