Category: Publications

  • Alexander Zipf invited to Editoral Board of “Future Internet”

    “Future Internet” (ISSN 1999-5903), a scholarly open access journal on Internet technologies and the information society, is published by MDPI online quarterly. Editor-in-Chief is Dr. Andrew Hudson-Smith, Director and Reader in Digital Urban Systems, Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London. Future Internet increasingly publishes research about the relationship on Geographic Information and Web…

  • “Bending Reality, Where Arc and Science Meet” is online

    The digital version of the exhipition from the Dagstuhl seminar “Drawing Graphs and Maps with Curves” is online. It fields several cartographic as well as algorithmic contributions by members of our working group. http://www.dagstuhl.de/en/about-dagstuhl/kunst/bending-reality/

  • Celebrating 25 years of AGIT

    The Geoinformatics Symposium AGIT celebrates it’s 25th birthday. Congratulations! We do celebrate with the colleagues in Salzburg being part of the the AGIT community for 18 years now. Also this year we participate actively with several paper contributions both at AGIT and GI-Forum, e.g. Mapping the Crowd, iOSMAnalyzer, Citizen Science for Biodiversity data, Analysing Crimes…

  • Most Downloaded Article of Journal Computers, Environment and Urban Systems (CEUS)

    Our article Boosting the predictive accuracy of urban hedonic house price models through airborne laser scanning by Helbich, Jochem, Mücke and Höfle has reached the top position of the most downloaded papers from the journal Computers, Environment and Urban Systems (CEUS).

  • New Press Release: On the Sunny Side

    The next issue of the German magazine Business Geomatics will present our research project HedALS in a short press article. The article highlights the results of our research on integrating 3D-GIS based variables derived from LiDAR point clouds into hedonic house price modeling. – Read the article in Business Geomatics 4/2013: p. 19 [in German]…

  • “Transaction in GIS” 2012 Impact Factor increased to 0.906

    The latest Thomson Reuters ISI Journal Citation Report has just been released and the ISI Impact Factor (IF) for the international journal “Transaction in GIS” has increased considerably to 0.906 for 2012 (from 0.54 in 2011). Great news!

  • Linux Magazine mentions our new OSM study

    A report in the German language Linux Magazine about our latest OSM study (Open Access).

  • New analysis about OpenStreetMap data

    Two new Journal papers on OSM just have been published. One deals with a “Comparison of Volunteered Geographic Information Data Contributions and Community Development for Selected World Regions” (Open Access) and one is about OSM Data imports in the US. Pascal gives some additional and up2date information here. Enjoy Reading!

  • Among the most downloaded articles from CEUS journal…

    Our article on “Boosting the predictive accuracy of urban hedonic house price models through airborne laser scanning” by Helbich, Jochem, Mücke and Höfle is among the most downloaded articles from the journal “Computers, Environment and Urban Systems” (CEUS) (place 4 within last 90 days). Enjoy Reading!

  • Elucidating Environmental History with 100 Million Laser Beams

    The Heidelberg University has published a press release about our work on laser scanning and subsurface geodata fused for 3D reconstruction of karst depressions on Crete. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9jgPC6zGl8

  • Geoinformatics meets Real Estate Research

    New press release: The successfully finished Alexander von Humboldt research project by Marco Helbich demonstrates that the predictive accuracy of urban hedonic house price models can be significantly improved by means of airborne laser scanning. The research is available as open access publication in “Computers, Environment and Urban Systems”.

  • Call for book chapter submission on “Computational Approaches for Urban Environments”

    The main objective of this book, edited by Marco Helbich, Jamal Jokar, and Michael Leitner, is to bundle high quality research providing a wide array of urban-related subjects that contribute to the advancement of knowledge in the use of novel computational methods and/or data sources for the analysis of urban environments. The volume will be…