Category: Publications

  • “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…