Category: 3D

  • New PhD student position in GIScience

    We offer a new position in the area of crowdsourcing of 3D geoinformation within the PhD Graduate School Crowdanalyser. More info can be found here: 2013_crowdanalyser_phd_position. Deadline: 30 Oct. 2013

  • Digital Geoarchaeology 2013 Conference in Heidelberg

    Our GIScience group is supporting the conference Digital Geoarchaeology 2013 – New Technologies for Interdisciplinary Human-Environmental Research, which takes place in Heidelberg from 7-8 November 2013. The LiDAR Research Group will co-organize a one-day workshop on LiDAR in Geoarchaeology – Terrestrial Laser Scanning in Theory and Practice on 9 November 2013. Having its major focus…

  • Multi-Sensor Survey of Limestone Quarry

    Researchers of the GIScience group (Institute of Geography, University of Heidelberg) captured parts of the limestone quarry of HeidelbergCement in Nussloch near Heidelberg in cooperation with the Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) developing company MAVinci. The aim of analysing the data is to find a cost-effective, time-saving but precise method to survey a quarry, including volume…

  • LiDAR Research Group maps harvest residues of winter barley for density analysis

    Researchers of the GIScience group of the Institute of Geography of the University of Heidelberg, the Institute for Geoinformatics and Remote Sensing of the University of Osnabrueck and the Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants of the Julius-Kühn-Institut acquired a highly accurate 3D point cloud of harvest residues of winter barley in Brunswick, Germany. In…

  • 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…

  • Sunny field trip of laser scanning course

    On 7th of July, the summer semester’s laser scanning course was on a field trip for capturing a gravel bar of the river Neckar next to Ilvesheim. Apart from the main goal of experiencing ‘real life scanning’, the produced data now is used in various analyses: Based on two other datasets from 2011 and 2012***,…

  • LiDAR Research Group completes multitemporal multisensor data for boosting quality of plant growth models

    On 19th of June, a multitemporal data set of agricultural plants was completed by researchers of the Chair of GIScience‘s LiDAR Research Group in the course of the projects Hyland and ESOB. A field of several grain varieties and fertilization quantities in maximum growth stage was captured in 3D using a terrestrial laser scanner (TLS).…

  • 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).

  • Invitation to meet with regional cluster GeoNet.MRN

    The next meeting of the regional cluster GeoNet.MRN will take place in Heppenheim on 03.07.2013 (14.00h s.t.). Anybody interested in geoinformation is cordially invited – free of charge. Here you find the invitation letter (in German). Let’s come together!

  • 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]…

  • LiDAR Research Group investigates one of the most impressing caves in Germany

    Researchers of the GIScience research group of the Institute of Geography, the Institute of Environmental Physics of the University of Heidelberg and the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities acquired a highly accurate 3D topographic point cloud of the Dechenhöhle, which is attached to the Speleology Museum Dechenhöhle Caves. Terrestrial laser scanning and low-cost sensing…

  • We congratulate our visiting fellow Dr. Michael Vetter for his PhD

    Yesterday, Michael Vetter received his PhD from the Vienna University of Technology for his thesis “Airborne laser scanning terrain and land cover models as basis for hydrological and hydraulic studies”. Michael was visiting fellow in our research group in summer 2011 and performed parts of his thesis together with the LiDAR Research Group of the…