Category: Crowd Analyser
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AGILE Workshop on Digital Earth: What the hack?
We invite you to participate in our workshop Digital Earth: What the hack?, as part of the 17th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science, 3-6 June 2014, Castellón, Spain. The proposed workshop will prepare hackathons including geospatial information and processing across a variety of possible disciplines and thereby implementing Digital Earth applications. Hackathons are a…
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Engaging Data Forum at MIT
Last week GIScience Research Group members were attending the Engaging Data Forum organized by the Senseable City Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston. Carlo Ratti (Director) and Assaf Biderman (Associate Director) from SENSEable City Laboratory open Engaging Data Forum Noam Chomsky, professor of linguistics and Barton Gellman, Pulitzer-prize winning journalist and publisher…
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Research Stay at Harvard CGA
René Westerholt is currently visiting the Center for Geographic Analysis (Harvard University) in Cambridge, USA. The two-month research stay (funded by the German Excellence Initiative II) aims to foster new research collaborations between Harvard CGA and GIScience Heidelberg in the field of Live-Geography / People as Sensors. Both institutions have been in continuous exchange through…
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Open Data Opportunities for LBS
The advent of web technologies and the promotion of data sharing practices have fostered open data initiatives. The main motivation of governments in sharing data with the public is to stimulate economic growth by enabling the creation of new products. One of the areas that could benefit from open data initiatives is that of location-based…
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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
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Visiting the National University of Ireland, Maynooth
The Alexander von Humboldt foundation has granted a short European research stay at the department of computer science, National University of Ireland in Maynooth, in support of the osmAGENT project. Jamal as the manager of the osmAGENT project visited the target institute in particular Dr. Peter Mooney and his colleagues in order to collaborate further…
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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).…
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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!
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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…
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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!
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New Version of OSMatrix
In 2011 we released OSMatrix — a web-based application to visualize characteristics of OpenStreetMap, which are usually not displayed in cartographic representations of the data. The characteristics include information on the topicality of data, user contributions and the presence (or absence) of certain feature types. As we have demonstrated before, these characteristics enforce understanding of…
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Blog on Volunteered Geographic Information for Crisis Mapping
This semester we are doing a course on “Volunteered Geographic Information for Crisis Mapping” It deals with Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI), the Fundamentals and its Applications in Humanitarian Affaris and Crisis Management. Within the course we have started a Blog on VGI and Crisis Mapping http://vgi4crisismapping.blogspot.de/