Category: Research
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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…
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LiDAR Research group attends the Workshop on “UAV-based Remote Sensing Methods for Monitoring Vegetation”
The Workshop on UAV-based Remote Sensing Methods for Monitoring Vegetation was held at the University of Cologne, Germany. Around 120 participants discussed the topics UAVs, Vegetation Monitoring, Hyperspectral Vegetation Analysis, Multispectral Vegetation Analysis, 3D-Approaches, Vegetation Indices, Laserscanning and Stereo Photogrammetry. The LiDAR Research Group, represented by Kristina Koenig, attends the Workshop with two posters, dealing…
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Maptember: GIScience group members at SotM 2013
This year the State of the Map conference was held at Aston University, Birmingham, UK. The SotM is the conference on all things OpenStreetMap and at the same time a friendly meetup for hobbyists and professionals alike. Speakers from our group were Christopher Barron and myself. Here is a shot of Christopher during his presentation…
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Draft Programme for conference “Web 2.0 und Social Media in Katastrophenschutz und Hochwassermanagement”
A first draft list of talks and presentations for the conference “Web 2.0 und Social Media in Katastrophenschutz und Hochwassermanagement” (17.10.2013, Heidelberg, Studio Villa Bosch) is available. In addition there will be several short presentations during the workshop-part of the event. This is a draft programme subject to change: some titles are still working titles.…
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GIScience for Endangered Wild Plant Species
The new project WIPs-DE (“Wildpflanzenschutz Deutschland”) is part of the National Biodiversity Strategy, which has been conducted by the German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (“BfN”). Its goal is to preserve 15 endangered wild plant species for which Germany has a special responsibility. Germany therefore has a special responsibility for those species, because they either…
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Do cities make us ill? – new project on PsychoGeoinformatics
To what extend do urban environments put stress on mental health? And how can geographic information and analysis support in discovering the underlying relationships ? These are the core research questions of the new collaboration project “PsychoGeoinformatics”. The project has been accepted as a twinning project of the Center for Scientific Computing (IWR) at Heidelberg…
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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…
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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***,…
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OSM Residential areas get their scales determined
OSM data have no compilation scale information, so we (Chris Kempf, Pascal Neis, Max Rylov and Andreas Reimer) found an efficient way to calculate scale equivalencies for residential areas. While the paper with the description of our linear-time method is under review, please do check out the visualized results! http://openmapsurfer.uni-hd.de/scale-determinator.html Note: the tile server for…
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High Cartographic Quality Label Placement on OSM-based Map
In January 2012 we launched OpenMapSurfer – a web map service with a set of custom layers that are based on geo-data of OpenStreetMap project. The main idea was to present OSM data in a different way by placing emphasis on the cartographic representation of data, namely to enhance the quality of the cartographic lettering…
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Fachtagung: Web 2.0 und Social Media in Katastrophenschutz und Hochwassermanagement
Vorankündigung / Save the Date: Fachtagung: Web 2.0 und Social Media in Katastrophenschutz und Hochwassermanagement am 17.10.2013 in Heidelberg (Studio Villa Bosch) Nicht nur vor dem Hintergrund des diesjährigen „Jahrhunderthochwassers“ befasst sich die Fachtagung mit der Frage wie Freiwillige und Nicht-Fachkräfte mittels sozialer Medien und moderner Web-basierter Methoden bei der Erfassung und Kommunikation aktueller Vor-Ort-Informationen…
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First MayaArch3D Status Workshop in Heidelberg
This Monday and Tuesday the first yearly Status Workshop within the collaborative BMBF Project MayaArch3D “A Web-based 3D-GIS for the Analysis of the Archaeology of Copan, Honduras” has taken place at Heidelberg University with the team members from the GIScience Research Group Heidelberg, the German Archeological Institute (DAI) and the Foundacio Bruno Kessler (FBK). The…