Category: Research
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Kick-Off Meeting in Project on Psychoepidemiology (HealthGIS, Psychogeography)
On June 11 the Kick-Off Meeting for a new joint project on Psychoepidemiology took place at the Central Institute for Mental Health (ZI) in Mannheim. The goal of the joint project with researchers from the ZI, KIT, Dresden and the GIScience Research Group Heidelberg is to investigate relationships between social and environmental factors on the…
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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…
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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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GIScience Offices Have Been Transformed Into a TV Studio
On Monday the 27th of May a camera team from the NDR visited the offices of the GIScience Research Group. The intent was to produce an introduction to the OpenStreetMap project and its potential for different applications like for instance special needs routing (such as rollstuhlrouting.de as a special version of OpenRouteService.org), emergency management and Disaster…
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ISPRS Laser Scanning Workshop – 2nd Call for Papers
Laser Scanning 2013 is the 8th event of a series of ISPRS workshops covering various aspects of spaceborne, airborne and mobile laser scanning, and all terrestrial 3D ranging sensors. The workshop would like to bring together experts from different disciplines which are focused on the modeling and application of point cloud data acquired from laser…
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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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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!
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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/
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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
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OSM Labyrinth solved through??
A Labyrinth mapped in OpenStreetMap, solved using … ;-).
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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”.
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PostDoc Position 3D WebGIS
The GIScience Research Group offers a PostDoc position on Web-based 3D-GIS: All Information..