Category: VGI Group

  • Population distribution and Elements at Risk layers for Philippines now available

    Knowing where people in need could be in a crisis situation is as crucial as it is difficult. Sometimes the difficulty is just not having a convenient way to display or access extant datasources.As a service to the crisis mappers we supply a Tile Service showing the residential population distribution in the Philipines in 90m…

  • 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…

  • 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

  • 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…

  • 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…