Category: Teaching

  • Teaching in Santiago de Chile at the Heidelberg Center for Latin America

    NEOHAZ team members Carolin Klonner and Tomás Usón were teaching at the Heidelberg Center for Latin America (HCLA). The block module GIS 2 for the “research methodologies” seminar was attended by students of the international Master “Governance of Risks and Resources”. The master is a joined project of the Heidelberg University, Pontificia Universidad Católica de…

  • 3rd PhD Colloquium of Geoinformatics (DGK and DGPF) – Deadline extended for contributions unitl 30 January 2017

    Dear PhD students working on algorithms in Geoinformatics be aware that we have extended the deadline for submissions to the 3rd PhD Colloquium of the DGK Section on Geoinformatics and the DGPF Working Group on Geoinformatics, which takes place in Würzburg, March 7, 2017 (prior to the DGPF Annual Meeting). The main goal is to…

  • 3rd PhD Colloquium of the DGK Section on Geoinformatics and the DGPF Working Group on Geoinformatics, 7 March 2017, Würzburg, Germany

    Call for Abstracts for the 3rd PhD Colloquium of the DGK Section on Geoinformatics and the DGPF Working Group on Geoinformatics March 7, 2017, in Würzburg prior to the DGPF annual meeting The Section on Geoinformatics (Sektion Geoinformatik) of the German Geodetic Commission (Deutsche Geodätische Kommission, DGK) and the Working Group on Geoinformatics (Arbeitskreis Geoinformatik)…

  • Two new tools provided on GITHub: HELIOS (LiDAR simulator), VOSTOK (3D solar potential calculation)

    On the GIScience GITHub, two new tools are now available: The Heidelberg LiDAR Operations Simulator HELIOS is a software package for interactive real-time simulation and visualization of terrestrial, mobile and airborne laser scanning surveys. Own virtual scenes can be generated by combining for example terrain models with other objects (buildings, vegetation). Own scan positions as…

  • Apply now: ISPRS Summer School of Alpine Research 2017: Close Range Sensing Techniques in Alpine Terrain

    Download flyer (PDF) Objectives The main goal of the Joint Summer School 2017 is to provide participants with innovative practical and methodological skills to characterise complex terrain and objects using close-, near range and remote sensing techniques. The Summer School will be the second edition after a successful first version in 2015. Teaching Methods Theoretical…

  • OSM GeoWeek MissingMaps Mapping Event for Madagascar @Heidelberg

    Dear Mapping Enthusiasts, Nov 13-19th is the international OpenStreetMap GeoWeek in context of the National Geographic’s Geography Awareness Week. In this scope the disastermappers/ GIScience Research Group Heidelberg invites you again to a special Mapathon to start the new semester. When: Thursday 17.11.2016, 6 pm Where: Hörsaal, Berliner Straße 48, Institute of Geography, Heidelberg University…

  • Colloquium Series of Heidelberg Geographic Society (HGG) this Semester

    below you find the invitation to the colloquium presentations of the Heidelberg Geographic Society – Heidelberger Geographische Gesellschaft – HGG for this winter semester. (in German) The general topic is about geographic reflexions on the current state of Europe: “Wo steht Europa? Geographische Reflexionen”. Den ersten Vortrag werden Prof. Dr. Johannes Glückler und Dipl.-Geogr. Regina…

  • GIScience Colloquium Series WS 2016/2017 (MO 14pm)

    The GIScience Colloquium at Heidelberg University this semester is already in full swing with two presentations the last weeks. Today we will enjoy another interesting talk by Dr. Franz-Benjamin Mocnik about  Maps Telling Stories , but here you can find the full list of presentations for this semester. Everybody is cordially invited to join the…

  • Welcoming our Master Students – come and find out

    We would like to cordially invite all Master Geography students starting this semester and all interested people to our public Master Welcome Event today. You will have the opportunity to get insights into the GIScience Group Heidelberg and see four very cool short talks about most recent research topics! See you there: Wed, 19 October…

  • 3D data acquisition in the Ötztal Alps – Exploring 3D GIScience on the “Monster of Rock”

    As part of the practical field training “3D Geodatenerfassung im Hochgebirge (Ötztal), 31 July – 06 August”, the rock glacier “Äußeres Hochebenenkar” (42 ha), located in the Ötztal Alps in an elevation of 2,630-2,800 m a.s.l., was explored  by 16 students under the direction of Bernhard Höfle, Stefan Hecht and Martin Hämmerle. With the help…

  • Report from last OSM Mapathon for Sokodé, Togo at Heidelberg

    Below you find a short report by the students that were organizing the last months OpenStreetMap Mapathon for Sokodé in Togo at the Institute of Geography, Heidelberg University: Mapping Event: Sokodé Am 08. Juni 2016 war es wieder soweit! Im Rahmen des „Citizens as Sensors“ Seminar in Kooperation mit Missing Maps und den lokalen Behörden…

  • Vortrag zur amtlichen Geodatenerfassung der Stadt Heidelberg

    Im Rahmen der Vorlesung “Geodatenerfassung” wird am Montag, 25. Juli 2016, 9:15h, Hörsaal Berliner Str. 48, Herr Hubert Zimmerer zur Amtlichen Geodatenerfassung in Heidelberg referieren. Herr Zimmerer ist Abteilungsleiter des Geographisch Technisches Informationssystems (GTIS) am Vermessungsamt der Stadt Heidelberg. Herr Zimmerer bringt eindrückliche Beispiele aus Heidelberg mit und wird einen direkten Praxisbezug der gelernten Theorie…