Category: Teaching

  • GIScience Heidelberg joins OSGeo GeoForAll Labs

    The GIScience Research Group at Heidelberg joined the OSGE GeoForAll initiative and network as an Open Source Geospatial Laboratory and Research Center. GIScience Heidelberg is supporting free and open GI software, open GI standards (OGC), open Geo-Data (e.g. OpenStreetMap and other VGI), open access publication and GIS education in many ways. This is demonstrated already…

  • Vorbesprechung GP/Übung: Physiogeographische Geodatenerfassung im Hochgebirge (Ötztal)

    Die Veranstaltung “Physiogeographische Geodatenerfassung im Hochgebirge (Ötztal)” wird im Sommersemester 2016 zwischen 31.07.2016 und 06.08.2016 in Obergurgl, Tirol, Österreich, durchgeführt. Die verpflichtende Vorbesprechung findet am Fr. 11.12, 12:00 s.t., R015/INF348, statt. Die Veranstaltung ist eine Zusammenarbeit zwischen Geoinformatik und Physiogeographie und bietet erstmals die einzigartige Möglichkeit verschiedenste Methoden der Geodatenerfassung an einem der schönsten und…

  • Explore! The Power of Maps. Results of the Heidelberg Missing Maps Mapathon

    Last week we organized a special Mapping event in the scope of the Geography Awareness Week in cooperation with the Missing Maps team and great support by students of the seminar “Disaster Management with GIS” and the disastermappers Heidelberg. The students created a blog post explaining the motivation as well as the outcome of the…

  • High-end survey capacities at GIScience for research and teaching in and around Heidelberg

    At the chair of GIScience, highly accurate RTK GNSS surveying is used for teaching and research. In the area in and around Heidelberg, surveys within the same coordinate reference system are now possible thanks to a fixed point recently installed by the group on the top of a university building. Teaching projects similar to the…

  • Specialization in Geoinformatics in Master of Geography Degree at Heidelberg University

    Since this winter semester it is now possible to formally specialize in “Geoinformatics” within the Master of Science “Geography” Degree at Heidelberg University, Institute of Geography. When a certain amount of courses and credit points in this Masters programme are taken from courses related to Geoinformatics, then the student can have this specialization subject be…

  • Talk ‘3D-Geoinformation aus Laserscanningdaten’ at workshop ‘The future courtroom’

    At Thursday, 22nd of October, the GIScience LiDAR Research Group (LRG) contributed to the workshop ‘The future courtroom‘ (website in German) with a talk introducing the analysis of 3D Geodata and the connections to forensic science. Martin Hämmerle presented a selection of LRG projects covering a wide range of applications and use cases, from crowd…

  • Introducing the GIScience Research Group Heidelberg: Wednesday Oct.14.; 16.ct.

    This Wednesday (Oct. 14th) afternoon at 16:15-17:45 the GIScience Research Group @ Heidelberg University will introduce itself to the Master students and any other interested persons and students with a selection of short presentations about some of the key research topics in the group, as indicated through our publications in journals and conferences. This includes:…

  • ISPRS Innsbruck PhD Summer School of Alpine Research 2015

    The first summer school of its kind on Close Range Sensing Techniques in Alpine Terrain took place in Obergurgl, Ötztal Valley, Austria, from July 5 – 11 2015. The event was co-hosted by the ISPRS, the main organizer University of Innsbruck and several other European universities including the GIScience Group of Heidelberg University. More than…

  • MappingParty 4 India and Chile at Heidelberg University

    on Wednesday, July 8, we invite you to a mapping event organized by students, similar to the earlier mapping events in Heidelberg, where numerous people had participated. This time we chose two regions which suffer on the one hand from high vulnerability and many natural hazards and where on the other hand OpenStreetMap still has…

  • Talk ‘3D Geodata – Background and Application’ given at Heidelberg University of Education.

    At Thursday, 2nd of July, Martin Hämmerle from the GIScience LiDAR Research Group gave a talk at the Geography colloquium series of the Heidelberg University of Education. Entitled ‘3D Geodata – Background and Application’, the talk introduced basics about 3D geodata and gave a broad overview to research projects of the chair of GIScience. The…

  • Invitation to GIScience Colloquium: An Agent-Based Model of Individual and Collective Place Formation

    We cordially invite any interested person to the next GIScience Heidelberg colloquium presentation this week on Thursday, 18 June 2015, 2.00 p.m. in the Lecture Hall, Institute of Geography, Heidelberg University, Berliner Str. 48, 69120 HD. The title of the talk is “An Agent-Based Model of Individual and Collective Place Formation” and will be given…

  • Missing Maps visit Heidelberg and New Mapping Event on Monday May 8th.

    Members of the Missing Maps project, Doctors without Borders, the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (H.O.T) and the British Red Cross paid a visit to the disastermappers heidelberg beginning of last week to discuss new ideas and further collaboration. The day started with a lecture about Crowdsourced Information for Disaster Risk Management that was held by Melanie…