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  • GIScience contribution to Big Data Research Winter School with Indian IITs in Heidelberg

    Currently Heidelberg University is establishing a PhD Research Training Group (RTG) on “Big Data Research“ together with several Indian Universities and Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) in the context of the HGS MathComp at the IWR (Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing). Partners from India include Allhabad University, Delhi University (MoU pending), Jawaharlal Nehru University, IIT…

  • Masterclass and Workshop at the University of Warwick

    Our colleague René Westerholt was recently invited to deliver a Masterclass on ‘Spatial Analysis’ at the University of Warwick (UK) on Tuesday, 6th of March. The one-day-event was hosted by the Q-Step Centre, an initiative to strengthen quantiative skills of students enrolled at the Social Science Faculty. The workshop was attended by students from various…

  • ISPRS Education and Capacity Building Initiatives 2018

    The International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) is funding scientific and other initiatives, which will further improve its international status in the field of the photogrammetry, remote sensing and spatial information sciences, and will therefore benefit all ISPRS members. For 2018, seven Education and Capacity Building Initiatives projects were selected. GIScience Heidelberg is…

  • Colloquium: New observations of urban climates – remote sensing and crowd sourcing, Dr. B. Bechtel

    We cordially invite everybody interested to our next open GIScience colloquium talk The speaker is Dr. Benjamin Bechtel from the Institute of Geography / Center for Earth System Research and Sustainability, Universität Hamburg www.clisap.de cen.uni-hamburg.de When: Thursday 08.03.2018, 14ct Where: INF 348, room015 (Institute of Geography, Heidelberg University) Abstract: New observations of urban climates –…

  • Ending the semester with GIScience colloquium discussions

    The winter semester 2017/2018 just has ended last week at Heidelberg University. The final GIScience colloquium presentation was given by Ross Purves (University of Zurich). After his talk we had a good discussion with members of the GIScience Research Group about VGI research and beyond. Looking forward to continue this soon. Stay tuned for the…

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

    Die Veranstaltung “Physiogeographische Geodatenerfassung im Hochgebirge (Ötztal)” wird im Sommersemester 2018 zwischen 29.07.2018 und 04.08.2018 in Obergurgl, Tirol, Österreich, durchgeführt. Die verpflichtende Vorbesprechung findet am Fr. 02.02.2018, 11:30., R132/INF348, statt. Die Veranstaltung ist eine Zusammenarbeit zwischen Geoinformatik (Prof. Höfle, K. Anders) und Physiogeographie (Dr. Hecht) und bietet die einzigartige Möglichkeit verschiedenste Methoden der Geodatenerfassung an…

  • Zwei besondere öffentliche Vorlesungen zur Geodatenerfassung

    Liebe Studierende aller Semester und Studiengänge, ich möchte Sie herzlich zu zwei besonderen Veranstaltungen im Rahmen der Vorlesung “Geodatenerfassung” in die Geographie einladen, die Sie sicher interessieren könnten: Montag, 22.01.2018 um 9.15 im gHS (INF 230, COS): Spezialvorlesung: Amtliche Geodaten bei der Stadt Heidelberg: Gewinnung, Nutzung und Vorhaltung. Hubert Zimmerer, Leiter des GIS der Stadt…

  • HeiGIT and Disastermappers @ first State of the Map Tanzania

    From this friday on the first state of the map conference in Tanzania will be held in Dar es Salaam. The members of our GIScience Research Group Heidelberg and the disastermappers heidelberg Marcel Reinmuth and Benjamin Herfort are participating and will organize a workshop on creating maps from OpenStreetMap data. The state of the map…

  • GIScience welcomes New Master Students

    Yesterday, GIScience Heidelberg was welcoming our new master students. After a general introduction into our teaching philosophy, our core courses and our institutes (HeiGIT, HCE, IWR), we were giving insights into the  specialization in GIScience/Geoinformatics, which is possible in the Geography Master Programme. As our teaching is research-based and research-oriented we were presenting most recent…

  • Introduction to GIScience HD for master students

    Dear master students, we warmly welcome you to Heidelberg and to our institute! You are cordially invited to an introduction to the GIScience research group, which takes place on Wednesday (18 October, 4 pm – 6 pm). We will provide you an introduction to our offered lectures, seminars and give you an overview of our…

  • ArchEyeAutomatic summer school 2017

    From 26 to 28 July, the 3D spatial data processing group contributed to the “ArchEyeAutomatic summer school 2017: Cameras, Drones, and Laser scanning. Modern ways to document ancient objects”. With a focus on documenting and analyzing archaeological sites and objects, the summer school introduced around 40 participants to various methods of close-range remote sensing at…

  • Innsbruck Summer School of Alpine Research 2017: Close Range Sensing Techniques in Alpine Terrain

    From 16 to 22 July, the second ISPRS Summer School of Alpine Research took place in Obergurgl, Austria. Around 40 participants from four continents enjoyed a mix of lectures, field work and hands-on data processing related to various research topics in high mountain research. Hosted at the beautifully located and perfectly equipped Alpine Research Centre…