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GIScience participation in projects on nature conservation and agricultural policy making
During the last couple of years, in cooperation with the Botanical Garden of Osnabrück University, JKI and others and through our colleague René Westerholt, GIScience Heidelberg has been actively engaged in a range of botanical projects: GE-Sell: Genetic conservation areas for wild celery species as part of a network of genetic conservation areas in Germany.…
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Kicking-Off: 2 new projects in DFG priority programme “VGIscience”
Recently we attended the Kick-Off Meeting of the DFG Priority Programme “VGiscience” in Würzburg, in which we are involved through two projects. René Westerholt presented these projects to the audience of all interdisciplinary collaborators. The principal aim of this very first meeting was to explore potential cross-project collaborations, and to outline an envisaged upcoming summer…
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Christmas Mapping event in cooperation with GFZ to support earthquake management in Kyrgyzstan
Dear Mapping Enthusiasts, in the upcoming week we want to invite you to our last Mapathon of the year 2016! When: 08.12.2016, 18:00 Where: Hörsaal, Berliner Straße 48 In this mapping event we will map buildings and other infrastructures in Karakol, the fourth largest city in Kyrgyzstan, which is located in a seismically active area…
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OSM GeoWeek contributions from Heidelberg to support climate change preparedness programs
In the context of the international OpenStreetMap Geography Awareness Week, last Thursay, 17th November 2016, another mapping event was organized at the Geographical Institute of Heidelberg University. Sava, a region in the north of Madagascar, was herein mapped in cooperation with Missing Maps and the French NGO CartONG. Madagascar is as one of the poorest…
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View from Mathematikon (HeiGIT)
Autumn in Heidelberg as seen from staircase to Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation Technology – HeiGIT (Mathematikon 4th floor). Heidelberg Castle in the _very_ distance. And some further scenery nearby… enjoy
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HeKKsaGOn – GIScience takes part in the 5th Japanese-German University Presidents’ Conference
Melanie Eckle and Benjamin Herfort represented the GIScience Research Group at the 5th Japanese-German University Presidents’ Conference that was held on 29th and 30th of September in Karlsruhe. The German-Japanese University Consortium HeKKSaGOn was founded in July 2010 as an association of three German (Heidelberg, Karlsruhe, Göttingen) and three Japanese (Kyoto, Sendai, Osaka) universities. We…
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HeiGIT is starting to move into Mathematikon
recently the first few members of the Navigation Intelligence and Location Based Services group of the Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation Technology (HeiGIT) – which is currently being established based on core funding from the Klaus-Tschira Foundation Heidelberg – moved into their new offices at Mathematikon Heidelberg. The group works on services like OpenRouteService and related…
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Crowdsourced Classification of 3D Point Clouds
Within the 3D-MAPP project we currently developed a workflow and a web based tool, that allow volunteers (and experts) to classiffy 3D point clouds in just a few seconds. The approach combines the point cloud interpretation skills of humans and the scalability of crowdsourcing. Furthermore, crowdsourced geographic information can be of high value to automated…
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Job: Research Coordinator Geoinformation Technology, Heidelberg
REMINDER: Open Position: Senior Wissenschaftliche (r) Mitarbeiter/-in Geoinformatik (100%) Research Coordinator Geoinformation Technology VGI Services, LBS & Big Spatial Analytics Aufbau des Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation Technology (HeiGIT) In der Abteilung Geoinformatik der Universität Heidelberg ist baldmöglichst eine Stelle für eine(n) motivierte(n) und erfahrene(n) wissenschaftl. Mitarbeiter/-in (100%, TV-L), idealerweise promoviert, zu besetzen. Zur Förderung von…
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GeoInformatics Summer School at Wuhan University, China
In June, the State Key laboratory of Information Engineering and Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing (LIESMARS, http://www.lmars.whu.edu.cn/en/) launched their 2016 Geoinformatics Summer School at Wuhan University, China. This year’s courses treated topics ranging from technologies and paradigms for web mapping and online GIS to night-time remote sensing and GNSS. Participants from Africa, Europe and Asia,…
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GIScience @geoinfo.potsdam.2016
From 14.6.-16.6. our research group was represented by Stefan Hahmann at geoinfo.potsdam.2016 (aka 64. Deutscher Kartographentag, aka Geoinformatik 2016). The conference has seen ~150 participants from the sectors universities, administration, industry and research institutes. The programme had a strong focus on recent developments in various geo applications with sessions on visualisation methods, geoinformatics and ongoing…