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We cordially invite anybody interested to join our open GIScience colloquium talk on Monday about Forest change monitoring Michael Schultz Remote Sensing group of Wageningen University Mon, June 20, 2016, 2.00 pm, Heidelberg University, Institute of Geography, INF 348, Lecture Hall (Room 015) Forest are the lungs of the earth, many species including our own…

Link-VGI: LINKing and analyzing Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) across different platforms Link-VGI is a single-day pre-conference workshop at the AGILE 2016 Conference in Helsinki, Finland on June 14th 2016. The workshop will be held in Helsinki University Main building, Fabianinkatu 33, Helsinki. Link-VGI: Workshop Programme 09:00 – 09:15 Welcome Welcome, goals for the day, logistics,…

The accurate determination of user interest in terms of geographic information is essential to numerous mobile applications, such as recommender systems and mobile advertising. User interest is greatly influenced by the usage context and varies across individuals; therefore, a user interest model should incorporate these individual needs and propensities. In a recently published journal paper,…

reminder: Deadline approaching April 25th LINKing and analyzing Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) across different platforms Workshop at 19th AGILE International Conference on Geographic Information Science 2016. Helsinki, June 14th 2016 Deadline for Call for Short Paper (AGILE short paper format): April 25th 2016 The number of Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) and social media platforms is…

A new publication on the suitability of the new global land cover map of 2010 called GlobeLand30 for mapping European landscapes in particular, Germany and a cross comparison with crowdsourced and authoritative datasets. Abstract: Global land cover maps have been widely employed as the base layer for a number of applications including climate change, food…

The semester has come to an end but still we are happy to invite you this to two open colloquium talks by Dr. Eric Delmelle, Associate Professor, Department of Geography & Earth Sciences, University North Carolina Charlotte about the two interesting topics: “Evaluating Travel Impedance Agreement among Online Road Network Data Providers” & “Visualizing the…

Dear Colleagues, Geographic data are produced or collected by scientists in different ways to study environmental problems. Although online geographic data are accessible across the globe, there is a lack of a unique platform than enables scientists to share geographic data produced locally. Such a lack of scientific data communication has limited scholars to share…

Just before Christmas Yeran Sun from GIScience Heidelberg successfully defended his PhD about Investigating Potential of VGI Data for Revealing Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Human Activity. He investigated the use of social media from several social network and social media plattforms like Flickr or Foursquare in several different use cases such as tourism or…

The LRG of the GIScience Research Group will welcome 2016 with a talk on “Multi-Source 3D Point Clouds in Geosciences and Environmental Research” in the Computer Science Colloquium of the University of Wuerzburg: http://tinyurl.com/grwzxtb. Monday, 11 January 2016, 16.15h, Turing Lecture Hall, University of Wuerzburg The talk will address the question how a small thing…