GIScience News Blog
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HeiGIT in Berlin with BMBF and AWI on the publication of the Participatory Research Strategy
On 27th June 2023, Oliver Fritz and Sabrina Marx from HeiGIT’s Geoinformation for Humanitarian Aid team joined their colleagues of the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) in Potsdam for a workshop with students of the Dathe Gymnasium in Berlin, a partner school participating in the UndercoverEisAgenten project. In a first session, the students learned about Arctic…
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Looking back at FOSS4G Conference 2023
Figure 1: FOSS4G 2023, QGIS daily openings This years FOSS4G conference took place from 26 June – 2 July 2023 in beautiful Prizren, Kosovo. Since 2006 FOSS4G, the largest global gathering for geospatial software, is organized by the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo). This year workshops, presentations, discussions, cooperation and developing of geospatial tools and softwares…
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Workshop on Intelligent Systems for Vector-Borne Disease at HWK
Heidelberg as a GeoHealth Hub: GIScience team member Steffen Knoblauch was invited by the Hanse-Wirtschaftskolleg to an event of the working group for Intelligent Systems for Vector-Borne Disease. Various sessions will be held, amongst others the session about Mosquito Monitoring first thing tomorrow. At 11 am Steffen will talk about “Key drivers for inner-urban dengue occurrence” during the Mosquito Monitoring session. He will elaborate…
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Join The Team: Senior Spatial Data Scientist for Climate Action
(m/f/d, up to 100%) You are a highly motivated person who loves spatial data science? You want to use your expertise for the benefit of society and the environment – in particular stimulating Climate Action? You want to improve the availability and quality of geographic information for Climate Action and develop geoinformatics methods used for…
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Join The Team: Community engagement, outreach & partnership manager (for) Climate Action
(m/f/d, up to 100%) You are a highly motivated person who loves spatial data science? You want to use your expertise for the benefit of society and the environment – in particular stimulating Climate Action? You want to improve the availability and quality of geographic information for Climate Action and develop geoinformatics methods used for…
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Call for Papers: Workshop on Geocomputational Analysis of Socio-Economic Data
Published: 30. June 2023 Figure from ACM SIGSPATIAL You have published an original research contribution on Geocomputational Analysis of Socio-Economic Data, or have a work-in-progress paper that would fit the topic?We invite you to contribute to the workshop on Geocomputational Analysis of Socio-Economic Data at the International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems in…
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OEV: Indicator Correlations (4/4)
After introducing the OSM Element Vectorisation Tool last week, we now want to show possible use cases and specific examples of what the tool can do. This third and last example will look at the correlations between indicators. The goal is to first assure that the indicators measure distinct data attributes and then search for interesting or…
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OEV: Quantifying differences between imports (3/4)
After introducing the OSM Element Vectorisation Tool last week, we now want to show possible use cases and specific examples of what the tool can do. This second of three use cases (see use case 1) compares the data in the regions of Maribor, Slovenia and Ngaoundéré, Cameroon. Both regions are exceptionally well covered with land-use and land-cover information in OSM.…
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OEV: Analysing attributes of remarkable elements (2/4)
After introducing the OSM Element Vectorisation Tool earlier this week, we now want to show possible use cases and specific examples of what the tool can do. This first of three use cases takes a closer look at the data in the region of Heidelberg, Germany. We will use the concept of archetypes to identify…
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HeiGIT and GIScience at AGILE 2023
Earlier this month, the Association of Geographic Information Laboratories in Europe (AGILE) held its 2023 conference, and GIScience and HeiGIT team members contributed presentations, analyses and papers toward this year’s theme of “Spatial data for design.” At the conference’s host university Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) in the Netherlands, the team members contributed work uniting design…
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OSM Element Vectorisation Tool Version 1
The IDEAL-VGI research project is nearing its end. And while that won’t be the end of our research into social data sources, data quality analyses and land-use information, we are happy to announce a major outcome: the version 1 release of the OSM Element Vectorisation Tool (OEV). The tool was first presented to the public…
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Mosquito App Alert
Prof. Dr. Alexander Zipf and Charlie Hatfield from HeiGIT contribute with their expertise on participatory science to an interdisciplinary case study by IDAlert on the monitoring of invasive mosquito populations in Heidelberg and the Rhine-Neckar-Region. One part of the case study is the Mosquito Alert App that recently has been launched in Germany and draws…
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