GIScience News Blog
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Global Health Academy 2021: workshop material online
Last week, the Global Health Academy 2021 took place in an online format with a focus on the COVID-19 pandemics. The conference was conveyed by the Heidelberg Institute of Global Health (HIGH) and aimed at practitioners, researchers and PhD students in the public health domain. Dr. Sven Lautenbach with support by Steffen Knoblauch and Marcel…
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Research and Career Network: Close-range Sensing Techniques in Alpine Terrain – Alumni Event
A virtual alumni event of the Innsbruck Summer School of Alpine Research will take place on Tuesday, 7th December, 15:00-17:00. Close- and remote sensing techniques turned to essential methods for mapping and quantifying processes in mountain environments. Many different sensor systems, platforms and analysis approaches are available for observing and monitoring dynamic patterns and extracting…
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Waterproofing Data Project: Sharing experiences and accessing impacts
After three interesting years, the Waterproofing Data Project (WPD) comes to an end. Starting with a workshop in Brazil and several field trips, Corona times started and we had to rethink and reorganize our plans for the second half of the project. Our final workshop day in Heidelberg was also planned to be in person…
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ohsome Region of the Month – crop tagging
Hello and welcome back to another blog post of the ohsome Region of the Month series where you can learn about potential use cases of the ohsome API. This month we were be looking at the crop tag and tried to find out whether there is a seasonality to the tagging behaviour in OpenStreetMap in different…
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HGG Vortrag Dienstag 02.11.: Experiences from Designing Knowledge Graphs for Environmental Intelligence (K. Janowicz, UCSB)
Der nächste Vortrag der Heidelberger Geographischen Gesellschaft HGG findet am Dienstag, 02. November 2021, 19:15 Uhr ONLINE statt: Prof. Dr. Krzysztof Janowicz (University of California Santa Barbara (USCB), Department of Geography) Künstliche Intelligenz & Big Data im Silicon Valley: Erfahrungen aus der Gestaltung eines geografischen Wissensgraphen für Umweltintelligenz Das Silicon Valley gehört international zu den…
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meinGrün, Tardur und SocialMedia2Traffic bei der mFUND Konferenz 2021
Letzte Woche konnten wir bei der digitalen mFUND Konferenz drei unserer Projekte einem interessierten Publikum vorstellen. Im Fachforum “Die „15-Minuten-Stadt“ datenbasiert ermöglichen” haben wir gezeigt, wie die meinGrün App, das meinGrün Webportal und die angegliederten Dienste Städte dabei unterstützen könnten, die Erreichbarkeit von öffentlichen Grünflächen zu verbessern. Dabei zeigten sich auch Anknüpfungspunkte zu weiteren mFUND…
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Global Health Academy Heidelberg 2021
Next week Tuesday and Wednesday, 2.-3. November the Global Health Academy will take place. An online forum for an open exchange, debate and training on Global Health challenges. The Forum is hosted by the Heidelberg Institute of Global Health together with the Heidelberg Graduate School of Global Health. In close collaboration with the Institute of…
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WENN ES IN DER STADT ZU HEISS WIRD
Aktuelle Meldung der Universität Heidelberg zum Projekt HEAL: https://www.uni-heidelberg.de/de/newsroom/wenn-es-in-der-stadt-zu-heiss-wird BADEN-WÜRTTEMBERG STIFTUNG FÖRDERT HEIDELBERGER PROJEKT ZU ROUTINGDIENST MIT HITZEVERMEIDENDEN WEGSTRECKEN Wo in der Stadt Heidelberg ist es besonders heiß und wie wirken sich lokale Hitzebelastungen auf gefährdete Personengruppen aus? Mit dieser Frage befasst sich ein Forschungsprojekt, durchgeführt von der Abteilung Geoinformatik und dem TdLab Geographie am Geographischen…
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“Digital Geographies” – the topic of this semesters HGG programme
Digitalisierung ist ein aktuelles Megathema, das alle gesellschaftlichen Bereiche umfasst. Einerseits beeinflusst und verändert Digitalisierung wie wir leben und andererseits verändern sich durch Digitalisierung auch die Möglichkeiten der Forschung, sowohl in der Datenerhebung als auch in Analyse. Wie verändern sich Sozialräume durch Digitalisierung? Wie kann Digitalisierung in der Fernerkundung zu einem besseren Verständnis von Klima-…
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2021 Volcanic Eruption in La Palma (Spain) continues – Explore the temporal changes of the Lava Field in OpenStreetMap on ohsomeHeX
On the 19th of September 2021 a volcanic eruption on the Canary Island of La Palma started. Since then the resulting lava field is constantly growing and continues its destructive expansion. According to an article in the spanish newspaper El Pais, after one month of eruptions – till 19th of Oktober 2021- the volcano destroyed…
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Automatic mapping of national surface water with OpenStreetMap and Sentinel-2 MSI data using deep learning
Large-scale mapping activities can benefit from the vastly increasing availability of earth observation (EO) data, especially when combined with volunteered geographical information (VGI) using machine learning (ML). High-resolution maps of inland surface water bodies are important for water supply and natural disaster mitigation as well as for monitoring, managing, and preserving landscapes and ecosystems. In…
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Successful end of the 25 Mapathon Project
On October 12th the “25 Mapathon project” was finalized with an exceptionally successful public online mapathon. Around 20 participants with various professional backgrounds mapped 2273 buildings in three hours to support a flood preparedness project of the GRC in Togo. Furthermore, they shared their experiences and once more demonstrated how much fun it can be…
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