GIScience News Blog
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Call for Abstracts for PhD Colloquium on Deep Learning in Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Geospatial Information Processing
Call for Abstracts: 4th PhD Colloquium on “Deep Learning in Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Geospatial Information Processing” May 15-16, 2019 in Rostock The Division on Geoinformatics (Abteilung Geoinformatik) of the German Geodetic Commission (Deutsche Geodätische Kommission, DGK) and the Working Group on Geoinformatics (Arbeitskreis Geoinformatik) of the German Society for Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Geoinformation…
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How to become ohsome part 2: Comparing different regions based on their attributive completeness of OSM data
Welcome back to the second part of the blog series how to become ohsome. If you have not read the first part yet, better go and check it out now. It explains how you can create an ohsome visualization of the historical development of the OSM data from a city of your choice. This second part shows how to…
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STAP19 Compact Course and Workshop in April – Registration Open
From 01-04 April 2019, the 3DGeo and FCGL research groups are organizing a compact course and workshop on Spatial and Temporal Analysis of Geographic Phenomena (STAP19) at the Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing (IWR, Heidelberg University). The course will teach participants state-of-the-art methods of 3D spatial data processing and analysis with a focus on spatial…
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CFP: AGILE workshop “GeoCultGIS – GEOgraphical and CULTural aspects of Geo-data: Issues and Solutions”
Our workshop “GeoCultGIS – GEOgraphical and CULTural aspects of Geo-data: Issues and Solutions” has been accepted for the 22nd AGILE Conference on Geo-information Science, the annual conference of the Association of Geographic Information Laboratories in Europe (AGILE). The event will be held in Limassol, Cyprus on 17-20 June, 2019. Workshop theme: While some geo-datasets offer…
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Blindspots in ecosystem service research
Ecosystem service research is high on the policy agenda. Strategies to synthesize individual success stories and derive generalized results to provide guidance for policymakers and stakeholder is central to many science-policy initiatives, such as IPBES, ELD, WAVES and TEEB. However, to successfully transfer knowledge from ES case studies to environmental policies, it is necessary to…
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Colloquium invitation: Supporting the most vulnerable people before the disaster strikes – International Disaster Risk Reduction within the German Red Cross
The GIScience group cordially invites everybody interested to our next open GIScience colloquium talk about: Supporting the most vulnerable people before the disaster strikes – International Disaster Risk Reduction within the German Red Cross Speakers are Stefanie Lux and Stefan Scholz from the German Red Cross (GRC, Generalsekretariat Berlin, International Coordination). Monday 21.01.2019, 14:15 pm Institute…
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Interested in sponsoring the State of the Map conference 2019?
State of the Map 2019 conference will be held in Heidelberg, September 21-23 2019. Interested in sponsoring? Want to help build bridges through scholarships? Sponsorship packages are available at https://2019.stateofthemap.org/Sponsorship2019.pdf
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CfP: Transactions in GIS special issue on “Open Source Geospatial Science, Software and Education”
Special issue information: The last decade has seen a rapid growth in open source geospatial software and data developments. Open geospatial data applies the principles of free and openness to geospatial information, allowing communities to collaborate on a data product. Applying the lessons learned in the open source industry to geo-data collection and maintenance has…
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Road access restriction information in openrouteservice
The new year started in the openrouteservice team at HeiGIT with the release of openrouteservice 4.7.2. In this release there were a number of bug fixes, but also some new features. The main one of these is the inclusion of information about access restrictions when your route takes you over roads that are marked in…
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