GIScience News Blog
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Disastermappers Workshop: Mobile Data Collection
Dear Students, Dear Colleagues, it’s time for another disastermappers workshop. And since the weather is so nice, we will go outside and learn something about mobile data collection! 🙂 When? 27.06.2018, 4 pm – 7 pm Where? Geographisches Institut, Berliner Straße 48 Data Collection in the field has always been important geographic information and today…
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GIScience Group Successful at the AGILE
The GIScience group attended the AGILE 2018 conference to present about a diversity of topics. More participants than ever have attended the conference in Lund, Sweden (12–15 June 2018). They discussed scientific topics related to the general theme of the conference, Geospatial Technologies for All. The following short papers have been presented and been published…
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Cutting-edge 4D LiDAR research in local newspaper
This morning, the Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung (RNZ) published an article (in German) about our research on 4D LiDAR for snow cover monitoring. The angle for the article by Doris Burger is the Environmental Research Station Schneefernerhaus near the summit of the Zugspitze, where members of the 3DGeo recently acquired a highly temporal 3D time series dataset of…
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Colloquium on Classification of 3D Point Clouds using Deep Neural Networks
We cordially invite everybody interested to our next open GIScience colloquium talk The speaker is Lukas Winiwarter TU Wien, Department of Geodesy and Geoinformation, Research Group Photogrammetry When: Monday 18.06.2018, 2:15 pm Where: INF 348, room 015 (Institute of Geography, Heidelberg University) Classification of 3D Point Clouds using Deep Neural Networks Per-point classification (semantic labeling) is an…
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Wikimedia and MSF talks @Disaster 2.0 seminar- Latest theory and practice in disaster management
How are Wikipedia/Wikimedia volunteers supporting disaster management? What role does their engagement all around open source and open data play? What are the latest developments and innovations in humanitarian contexts and how are they defined and addressed? These questions were discussed in the first block of the Disaster 2.0 seminar last week. Daniel Mietchen, Biophysicist…
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HeiGIT/ disastermappers visit at MSF Czech Republic
HeiGIT/GIScience and disastermappers heidelberg have been in contact and collaborating with MSF CZ over the last years already and have been supporting their work through joined Mapathons as well as MapSwipe Mapathon support. Last week members of HeiGIT/GIScience and disastermappers heidelberg visited Prague to exchange ideas and experiences and discuss potential ways to take this…
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Today VGI-ALIVE Workshop at AGILE 2018 Lund, Sweden
If you are in Lund, Sweden today you might consider joining our VGI-ALIVE Workshop at AGILE Conference 2018. The latest programme can be found here. It includes keynotes by Andrea Ballatore and Stefano Dea Sabata and a range of interesting contributions, including Enhancing Crowdsourced Classification on Human Settlements Utilizing Logistic Regression Aggregation and Intrinsic Context…
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Use of multi-objective optimization to assess trade-offs of urban expansion in Switzerland
One of the many unwanted side effects of urban growth is the loss of fertile soils since most citizens and villages have been founded in close proximity to fertile soils. Preserving high-quality soils however can conflict with the objective of developing compact urban patterns. A team from researches at the GIScience group, the ETH Zürich…
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Colloquium on a low-cost mini-UAV laser scanning system (Kylin Cloud)
We cordially invite everybody interested to our next open GIScience colloquium talk The speaker is Prof. Bisheng Yang State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China When: Monday 11.06.2018, 2:15 pm Where: INF 348, room 015 (Institute of Geography, Heidelberg University) A low-cost mini-UAV laser scanning system –…
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Full publication of multitemporal multisensor dataset from an Arctic permafrost research site
The multisensor datasets acquired in the three field campaigns of the PermaSAR project have recently been published on the Open Access data library PANGAEA: Anders, K., Antonova, S., Beck, I., Boike, J., Höfle, B., Langer, M., Marsh, P., Marx, S., (2018): Multisensor ground-based measurements of the permafrost thaw subsidence in the Trail Valley Creek, NWT,…
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