Tag: disaster
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MapSwipe App for humanitarian mapping featured in Product Hunt today
today MapSwipe is featured in “Product Hunt”, a kind of reddit for products. https://www.producthunt.com/tech/mapswipe Learn more about the smartphone App that helps you to put a family on the map. It is so simple even children can use it but helps humanitarian organisations like the Red Cross and Doctors without Borders to better plan and…
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OpenFloodRiskMap Online combines Critical Infrastructure from OSM with Emergency Routing
some time ago we deployed OpenFloodRiskMap (OFRM) at http://ofrm.geog.uni-heidelberg.de/ OpenFloodRiskMap (OFRM) is a prototype web application to assist decision makers in developing alarm and operation plans for flood risk management. The OFRM hereby provides support in accessing critical infrastructure (CI) information in the OpenStreetMap (OSM) data base and to furthermore add this information to an…
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An Overview on supporting Disaster Management through Crowdsourcing Geographic Information
The “Ruperto Carola” research magazine reports on scientific findings and current research projects at Heidelberg University. The current issue “North & South” refers to the „International Year of Global Understanding“ and features among others a short overview article on some of the work that is done at the GIScience Research Group Heidelberg with respect to…
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Geospatial Analysis of Disasters – Measuring Welfare Impacts of Emergency Relief, Workshop Heidelberg University
IWH Symposium: Geospatial Analysis of Disasters Measuring Welfare Impacts of Emergency Relief today & tomorrow: July 18-19, 2016 at Heidelberg University, Germany (by invitation only) Natural disasters and man-made catastrophes pose a serious threat to the stability and prosperity of countries and the well-being and lives of many individuals worldwide. Methodological advances and better availability…
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Location matters – GIS in the humanitarian sector – Presentation by S. Sudhoff (CartONG)
On next monday, Sandra Sudhoff will give a public talk on the integration of GIS and other IT technologies with the humanitarian sector. Sandra is technical director at CartONG, a french NGO commited to providing geotools, geodata and professional guidance to decision makers and respondents in emergency relief and humanitarian aid. Like GIScience Heidelberg CartONG…
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A conceptual model for quality assessment of VGI for the purpose of flood management
Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) has emerged as a potential source of geographic information for different domains. Despite the many advantages associated with it, such information lacks of quality assurance, since it is provided by individuals with different motivations and backgrounds. In response to this, several methods have been proposed to assess the quality of volunteered…
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Flood risk assessment at the future Mexico City International Airport – GIScience Colloquium presentation today
We cordially invite any interested person to another public talk in our GIScience colloquium series this monday. The topic is: Flood risk assessment at the future Mexico City International Airport Dr. Carolina Ramírez-Núñez / visiting scientist GIScience Heidelberg, CONACYT, National Council of Science + Technology, Mexico Date: Mon, June 6, 2016, 14:15 pm, Location: Heidelberg…
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RIOSCRAM 2016 – ISCRAM Conference in Rio de Janeiro
Last week Carolin Klonner, Melanie Eckle and Benjamin Herfort attended the 13th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management in Rio de Janeiro. The ISCRAM community is globally active and brings together researchers, academics, practitioners as well as policy makers to promote research and development of information systems for crisis management. This…
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Urban Landuse, Flood Risks, VGI quality and GIS in humanitarian NGOs – save the date for GIScience presentations
Earlier this semester Dr. Chiao-Ling started the GIScience colloqium series already with a presentation about An Ontology-based Semantic Interoperability Framework for Geospatial Information. Now stay tuned and save the date for the further presentations in this semester: Deriving urban land use from image data – potentials, limitations and main approaches (Dr. Tessio Novack) Mo, 30.05.2016,…
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GIScience HD contributes to Int. Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management
GIScience Heidelberg regularily contributes to the ISCRAM conferences. This year we again have four papers dealing with different aspects on crowdsoured geographic information (e.g. OpenStreetMap) in disaster response and management (e.g. OpenFloodRiskMap). Eckle, M., Herfort, B., Alberquerque, J., Leiner, R., Wolff, R., Jacobs, C., Zipf, A. (2016): Leveraging OpenStreetMap to support flood risk management: A…
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Disaster OpenRouteService for Ecuador Earthquake
In order to provide emergency and rescue forces in Ecuador with the latest information concerning infrastructural conditions of roads and buildings the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (H.O.T.) as part of the OpenStreetMap Community coordinates the crisis mapping activities for the Ecuador earthquake. As a first support of these activities the GIScience Heidelberg team set up a…
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GIScience contributed to workshop “Open Data” in Heidelberg
Last friday the GIScience Research Group was invited to participate in a follow-up workshop on “Open Data”. Already in December 2015 the GIScience Research Group and the disastermappers heidelberg had been invited to present their work on Open Data in the 10th “Modellierungstag” of the Heidelberg Graduate School of Mathematical and Computational Methods for the…