Tag: GIScience

  • New scholarship for PhD students from West and Central Africa doing a PhD in Geoinformatics at Heidelberg University

    It is our great pleasure to inform about the new “Robert and Christine Danziger Scholarships“ for doing a PhD in Geoinformatics at Heidelberg University. Please make yourself familiar with the research topics at GIScience Heidelberg and HeiGIT (e.g. projects, papers) when suggesting potential projects for your PhD research to potential supervisors. Short facts: The Robert…

  • LOKI at vEGU 2021 on 26 and 29 April

    Join us and many European researchers from the Earth, planetary and space sciences in the virtual European Geosciences Union (EGU) assembly from 19 to 30 April 2021! Are you interested in innovative methods and concepts applied to natural hazards? Then join our 2-minute talks on research within the LOKI project on Monday, 26 April, and…

  • Deadline extended to 21.12.2020 : VIRTUAL 18th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM 2021)

    Deadline extended to 21.12.2020 18th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM 2021) May 23-26, 2021, VIRTUAL, Interactive ONLINE EVENT https://www.drrm.fralinlifesci.vt.edu/iscram2021/ Track: Geospatial Technologies and Geographic Information Science for Crisis Management (GIS) https://www.drrm.fralinlifesci.vt.edu/iscram2021/files/CFP/ISCRAM2021-Track10-Geospatial_Technologies New Deadline for paper submissions: December 21, 2020 Track Description With crisis and hazardous events being an “inherently…

  • New paper published: Participatory Mapping and Visualization of Local Knowledge: An Example from Eberbach, Germany

    Worldwide, more and more people are affected by flooding. Local knowledge provides a valuable source of information for disaster risk reduction. We present an approach for visualizing and formalizing this local knowledge. More information can be found in the paper: Klonner, C., Usón, T.J., Aeschbach, N. Höfle, B. (2020): Participatory Mapping and Visualization of Local…

  • GIScience team wins Climate Hackathon with App on reducing CO2 emissions of research groups

    Last weekend the Germany wide Climate Challenge Hackathon organised by Scientists4Future Heidelberg and the Goethe-Institute took place as an online event. Just like last years Climathon, GIScience Uni HD participated with a team. This year the team was supervised by Christina Ludwig and fortunately was able to convince the jury with their idea on how to…

  • LOKI – Video on UAV-based damage assessment combining automated methods with Micro-Mapping

    Interested in how earthquake-induced damage to critical infrastructures is assessed in the research project LOKI? Then check out this teaser below! Link to video In the LOKI project (Luftgestützte Observation Kritischer Infrastrukturen; Airborne Assessment of Critical Infrastructures), an interdisciplinary system that enables fast and reliable airborne situation assessments following an earthquake is being developed by…

  • OSM completeness mapping for airborne situation assessment following an earthquake

    As part of the LOKI project (Luftgestützte Observation Kritischer Infrastrukturen), a first test run of a newly launched OpenStreetMap (OSM) completeness mapping project in MapSwipe has been conducted yesterday. The aim of the LOKI project is to develop an interdisciplinary system that enables fast and reliable airborne situation assessments following an earthquake. The system will…

  • ‘Place’ in the GIScience Community – an indicative and preliminary Systematic Literature Review

    The concept of place has recently gained importance in geographical information science (GIScience). One reason for this is the emergence of user-generated geographic information, which partially represents subjective everyday geographical encounters. No consensus, however, on how to deal with place in GIScience has yet been reached. A recently published paper presents a systematic literature review…

  • Colloquium on Place in GIScience

    We cordially invite everybody interested to our next open GIScience colloquium talk! The speaker is Dr. René Westerholt from the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies, University of Warwick, UK. When: Monday 29.07.2019, 2:15 pm Where: INF 348, room 015 (Institute of Geography, Heidelberg University) Place in GIScience – A human geographic overview of the components to…

  • Call for State of the Map 2019 academic track is open

    The call for State of the Map 2019 (SOTM) academic track is now open until: 10th May 2019. Read more: https://2019.stateofthemap.org/calls/academic/ tl;dr Please read the submission guidelines and submit your presentation proposal before May 10 to the submission form. This year’s State of the Map conference in Heidelberg will again feature a full day Academic Track session. Following…

  • GIScience at Fachaustausch Geoinformation 2018

    The 10th “Fachaustausch Geoinformation“, a networking  event for professionals in the geodata and geoinformation domain organised yearly by GeoNet.MRN, took place in Heidelberg’s Print Media Academy on November 29th. GIScience research group at Heidelberg University and HeiGIT (Heidelberg Center for Geographic Information Technology) presented current research and projects at the event’s exhibition, including the latest…

  • 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS: GIS track of ISCRAM 2019, 16th. International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, Valencia Spain

    ISCRAM is a forum where researchers and practitioners from all around the world meet every year to share experiences and raise challenges in all the aspects related to the design, development, and use of information systems to improve the management of crisis and disaster situations. The 16th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and…