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Tag: Natural hazard

  • 3D-TAIGER: Multi-Source 3D Geoinformation Extraction for Improved Management of Forest and Natural Hazards

    New DAAD/MOST project will enable intensive exchange between Taiwan and Germany in 2016-17 The main scientific objective of 3D-TAIGER‘s exchange and collaborative research is the development of new methods for the automatic extraction of 3D geoinformation related to forests and natural hazards in Taiwan using multi-source remote sensing data. The project 3D-TAIGER is an international…

  • New research project: 4D Near Real-Time Environmental Monitoring (4DEMON)

    The Ministry of Science, Research and Arts, Baden-Wuerttemberg has funded a new research project called 4DEMON, which will approach the research front of 4D Near Real-Time Environmental Monitoring. Our physical environment underlies permanent changes in space and time with strongly varying triggers, frequencies, magnitudes and also consequences to humans. Monitoring of Earth surface processes (e.g.…

  • Mon-Shieh Yang from Taiwan joins GIScience Team

    Mr. Mon-Shieh Yang, a senior PhD candidate from the National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), Department of Earth Sciences, has been awarded a grant of the National Science Council (NSC) of Taiwan to join the LiDAR Research Group (LRG) of the Chair of GIScience Heidelberg from July 2014 to April 2015. His research will focus on…

  • New Academy Project on Interdisciplinary Neogeography in Natural Hazard Analysis in Chile

    The research project NEOHAZ – NEOgeography of a Digital Earth: Geoinformation Science as Methodological Bridge in Interdisciplinary Natural HAZard Analysis is funded by the WIN-Kolleg of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (HAW) and runs from 2014 till 2017. Project Description: The understanding of complex human-environment interactions via measuring and observing can only be…