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  • Third Workshop on “3D Field Methods in Geosciences”

    The third workshop on 3D methods in geological applications was jointly organized by the University of Göttingen, the Geological Service of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW, German federal state), and the 3D Geo Research Group at Heidelberg University. The workshop is an event of the initiative “3D Field Methods in Geosciences”, which provides a platform to connect…

  • Masterclass and Workshop at the University of Warwick

    Our colleague René Westerholt was recently invited to deliver a Masterclass on ‘Spatial Analysis’ at the University of Warwick (UK) on Tuesday, 6th of March. The one-day-event was hosted by the Q-Step Centre, an initiative to strengthen quantiative skills of students enrolled at the Social Science Faculty. The workshop was attended by students from various…

  • Reminder Deadline 30.03.2018: 2nd CFP – VGI-ALIVE Workshop at AGILE, Lund.

    VGI-ALIVE – AnaLysis, Integration, Vision, Engagement Tuesday 12th June 2018, Lund, Sweden, Workshop at AGILE 2018 Introduction to the VGI-ALIVE Workshop The steady rise of data volume shared on already established and new Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) and social media platforms calls for advanced analysis methods of user contribution patterns, leads to continued challenges in data fusion, and…

  • Workshop on “spatial urban analytics with user-generated geodata”

    We’ve recently finalised the programme of a workshop on “spatial urban analytics with user-generated geographic information”. The event is conjoined with the 2017 International Conference at the Royal Geographical Society in London and is co-chaired by René Westerholt (GIScience Heidelberg). We received methodological as well as empirical contributions, which reflects the breadth of the complex…

  • 10 Days to Deadline for Link-VGI Workshop Short Papers at AGILE 2016

    A little reminder that the Deadline for Short Papers for the Link-VGI Pre Conference Workshop at AGILE International Conference on Geographic Information Science 2016. Helsinki is approaching! The main theme is “LINKing and analyzing Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) across different platforms” and the workshop shall focus, but is not limited to, the following topics and…

  • 2nd Call for Papers: Link-VGI Workshop @ AGILE Helsinki in June; Deadline April 25th.

    LINKing and analyzing Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) across different platforms Pre Conference Workshop at 19th AGILE International Conference on Geographic Information Science 2016. Helsinki, June 14th 2016 Deadline for Call for Short Paper (AGILE short paper format): April 25th 2016 The number of Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) and social media platforms is continuously growing, providing…

  • LiDAR Processing Short Course – Combining 3D Laser Scanning with Geological Research

    Following up on the joint field trip to the Peloponnese in Greece this spring, the GIScience Group, welcomed Lisa Bingham and Andreas Habel, two scientists from the University of Stavanger, Department of Petroleum Engineering, for a two-day workshop (Dec 9 and 10, 2015) on LiDAR processing. The main objective of the LiDAR workshop was to…

  • CrowdAnalyser Talk and Workshop on Big Data and Socioeconomic Analysis by Professor Paul Longley

    By the end of November, Professor Paul Longley and his colleague Guy Lansley (both from Department of Geography, University College London) visited our group as part of the last CrowdAnalyser workshop. Both of them gave really inspiring talks. Paul talked about the provenance and use of big data (largely focussing on social media). Guy, in…

  • 2nd. Call for Papers: RICH-VGI Workshop @ AGILE 2015, Lisboa

    2nd Call for Papers: Enriching VGI @ AGILE 2015 Workshop We call for papers for the Workshop: RICH-VGI: enRICHment of volunteered geographic information (VGI): Techniques, practices and current state of knowledge Workshop @ the 18th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science Lisboa, Portugal. Tuesday 9 June 2015 In recent years we have witnessed the rapid…

  • Citizen Science Workshop in Osnabrück

    The German Federal Ecological Foundation organized together with the consortium „BürGEr schaffen WISSen (GEWISS)“ a citizen science workshop, which took place at the 26th and 27th of January. Participants from academia, industry and administration discussed recent trends and applications. Furthermore, group discussions regarding limitations and urgent problems of citizen science were also on the agenda.…

  • MayaArch3D @ SFB933/HCCH Joint Workshop

    The GIScience Reserarch Group Heidelberg contributed to the workshop „Aktuelle Formen der Präsentation und Edition beschrifteter Artefakte“ through a presentation about the joint project MayaArch3D which was given by Lukas Loos. The workshop took place at the International Science Forum Heidelberg and was jointly organized by the DFG SFB 933 „Materiale Textkulturen“ and the Heidelberg…

  • Sino-German Workshop “Multi-dimensional Global Mapping and Services”

    The Sino-German workshop on Multi-dimensional Global Mapping and Services was jointly organized by Prof. Dr. Qing Zhu at Southwest Jiaotong University (SWJTU) and Prof. Dr. Alexander Zipf at Heidelberg University. The workshop was supported by the Sino-German Center for Research Promotion, and was held in the new campus of Southwest Jiaotong University on December 2…