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Asphalt road with visible cracks and white text reading 'NEW PAPER Automated road crack localization for spatially guided highway maintenance'
  • In category: Forschung
New paper „Automated road crack localization for spatially guided highway maintenance“
Leveraging openly available airborne imagery this study presents a scalable framework for automated road pavement crack detection for spatially guided highway-maintenance….
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Satellite with extended solar panels orbiting Earth with text 'Why access to satellite imagery continues to limit humanitarian aid and research'
  • In category: Allgemein
Why access to satellite imagery continues to limit humanitarian aid and research

Satellite imagery has become so embedded in research and humanitarian work, yet access remains uneven and inconsistent. Even when imagery is nominally available, its coverage varies across regions, resolution is…

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Close-up of a mosquito on a green plant leaf with text about a scientific study on Ae. albopictus and Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis in Heidelberg, Germany
  • In category: Forschung
New Paper “Fine-scale temporal and spatial dynamics of Ae. albopictus response to larviciding with Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis in Heidelberg, Germany”
A new study published in Scientific Reports examines the effectiveness of biological larviciding in controlling invasive mosquito populations in Heidelberg, Germany. Using detailed data, the research highlights how treatment effects…
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  • In category: Big Spatial Data Analytics, Intelligente Mobilität
OpenStreetMap data as a basis for routing—how well does it really work?
The article is based on the talk Benjamin Herfort (HeiGIT) and Benjamin Würzler (Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie) presented at FOSSGIS 2026 in Göttingen….
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Weltkarte mit farblich markierten Regionen und Text 'Global Data on Healthcare and Education Accessibility with OpenAccessLens' neben einer sitzenden Person an einem Tisch mit Schreibmaterial.
  • In category: Geoinformation für humanitäre Hilfe
Global Data on Healthcare and Education Accessibility with OpenAccessLens
The new OpenAccessLens platform provides open, global data on accessibility to healthcare and education. Built on OpenStreetMap data and openrouteservice modeling, it can support accessibility research, humanitarian work, public health…
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Karte Deutschlands mit farblich markierten Städten Hamburg, Heidelberg, Bonn, Karlsruhe und Berlin, dazu eine Legende zur verbleibenden CO2-Budget pro Kopf in Tonnen.
  • In category: Climate Action
Können deutsche Städte die Klimaziele noch erreichen? Ein Blick auf Emissionstrends und CO₂-Budgets
Deutschland hat seine Treibhausgasemissionen seit ihrem Höhepunkt im Jahr 1979 bereits erheblich reduziert. Dennoch stehen viele Städte kurz davor, ihre verbleibenden CO₂-Budgets aufzubrauchen. Können wir die Klimaziele noch erreichen? Das…
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Map of Morocco with highlighted regions and points alongside text '5 Datasets to Support Humanitarian Aid, Infrastructure Planning and Climate Action' and 'HeiGIT' logo
  • In category: Allgemein
Five Datasets to Support Humanitarian Aid, Infrastructure Planning and Climate Action

Reliable geodata is essential for informed decisions, such as preparing emergency supply chains, assessing road conditions, identifying healthcare gaps, or guiding climate investments. Yet in many regions, this information is…

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Three girls in school uniforms with backpacks and red hair ribbons walking on a rural dirt path.
  • In category: Geoinformation für humanitäre Hilfe, Pressemitteilungen
Eine Karte sagt mehr als tausend Worte

neuer globaler Datensatz zeigt Lücken beim Zugang zu Bildungseinrichtungen und der Gesundheitsversorgung auf Zahlen allein erzählen selten die ganze Geschichte – etwa darüber, ob ein Kind zur Schule geht oder…

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Two hexagonal images above text: left shows a street with trees and plants, right shows a heatmap of trees and plants, above is the 'HeiGIT' logo and the text 'How Street-Level Imagery and Deep Learning Are Helping Map Global Infrastructure'
  • In category: Allgemein
How Street-Level Imagery and Deep Learning Are Helping Map Global Infrastructure
Street-level imagery combined with deep learning methods is transforming how we detect and map critical infrastructure characteristics that are often missing from existing datasets. Applications range from road surface classification…
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  • In category: Forschung
Measuring What You Never Notice: A Computer Vision Approach to Accessible Paths

This blog article was originally posted on Medium by Maciej Adamiak, machine learning expert at HeiGIT. It’s very easy to take many things around us for granted, especially when you live…

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Dense hillside settlement with many small brick houses and some vegetation in the foreground
  • In category: Geoinformation für humanitäre Hilfe
Strengthening national risk management using the Sketch Map Tool in Colombia

The Sketch Map Tool was strategically used within Colombia’s National Disaster Management System to steer community mapping in the southern city of Cali. The National Unit for Disaster Risk Management…

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Map of Somalia with color-shaded regions and text 'Open Risk Assessment Datasets for easier humanitarian action'
  • In category: Geoinformation für humanitäre Hilfe
Open Risk Assessment Datasets for Easier Humanitarian Action
New open, ready-to-use global risk assessment datasets can simplify risk analysis by removing major technical barriers to data preparation. Designed for easy use with the Risk Assessment QGIS Plugin, the…
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Bicycles locked to a red bike rack along an urban street with parked cars and cyclists in the background.
  • In category: Intelligente Mobilität
Use-case: evaluating urban cycling across several European cities with openrouteservice
The study introduces a BIKE Index, a multi-dimensional framework for evaluating urban cycling conditions across cities. Built entirely on open datasets and open tools such as openrouteservice, the index provides…
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Cityscape with high-rise buildings in the background, a green field in the foreground, and binary numbers overlaid in the sky
  • In category: Forschung
New Paper „Urban AI for a sustainable built environment: Progress and future directions“
The editorial for the special issue of Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science delineates the scope of a collection of research articles centering on Urban Artificial Intelligence…
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Farbiges Höhenlinienmodell einer Landschaft mit dem Titel 'Tajogaite' und dem Hinweis auf OpenStreetMap-Daten.
  • In category: Big Spatial Data Analytics
New release of ohsome-planet: Analyse OSM data at the pace it is produced with minutely updates
The latest release of ohsome-planet introduces Parquet files continuously derived from OpenStreetMap replication data. This eliminates costly reprocessing and allows seamless analysis of the full lifecycle of OSM data in…
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Gruppe von Menschen steht vor mehreren an der Wand befestigten Plakaten in einem hellen Raum mit Holzboden.
  • In category: Allgemein
Making room for experiment: How we build innovation into our daily work

In recent years, HeiGIT has dedicated time to experimenting with new ideas, technologies, and collaborations, free from the immediate pressure to deliver results. What started as a new experience has…

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Ein Mann in rotem Pullover steht vor einem Bildschirm mit einer Landkarte und Text, daneben ein Tisch mit Laptop und Stuhl, im Vordergrund eine Person in medizinischer Uniform mit Stethoskop.
  • In category: Geoinformation für humanitäre Hilfe
GIS-Training zur Stärkung von Public-Health-Einsätzen
Geodatenanalysen sind von zentraler Bedeutung im Public-Health-Sektor, zum Beispiel bei Notfalleinsätzen und Krankheitsausbrüchen. Mit einer Pilot-GIS-Schulung haben wir gezeigt, wie Gesundheitsfachkräfte und Informationsmanager gemeinsam komplexe Daten in wirksame Entscheidungsgrundlagen überführen…
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Stadtsilhouette mit Hochhäusern und einem großen, runden Stadion im Vordergrund unter klarem Himmel.
  • In category: Intelligente Mobilität
Use Case: Mapping Pedestrian Accessibility in Jakarta with Openrouteservice
A recent study on cultural ecosystem service access in Jakarta used openrouteservice to map pedestrian accessibility to urban green spaces and reveal socioeconomic disparities in access….
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Reihe von Wohnhäusern mit Giebeldächern und Schornsteinen unter grauem Himmel, daneben Text 'Neue Indikatoren für Emissionen aus der Beheizung von Wohngebäuden: Baujahr und Energieträger'.
  • In category: Climate Action
Neue Indikatoren für Emissionen aufgrund der Beheizung von Wohngebäuden: Baujahr und Energieträger
Das Modul “Heating Emissions” im Climate Action Navigator ermöglicht die Analyse der CO₂-Emissionen, die durch die Beheizung von Wohngebäuden entstehen. Wir haben das Modul nun um zwei neue Indikatoren für…
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Text reading 'Sketch Map Tool update integration with OpenAerialMap' with logos of SketchMapTool and HeiGIT, and a satellite aerial map section.
  • In category: Geoinformation für humanitäre Hilfe
OpenAerialMap integration with the Sketch Map Tool launches a new way of Mapping
The latest update to the Sketch Map Tool introduces a direct integration with OpenAerialMap (OAM), making it easier to bring drone and aerial imagery into community and humanitarian mapping….
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