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Aerial view of a flooded road with buildings and palm trees alongside text about dynamic routing for disaster response and integrating earth observation into humanitarian logistics systems

Dynamic Routing for Disaster Response: Integrating Earth Observation into Humanitarian Logistics Systems

As disasters grow more frequent and complex, the REER project…
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Screenshot of a webpage titled 'One Year with the Climate Action Navigator' with the subtitle 'How Open Data is Powering Climate Action in Cities' showing a globe and a text box with information about the Climate Action Navigator.

One Year with the Climate Action Navigator: How Open Data is Powering Climate Action in Cities

A year after its launch, the Climate Action Navigator has…
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New Paper “From Flood Risk to Caloric Loss: Compound Flood Impacts on Agriculture in Madagascar”

This study is based on Celina Thomé’s master thesis. It…
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Aerial view of a parking lot with multiple parked cars and trees between parking rows with the text 'NEW PAPER Simulating Parking Choices Using Large Language Models: Experiments with GPT-4o Mini'

New paper “Simulating Parking Choices Using Large Language Models: Experiments with GPT-4o Mini”

A new Open Access paper published in the volume Geography…
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Map showing color-coded socioeconomic groups and symbols for different housing types along a coastline

New paper “Hidden energy poverty and the energy performance gap: integrating building energy simulation, thermal comfort monitoring, and actual energy consumption”

Hidden Energy Poverty (hEP) represents an underestimated form of energy…

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Pilot Urban Living Lab workshop in Heidelberg

Silver Ways Project: Walking the City in Someone Else’s Shoes

We left the office to experience the city through the…

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Heat-Resilient Mobility in 80 Major German Cities and an Invitation to Shape Its Future

The new HeiGIT application shows how digital geodata can make…

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Map of Rwanda with colored squares showing OpenStreetMap data quality by district and a chart showing data quality development over time.

Introducing ohsome quality API country reports for OpenStreetMap data quality on the Humanitarian Data Exchange platform

The new ohsome quality API (OQAPI) country reports are a…
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Assessing Road Traffic Emissions with the Climate Action Navigator

A new assessment tool for traffic emissions has just been…
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New release - user statistics in ohsomeNow

New User Statistics in ohsomeNow

The new release of ohsomeNow allows users to retrieve statistics…
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Text 'Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships at HeiGIT & GIScience CALL 2026' next to a stylized pink portrait of Marie Curie and schematic hexagonal lines.

Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships at HeiGIT & GIScience related to Climate Action and Humanitarian Aid

HeiGIT together with the GIScience Research Group at Heidelberg University…

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New paper “Automated road crack localization for spatially guided highway maintenance”

Leveraging openly available airborne imagery this study presents a scalable…
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Efficient waste collection remains a major challenge in many rapidly growing cities. In a pilot study in Kenya, openrouteservice (ORS) is being used to improve solid waste collection planning and identify underserved areas.

Optimizing solid waste collection in underserved regions using openrouteservice: a pilot study in Kisumu, Kenya

Efficient waste collection remains a major challenge in many rapidly…
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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'

Why access to satellite imagery continues to limit humanitarian aid and research

Satellite imagery has become so embedded in research and humanitarian…

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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

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…
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OpenStreetMap data as a basis for routing—how well does it really work?

The article is based on the talk Benjamin Herfort (HeiGIT)…
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