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The geoEpi team attending CGA 2023. Back row from left: PD Dr. med. Thomas Jänisch, Assoz. Prof. Dr. Bernd Resch, Dorian Arifi and Steffen Knoblauch. Front row from left: Dr. rer. nat. Ivonne Morales Benavides, Apl. Prof. Dr. Sven Lautenbach, and Dr. Yannik Roell.

GeoEPI at CGA Conference: From Geospatial Research to Health Solutions

Featured photo: The geoEpi team attending CGA 2023. Back row from left: PD Dr. med. Thomas Jaenisch, Assoz. Prof. Dr. Bernd Resch, Dorian Arifi and Steffen Knoblauch. Front row from left: Dr. rer. nat. Ivonne Morales Benavides, Apl. Prof. Dr. … Read More

HeiGIT’s contribution to the 2nd UN Maps Conference

The United Nations Maps program, created in 2019, held its 2nd UN Maps Conference, this time in Valencia, Spain. Prof. Alexander Zipf of HeiGIT and the GIScience Research Group at Heidelberg University and Benjamin Herfort of HeiGIT attended the conference … Read More

Object history revisions from Alishiba Dsouza of the University of Bonn, GIScience's Moritz Schott and Prof. Dr. Sven Lautenbach delivered the academic track talk, "Comparative Integration Potential Analyses of OSM and Wikidata – the Case Study of Railway Stations" slides.

HeiGIT and GIScience Contributions to Last Year’s Conference-athon

Featured Figure: Object history revisions from Alishiba Dsouza of the University of Bonn, GIScience’s Moritz Schott and Prof. Dr. Sven Lautenbach delivered the academic track talk, “Comparative Integration Potential Analyses of OSM and Wikidata – the Case Study of Railway Stations” … Read More

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GIScience and HeiGIT at SotM 2022

We are happy to announce that, this year, GIScience and HeiGIT will have four contributions to the FOSS-Community “conferencathon” in Florence. As QGIS-Meeting, State of the Map, HOT unSummit and FOSS4G are all taking place consecutively, the schedule is shaping … Read More

Ein Jahr WebApp „meinGrün“ – finale Befragung und Ergebnispräsentation

Im Juni 2020 haben wir mit unseren Partnern aus dem meinGrün Projekt die gleichnamige WebApp gestartet. Nun sind die Nutzenden in Dresden und Heidelberg aufgerufen, sich ein letztes Mal an einer Befragung zu beteiligen und so Hinweise für die mögliche … Read More

AGILE best short paper award nominees

We are happy to announce that two of our papers have been shortlisted as candidates for the best short paper award at the AGILE 2021 conference : Detecting OpenStreetMap missing buildings by transferring pre-trained deep neural networks Jan Pisl, Hao … Read More

Estimating trade-offs of land use at global scale

Land use decision involve trade-off with respect to the ecosystem service produced by the different land use systems. Agricultural use versus natural ecosystems is the main alternative for which trade-offs need to be estimated. Given the varying climatic and soil … Read More

GIScience/HeiGIT at GeOnG Conference 2020

Next week the biennial conference GeOnG will take place for the seventh time. On Monday and Tuesday 11/02-11/03 participants will join in over 30 live sessions around the topics of technology and information management in the humanitarian and development sector. … Read More

CALL FOR PAPERS – GIS Track at 18th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM 2021)

CALL FOR PAPERS – 18th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM 2021) May 23-26, 2021, Virginia, USA – https://www.drrm.fralinlifesci.vt.edu/iscram2021/ Virginia Tech Track: Geospatial Technologies and Geographic Information Science for Crisis Management (GIS) https://www.drrm.fralinlifesci.vt.edu/iscram2021/files/CFP/ISCRAM2021-Track10-Geospatial_Technologies Deadline for … Read More

geoActive, neues Open Space-Konzept für Fachaustausch Geoinformation Heidelberg am 28.11.2019

Der Fachaustausch Geoinformation Heidelberg des GeoNet.MRN wird dieses Jahr geoActive! Im Fokus sind dieses Jahr Themen Mobilität und Baustellen in der Session mobiActive! sowie Klimawandel und Nachhaltigkeit in der Session climateActive! geoActive orientiert sich am Konzept der Open Space-Konferenz. Sie … Read More

Pressekonferenz: State of the Map, Heidelberg 21.09.2019

Presseeinladung 18.09.2019 (PDF Link hier) Weltkonferenz für eine Freie Karte Die Macher von OpenStreetMap treffen sich in Heidelberg Universität Heidelberg und Verkehrsministerium Baden-Württemberg unterstützen Initiative Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren, hochwertiges digitales Kartenmaterial muss nicht kommerziell sein. Seit mittlerweile 15 … Read More

GIScience/HeiGIT and TdLab Geographie at german IPCC conference

GIScience will be present with two participants (Nicole Aeschbach, TdLab Geographie) and Sven Lautenbach (HeiGIT) at the german IPCC conference. Our contributions aim at highlighting the potential of GIScience and transdisciplinary research for climate change adaptation and climate change mitigation. … Read More

GIScience/HeiGIT at Global Land Project open science meeting

GIScience/HeiGIT member Sven Lautenbach is hosting together with Jonas Schwaab from the ETH Zürich a session on Multi-objective optimization approaches to support visioning and decision-making in land-use system science at the 4th Open Science Meeting of the Global Land Programme … Read More