Upcoming GIScience Colloquium: Advancing urban modelling with emerging geospatial datasets and crowdsourcing

HeiGIT is proud to be co-organizing the upcoming GIScience colloquium, “Advancing urban modelling with emerging geospatial datasets and crowdsourcing” by Dr. Filip Biljecki of the National University of Singapore The colloquium will take place in the Hörsaalzentrum Chemie, Hörsaal West, INF … Read More

Mapping Public Urban Green Spaces Based on OpenStreetMap and Sentinel-2 Imagery Using Belief Functions

Public urban green spaces are important for the urban quality of life. Still, comprehensive open data sets on urban green spaces are not available for most cities. As open and globally available data sets, the potential of Sentinel-2 satellite imagery … Read More

Studying the impact of built environments on human mental health in everyday life – a review of methods published

Rapid worldwide urbanization benefits humans in many aspects, but the prevalence of common psychiatric disorders is increased in urban populations. While the impact of city living and urban upbringing on mental health is well established, it remains elusive which of … Read More

Studying the impact of built environments on human mental health in everyday life – a review of methods

Rapid worldwide urbanization benefits humans in many aspects, but the prevalence of common psychiatric disorders is increased in urban populations. While the impact of city living and urban upbringing on mental health is well established, it remains elusive which of … Read More

meinGrün @roadto_festival: What OSM tells us about urban green space features

Where is the next shaded bench to escape the burning heat? Where can I play soccer within the city and later on have a barbecue with my friends? All of these questions require information about features of urban green spaces. … Read More