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GIScience Research

All information about our research can be found here. This also includes the cooperation with HeiGIT gGmbH, which was founded in 2019 and the completed doctoral projects of our graduates.

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Cooperation with HeiGIT gGmbH

We cooperate closely with the HeiGIT gGmbH at Heidelberg University. The aim of the Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation Technology (HeiGIT) is to improve the transfer of knowledge and technology from basic geoinformatics research into practice by using innovative geoinformation technologies. It was founded in 2019 as an affiliated institute of Heidelberg University and has since then been core-funded by the Klaus Tschira Stiftung. The institute researches and develops intelligent routing and navigation services for sustainable mobility and provides geodata for humanitarian missions. In addition, innovative services from the research areas spatial data mining and machine learning are used to analyze, process, enrich and visualize user-generated geodata (e.g. OpenStreetMap). The main focus of our research is on Geoinformation for Humanitarian Aid, Climate Action, Smart Mobility and Big Spatial Data Analytics.

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Dr. Benjamin Herfort
Mapping what is not mapped - Investigating questions of representation and data quality in OpenStreetMap from the perspectives of humanitarian and machine learning-assisted mapping
Dr. Hao Li
Deep Learning from Heterogeneous Geospatial Data for Automated Mapping of Man-made Infrastructures with OpenStreetMap
Dr. Christina Ludwig
Towards a Global Map of Urban Green Spaces - Exploring Regional Variations and Uncertainty-Aware Methods using OpenStreetMap and Satellite Imagery
Dr. Xuke Hu
Building Semantics Reasoning by Using Rules based on Available Geospatial Information
Dr. Amin Mobasheri
Open Geospatial Data Quality Assessment and Enrichment; The case of routing and navigation of people with restricted mobility
Dr. Johannes Lauer
Extraction of routing relevant geodata using telemetry sensor data of agricultural vehicles
Dr. Rene Westerholt
The analysis of spatially superimposed heterogeneous random variables – using the example of geosocial media data
Dr. Clemens Jacobs
Data Quality of Citizen Science Observations of Organisms: Plausibility Estimation Based on Volunteered Geographic Information Context
Dr. Michael Auer
Advancing 3D WebGIS – browser-based Methods for Visualization and Analysis and their Integration in Virtual Research Environments in the Context of Cultural Heritage
Dr. Carolin Klonner
Participatory Geographic Information for Disaster Risk Reduction - Sketch Maps can Visualize Flood Risk Perception
Dr. Martin Hämmerle
The Analysis of 3D Point Clouds Acquired with Low-Cost Methods for Geoscientific Research on Natural Objects
Dr. Ming Li
Leveraging the Wisdom of the Crowd from Location-based Social Networks: Theoretical Potentials and Practical Applications
Dr. Enrico Steiger
Explorative Spatial and Temporal Human Mobility Analysis from User-Generated Data
Dr. Julian Hagenauer
Artificial Neural Networks: Methods and Applications in Spatial Data Mining
Dr. Yeran Sun
Investigating Potential of VGI Data for Revealing Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Human Activity
Dr. Lucy Mburu
Geographic profiling of crime patterns
Dr. Pascal Neis
Analyse der Qualität nutzergenerierter Geodaten zur Realisierung von Routenplanungen für Menschen mit Einschränkungen
Dr. Marcus Götz
Using Volunteered Geographic Information for an Automated Provision of Indoor Location Based Services
Dr. Maksim Rylov
Models and Methods for Cartographic Label Placement
Dr. Arne Schilling
3D Spatial Data Infrastructures for web-based Visualization
Dr. Hossein Shafeezahdeh
Exploring and Simulating Spatial Patterns of Urban Growth Using Data-driven and Knowledge-based approaches

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