Let's meet in our fantastic Botanical Garden of Heidelberg University (@uniheidelberg.bsky.social) to exchange about laser scanning and environmental 4D monitoring. Vanessa Guthier will present her exciting research on tree vitality.

𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗔𝗽𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀: 𝗥𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝗵𝗿𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗗𝗮𝗻𝘇𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗿 𝗦𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗮𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 The scholarship supports doctoral students from West & Central Africa, who intend to pursue a doctoral degree in Geography (Geoinformatics) at uniheidelberg.bsky.social 📆Applications: 15/09/25-15/03/26 💡More: heigit.org/call-for-app...

#Fieldwork summer 2025 was a very special one. In the #Austrian Alps the good weather periods were very limited and only spontaneous campaigns were possible. Gladly, we were able to capture highly valuable 3D LiDAR data for our new research projects in Austria such as at the #Schesaplana mountain.

#Fieldwork summer 2025 was a very special one. In the #Austrian Alps the good weather periods were very limited and only spontaneous campaigns were possible. Gladly, we were able to capture highly valuable 3D LiDAR data for our new research projects in Austria such as at the #Schesaplana mountain.

🥵🚶𝗪𝗮𝗹𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗵𝗼𝘁 𝘀𝘂𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗿 𝘀𝘂𝗻? The 𝗛𝗘𝗔𝗟 𝗮𝗽𝗽 recommends pedestrian routes based on their “coolness”, favoring shadowy, vegetation-rich streets. The app is available in #Heidelberg and now also in #Worms: worms.heal.openrouteservice.org Read how it works: heigit.org/a-routing-ap...

How walkable is your neighborhood? Senior citizens in #Mannheim can now share their views in an online survey, part of the research project "Silver Ways". The survey results will be used to to support the development of safer, more accessible urban routes. Read more: heigit.org/a-walkable-c...

🚨 We are recruiting! 🚨 (3 years PhD position) Interested in investigating the impact of forest structures on rainfall erosivity 🌳💧 with fieldwork methods, UAV-based LiDAR data, and modeling? 🔗 www.ifgg.kit.edu/downloads/so... 🔎 Contact us for details. #PhDposition #Karlsruhe #KIT

🚨 New Publication! 🚨 Wanna learn about the state-of-the-art of environmental 3D monitoring? We’re excited to share the first comprehensive review of Permanent Laser Scanning #PLS - just published! #IOJPRS 📰 Lindenbergh et al. 2025 doi.org/10.1016/j.op... #AImon #BMBF #Charact4D #Extract4D #DFG

📢 Publication alert! Our second contribution to the ISPRS Geospatial Week 2025, led by young researcher Jannik Meyer, is also out now! 🥳 A great example for ecological monitoring using #LiDAR time series! 🐝 📰 doi.org/10.5194/ispr... #DFG #VirtuaLearn3D #AImon #BMBF #3DGeo #GSW25

Damülser Mittagsspitze: One of the #icons of Vorarlberg, Austria. It is very popular and easy to reach, but not so easy to summit for inexperienced hikers. It is an interesting 'dynamic' peak that we will investigate in more detail. @3dgeohd.bsky.social

#Geomorphology meets #Wine This wineyard is the only one along the Moselle, dominated by Devoniam slate, in triassic sandstone (Buntsandstein). There was a major rockfall in 2023. @bernhardhofle.bsky.social , you are still observing in nearly Real-Time?!

📢 Publication alert! Our contribution to the ISPRS Geospatial Week 2025, led by William Albert, has just been published in the #ISPRS Annals! 🥳 📰 doi.org/10.5194/ispr... #DFG #VirtuaLearn3D #HELIOS #3DGeo #GSW25

There are those magical moments when a new scientist is born from unlimited curiosity. #Science 💖

🕷️ 🌿 Genetic biodiversity can be assessed directly via remote "sampling" and near real-time analysis of airborne environmental DNA (#eDNA). ❓ Is this a game changer for #biodiversity monitoring and #bioprospection? How can we bring the lab results back to the #spatial domain? (1/4)

Job Alert! We are hiring a new PhD candidate to work with me and @louiseterryn.bsky.social on multitemporal terrestrial laser scanning for better understanding forest structural dynamics at @qforestlab.bsky.social . More info ➡️ bit.ly/449NunA Apply here ➡️ bit.ly/3I5AnMP Application deadline: Aug 3

#3DGeo Sensor Practical 2025! This week, we had our annual two-day practical field course, which took us to Steinbruch Leferenz (Dossenheim) and a sparse pine forest (Sandhausen), where we did #GNSS surveying, #TerrestrialLaserScanning and #UAVPhotogrammetry! #FieldWork #3DGeoTeaching #Education

My home is my study site 😍. This is one of our new @3dgeohd.bsky.social research sites and outdoor labs located in my home region #Vorarlberg in #Austria. A perfect geographic site to develop the next generation of AI-based 3D/4D observation and monitoring technology. #Lünsersee #Schesaplana

Frei verfügbare Geodaten für hochauflösende Karten zur gezielten Bekämpfung von Stechmücken: Raumbezogene Big-Data-Methoden ermöglichen die Kartierung von potentiellen Lebensräumen www.uni-heidelberg.de/de/newsroom/... @heigit.org #universität #heidelberg #uniheidelberg #forschung #heigit #geodaten

Nice annotated 3D model of the Birch Glacier collapse! 🏔️🧊🌊 sketchfab.com/3d-models/bl... Source: Simeon Schmauß - created from @swisstopo Rapid Mapping oblique imagery

𝗛𝗚𝗚 𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲: 𝗚𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗿𝘀 -𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗹𝘆 𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝘆𝗺𝗯𝗼𝗹𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗰𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗶𝘀 Prof. Dr. Michael Zemp explores how our understanding of glaciers has evolved & what monitoring reveals about our changing climate. 03/06, 7:15 pm, KIP, INF227 More: hgg.urz.uni-heidelberg.de

Conference Recap! Last month was packed with conferences, and we loved every minute of it! Check out our latest blog post: giscienceblog.uni-heidelberg.de/2025/05/15/3... #3DGeo #AImon #BMBF #DFG #VirtuaLearn3D #HELIOS

𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗽𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿 𝗼𝗻 𝗖𝗼𝗿𝗽𝗼𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗠𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗻 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗲𝘁𝗠𝗮𝗽 Many companies have been editing OpenStreetMap, including giants like Apple, Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon. A new study explores the impact of corporate mapping on #OSM: heigit.org/new-paper-co... #OpenStreetMap

📢 Publication alert! Great synthesis of the #LOKI project, check it out! 📰 Kohns et al. (2025): www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @bernhardhofle.bsky.social @kit.edu Funded by #BMBF

📹 Impressions from this year's General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union (EGU) #EGU25 @egu.eu

And another #EGU25 contribution where #3DGeo is involved! Meet @willharcourt.bsky.social and Hannah at this poster next Thursday to learn and discuss about multi-scale digital twins 🤗

🧊 Linking small- and large-scale Digital Twins: A concept 📅 Poster | Thursday, 01 May, 10:45–12:30 (CEST), Hall X5, X5.151 📰 Abstract: meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/EGU25-... ✍ Authors: Aiden Durrant, Me, @bernhardhofle.bsky.social, @hannahwe.bsky.social, @tabernig.bsky.social

My #teaching anniversary: 20 years of teaching the broad field of #geoinformation #science at university level - in lecture halls, computer labs, and lots of field courses. My main #highlight is still to getting to know so many amazing #students. I have not counted, many thousands in total. (1/4)

Less than a week until #EGU25 in Vienna 🤩 #3DGeo is ready with a poster and an oral, presented by two of our early career researchers! See #thread below! 🧵⬇️ We look forward to seeing you there or at some of the other great sessions we're planning to attend during the week! #EGU #ECS #ECR @egu.eu

▶️ Poster: VLS-4D - A Novel Opportunity for Advancing 3D Forest Monitoring 📍 Tue, 29 April, 10:45-12:30 (CEST), Hall X, X1.72 📰 doi.org/10.5194/egus... ✍ Hannah Weiser (presenting), William Albert, Ronald Tabernig & Bernhard Höfle #DFG #HELIOS #VirtuaLearn3D #AIMon #BMBF @dfg.de

📢 #3DGeo PhD student @tabernig.bsky.social will give an exciting presentation at the 6th #JISDM 2025 Meet him in Room Tulla next Tue at 14:20! 🔗 Session: Advanced point cloud analysis strategies for deformation analysis jisdm2025.gik.kit.edu/downloads/Ad... #VirtuaLearn3D #DFG #AIMon #BMBF #HELIOS

#3DGeo is heading to the #ISPRS Geospatial Week with two exciting oral presentations 🌎 Meet William and Jannik at #GSW25 next Thu and Fri! 1️⃣ Simulation-based assessment of wind effects in #laserscanning point clouds 2️⃣ Detection of bees in #LiDAR time series #VirtuaLearn3D #DFG #AIMon #BMBF

With #pytreedb you can also host the meta-database yourself on one of your servers as REST API, website or use it in your #Python scripts. #pytreedb does not store point clouds. Full data control remains with the data owner(s). It is a "search engine" for trees 🔎🌳. ➡️ github.com/3dgeo-heidel...

📢 #LiPheStream is now on #pytreedb! 🌳 Single tree point cloud time series data from FGI (NLS, Finland) 📰 doi.org/10.1038/s415... 🌲From now on, you can search and download the trees in pytreedb via filters and the map view: ➡️ pytreedb.geog.uni-heidelberg.de @epfgi.bsky.social @fgi-nls.bsky.social

📢 E-TRAINEE v0.5.0 is out! 🚀 Interested in time series analysis in remote sensing? Check out our updated open e-learning course! 🔹 Fixes & improvements 🔹 New toolbox intro 🔹 Python 3.12 upgrade 💻 GitHub: github.com/3dgeo-heidel... #3DGeo #ERASMUS+ #3DGeoTeaching

🌍✨ Zukunft gestalten in Zeiten der #Klimakrise ✨🌍 Keynote von @nicoleaeschbach.bsky.social 📅 Mi, 2. April 2025 | 🕑 14 Uhr 📍 Neue Universität, Hörsaal 1 👥 Für Studis, SuS & Interessierte – kostenlos & ohne Anmeldung! 🔗 www.uni-heidelberg.de/de/klima-im-... #3DGeo @hse-heidelberg.bsky.social

🎥 Mitschnitt unseres Workshops KI-Experimentierwerkstätten im Blended Learning zu Klimaphysik und Nachhaltigkeit. Praxiseinblicke und Transferpotentiale beim Hochschulnetzwerk Digitalisierung der Lehre Baden-Württemberg: www.hnd-bw.de/projekte/wb-... @3dgeohd.bsky.social @hse-heidelberg.bsky.social

😍 LiDAR meets bouldering 🔽. Check out the 3D data interactively. Works nicely on your smartphone.

🧗 Boulderhaus Heidelberg in #3D – 📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IOo... 3D Geography 🤝 Bouldering 💡This #DigitalTwin project is embedded in one of our #3DGeo courses 🎓 #3DGeoTeaching @uniheidelberg.bsky.social @bernhardhofle.bsky.social #Laserscanning #PointCloud #Education #Science #3DModel

🚀 Interessiert an konkreten Umsetzungsbeispielen zur Integration von #KI in #Lehrveranstaltungen? Dann gleich anmelden zu diesem Online-Workshop von @nicoleaeschbach.bsky.social, @werneraeschbach.bsky.social & Team am 14.2., 9-12! #bwGPT #AI #highered @3dgeohd.bsky.social @kathrinfoshag.bsky.social

✨ A fantastic example of #Collaboration and #OpenScience 🤝 Big thanks to @stefanopuliti.bsky.social for leading this project and for bringing us all together 🌍 🙏 FOR-species20K includes laser scanning tree point clouds from our #syssifoss project 😊 @3dforecotech.bsky.social #AI #OpenData

A perfect example of #STEM in #Geography at Heidelberg University: Successful combinations of i) research and teaching and ii) physical geography and 3D geoinformatics.

New bugfix release of HELIOS++ 🐛 v2.0.2 ➡️ anaconda.org/conda-forge/... Update with: mamba update -c conda-forge helios Install with: mamba install -c conda-forge helios 💻 Code: github.com/3dgeo-heidel... 🌐 Website: www.geog.uni-heidelberg.de/gis/helios.h... #HELIOS #3DGeo #DFG #sustainableHELIOS

Wir gestalten eines der vom @mwk-bw.bsky.social geförderten #MINT -Projekte 👩🏼‍💻🌍 in der #Geographie @uniheidelberg.bsky.social: TrafU: Transformative Umweltforschung #PhysischeGeographie #Geoinformatik #TransformativeLiteracy 👇🏻

➡️ #Geodesy meets #Geography, theory meets application. This could be the unofficial title of today's lecture given by Andreas Knöpfler (Vermessungsamt). His lecture was dedicated to the role of #geodata in Heidelberg. Our geography students are grateful for a lot of insights from geodesy.

🌳 In one of Heidelberg's Arboretums, you can find majestic giant sequoias (Sequoiadendron giganteum). In 2021, we scanned these trees with students, and the resulting 3D point clouds are now available in our database, #pytreedb ➡️ Tutorial: youtu.be/8SBi5mwDUVU?... #3DGeo

Als Team aus Lehrenden & Lernenden tragen wir am 14.02. einen Workshop in der Weiterbildungsreihe zu #KI in der #Hochschullehre beim Hochschulnetzwerk Digitalisierung der Lehre Baden-Württemberg (HND-BW) aus 🤖 👩‍💻 https://buff.ly/408zys5 @nicoleaeschbach.bsky.social @werneraeschbach.bsky.social

For the first time in history, more than 1,000 students are enrolled in our #Geography programs! Heidelberg University and #Geography Heidelberg are continuously growing and flourishing. This winter semester 2024/25, our university has reached 31,400 students. www.uni-heidelberg.de/en/node/48686

The #3DGeo Group wishes you a 🎄Merry Christmas 🎄! We hope you have a peaceful time with your loved ones and enjoy the holidays!

💻 ⛰️ 🙌 🌍 Wir entwickeln einen neuen Schwerpunkt Transformative Umweltforschung (TrafU) im Masterstudiengang #Geographie an der @uniheidelberg.bsky.social! #PhysischeGeographie #Geoinformatik #TransformativeLiteracy www.uni-heidelberg.de/de/newsroom/...