Science night: Z_GIS presented bicycle map at "Lange Nacht der Forschung"

On Friday April, 4 the annual event Lange Nacht der Forschung/Science Night took place in all larger cities of Austria, also in Salzburg. The University of Salzburg grants an insight into 15 different research projects and Z_GIS presents a bicycle map application for Salzburg (developed within the project Easy Rider) Memories of a science night: twitter.com/gicycle

Tourism in the Time of Big Data – Prof. Euro Beinat at Chamber of Deputies in Italy

On March 31, 2014 Prof. Euro Beinat has given a keynote at the Italian Chamber of Deputies, during the annual meeting of the Foundation “Italia Decide”. This year the meeting was dedicated to tourism. Prof. Beinat’s presentation, entitled Tourism in the Times of Big Data, concerns how data analytics can contribute into tourism promotion, marketing and management. It is grounded in the results obtained by the Collective Sensing research group at our department. Video stream of the event can be found at: http://webtv.camera.it/evento/5880 (in Italian).

Z_GIS staff contributes to IPCC Report

On March 31st, 2014 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) launched its 5th Assessment Report (AR5) of the working group 2, which focuses on Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability. This report considers the vulnerability and exposure of human and natural systems, the observed impacts and future risks of climate change, and the potential for and limits to adaptation. The chapters of the report assess risks and opportunities for societies, economies, and ecosystems around the world. 

Z_GIS staff specifically contributed to the report through the involvement in the review process as well as the citation of original Z_GIS research in different chapters of the report. An additional contribution has been the work in the past MOVE project where the developed MOVE risk and vulnerability framework contributed to the adapted IPCC definition of key terminologies. The current IPCC report is an important conceptual as well as methodological compilation of the current knowledge and will guide future work in climate change related projects @ Z_GIS. 

Contact: Stefan Kienberger

Brown bag seminar

Date: Wednesday, April, 9, 2014:  12:30 – 13:30

Place: Techno-Z, GI-lecture room: SC30OG1.107  (Schillerstraße 30, building 14)

Presenter: Gáspár Albert (Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Informatics – Department of Cartography and Geoinformatics)

Reworking map-data – an introduction to map-based models and analyses

Maps are not only the representation of spatial information, but they can be considered as a database. This is evident in a GIS, but it is also true for static (paper) maps. A well constructed map of any age can be used to extract the “frozen” information in space and time. This is obvious if we look at a topographic map of the early 19th century: one can reconstruct the geography, which has changed long before our time. Similarly to a database, where executing different queries one can find new laws and trends, maps may also contain “hidden” links. If we look at a map (or a series of maps) in details we may find information, which was not deliberately mapped. For example we may calculate the average biomass of an area from an old cadastral map based on the coverage, or we may reconstruct the melting speed of a glacier if we compare two topographic maps. This is also true for more specific maps. In this seminar, two case studies will be presented on different scale: a volumetric model of a cave from cave maps, and a reconstruction of the recent stress-field of the Carpathian Region based on tectonic maps. Both studies are aimed to work out methods for scientific purposes. The results of cave map-modeling can be used to estimate the karst porosity of the rock around the cave. This parameter is useful for hydrogeologist and karstologists. The stress-field model is aimed to provide a method to reconstruct the geodynamics of old structural lines. It can be useful for geologists, and geophysicist.

Z_GIS presents bicycle map application at Lange Nacht der Forschung

On Friday April, 4 the annual event "Lange Nacht der Forschung" (long night of research) will take place in all larger cities of Austria, also in Salzburg. The University of Salzburg grants an insight into 15 different research projects and Z_GIS presents a bicycle map application for Salzburg (developed within the project Easy Rider)

Looking forward to meet you there!

More Information:

www.langenachtderforschung.at