The DigitalCity Research Group concentrates on the interface between spatial data modeling, analysis and presentation on one hand and on the various applications in the domain of city planning on the other hand. It focuses on developing smaller prototype projects, publishing respective results and initializing national and international cooperations.
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Guest lecture
On May 30th, 2011, Francis Harvey,
Associate Professor at University of Minnesota, gave an impressing talk on the
value of sharing geo data, entitled "Free Data and Free GIS: Some
Observations from Minnesota". Based on his experiences with the MetroGIS project he presented an objective view on sharing geo data from local and regional governments in the U.S.Noise GIS
Students of the Master program in Geomatics work on a project which builds up a GIS in the context of noise action planning for the City of Winsen (Luhe). Furthermore a concept for a sustainable implementation and usage of GIS in Winsen is developed.
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In cooperation with the g2lab
we founded an interdisciplinary group on visualization to discuss
specific issues and problems concerning visualization including
approaches and methods as well as technology and software.
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Featured Project
Navigation in the Cities
Positioning sensors are analyzed to optimize 2D/3D navigation in
urban contexts realizing a pedestrian- and indoor-navigation system.
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