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Company retreat mundialis – restricted accessibility 28. September 2018 Dear customers, Dear business partners, The year is drawing to a close and for mundialis it means stopping once again before the traditionally busy end of the year begins. Three years ago our company retreat took place in Portugal while this year we will spend our time in Barcelona, Spain. Therefore, all staff from mundialis will only be ... Read more
Contracted by GIZ, mundialis maps forest cover changes in Guyana 25. September 2018 Forests are of great importance for many ecosystems and the earth’s climate system and serve as a habitat for numerous species. Forests also play an important role in the earth’s hydro-climatic processes. They make a major contribution to evaporation and temperature regulation and contribute to protection against natural hazards such as landslides or avalanches. Forests ... Read more
Report GEOSTAT 2018 Summer School 30. August 2018 As already announced last week, our managing director Dr Markus Neteler was a team member of the GEOSTAT lecturers in Prague last week. Markus Neteler held the workshop “Analysing environmental data with GRASS GIS” last Thursday, 23 August 2018 from 9:00 to 10:30 am. The corresponding slides, the code and the corresponding data can be found ... Read more
GEOSTAT 2018 Summer School in Prague 22. August 2018 Since Sunday, August 19th, the GEOSTAT 2018 Summer School takes place in Prague for one week. This is already the 13th Summer School, in a series of other summer schools organized by R statistical language developers, open source GIS developers and other enthusiasts. GEOSTAT is currently being transferred to the new OpenGeoHUB Foundation. GEOSTAT is aimed ... Read more
Wir suchen: Projektleiter/in in Voll- oder Teilzeit 2. August 2018 Wir suchen zum nächstmöglichen Termin für unseren Firmensitz in Bonn eine/n Projektleiter/in in Voll- oder Teilzeit. Wir, die Firma mundialis, sind auf die Auswertung von Fernerkundungsdaten und die Verarbeitung von voluminösen Geodaten spezialisiert. Wir bieten auf Basis dieser Daten skalierbare Produkte an, die in existierende Anwendungen integriert werden können. Dabei kommen Freie und Open Source Geoinformationssysteme zum ... Read more
mundialis at the symposium in Cologne on the benefits and potential applications of earth observation 4. July 2018 From 25 to 27 June 2018, the first symposium on possible applications of satellite-based earth observation took place in Cologne. The event was organised by the German Aerospace Center (DLR). The symposium serves as a dialogue platform for developers and providers from industry and science as well as users of satellite earth observation, enables networking and ... Read more
mundialis at Global Landscapes Forum Washington, D.C. 2018 25. June 2018 On May 30, approximately 8,000 people tuned into the Global Landscapes Forum (GLF) Investment Case in Washington, DC to connect, learn, share and act around mobilizing capital for landscape restoration and sustainable investment. About 3.6 million people were reached on social media with close to 500,000 likes, comments and shares around the conversation. Actors included local ... Read more
Feasibility study “Better findability of data, especially geodata, in the context of open data” – MetaOpenData 21. June 2018 We at mundialis are working together with Sopra Steria SE on the MetaOpenData project funded by the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (BMVI) as part of the mFUND programme. Metadata has found its way into geodata processing, not least as a result of the INSPIRE directive. While the basic idea of describing data sets ... Read more
mundialis at the GIS Workshop of the IKSO Working Group G5 “Data Management” 15. June 2018 On 5 and 6 June 2018, a GIS workshop was held in Wroclaw organised by the G5 Working Group ... Read more
Summer party “Bratwurst, Bier und GIS” by terrestris & mundialis 13. June 2018 Last Friday, 8th June 2018, the summer party “Bratwurst, Bier und GIS” was held for the third time in a row by the companies terrestris and mundialis. The event was launched three years ago to promote networking and the exchange of information, which was also well and gladly used by all those present. After the summer ... Read more
mundialis on stage at the Global Landscape Forum Investment Case in Washington DC 29. May 2018 We are proud to announce that we got elected to present the EO-li global broker platform for land restoration in a 7-min pitch at the Global Landscape Forum – Investment Case, in Washington D.C., tomorrow, May 30th on stage! You can follow the Live-Stream: http://events.globallandscapesforum.org/washingtondc-2018/agenda/ Dr Hajar Benelcadi from mundialis is going to pitch EO-li to ... Read more
FOSS4G 2018 publishes the main conference program 23. May 2018 This year’s FOSS4G 2018 will be held in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, from August 27th 2018 to September 2nd. The program of an annual FOSS4G is mainly designed by the community itself, in combination with a community voting. The program committee of the D-LOC (Dar es Salaam Local Organising Committee) has now published the program ... Read more
mundialis participates in the Global Landscape Forum Investment Case 2018 in Washington DC 15. May 2018 mundialis is participating in the Global Landscape Forum Investment case in Washington DC the 30 May 2018 by a Landscape Talk about big data and land restoration, as well as by participating in the Dragens’ Den event by the EO-li components service platform for land restoration. What is EO-li? EO-li is the Earth Observation based location identifier ... Read more
mundialis is Bronze Sponsor of OSGeo 14. May 2018 We are pleased to be listed as a new Bronze Sponsor of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo). OSGeo is a non-profit organization that promotes the worldwide distribution of open source geospatial technology and provides financial, organizational and legal support for the software projects hosted under their roof and acts as a contact for all interested parties ... Read more
mundialis has a new employee in the field of application development 2. May 2018 Since 01 February 2018 we are pleased about support in our team. Anika Bettge strengthens our application development team. Anika studied geodesy and geoinformation at the University of Bonn. As a student assistant she has worked on various projects. In her master thesis she specialized in the solution of remote sensing tasks by means of a ... Read more
33rd Ideas Exchange of the IHK Bonn/Rhein-Sieg in the podium49 25. April 2018 On this Monday, April 23, 2018, the 33rd Bonn Ideas Exchange took place in the podium49. The event format of the IHK Bonn/Rhein-Sieg and Synergie Vertriebsdienstleistung GmbH gives new and young ideas and companies a chance to present themselves. They should convince the guests of their idea, their product or their service – without large ... Read more
mundialis at the FOSSGIS 2018 in Bonn 16. April 2018 This year’s FOSSGIS Conference took place in Bonn from 21 – 24 March 2018. With a total of 465 participants, the conference was fully booked and we can look back on many interesting discussions with current and potential customers, business partners and community members. The FOSSGIS conference was opened in the Wolfgang Paul Lecture Hall. The ... Read more
OSGeo-Europe visit to Copernicus Support Office 11. April 2018 The Local Chapter “OSGeo-Europe” was officially established at FOSS4G Europe during last summer. Till Adams, business manager of mundialis, was elected to the Board of Directors. OSGeo-Europe is a local chapter on the same level as other regional OSGeo chapters, but is increasingly focusing on European institutions. One of the goals of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation ... Read more
OSGeo Codesprint March 18-25 at the Basecamp in Bonn, Germany 15. March 2018 From 18 to 25 March 2018, at the same time as this year’s FOSSGIS 2018, the OSGeo Codesprint will also take place at the Basecamp in Bonn. With its nostalgic flair, the Basecamp has already proved its worth at the FOSS4G 2016. Approximately 80 developers from all over the world are expected to work on various ... Read more
Internship experience report at mundialis 13. March 2018 In the following we present a report by our last intern Alicja Balfanz, who illustrates how her internship at mundialis has been taken place. We would like to thank Alicja very much for her great efforts during the last six months and look forward to seeing her again. “My master’s degree in geoinformatics at the University ... Read more