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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
FOSS4G 2018 in Dar es Salaam 22. February 2018 From 29 to 31 August 2018, this year’s global FOSS4G will take place in Dar es Saalam, Tanzania and after 2008 (Cape Town) for the second time on the African continent. The FOSS4G is the event where the international OSGeo community meets. An event like a FOSS4G always has the potential to catalyse the geocommunity in ... Read more
mundialis has a new expert in agricultural monitoring 7. February 2018 Dr. Fabian Löw joined the mundialis team in January 2018. The data analyst works on behalf of the Bonn-based company in addition to other topics, in particular on the use of satellite remote sensing for agricultural monitoring, the associated use of resources and global change. Agriculture is the basis of food and an important source of ... Read more
WANDEL project meeting at mundialis: Does restricted water availability accelerate the energy transition? 31. January 2018 mundialis is hosting in their offices in Bonn a workshop to bring the discussions further about the WANDEL project (“Wasserressourcen als bedeutende Faktoren der Energiewende auf lokaler und globaler Ebene”) financed by BMBF through the funding program GRoW (Globale Ressource Wasser). WANDEL project is a research project funded for the period between August 2017 to ... Read more
FOSS4G 2017: Video recording of the lecture on citation of scientific software 22. January 2018 Almost five months ago the FOSS4G 2017 took place from August 14 to 19, 2017 at the Seaport Hotel & World Trade Center, Boston. Dr. Peter Löwe and the Managing Director of mundialis, Dr. Markus Neteler gave one of the conference lectures on the topic of citation of scientific software. The presentation “Towards OSGeo best practices ... Read more
Satellite image of the month – January – Betsiboka, Madagascar 16. January 2018 Betsiboka delta in Madagascar The satellite image of the month January shows a false-colour-composite of the mouth of the Betsiboka River in northern Madagascar. The image was created from different bands based on Sentinel-2A data from the EU Copernicus program. This infrared combination is useful for performing a vegetation analysis and provides a resolution of 10 ... Read more
FOSSGIS 2018: presentations and workshops by mundialis 15. January 2018 This year’s FOSSGIS conference will take place from 21 – 24 March 2018 in Bonn. The FOSSGIS Conference is the leading conference for Free and Open Source Software, Geo-Software and OpenStreetMap. Below is an overview of the lectures and workshops that mundialis employees will offer at this year’s FOSSGIS conference. Register today and secure your early booking ... Read more
mundialis participates in BMVI funding programme mFUND 8. January 2018 (Deutsch) Die Firma mundialis startet im Rahmen der Förderrichtlinie 1 des BMVI-Förderprogramms mFUND zusammen mit der Firma Sopra Steria Consulting das Projekt „MetaOpenData“. Read more
Talk about Open Source business in practice – Earth observation and more at GI Forum Münster 8. January 2018 Dr. Markus Neteler has been invited to speak about Open Source business in practice: Earth observation and more at the GI Forum at the Institute for Geoinformatics of the University of Münster on 9th of January, 2018. Abstract In my talk I’ll present some of our current projects at mundialis, a “free data with free software” startup business. ... Read more
mundialis wishes you a merry christmas 18. December 2017 The team of mundialis wants to thank all our partners, customers and friends for the confidence you have shown in the now ending year and wishes all of you a quiet and peaceful Christmas and a happy and successfull year 2018! We will have some days off from the 23rd December and will be back as usual ... Read more
Satellite image of the month – December – Austrian High Alps 12. December 2017 Austrian High Alps – High Tauern National Park The satellite image of the month December shows parts of the national park or the high mountain range “High Tauern” (Hohe Tauern) in Austria. The image is a true color image taken from the European Sentinel 2A satellite. In the middle area of the satellite photo you can ... Read more
mundialis participated in COP23 28. November 2017 The Conference of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) took place this year in Bonn, Germany, from 6th to 17th of November. The mundialis team had the opportunity to attend COP 23 allowing us to gain an overarching overview over the different activities and players on climate change ... Read more
FOSSGIS Conference 2018 – mundialis is bronze sponsor! 28. November 2017 After Passau in 2017, the FOSSGIS conference will take place next year in our home town Bonn from March 21-24, 2018. The lectures and workshops will deal with free and open source software for geoinformation systems to show the latest developments and case studies. The conference brings together users and developers to discuss technology and strategies. ... Read more
(Deutsch) Softwareentwickler/in 21. November 2017 Sorry, this entry is only available in German. Read more
Closed conference with subsequent Christmas party at terrestris & mundialis 21. November 2017 Last Friday, the employees and managing directors of terrestris and mundialis took a whole day to exchange ideas and to work out new topics and suggestions for improvement. As partner companies, both terrestris and mundialis can benefit from this joint exchange by claiming and taking over the strengths of the other company. This kind of concentrated ... Read more
mundialis closed-meeting on 17st of November 13. November 2017 On 17st of November the company mundialis has a closed-meeting with all its employees. This kind of meeting allows an intensive exchange and everyone taking part is enable to shape and influence daily work in his or her sense. Taking a deep breath and reflection our own work release lots of creativity and satisfaction – this is something ... Read more