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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
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