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mundialis at Big Data from Space (BiDS’19) conference 17. February 2019 On Tuesday, 19th Feb. 2019 we’ll be at the 2019 Conference on Big Data from Space (BiDS’19) – Turning Data into Insights, in the Alte Kongresshalle, Munich, Germany. The conference is jointly organised by ESA, SatCen, JRC and hosted by DLR. Our CEO Dr. Markus Neteler will present “Actinia: cloud based geoprocessing” in Session 3 – ... Read more
Season’s Greetings 20. December 2018 It feels as if summer has ended just yesterday but actually Christmas is just around the corner again. For us, but hopefully also for you, this means pausing for a moment and then starting the new business year with new energy, enthusiasm and a lot of verve. But also at the end of this year ... Read more
mundialis at the National Copernicus Forum 2018 in Berlin 10. December 2018 mundialis GmbH & Co. KG also participated in this year’s edition of the Nationalen Copernicus Forum 2018 in the rooms of BMVI in Berlin (27. to 29. November 2018). The forum offers a great opportunity to gain an up-to-date overview of the users and use of the Copernicus program data, especially from the German public and ... Read more
Improved monitoring of settlement areas through satellite-supported spatial observation 3. December 2018 As part of the sustainability goals, the economical use of land as a resource has been the subject of planning interventions and political measures by the Federal Government for many years. The demands for use are particularly conflict-laden when dealing with settlement and traffic areas. Here, the data bases used for monitoring the development of ... Read more
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
“leave no one behind” – a review of FOSS4G 2018 12. September 2018 Sorry, this entry is only available in German. 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