The 3DCityDB Webclient developed by the Chair of Geoinformatics has been selected amongst the finalists of Web3D city modeling competition (http://web3d2015.web3d.org/competition.html ) under the annual ACM SIGGRAPH Web3D Conference. The competition involves the development of… [read more]

The Digital Landscape Architecture 2015 Conference which takes place in Dessau, Germany, June 04-06, 2015, accepted a paper written by members of the Chair of Geoinformatics. The title of the accepted paper is "Declarative indicator modeling for decision support based on 3D city… [read more]

The Chair of Geoinformatics organized a course on Digital Methods for the Built Environment within the Advanced Technology Higher Education Network Socrates (ATHENS) which was jointly conducted by the five Chairs collaborating in the Leonhard Obermeyer Center. Fifteen selected… [read more]

The development of the next major version of CityGML will officially be commenced at next OGC Technical Committee meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, on 11 June 2014. The overall work scope for CityGML 3.0 will include changes to CityGML’s level-of-detail concept, additional semantic… [read more]

On 27 May 2014, the OGC CityGML SWG, the SIG 3D, and Hochschule fuer Technik Stuttgart hosted a joint workshop to gather requirements, ideas, and suggestions for developing a CityGML Energy Application Domain Extension (Energy ADE) which allows for connecting CityGML based… [read more]

Prof. Dr. Thomas H. Kolbe, head of the Chair of Geoinformatics, has been elected chairman of the association Runder Tisch GIS e.V. (Round Table GIS). The election took place at the general meeting of the association on 8 May 2014. The non-profit association Runder Tisch GIS e.V.… [read more]

Prof. Dr. Thomas H. Kolbe, head of the Chair of Geoinformatics, has been reelected president of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Photogrammetrie, Fernerkundung und Geoinformation e.V. (DGPF) (German Society for Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Geoinformation) for a term of two… [read more]

AGeoBW and AED-SICAD AG developed an ISO compliant CityGML UML model for Enterprise Architect based on the UML diagrams from CityGML specification 2.0. This EA UML model was checked by TUM and was now handed over to the SIG 3D by AGeoBW, AED-SICAD and TUM on 20th September… [read more]