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Bernhard Hรถfle

@bernhardhofle.bsky.social

University Professor of #Geography ๐ŸŒ #Geoinformatics. Head of 3DGeo Research Group (https://bsky.app/profile/3dgeohd.bsky.social) at Heidelberg University. Solutions for our digital and dynamic world. 3D geography matters.

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It is also interesting that many of the other top authors were or still are in Heidelberg. A fruitful OSM research ecosystem and hub.

22.01.2026 10:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Why do we need virtual laser scanning of dynamic scenes (VLS-4D)? Watch the video summary of our review paper in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social

๐Ÿ“ฐ doi.org/10.1111/2041...

#3DGeo @bernhardhofle.bsky.social

21.11.2025 18:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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๐Ÿ“ขNew Publication!

@methodsinecoevol.bsky.social just published our review paper on virtual laser scanning of dynamic scenes (VLS-4D).
@bernhardhofle.bsky.social #3DGeo

Paper: doi.org/10.1111/2041...
Blogpost: giscienceblog.uni-heidelberg.de/2025/11/13/n...
Demo: 3dgeo-heidelberg.github.io/vls-4d/

19.11.2025 06:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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#SilviLaser2025 is just around the corner and I can't wait!

I will present our current work "Non-rigid registration of wind-affected TLS point clouds of trees using deep learning"

Abstract: event.fourwaves.com/silvilaser20...

@silvilaser2025.bsky.social
#VirtuaLearn3D #HELIOS #DFG #3DGeo

27.09.2025 12:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The project is performed at @3dgeohd.bsky.social together with the great colleagues Eetu Puttonen @epfgi.bsky.social and Mariana Campos from the @fgi-nls.bsky.social. Her research is kindly supported by the Botanical Garden Heidelberg.

16.09.2025 10:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Let's meet in our fantastic Botanical Garden of Heidelberg University (@uniheidelberg.bsky.social) to exchange about laser scanning and environmental 4D monitoring. Vanessa Guthier will present her exciting research on tree vitality.

16.09.2025 10:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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๐—–๐—ฎ๐—น๐—น ๐—ณ๐—ผ๐—ฟ ๐—”๐—ฝ๐—ฝ๐—น๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป๐˜€: ๐—ฅ๐—ผ๐—ฏ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜ ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐—–๐—ต๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐˜€๐˜๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ฒ ๐——๐—ฎ๐—ป๐˜‡๐—ถ๐—ด๐—ฒ๐—ฟ ๐—ฆ๐—ฐ๐—ต๐—ผ๐—น๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐˜€๐—ต๐—ถ๐—ฝ
The scholarship supports doctoral students from West & Central Africa, who intend to pursue a doctoral degree in Geography (Geoinformatics) at uniheidelberg.bsky.social
๐Ÿ“†Applications: 15/09/25-15/03/26
๐Ÿ’กMore: heigit.org/call-for-app...

15.09.2025 08:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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#Fieldwork summer 2025 was a very special one. In the #Austrian Alps the good weather periods were very limited and only spontaneous campaigns were possible. Gladly, we were able to capture highly valuable 3D LiDAR data for our new research projects in Austria such as at the #Schesaplana mountain.

29.08.2025 13:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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#Fieldwork summer 2025 was a very special one. In the #Austrian Alps the good weather periods were very limited and only spontaneous campaigns were possible. Gladly, we were able to capture highly valuable 3D LiDAR data for our new research projects in Austria such as at the #Schesaplana mountain.

29.08.2025 13:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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๐Ÿฅต๐Ÿšถ๐—ช๐—ฎ๐—น๐—ธ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐—ถ๐—ป ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—ฐ๐—ถ๐˜๐˜† ๐˜‚๐—ป๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—ต๐—ผ๐˜ ๐˜€๐˜‚๐—บ๐—บ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ ๐˜€๐˜‚๐—ป?
The ๐—›๐—˜๐—”๐—Ÿ ๐—ฎ๐—ฝ๐—ฝ recommends pedestrian routes based on their โ€œcoolnessโ€, favoring shadowy, vegetation-rich streets.
The app is available in #Heidelberg and now also in #Worms: worms.heal.openrouteservice.org

Read how it works: heigit.org/a-routing-ap...

11.08.2025 08:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Decorative motives and text: "A Walkable City for All Generations? Take the Silver Ways Survey and share your experience in Mannheim". Beside the text, there is a QR code that leads to the following webiste: survey.silverways.de

Decorative motives and text: "A Walkable City for All Generations? Take the Silver Ways Survey and share your experience in Mannheim". Beside the text, there is a QR code that leads to the following webiste: survey.silverways.de

How walkable is your neighborhood? Senior citizens in #Mannheim can now share their views in an online survey, part of the research project "Silver Ways".
The survey results will be used to to support the development of safer, more accessible urban routes.
Read more: heigit.org/a-walkable-c...

13.08.2025 08:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Sehr spannend und ein schรถnes Bild einer Critical Literacy "Zwiebel".

24.07.2025 13:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

[...] die vor ihm noch niemand wissenschaftlich erfasste und schriftlich festhielt.

22.07.2025 16:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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๐Ÿšจ We are recruiting! ๐Ÿšจ (3 years PhD position)
Interested in investigating the impact of forest structures on rainfall erosivity ๐ŸŒณ๐Ÿ’ง with fieldwork methods, UAV-based LiDAR data, and modeling?

๐Ÿ”— www.ifgg.kit.edu/downloads/so...
๐Ÿ”Ž Contact us for details.

#PhDposition #Karlsruhe #KIT

21.07.2025 13:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Damรผlser Mittagsspitze: One of the #icons of Vorarlberg, Austria.

It is very popular and easy to reach, but not so easy to summit for inexperienced hikers. It is an interesting 'dynamic' peak that we will investigate in more detail. @3dgeohd.bsky.social

13.07.2025 14:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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#Geomorphology meets #Wine
This wineyard is the only one along the Moselle, dominated by Devoniam slate, in triassic sandstone (Buntsandstein). There was a major rockfall in 2023. @bernhardhofle.bsky.social , you are still observing in nearly Real-Time?!

13.07.2025 10:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
AImon5.0 - Institute of Geography Real-time monitoring of gravitational mass movements for critical infrastructure risk management with AI-assisted 3D metrology

Yes, and the data (incl. you guys ๐Ÿ˜€) will be made openly available within the next months. See our research project AIMon5.0 (www.uni-heidelberg.de/aimon) for more infos. There you can also find some nice videos about our research together with TUM, HS Bochum and DMT (www.swr.de/swraktuell/r...).

13.07.2025 12:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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There are those magical moments when a new scientist is born from unlimited curiosity. #Science ๐Ÿ’–

08.07.2025 16:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Selected journal club paper:
Nousias, O., McCauley, M., Stammnitz, M.R. et al. Shotgun sequencing of airborne eDNA achieves rapid assessment of whole biomes, population genetics and genomic variation. Nat Ecol Evol9, 1043โ€“1060 (2025). doi.org/10.1038/s415... (4/4)

24.06.2025 17:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

These are some of the many interesting questions that we intensively discussed in our #3DGeo summer solstice #journal_club, for which I selected an article (explicitly outside our research domain) that was recently published in Nature Ecology & Evolution. (3/4)

24.06.2025 17:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

What is the spatial representation of airborne DNA samples (local, regional)? What potential future use cases are there in #geography? How to deal with the #Promethean #dilemma when it comes to high-quality airborne human DNA recovery? (2/4)

24.06.2025 17:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

๐Ÿ•ท๏ธ ๐ŸŒฟ Genetic biodiversity can be assessed directly via remote "sampling" and near real-time analysis of airborne environmental DNA (#eDNA). โ“ Is this a game changer for #biodiversity monitoring and #bioprospection? How can we bring the lab results back to the #spatial domain? (1/4)

24.06.2025 17:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Job Alert!

We are hiring a new PhD candidate to work with me and @louiseterryn.bsky.social on multitemporal terrestrial laser scanning for better understanding forest structural dynamics at @qforestlab.bsky.social .

More info โžก๏ธ bit.ly/449NunA
Apply here โžก๏ธ bit.ly/3I5AnMP
Application deadline: Aug 3

20.06.2025 12:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 28    ๐Ÿ” 17    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

'Powerful' interesting fact: the #Lรผnersee will be enhanced (Lรผnerseewerk II) within the next decade to a hydroelectric energy storage facility with 1100 MW (www.luenerseewerk2.at/de/vorhaben#...). This will be an important component of Central Europe's energy transition.

06.06.2025 09:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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My home is my study site ๐Ÿ˜. This is one of our new @3dgeohd.bsky.social research sites and outdoor labs located in my home region #Vorarlberg in #Austria. A perfect geographic site to develop the next generation of AI-based 3D/4D observation and monitoring technology.
#Lรผnsersee #Schesaplana

06.06.2025 09:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Frei verfรผgbare Geodaten fรผr hochauflรถsende Karten zur gezielten Bekรคmpfung von Stechmรผcken: Raumbezogene Big-Data-Methoden ermรถglichen die Kartierung von potentiellen Lebensrรคumen www.uni-heidelberg.de/de/newsroom/...
@heigit.org #universitรคt #heidelberg #uniheidelberg #forschung #heigit #geodaten

06.06.2025 08:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0