7 days until liftoff! 🚀 On 4 Nov 2025 at 18:03 local (French Guiana) / 21:03 UTC / 22:03 CET, Sentinel-1D launches aboard Ariane 6 — keeping Copernicus radar eyes on Earth, all weather, all the time. 🌍 #Sentinel1D #Copernicus #ESA #Ariane6 #EarthObservation

I wrote a thing about how #geospatial and #fintech don't speak the same language open.substack.com/pub/geospati...

New blog. In Praise of the Digital Earth Africa Sandbox. Its back! A very good place to learn to work with Earth observation data and Python. www.acgeospatial.co.uk/in-praise-of... #Earthobervation #eochat #opendatacube

🚀 New Feature in Leafmap – Interactive Time-Series Visualization! 🌍🛰️ Leafmap now supports time sliders for visualizing large collections of remote sensing images. Try it out Web App: huggingface.co/spaces/giswq... Notebook: leafmap.org/maplibre/tim... #geospatial #leafmap #opensource #mapping

🚨 Applications are now open! We are excited to announce that the @geospatialwomen.bsky.social Mentorship Programme is now accepting applications for our 25/26 cohort, open until 7th September! 🔗 Interested? Apply here: lnkd.in/ek7veWdG #gischat #remotesensing #geospatial #eo #gis #mentorship

🟢 Worth a read if you are using the Copernicus Browser and custom scripts. „Sentinel Hub Custom Scripts migration from EO Browser to Copernicus Browser“ by Mohor Gartner medium.com/@mohor.gartn...

Our latest deep-dive series is live now on the blog! 🗞️💡 Check out Chunks and Chunkability (parts one and two) now. "It is a truth universally acknowledged in cloud native geospatial that data formats must be chunked." Part One: element84.com/software-eng...

Two #Copernicus #Sentinel-2 images show the massive burn scar of ~100 km2 in northeast #Scotland caused by a fire between 28 June to 2 July. Uplands need better management, including rewilding & rewetting. #eochat @guyshrubsole.bsky.social @chrisgpackham.bsky.social @wildjustice.bsky.social

New blog. Now I have a robust way of loading my Garmin tracks and activities into #PostGIS - I connect kepler.gl to it to visualise the data in a Jupyter Lab widget. This is a simple guide. www.acgeospatial.co.uk/kepler-gl-in...

The fantastic first image released by @esa.int Biomass satellite. In glorious false colour to represent its P-band radar imaging, capable of penetrating even the highest biomass forests in the Amazon and Congo.

New blog in my Garmin tracks series. This time 'Load activities from Garmin Connect and join to tracks in PostGIS' www.acgeospatial.co.uk/garmin-conne... #garmin #PostGIS code: github.com/acgeospatial...

Great idea! While not a paper, a terrific resource is the book Landsat's Enduring Legacy: Pioneering Global Land Observations from Space. Bit of everything. History of remote sensing. System design. Orbits. Applications. Has it all, AND is #openaccess! Get a free copy: my.asprs.org/common/Uploa...

New blog. This time handling updates from Garmin Connect to #PostGIS. www.acgeospatial.co.uk/update-postg... All the code is on GitHub - github.com/acgeospatial... #python #datamanagement

📢 Last 3 days to apply for #ESA 14th Advanced #Training Course on Land #RemoteSensing with a focus on #Agriculture! 📅 When: 29 September - 3 October 2025 📍 Where: Thessaloniki, Greece 👉 Deadline: 12 June 2025 🔗 More info and registration: landtraining2025.esa.int #GISchat #EOchat #geosky #eo

New blog. This time Getting tracks from #Garmin connect to #PostGIS. I present two options with code. www.acgeospatial.co.uk/getting-trac... Using #geopandas, #sqlalchemy

✨High above Earth, Copernicus Sentinel-4 will watch Europe’s air pollution *hourly*! 🤯 Unprecedented detail for forecasting & a clearer view of our atmosphere. 🌍 #EarthObservation Source: https://phys.org/news/2025-06-fresh-sentinel-air.html

After 25 years of watching Earth's changes, Landsat 7 has been decommissioned. It helped monitor forests, glaciers, disasters, and coastlines, providing decades of open science data. Its archive will continue to support research and environmental management 🧪⚒️🌊🌋❄️ #Landsat #RemoteSensing #GIS

A short blog on getting your tracks / routes from #Garmin Connect into #QGIS. www.acgeospatial.co.uk/getting-rout...

🚀SNAP 12 is here! 🌍 Marking 10 years of ESA's Sentinel App Platform with powerful new features: 🛰️Sentinel-1C support ⚙️JDK 21 🌐ETAD: smarter SLCs, interferograms & auto-download 🌍REACTIV, InSAR, OLCI/SLSTR 📦New vector tools 👉 step.esa.int/main/snap-12... #EO #RemoteSensing #SentinelData #ESA #SNAP

This is crazy. 'The economic value of just one year of Landsat data far exceeds the multi-year total cost of building, launching, and managing Landsat satellites and sensors.' www.usgs.gov/news/feature... #eochat

New blog post on cloud frequency. www.acgeospatial.co.uk/cloud-freque... asked if a project I was working on was impacted by the distribution of clouds(>in the west?). Answer was not for this project. but I didn't know until I checked. #Python code here github.com/acgeospatial... #Sentinel2 #eochat

EXCLUSIVE: UK and New Zealand's space sectors to join forces. 🚀 ➡️ www.uktech.news/climate-tech... 🔗 #exclusive #space #climatetech #earthobservation #uktech #newzealand #spacetech #internationalcollaboration #sciencepartnership #startups #UKtech

Using satellite data from ESA’s Sentinel-1A & Sentinel-2B/C + NASA JPL’s ARIA, scientists mapped >3 m horizontal land shifts along Myanmar’s Sagaing Fault during the Mar 28, 2025 quakes. #RemoteSensing #Earthquake - earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/15415...

Join us as a Research Associate in Tropical Methane with the EOS group at Uni of Leicester🏛️ You will be working with @drrobparker.bsky.social team on a cutting-edge Environmental Digital Twin to study wetland methane & climate change🌍 📍 Apply by 4 May 🔗 tinyurl.com/mrxzkzya #ClimateJobs #NCEO

The bayesEO package provides a Bayesian approach to post-processing ML-generated images. It refines class probabilities, removes outliers, and improves labeling for more accurate classification. 🔗 https://github.com/e-sensing/bayesEO/ #rstats #machinelearning #remotesensing #bayesian #rspatial

The bayesEO package provides a Bayesian approach to post-processing ML-generated images. It refines class probabilities, removes outliers, and improves labeling for more accurate classification. 🔗 github.com/e-sensing/ba... #rstats #MachineLearning #RemoteSensing #Bayesian #rspatial

🌍 I have created an interactive #GEE app to generate #Sentinel2 cloud-free mosaics for any country and timeframe, defined by the user. Generate your mosaics: danielp.users.earthengine.app/view/sentinel2-cloudfree-mosaic-generator GitHub: github.com/palubad/S2-Mosaic-Generator #gischat #dataviz

Now fully available! 𝗘𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗵𝗖𝗔𝗥𝗘’𝘀 𝗟𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹-𝟮 data products. L2A contains data from individual instruments, and L2B provides data from two instruments. Final L2 data will be ready by year-end, integrating information from all four instruments. buff.ly/EAz9ZlZ #EarhtObs #remotesensing

If you are logged into github and in a repo press the . key and it will open up a vs code web editor. docs.github.com/en/codespace...

⏰𝗥𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿⏰ The #Sentinel-2A extension campaign begins in 𝘁𝘄𝗼 days, improving the global revisit frequency of the Sentinel-2 constellation. Particularly beneficial for observing tropical regions in Africa and South America with high #cloud cover. buff.ly/lTEENhP #earthobs #remotesensing

📚 Geocomputation with Python copies have arrived 🤩 Somehow, things feel much more real if you can touch them. Fun fact: the cover was designed in #qgis. Speaking of going full circle ... #gischat #python #Geopandas

Early spring mood in #Europe thanks to the anticyclonic conditions. #Copernicus #Sentinel3 captured on March 5th the almost cloudless view of many european countries. Clearly visible the #Alps and the #Pyrenees are still covered in snow. @giuliofirenze.bsky.social

Ctrl A followed by Ctrl M will select all your cells in a Jupyter Notebook and then merge them into a single cell. Or you could do it via the edit menu I suppose!

Er what? They use seasonal mosaic's 'The image stack was mosaicked together using a “Swiss Cheese” methodology' www.computerweekly.com/news/3666190... #eochat

It is more impressive to highlight the fusion of multiple data sources & the complex methods & accessibility to data & the access to the libraries in the code involved in creating Living England rather than simply assigning everything to 'AI'. #randomforest #eochat www.gov.uk/government/n...

The EO & RS Feed is well worth a follow bsky.app/profile/eoma...

We left behind ~10k followers on X, please reskeet to help us reach the community! #EOchat

A quick blog on a method for converting #Sentinel2 imagery to a hexagonal grid. www.acgeospatial.co.uk/convert-sent... #eochat

Hey #geospatial folks, know someone looking for an impactful geo-role? My company, thriveGEO, is #hiring a geospatial data engineer (full-time, remote, ideally in DE) and a communications manager (part-time, remote, global). Salary range 50-70k EUR full-time equivalent. ✨ thrivegeo.com/careers/

🚀 Just launched gedidb! 🌲 A Python package for processing, storing & querying GEDI lidar data with TileDB. 📂 Supports L2A, L2B, L4A, L4C 🔍 Processing the global archive in parallel—available by February! 📦 pip install gedidb #Python #RemoteSensing #Lidar #TileDB #OpenScience

@planet (not yet on bsky 🤔) will be hosting a virtual Planet AI Symposium on January 30th! #eochat 🛰️ Register here: planet-ai-symposium.nowvirtual.live/register?eid...

We are thrilled to join @bsky.app and can't wait to connect with the #Earth Observation and #climate science community! At NCEO we use satellite data to understand our changing planet. From monitoring #climatechange and #land use to studying #airquality and natural hazards. Follow us for updates🚀

📢 STAC Browser v3.3.0 has been released! Some of the improvements: - STAC v1.1.0 support - Updated versions of STAC extensions - New languages - Better authentication system, supporting OpenID Connect, HTTP Basic and API keys - Improved social sharing More details at github.com/radiantearth...

Today, the Sentinel-2C spacecraft will take over from S2A in providing operational data. This is wonderful news, and will ensure continuity of the Sentinel data for many years to come. Great effort from the S2C commissioning team! See here for more info: sentinels.copernicus.eu/web/sentinel...

If you're interesting in #earthobservation and not reading this newsletter you're missing out! Earth observation news is world news https://www.spectralreflectance.space/p/spectral-reflectance-newsletter-106