What would happen if the Amazon rainforest collapsed? Our look at deforestation and feedback loops. Also, the perfect occasion to make use of our new MapLibre/Protomaps scroller component. #maps #dataviz #ddj www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft...

i think the 2005-2015 era open source boom was built on a nice job environment where people had a little free time and employers believed in creativity the free time dried up, everyone burned out, 2015-2025 open source has been explicitly targeted toward getting funding & making money. what's next?

Still time to register for the hybrid workshop on satellite #EO data in agriculture! Keynote: Prof. Dr. Patrick Hostert from @humboldteolab.bsky.social -Novel Opportunities in Optical Remote Sensing for Agricultural Monitoring Towards 2030. 🛠Hands-on with Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2, PlanetScope & EnMAP

Recent tiny blogpost. I mourn Twitter-that-was, and a culture of working in public beyond just the sharing successes and announcements that I see on LinkedIn. matthewrocklin.com/fail-in-public (although admittedly this probably is less relevant to the BlueSky crowd)

🚀 Getting started with Deep Learning for remote sensing? Check out these beginner tutorials from FU Berlin: 🧠 UNet in PyTorch: bit.ly/3GBWPx1 🛰️ Segment Anything for GeoTIFFs: bit.ly/3GBWRVF 🌍 #DeepLearning #PyTorch #GeospatialAI #UNet #SegmentAnything #EarthObservation #OpenScience

Even if you know the COG format pretty well, you will probably find new info in here. Great talk by Jeff Albrecht.

"the American realignment with Russia and against Ukraine and Europe is gathering pace—not merely in rhetoric but in reality" www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

The uv build backend is now stable, and considered ready for production use. An alternative to setuptools, hatchling, etc. for pure Python projects, with a focus on good defaults, user-friendly error messages, and performance. When used with uv, it's 10-35x faster.

So now there is the 2day AI4EO symposium in Renne in Sep 25 (previously 3 times in Munich organized by TU Munich), and new 1.5 day ML4Earth in Bonn also in Sep 25, directly organized by TU Munich. What's up with that.

Very cool paper! It is shocking how few forest areas in Europe are not managed www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Akis Karagiannis has written an excellent synopsis of the #LivingPlanet Symposium #earthobservation https://www.spectralreflectance.space/p/reflections-from-the-2025-living "Several sessions that were supposed to feature NASA researchers ended up half-empty. One session had eight scheduled […]

Nancy Grave style maps. @johnnelsonmaps.bsky.social (NANCY GRAVES Untitled #127 - Drawing of the Moon)

First time someone from far away knows my hometown just because of it's remote sensing department doing good work with @earth-observation.org & eagle

Join us at the Geospatial Tech Meetup in Munich, 10. July! Speakers from OroraTech, Ocell, Huawei. Chill chats after, everyone is welcome and super welcoming! meetu.ps/e/P7p3Q/BHlr...

🌲🚀 Big leap in #SmartForest AI! Meet #ForestFormer3D – our new SOTA model for 3D forest segmentation (semantic + instance)! 🌳 🔗 Preprint arxiv.org/abs/2506.16991 🔗 Project bxiang233.github.io/FF3D/ 👏 Led by Binbin Xiang + team @NIBIO #AI #Forestry #SOTA

At Living Planet Symposium next week. Looking forward to lots of ML&forest sessions, but also the random "I have 0 clue about this but it's awesome" volcano, ice etc session. That makes #LPS25 so great. Would love to meet some new people for coffe chat and learn new things! Just ping!

ah yes, you were using gemini-4o-xx1-beta-2, of course you got bad results, you have to use openai-o3-mini-xxl and toggle on the 'do it good' button

I'm looking for any info about how & why it was decided to use the Space Shuttle do create SRTM in 2000 A few questions I have: - How of the world had we mapped in 3D before 2000? - Why the Space Shuttle over a dedicate satellite (or pair of satellites) - How the data was processed

We have a "never use yellow if you can help it" rule for our charts. We couldn't help it on this one www.economist.com/united-state...

If you're attending the Living Planet Symposium in Vienna, join us for happy hour on Wed, June 25 at 5pm #LPS25 This free event is hosted in partnership with thriveGEO, @developmentseed.org & our local host, EOX. Space is limited, so please register to attend lu.ma/56jksm3l

Timbervision: a YOLO-based approach to identifying and measuring timber based on RGB imagery (Steininger et al. on arXiv). This is very cool and has loads of potential applications in forestry and forest management. 🧪

Updated the GitHub repo with a list of Geospatial Conferences 2025 🌍 Covers events on GIS, remote sensing, and more. Browse the list and improve it here: github.com/Nowosad/conf... #geospatial #GISchat #remotesensing #Geo2025

Obstore v0.6 brings simple, painless integration with Microsoft Planetary Computer! - *Automatic token refresh*. No need to manually fetch SAS tokens and never think about token expiration times again. - STAC API integration developmentseed.org/obstore/late...

The new episode of #SceneFromAbove is here! Our guest is Swetha Kolluri, who works on #AI and Digital Innovations at the World Bank. Swetha shares how the cloud powers development experiments, and how EO, citizen science and AI can address global challenges. ☕ www.podbean.com/pu/pbblog-8i...

Apply for the ELLIS Summer School on AI for Earth and Climate Sciences 📆 Deadline March 31, Notifications by April. 📍 Jena, Germany from Sep 1–5, 2025 🔗 www.ellis-jena.eu/summer-schoo... @uni-jena.de, MPI-BGC, @carlzeissstiftung.bsky.social Co-organised with National Technical University of Athens

"Is there another industry in the world where the buyer is willing to spend thousands of dollars and gets ghosted?" Great read by @kevinbullock.bsky.social kbullock.substack.com/p/welcome-to...

Wow, great resolution comparison!

So hat euer Wahlkreis seit 1949 gewählt. Unsere interaktiven Karten zeigen Ergebnisse aller Bundestagswahlen in heutigen Wahlkreiszuschnitten. www.zeit.de/politik/deut...

🎉 The recording of our 90-minute workshop on SAMGeo is now available on YouTube!. A big thank you to Rohini Sampoornam Swaminathan and Maria Antonia Brovelli for hosting the session! 📺 Watch the Recording: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTlI...

🚨We’re hiring! 🚨 In just six months, Isometric built & certified the most rigorous Reforestation Protocol. Now, we need experts to help scale our impact. If you have experience in #Forestry or #RemoteSensing, join us! Let’s rebuild trust in the VCM together 🌳 Application 🔗 ⬇️ #CarbonRemoval #CDR

You may not have a billion dollars but your dignity is all yours

I have decorate much of my career to satellite 🛰️ data. So, at first I thought this was different images (band combinations) of center pivot agriculture. ⭕️ 👩‍🌾 👨‍🌾 🌾 🌽

When my house and community burned - where was the satellite information? A very raw blog post I am putting up so folks in the satellite, geospatial and tech fields can listen firsthand why I think we are failing the situations that need us the most. www.linkedin.com/pulse/when-o...

The fix isn't motivational quotes or "digital detox" weeks. Your neural pathways need time to reset. It'll feel awful at first. Your brain will scream for stimulation. But it's either temporary discomfort or permanent numbness. Choose wisely.

I think #STAC API search parameters, with extensions, can be a "lingua franca" for geospatial search, regardless of whether the underlying data store is STAC. Here's the search parameters I'm talking about: www.gadom.ski/stacrs/lates... Reasoning in 🧵

What are the chances Trump is obsessed with Greenland because he doesn't understand Mercator projection?

How different can two reasonable pansharpening algorithms be? Pretty different in pathological cases like planes in flight. Left is from Maxar, right is from Potato (the thing I’ve been tinkering with). Same underlying data, from the Maxar Open Data Program, CC BY-NC.

There is a common conda-forge/staged-recipes repo which you have to commit to to get your package published. A simple @ conda-forge in a PR just started a reply-all thread to 6500 authors which get an email for every reply, and people are having fun with it :D

🌍📊 OpenGeoHub Summer School 2025 "Data Science for Earth Observation: Hands-on Training in Python, R, and Julia." Workshops, ML competitions, demos, and more! 📅 1-6 Sept 2025 | 📍 Wageningen, Netherlands 🔗 Apply by 18 Jan 2025: https://buff.ly/41C8y6y #EarthObservation #DataScience #gischat

🌍 Exciting news! Jena is one of seven units hosting an @ellis.eu #SummerSchool in 2025! 📅 Sep 1-5🌿We´ll focus on "AI for Earth and Climate Sciences". www.ellis-jena.eu/summer-schoo... Stay tuned - more infos will be shared in January!

Want to impress family or friends? Ask them for a photo featuring a shadow and follow the steps GeoGuessr pro @georainbolt.bsky.social does here. Using Bellingcat's Shadow Finder tool, you can narrow down the likely location the photo was taken in. youtu.be/pQIjDPFgdJA?...

python-build-standalone has exploded in popularity, with over 70M downloads all-time. But what is a "standalone" Python build? It wasn't obvious to me at first! Initially, I didn't understand what problem was being solved or why it mattered...

Add one thing to the docs. Restructure&rewrite 1/4 of the docs.

The bluesky follower bridge browser extension is really awesome. Download extension for your browser, in bluesky under settings/privacy&security create an app password. Go to your twitter "following" page, open the extension, enter bluesky username & app password. Then it scans, follow with 1 click!

#BostonPublicLibrary is such an exciting space! Whenever I'm here, I am reminded of Zadie Smith's observation that public libraries are one of the last few places on the high street where one can spend time for free. These spaces provide so many vital public goods 😍

I didn't see this already, so I went through my follow list and made a Starter Pack for Women+ in geo & EO - very broadly. I'm reminded how lopsided the gender divide is still in our field when I get 1 woman follower for every 10 men. It's particularly noticeable right now. go.bsky.app/Ay1iTTe

This is such a good documentary about the tech behind Microsoft Flight simulator, loved the world map generation parts! Also cool personal connections for me: Just 2 days ago drank beers with 2 devs who did work on the building modeling for FS. And my uni professor was involved in the SRTM mission!

We closed two great days at #SatSummit in the best way possible, with some impromptu drinks at the beach. It doesn't get any better than this