Can animal paths be automatically mapped using drones? Read about our new paper together with SANparks on animal path detection using UAVs and Deep Learning in Kruger National Park. @caipide.bsky.social @bevanda.bsky.social @schwalb-willmann.de

Two days ago, our PostDoc @schwalb-willmann.de visited the Institute for Geoinformatics at University of Münster on invitation by @edzer.bsky.social and Johannes Heisig to give a talk at the GI forum on using animals to classify land use.

The {sf} package continues to blow my mind with how easy it is to make maps with #rstats and ggplot (code for that map here gist.github.com/andrewheiss/...)

📢 Abstract submission deadline for the World Biodiversity Forum @worldbioforum.bsky.social in Davos is Nov 18! Join us for our session 'Understanding and caring for Arctic biodiversity together'. All regions, organisms and formats welcome! 🌿🦌🦋

Happy to see my second PhD paper published in Forest Ecology and Management 🎉 #lidar #Europeanbeech #forestry #treemortality check it out: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Last week, EORC employees Sebastian Buchelt and Jakob Schwalb-Willmann taught a three-day block course on UAV remote sensing of the cryosphere in the UNIS Master’s course "Remote Sensing of the Cryosphere" on invitation by Assoc. Prof. Eero Rinne.

As part of their current research and teaching stay at the University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS) on Svalbard, Dr. Jakob Schwalb-Willmann and Sebastian Buchelt held a guest lecture on UAV remote sensing for Arctic population ecology, showcasing the use of remote sensing for ecology research. Invited…

Last week, EORC employees Jakob Schwalb-Willmann and Sebastian Buchelt travelled to Longyearbyen, Svalbard, for a two-week research and teaching stay on the high-arctic island. Invited by our collaborators and colleagues Assoc. Prof. Larissa Beumer (Arctic biology) and Assoc. Prof. Eero Rinne…

Last week, EORC staff participated in and co-organized the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland (GfÖ) Annual Symposium 2025, this year hosted at University of Würzburg. The symposium, attended by more than 600 people, covered a wide range of topics in ecology research with a focus…

Snow depth is a crucial variable in high-arctic ecosystems, as it affects soil, plants & wildlife foraging. Yet, spatially-continuous snow depth data is rare. Stop by poster 38-P1 at #gfoe2025 @uni-wuerzburg.de today to talk about UAV LiDAR snow depth mapping for ecological research on Svalbard!

Thrilled to share our new article in @pnas.org highlighting global gaps in where we study animal movement—and outlining the next generation of smart bio-loggers. 👉 Read the full study in PNAS: lnkd.in/exP8NCeZ 1/

Swing by my poster today at the #LPS25! Excited to share some of our work at the UAS Team, @earth-observation.org ! We’ve been exploring the comparability between UAV-based datasets and Sentinel-2. @schwalb-willmann.de @bevanda.bsky.social

Are you working with LiDAR or inventory data? Visit me at poster H07 at #LPS25 to find out more about our R package, TreeCompR, which provides solutions for quantifying tree competition!

great group picture of our EORC staff and EAGLEs at ESA #LPS25 - a fantastic week with plenty of interesting discussions, talks and posters! #earthobs #eochat #remotesensing

RStoolbox, an R package for remote sensing data analysis, is being presented at ESA #LPS25 today by @caipide.bsky.social and myself. Come to poster P32 to chat about spatial predictive modelling, spectral unmixing, change vector analysis, radiometric correction, cloud masking etc. using R! #rstats

Catch me & @annabischof.bsky.social at tonight’s #LPS25 poster session in Vienna! We're presenting our work with Nature Seychelles & @earth-observation.org on RGB drones for mangrove monitoring. Marlene Bauer can't join, but her input was key. Excited to connect! #UAV #Ecology #RemoteSensing

Having a blast at ESA's #LPS25 with @schwalb-willmann.de and a nice poster about animal paths 🐘 Swing by!

Planning a hyperspectral drone mission in steep terrain, I ran into the usual issue: flying too close to the slope due to poor AGL handling. I built SMARTAGL, an R tool that creates terrain-aware flight lines with constant AGL. Open-source & field-tested. (github.com/ajcastanedag...)

AnySat has been accepted as a ✨ highlight at #CVPR2025! See you in Nashville 🎉 We’ll also be presenting this work at: 📍 @egu.eu on 02/04 in Vienna 📍 @esa.int / NASA Workshop on Foundation Models on 05/04 in Rome

⚠️ Nearly 40 billion (39,820,373,479) new embeddings of Major TOM Copernicus data now released! More details: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

📢1 PhD position (3 yrs) @UniTrento on acoustic environments in mountains 🎶🏔️In collaboration with @EuracResearch & @UCL IEDE (London) – part of the “Soundscape for All” project, funded by HEAD-Genuit-Stiftung. Stay tuned & reach out if interested! #PhDposition #Soundscape #Bioacoustics #Mountains

🌿Apply now! 🌿🌴🦜 We’re thrilled to announce that applications for Animove are NOW OPEN 🥳 Learning new methods in animal movement analysis and connecting with nature in one of the most biodiverse places on Earth. We can't wait to see your application come through. See you in Costa Rica! 🇨🇷 #LaSelva

Grateful that I could work on using animals for Earth observation at @uni-wuerzburg.de, in cooperation with @dlr-de.bsky.social & @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social. Many thanks to my supervisors & mentors Stefan Dech, Martin Wikelski, Tobias Ullmann & Martin Wegmann & everyone @eor-wuerzburg.bsky.social!

The #Arctic climate is changing rapidly! Our efforts at the @eor-wuerzburg.bsky.social & #UNIS on Svalbard to jointly develop research & teaching on understanding polar ecosystem dynamics using UAV remote sensing has been covered by @uni-wuerzburg.de's magazine einBLICK (German): go.uniwue.de/k00gq

Come study these most adorable - and tough - #Arctic ungulates with us! 🦌 Fully funded 4-year PhD position in Svalbard Reindeer Movement Ecology at The University Centre in #Svalbard: shorturl.at/DaHpw Application deadline is the 25th of April 2025!

Ein Forschungsteam aus der #Informatik und @eor-wuerzburg.bsky.social hat mit einer neuen Technologie einen #Permafrost-Tunnel an der #Zugspitze vermessen. Das System ermöglicht hochpräzise 3D-Aufnahmen auch in schwer zugänglichen Umgebungen. go.uniwue.de/permafrost #Schneefernerhaus #UFS

🎓 Looking for opportunities to take the next step in your academic career and interested in ML, medical imaging (and more), and interdisciplinary work? Come and join us! More information: www.caidas.uni-wuerzburg.de/pr/open-posi... website still under construction 🙈, see also here: aimi.tf.fau.de

our EAGLE #earthobservation M.Sc. students Lena and Ronja (center) are spending the arctic winter and parts of the artic summer on Svalbard supervised by @larissabeumer.bsky.social and @bevanda.bsky.social (right) doing #UAS #remotesensing for #ecology

A pretty mosaic? Actually 403 bits of plastic removed from the stomach of a dead shearwater chick. Startling new research using proteomics suggests multi-organ dysfunction is linked with plastic exposure. #plastics #birds #health #wildlife www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I have created a Movement Ecology feed here on Bluesky! 🌍🐾 bsky.app/profile/did:... Currently, it tracks posts with the #movementecology, #animalmovement, #animalmigration, and #wildlifetracking tags from contributors. 🔹 Want to be added? Message me or reply here! #Ecology #WildlifeResearch

Just looking through images from our #CitizenScience project I realized that we have #PlasticCusts, even on Svalbard, in the #Arctic! This one was found by Birgit Lutz at Isflabukta beach in 2016. #Plastic

Our #earthobservation staff @schwalb-willmann.de and @bevanda.bsky.social did #uas #remotesensing courses for #Arctic applications on Svalbard and covered different #uas systems with #lidar multispectral and thermal sensors plus ##rspatial and #qgis data analysis #gischat @uniwuerzburg.bsky.social

Weather radars continuously register the movements of billions of animals in the air! We have now published datasets covering large parts of Europe, providing an overview of the aerial habitat in a way no other method can. Data is available on Alofdata.eu , see our blogpost: go.nature.com/3F0wQ0L

Off to #AAAI25! We're presenting #SatCLIP (w/ @marccoru.bsky.social, @estherrolf.bsky.social, @calebrob6.bsky.social & @lestermackey.bsky.social) at the 12.30-2.30pm poster session on Feb 28! Let me know if you're around & want to chat #GeoAI!🛰️ Paper: tinyurl.com/5eejz5kw Code: tinyurl.com/2zm64967

…and then there is this PhD position at the University of Oslo, which includes drones, Svalbard, land surface models and ML, and working with some great people… www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Dear all! As RStoolbox was finally published in "Methods in Ecology and Evolution 🌍" (doi.org/10.1111/2041...), the new version 1.0.1 with updates for a fully customizable index database running on C++ is now available on CRAN! cran.r-project.org/web/packages...

To all Animovers out there: Our next workshop will take place from the 30th of November until the 13th of December 2025. More information about location, price and how to apply will follow soon....🤗🐒🦥🌎🐸🐊🕷️🪱

📖Published📖 Addressing the need for improved tree species classification, Puliti et al. present the FOR-species20K dataset, a large, diverse, individual tree point cloud DL-ready benchmark dataset for platform and sensor agnostic tree species classification tasks 🌳 🌎 🧪 https://buff.ly/4hI7P8F

Do Large Language Models (LLMs) possess ecological knowledge? For example, can they do tasks such as: (1) predict the presence of species at a location (2) generate range maps (3) list critically endangered species (4) perform threat assessment (5) estimate species traits

My institute is looking for a project coordinator / innovation manager - a permanent academic position. It's a great insitute, very international, pleasant and informal atmosphere. Deadline Feb 28; see stellen.uni-muenster.de/jobposting/d...

check out our publication of the #RStoolbox #rspatial #rstats package for #remotesensing data analysis - by @caipide.bsky.social @schwalb-willmann.de and others

with very smooth #lidar & #thermal #uas #earthobservation data acquisitions for snow property research in the #Arctic this weekend thanks to great battery heating boxes and perfect planning by @schwalb-willmann.de & @antoniocastaneda.bsky.social @eor-wuerzburg.bsky.social @uniwuerzburg.bsky.social

Kicking off our field campaign year 2025!

📖Published📖 Müller et al. present RStoolbox, an R package for remote sensing data analysis🌎 🧪 Read more here 👇

Want to do #remotesensing analysis using #rspatial and derive classifications, vegetation indices, spectral unmixing, fractional cover, preprocessing .... ? check out #RStoolbox #rstats - anything missing? Let us know! @caipide.bsky.social @schwalb-willmann.de remote-sensing.org/exploring-th...

New paper by Fol et al. (2025) estimating that the central Arctic Ocean will be continuously ice free from 2035 onwards, already. This will have severe impacts on ice-dependent Arctic species. doi.org/10.1038/s432...

Snow & ice conditions have strong impacts on wildlife in the high Arctic. I'm glad to have had the chance discussing the value of remote sensing for Arctic wildlife ecology research with new collaborators from Europe & North America on Svalbard – hosted by @larissabeumer.bsky.social at UNIS. #arctic

Our staff members @bevanda.bsky.social and @schwalb-willmann.de are discussing arctic research with @larissabeumer.bsky.social and Prof Marco Schmidt @uniwuerzburg.bsky.social on Svalbard #Arctic #earthobs #science