I’m really happy about our last publication, not just cause I really like the topic (the role of GEDI for biodiversity🛰️🌲) but especially for the great team involved in the work!

Happy to share this new paper led by Vítězslav Moudrý. We show that spaceborne canopy height products 🌲🛰️still have clear limits and that in Europe ALS data should be used more, moving toward a European ALS-based canopy height model. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Great to see that the master’s thesis work of Victoria Mølbach Sforzini, was successfully developed and implemented by Irene Menegaldo during her PhD—and now published in @vegecoldiv.bsky.social Congratulations to both!!

New paper out! 🤘 Can we estimate forest biodiversity using spaceborne #EnMAP data? 🛰️ Turns out, yes — spectral heterogeneity from EnMAP can estimate tree species diversity in Alpine forests 🌲🌳🏔️ Especially in the NIR region, with area-weighted pixels and canopy cover > 70%. 🔓 lnkd.in/eWKGeGfs

Glad to have contributed to this work!🤩

🤩Proud to co-author a new paper led by Petra Pracná & Vítězslav Moudrý (CZU Prague): combining NASA’s ICESat-2 & GEDI LiDAR 🛰️data to build 90 m global DTMs 🌍—matching or surpassing Copernicus DEM accuracy in forests!🌲 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🚨 New research paper! 🌸🐝 UAV RGB + machine learning detect flowers as an indirect proxy for bee abundance—fast, scalable & eco-friendly! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#MAP-Rezia data collection is almost done! 🌺🌱 Thanks to @sonja, Angel & @gianmariabonari.bsky.social for completing botanical surveys between Stelvio & Swiss NP using the #ORCHAMP protocol. Now collecting remote sensing data✈️📡🛰️—will we detect the same biodiversity? Stay tuned for more…

Look who visited our biodiversity plots! 🦊These pics come from our camera traps in Switzerland, part of the ORCHAMP network we’re using in the MAP-Rezia project to monitor biodiversity between Stelvio and the Swiss National Park. Can we spot the same wild animals using Earth observation?🛰️Stay tuned!

Just 2 weeks after setting up plots & camera traps, we’ve got our first visitor! In #MAPRezia (Interreg Italia–Svizzera lnkd.in/eWv5FtPN) we map biodiversity in all forms—plants, trees, and wildlife—using field & remote sensing data. More to come this summer! 🌲🛰️

🌿 Field season has officially started for MAP-Rezia project! Great to finally meet all partners in the forest instead of just on screen! We kicked off our data collection, discussed next steps, and set the ground for linking what we see on the ground🌲 with remote sensing data🛰️

Have you ever thought outside the box and created fuzzy maps? 🗺️ Our study, led by Emilia Pafumi, shows how fuzzy classification offers a more realistic approach to habitat mapping using high-res satellite imagery🛰️ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #biodiversity #remotesensing #ecology #mapping

La guerra in #Ucraina ha un impatto drammatico anche sull’ambiente. @micheletorresani.bsky.social, ricercatore di #unibz, in collaborazione con #unibo, ha sviluppato un sistema di allerta precoce per stimare la perdita di superficie forestale. Leggi di più: www.unibzmagazine.it/en/magazine/...

Just returned from the @esa.int #biospace25 conference hold in Frascati-Rome where I present my research on the link between different aspects of #biodiversity and vegetation height heterogeneity, assessed through remote sensing data 🌲 🛰️ If you missed my talk you can find it here: lnkd.in/eNxqeuMc

🌿 Kick-off for the #MAP-Rezia Project! 🌿 Excited to launch MAP-Rezia (~€1M, #InterregItaliaSvizzera) to monitor biodiversity in #ParcoNazionaledelloStelvio & #SchweizerischerNationalpark! We'll use remote sensing to map ecosystems, track herbivores & assess forest scenarios under climate change. 🚀🌍

iLand is the first forest landscape model to explicitly simulate forest microclimate. Why? Because microclimate effects propagate across scales and influence important processes such as decomposition, regeneration and bark beetle development. Read more in Braziunas et al. doi.org/10.1007/s109...

Not all fieldwork pictures are equally breathtaking... The pictures I got from master student Sarane reading out #microclimate sensor data from the cliffs of Freyr might just be what you needed to want to join MIREN's rock survey... the3dlab.org/2025/02/03/s...

Have you ever thought using #LiDAR from mobile, terrestrial, and spaceborne #GEDI combined with optical and radar satellite data #Copernicus, to characterize #forest structural complexity?🌲🛰️ We did! Check out this paper, led by Patrick Kacic www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

During the war in Ukraine, alongside the devastating loss of human lives, vast areas of forests have also been destroyed. In this new paper we estimated this forest loss using AI and remote sensing data🌲📡 #forest #war #Ukraine #remotesensing #Landsat www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Excited to share I’ve joined the Editorial Board of Community Ecology (Springer: link.springer.com/journal/42974)! 🌍📖 Looking forward to contributing to its mission and promoting impactful work, especially bridging ecological research with remote sensing technologies 🌲🛰️

New paper! Forest disturbance through drought, windthrow, pest outbreaks and fire is increasing in Europe, driven by past planting decisions and climate change. In Germany alone, more than 500,000 ha of mostly Spruce died back in 2018-2022. Led by Anne Graser, we studied biodiversity responses...

I’m thinking of creating a new starter pack on "Remote sensing for forest biodiversity monitoring". I need at least seven others to join me—who’s interested?

📜More species, more trees: The role of tree packing in promoting forest productivity! The effect of diversity on forest functioning is partly mediated by diversity-driven changes in stand density. Published! Great work by @xaviermorin.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/1365...

Ready to learn how to use LiDAR for research in #forestry and natural resources using #R? This week I am sharing our 7-part series on Bluesky to help you get started! Share with anyone you know who wants to get started. Part 1 covers acquiring, & viewing LiDAR data! bit.ly/lidR-module1

Land-use change reduces bee diversity at local scales, but the impacts of agriculture and urbanisation differ at regional scales. Agriculture has more negative effects overall. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🧪 🌏 🌐

Remotely sensed spectral indicators of bird taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic diversity across Afrotropical urban and non-urban habitats | www.sciencedirect.co... | Ecological Indicators | #ornithology 🪶

Hi all, Happy New Year🍾 If you want to start 2025 learning about LiDAR technology and its practical applications in ecology using R, do not miss this course with @micheletorresani.bsky.social There is ONLY 1 seat left: www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...

In our recent paper led by M. Ny Aina Rakotoarivony, we showed that combining hyperspectral data with fine-resolution multispectral data significantly improves our ability to map the spatial distribution of invasive plants #NASA_SBG #cube_sats #fusion. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

How unique is branch arrangement—unique enough to be like fingerprints? 🧐 Yrttimaa et al. Quantifying architectural uniqueness of Scots pine trees using terrestrial laser scanning: toward individual tree fingerprinting. Forestry. #TLS #lidar #openaccess 🔗https://doi.org/10.1093/forestry/cpae058

Final version out Tree mycorrhizal strategies regulate diversity–productivity relationships across forest strata along soil fertility www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The top 10 stories of 2024 from The 3D Lab! #7 - The ever-present ghost of data quality in SDMs A summary story of our review paper on the importance of sample size, positional uncertainty and sampling bias for SDMs. A must-read for all that like to use SDMs! the3dlab.org/2024/08/05/t...

If you are interested in #species #range #shifts, #community composition changes & #ecosystem responses to anthropogenic #climate change, there is still room to join the #biodiversity #redistribution starter pack 🦔🦅🦎🐠🐝🌾🌵🌴🌳🌲 go.bsky.app/6KqEpb9

Climate Change and the Emergence of No‐Analog Forest Assemblages in North America 📄 https://buff.ly/4gKt1KO #climatechange #ecoregions #trees

New paper by Shilin Chen @qforestlab.bsky.social in RSE on the impact different leaf removal has on biomass estimates from TLS www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

📢 Excited to share our new paper: We compared the effects of three major droughts🌡️ (2003, 2018, 2022) on European forests, separating soil versus atmospheric drought and uncovering new insights into the vulnerability of different forest types 🌳🌲: bg.copernicus.org/articles/21/...

It’s never too late to collect field data in the forest at @unibz.bsky.social 🥶❄️🌲

Great discussions after my presentation at @unibz.bsky.social "Extreme Weather Events and Adaptation in the South-Eastern Alps" conference. I shared how LiDAR remote sensing helps track forest changes after windstorms like Vaia (www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...) & bark beetle outbreaks 🌲🛰️.