📡 We proudly present the 1st DETECT Land & Climate Seminar on WS 25/26: Prof. Shin-Chan Han (Ohio State University) — “Alternative use of GRACE for rapid surface mass change incl. flood & flash drought.” Online via Zoom, Mon 13.10.25, 10:15 CEST. Further info available on sfb1502.de/news-events/...

🌍 Check out this new publication led by our member Sonia Akter about a comparison between the low-cost soil moisture estimator based on Environmental Gamma Radiation (EGR) with the reference Gamma Radiation measurement. Congratulations on the great work! 📝 doi.org/10.3390/s251...

🛰️ Check out this fantastic work from the team led by our CRC 1502 speaker @jurgenkusche.bsky.social on the simulation of various scenario of satellite gravimetry mission pairs and its impact in recovering the total water storage globally and regionally. Congratulations! 📝 doi.org/10.1093/gji/...

💻 Yet another new paper from our members — check out a publication from Lukas Jendges and Jan Martin Brockmann on applying iterative estimation procedure to derive trend in total water storage from GRACE time series data. Congratulations on the achievement! 📝 doi.org/10.1007/s004...

Last year, my master's student and I had the pleasure of taking peat samples in the Flow Country, examining the effect of land use changes and wildfires on carbon stability under current and future climate scenarios. 🌱

🌼 In December 2024, we visited the Forsinard Flows Nature Reserve in Scotland. In this study, we investigate the impact of a wildfire in 2019 on soil processes and carbon changes of burnt and unburnt pairs of different sites – and what it means for future climate scenarios. 🎥 youtu.be/eFpodQWCNPo

🌾 We develop a new crop type mapping approach and generate probabilistic crop maps for Europe with 1-km resolution for 3 decades. Our method and maps can be used for environmental modeling and for agricultural policy analysis. 📜 doi.org/10.1016/j.di... 🎥 youtu.be/spx6_sqIvdg

🧠 On the third video of 'My paper in 140 seconds' series by Visakh Sivaprasad, a #deeplearning model to generate a 21-year European #soilmoisture dataset using AMSR-E/2 data was explained. This fills gaps, improving accuracy by 26%. More info on: 📝 doi.org/10.1109/JSTA... 📽️ youtu.be/KnyH_8C_uy4

🚨 Our new study shows that more than 20% of Europe experienced simultaneous changes in land cover composition and configuration. These drove measurable shifts in topsoil temperature, particularly during the growing season. For more info: 📝 iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1... 📽️ youtu.be/AM7AolZX3ec

⛏️ A study led by our member Johannes Leonhardt proposed ClimSat, an image editing model designed to simulate prescribed climate conditions on satellite imagery. It was found to work best on data augmentation for land cover classification and climate change visualization. doi.org/10.1016/j.sr...

⚙️ A BERT-insipired self-supervised pre-training strategies for crop identification is proposed on this study by our member Juergen Gall. It has been published at Frontiers in Remote Sensing on June this year. doi.org/10.3389/frse...

🌱 Over a century of breeding process on winter wheat in Germany has been found to reduce the root axes numbers and ist hydraulic conductance. It is one of the main findings on a study led by our member, Juan Baca Cabrera that has been published on Plant Physiology. doi.org/10.1093/plph...

From 8 to 12 September 2025, the Fall School 2025 on 𝐓𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 & 𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡-𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 took place 𝐚𝐭 @fz-juelich.de! This event is organized by 𝐇𝐏𝐒𝐂 𝐓𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐒𝐲𝐬 and supported by 𝐆𝐞𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐛𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐀𝐁𝐂/𝐉 and 𝐂𝐑𝐂-1502 𝐃𝐄𝐓𝐄𝐂𝐓. Further information is available on www.sfb1502.de/news-events/...

Another publication from the lab of our Speaker @jurgenkusche.bsky.social on water levels and slopes estimation from the off-nadir FFSAR data is out on Journal of Hydrology, check it out. doi.org/10.1016/j.jh...

The work of our member Stefan Siebert on the shift of spatial distribution and diversity of global food crop production due to climate change has been published on Nature Food. Congratulations! doi.org/10.1038/s430...

Thank you for the great DETECT-EAAE session on gender and diversity in academia and letting us once again learn about the importance for a sustainable future cc @maeunigoe.bsky.social Further info is available on our website www.sfb1502.de/news-events/... and www.linkedin.com/company/crc-...

To the next one — check out a publication from our Speaker’s lab @jurgenkusche.bsky.social on developing new method to forecast total water storage using a combination of machine learning and data assimilation in Water Resources Research. Congratulations to this achievement! doi.org/10.1029/2024...

Publication Alert! Check out this publication on the development of a global gridded dataset from irrigated and rainfed cropped area from 2000 to 2015 for 23 crop classes by our member Stefan Siebert. Congratulations on the work! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

CRC 1502 DETECT has been started from 2022, and today, we are starting our LinkedIn page to share our milestones with you! Follow us to stay informed and connect with us! The page is available on www.linkedin.com/company/crc-... #geodesy #climatechange #unibonn #DFG

Join our CRC 1502 group to have an extensive discussion on our ongoing research and results! lnkd.in/d6QmrYyA #crc1502 #DFG

Cooking with 15" etopo22 and @wmo-global.bsky.social / GRDC vectors for @crc1502-detect.bsky.social . Rivers truly are lifelines of the water cycle.

If you think this session is not for you - *it is definitely for you* 👇

DE-I-TECT organizes a session on Diversity and Equity at the 50th EAAE congress in @unibonn.bsky.social (www.ilr1.uni-bonn.de/eaaecongress...) on Wednesday the 27th of August 2025, 04.00 - 05.30 pm to discuss about equity and diversity for an excellent research culture cc @maeunigoe.bsky.social ‪

Our PhD student Charlotte Hacker (@crc1502-detect.bsky.social @unibonn.bsky.social) published a 40yr record of total water storage anomalies (TWSA), similar to GRACE but from 1984 on. She combined SLR, DORIS and climate data in a new method. zenodo.org/records/1582... doi.org/10.22541/ess...

CRC1502 hosts event of 2025 Birdsall-Dreiss Distinguished Lecture Series, GSA: 📅 June 26, 2025 | 16:15–17:30 📍 University of Bonn, Lecture Hall XVI, Nußallee 17 🌍 Prof. Bayani Cardenas: "Hydrobiogeochemistry of terrestrial-aquatic interfaces from pore to continental scales" See: lnkd.in/e4E-PmWB

DETECT addresses the role of changes in land use and water management on driving climate change. Please check sfb1502.de. The continuation of its work for Europe and a new region in West Africa in a potential second phase have been discussed during the 3rd retreat May 14-15, 2025, in Bad Breisig.

1st African-European Workshop on Land Surface and Climate Change within DETECT took place May 13, 2025 in Bonn. Great presentations and discussions on the mutual couplings between land use and climate change.

New DETECT paper on evaluating precipitation products for water resources hydrologic modeling over Germany by Suad Hammoudeh (www.frontiersin.org/journals/ear...)

New DETECT conference paper by Daniel Caviedes (link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...): Portability of Multiphysics Applications on Heterogeneous Modular Supercomputers

New DETECT paper in GMD by Christian Poppe (gmd.copernicus.org/articles/18/...) Systematic underestimation of type-specific ecosystem process variability in the Community Land Model v5 over Europe

DETECT paper by Magdalena Kracheletz agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... Would the 2021 Western Europe Flood Event Be Visible in Satellite Gravimetry?

New DETECT paper by Dominik Behrend (www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...) Do biopores created by perennial fodder crops improve the growth of subsequent annual crops? A synthesis of multiple field experiments

New DETECT data paper by Josef Baumert: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... A dataset of yearly probabilistic crop type maps for the EU from 1990 to 2018

New paper by DETECT researcher Makan Karegar (@makankaregar.bsky.social‬): how consecutive droughts affect relative sea level rise