🚀 Exciting update! The GeoAI Python package is getting even smarter — soon it will support AI agents. That means you’ll be able to use natural language to effortlessly download, analyze, and visualize geospatial data 🌍🤖 Stay tuned for the upcoming release! 🔗 GitHub: github.com/opengeos/geoai

Just spent some time digging through old Maxar/DigitalGlobe blogs to find a reference image and found this incredible capture of Mt Fuji. Incredible. The satellite was only three degrees above the horizon when it captured this image. blog.maxar.com/earth-intell...

As the giant #Antarctic iceberg #A23a is currently breaking apart, we created a video about its dance in the water in the last year, including spinning in a Taylor column! Even though A23a is not sea ice, the microwave signature is similar and it shows up in our data! Can you spot it in the video?

#USGS #CorridorMappingTeam - #Ungulate #Migrations of #West - tinyurl.com/2tt37swu - doi.org/10.3133/sir2... - #GIS #spatial #mapping #USWest #route #ecosystems #wildlife #publicland #privateland #opendata #fedopendata #fedscience #tracking #GPS #seasonal #habitat #protection #management #USFWS

Nice to wake up to some weird magnoliid action this morning. Here is a flowering Eupomatia bennettii (small bolwarra) in our dry rainforest garden.

Good on the NSW EPA! “The alleged offences include failing to properly search for and identify glider den trees before logging, failing to replace hollow-bearing … trees that were damaged or felled, and damaging the habitat of a threatened species.” 🧪 www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

Parts of South Australia, especially around Adelaide - home to the Australian Space Agency - continue to be affected by an ongoing microalgae bloom. Algal blooms are a natural phenomena, but this one has lingered for months. (Pic: chlorophyll concentration from #Copernicus Sentinel-3 on 13 August)

🤔 We’re collecting cool datasets to show on OpenDroneMap.org, but it also might be useful to have a sentence from you on how you use OpenDroneMap and how it has effected you in your industry. How has OpenDroneMap changed / improved / supported what you do in your sector? 🤔

Biggest snow fall in decades here in Armidale NSW. We usually get an occasional flurry that doesn't settle. Heavy snow fell all day, around 40cm+ in drifts around our yard. Lots of fun, but also lots of trees cracking and falling, not used to the weight. Some birds struggling to fly!

We would like to thank Professor Michael Calver as he steps down as the #PacificConsBio Editor-in-Chief after 15 years of service! From cover to cover, your work has left a lasting impression, thank you for your unbinding commitment! You’ve always had the write stuff! @CSIROpublishing.bsky.social

1/ Working with big data in R? Your wrangling just got a massive upgrade. duckplyr is now in the tidyverse—and it’s fast. Really fast. 🧵

🆕 The first stunning images from our groundbreaking #Biomass satellite mission have been released – they mark a major leap forward in our ability to understand how Earth’s forests are changing and exactly how they contribute to the global carbon cycle 🌳🌍 www.esa.int/Applications...

🚀 Exciting news! The #GeoAI Python package now lets you train land cover classification models with just one line of code. Leverage any PyTorch segmentation model from smp.readthedocs.io — with hundreds of image encoders & pretrained weights available.

I am pleased to announce the release of PDAL 2.9.0 github.com/PDAL/PDAL/re... Goodies include GDAL VSI support by Norman Barker, FileSpec support by Thomas Swamy, filters.supervoxel by Bram Ton, SPZ read/write, `ogr` option for filtering, and greatly enhanced readers.tindex support by Isaac Bell.

Great Poster session! It was great discussions biodiversity conservation in African rainforest with all of you. And I look forward to developping the ideas we shared #ICCB2025 #Brisbane #Australia Thank you to all those who stopp🙏🙏🙏

Thanks to everyone who shared #rstats hex stickers so far at #ICCB2025! Some very cool projects represented here…

Great talk by @drdave.bsky.social at #ICCB2025 Exploring connectivity, patch size and how technology can help in our monitoring.

🚨galah 2.1.2 is on CRAN! 📦 This version fixes a major bug that prevented queries with more complex filters from returning the correct result. It also adds a way to get species conservation status from authoritative lists 🔗 Details: galah.ala.org.au/news/index.h... #rstats @rowdynerd.bsky.social 🌏

🚀 Excited to share the draft Table of Contents for my upcoming book, "Introduction to GIS Programming: A Practical #Python Guide to Open Source Geospatial Tools." 📚 github.com/giswqs/intro... 📅 Aiming for a July 2025 release! Stay tuned!

Good news and well done the people behind this. 🧪 #nature @euanritchie.bsky.social cosmosmagazine.com/nature/anima...

This tiny Australian bat is the size of a matchbox. But it flies up to 150km a night in search of food

The scale of the Mid North Coast floods is staggering. This ESA Sentinel-1 radar image, from yesterday, shows the extent of the flooding. The blue areas are where rivers have swollen and spilled onto floodplains, particularly around Taree and Kempsey. Stay safe everyone. #NSWfloods #Australia

We've done it 🥳 Finally, there's a canonical paper on the #qgis project, its history, workings, and challenges: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666389925001138 Thanks to @timlinux and @mbernasocchi for joining me in trying to tell the QGIS story 💚 #osgeo #gischat #giscience

Three hours north of Brisbane, a group of greater gliders is living in a section of the St Mary State Forest set to be logged, despite them being a protected species.

🌿 Introducing Leafmap's new sidebar widget for MapLibre! 🔹 Easily add custom widgets like legends, colorbars, images, videos, HTML, and ipywidgets. 🔹 Dynamically adjust the sidebar width for optimal space. 🔹 Manage layer visibility and opacity effortlessly. github.com/opengeos/lea...

Choose Science. Choose Europe. A new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open. With a budget of €404.3 million, it will support around 1,650 researchers from Europe and beyond. Apply by 10 September → europa.eu/!fBTMgF

Landsat could use your support. The mission's 50+ year data continuity is at risk. If you believe contacting elected representatives does anything, now would be a good time to apply pressure. 🛰️📡

🌍🛰️How cool is this⬇️ ☂️Watch as our Biomass's antenna deploys in space! Following liftoff, orbital injection acquisition of its first signal and satellite in-orbit checks, the successful deployment of Biomass’ mesh antenna reflector marks the final key step in the launch and early operations phase.

I had serious FOMO over the long weekend when @lilydun.bsky.social and @jradford-smith.bsky.social headed north to collect more data in scanned forest plots. Thanks to our amazing collaborators ArborMeta for scanning in such awesome places! 🧵 #lidar #TLS #FunctionalTraits #rainforest

The next exciting instalment from @jradford-smith.bsky.social on how climate filters rainforest tree strategies in the Australian subtropics. Now available in early view at @ecography.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/ecog...

You should be eligible for a JE vaccination given you work in a high mosquito activity area https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/Infectious/jev/Pages/vaccination.aspx

Good post @libbydeq.bsky.social . First time I’ve had a bow wave in a vehicle driving up hill on bitumen in the middle of a town. Yeeehahahh!

Australia’s Kimberley region houses some of the country’s most botanically diverse ecosystems: monsoon rainforest patches. Although they’ve been harvested and cared for by First Nations groups for millennia, the patches remain largely unsurveyed by modern science as access is difficult.

Going to be an interesting week here in eastern Australia with Cyclone Alfred sitting just off the coast. Expected to cross on Thursday as a cat 2 storm. Swells could get to nearly 8 meters and strong winds. Stay safe, everyone! 🍃🌊 #CycloneAlfred

It snowed *so* much in Japan while we were there that cars were at risk of being absorbed into the earth after only 2 days of snowfall ☃️🌨️

Amazing achievement from iNaturalist! Also really proud that our SINR species range estimation models serve as the underlying technology for this. Spatial Implicit Neural Representations for Global-Scale Species Mapping arxiv.org/abs/2306.02564

So what's GeoDeep? Just a bit of object detection and segmentation:

Gorgeous morning in the Vic alps. The Bogong high plains had it all, flocks of gang gangs, summer snow falls and good views.

If you've ever been frustrated by trying to access data from satellites like #Landsat or #Sentinel2, tune into our very first #OpenDataCube community talk next week by Caitlin Adams: how to easily load satellite data for anywhere on the planet using the #OpenSource #odcstac Python package! 🛰️🚀

Had a great time at #ESAus2024 poster night! Lots of discussions about architectural and functional traits, sparking new ideas for my PhD. Thanks to everyone who stopped by! 🌱✨

Australia's Threatened Ecological Communities receive less attention than Threatened Species. Public knowledge and understanding of TECs often a major threat, especially for TECs that mostly exist on private land, but is rarely considered in conservation advice theconversation.com/scientists-c...

It’s been a while since posting about our research, so here’s a short thread on a recent paper we published! 1/7 🧪🪶🌿 Rufous scrub-birds are a cryptic bird of east Australian forests - we wanted to work out a suitable approach to monitor them! zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🔥 in Ecology Letters 🔥 #Traits describing hydraulic strategies and deciduousness explain the occurrence trends of almost 300 #rainforest #tree species across a steep rainfall gradient in Australia. #FunctionalTraits dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele....

The blue banded bee was named Australia’s Insect of the Year! 🐝 Resharing this #dataviz from a few months ago to celebrate 🥳 Blue banded bees are buzz pollinators, vibrating loudly to loosen pollen. They’re a loud but welcome friend in any garden 🧪🌏🪲🇦🇺 #rstats

#Dronemapping #IOTD SW Yanooa (Pelorus) Reef captured at 20m altitude with a Phantom 4 Pro. Great Barrier Reef

How cool are structure-from-motion point clouds! Crazy that something so detailed can be created from regular drone photographs. This is a model of some old subtropical rainforest in south east Queensland #hooppines #rainforest

Bougainville is such a beautiful island! Lovely people, forests and birds.