The global bimonthly 30m GPP product (2000-2024) is now ready for use (landcarbonlab.org/insights/glo...); available on GEE, STAC... so proud of the @opengeohub.bsky.social and @worldresources.bsky.social & colleagues! 📝 doi.org/10.7717/peer... 🖥️ stac.openlandmap.org/gpw_ugpp.dai...

White et al. Enhanced forest inventories in Canada: implementation, status, and research needs. #EFI ➡️ Airborne Laser Scanning (ALS) is operational for forest inventory in Canada enabling EFIs. ➡️ Coverage exceeds 66% of Canada’s managed forest area (~230 million ha). #lidar 🔗 doi.org/10.1139/cjfr...

NEW PAPER 📣 Temporally Consistent Forest Stand Segmentation using Landsat Imagery dx.doi.org/10.1109/LGRS... 📖: Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters ✍️: Ye, Coops, Hermosilla @txominhermos.bsky.social, Wulder @mikewulder.bsky.social, Gergel #Segmentation #ChangeDetection #Landsat #ubcforestry

We have a #Tansley review out today @newphyt.bsky.social led by Becky Banbury Morgan in which we put forward a new framework that aims to explain how and why edge effects on forest structure vary across ecosystems and through time 📜 doi.org/10.1111/nph....

#Silvilaser2025 schedule & program are now online! 🥳 Check out the line up of workshops, speakers, field tour & social events! 👉 www.silvilaser2025.com/program Which plenary session are you most looking forward to?! Registration for extra activities closes Sep 10 📍 Quebec City Convention Centre

Congratulations again and again and again to Dr. Ramon Melser! (@ramonmelser.bsky.social) He joins the wall after successfully defending his thesis: “Enhanced assessment of boreal vegetation productivity using integrated satellite-derived datasets and analysis approaches.” #IRSSLab #UBCForestry

NEW PAPER 📣 𝑅𝑒𝑠𝑝𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑙 𝑖𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑐𝑒𝑠 𝑡𝑜 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑑𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑑𝑖𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑟 𝑏𝑦 𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑒 𝑠𝑖𝑧𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝐷𝑜𝑢𝑔𝑙𝑎𝑠-𝑓𝑖𝑟 #OpenAccess 🔓 doi.org/10.1016/j.sr... 📖: Science of Remote Sensing ✍️: Waite, Coops, Grubinger, Isaac-Renton, Degner, King and Liu #remotesensing #ubcforestry #irsslab #LiDAR #multispectral #drought

Check out this innovative work in Forestry: Yrttimaa et al. Quantifying architectural uniqueness of Scots pine trees using terrestrial laser scanning: toward individual tree fingerprinting. #lidar #tls academic.oup.com/forestry/art...

Fantastic! Our paper made the list! Development and implementation of a stand-level satellite-based forest inventory for Canada. #SBFI academic.oup.com/forestry/art... Check out the link below for collection of High-Impact Research from Forestry 👇👇

Work hard, play hard! 🌲✨ The #IRSSLab just wrapped up our annual summer retreat. This week away gave lab members the chance to share research updates, pick up new skills from colleagues and guests, and, of course, enjoy some much-needed R&R! #UBCForestry #remotesensing

Happy to be part of the team led by Martin Schwartz (@lsce-ipsl.bsky.social) behind our new publication: “Retrieving yearly forest growth from satellite data: A deep learning based approach.” 📖 Published in Remote Sensing of Environment: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 1/4

Our new paper is out in Forest Ecology and Management! Utilizing data from multiple forest inventory programs, we created 35 spatially complete estimates of forest structure and composition across the coastal regions of Alaska and British Columbia. 🌍🌐 authors.elsevier.com/a/1kgiv1L%7E...

Canada's Satellite-Based Forest Inventory uses image segmentation to create stand-level maps for forest science & monitoring, including tree species & biomass. #SBFI Paper: doi.org/10.1093/fore... Download data opendata.nfis.org/mapserver/nf... Data on #GEE: gee-community-catalog.org/projects/ca_...

NEW PAPER 📣 Estimating 3D individual tree crown growth using multi-temporal LiDAR doi.org/10.1080/2150... 📖: Remote Sensing Letters ✍️: McGlade (jamesmcglade.bsky.social‬) & Coops @forestry.ubc.ca #remotesensingn#ubcforestryr#irsslaba#LiDARA#ALSL#randomforests#alphashapepe

treecbh: a new R package for crown base height (CBH) detection using aerial laser-scanned data in broad leaved forests 🌳 Diószegi et al. develop a workflow that automates and optimises CBH detection in already segmented individual trees. 🗞️ doi.org/10.1093/fore... 🔧 github.com/DijoG/treecbh

A good story about current and historical fire activity in Canada (and the US) though I may be biased thetradeoff.substack.com/p/north-amer...

"AI is not replacing the geographer; it is super-charging the geographer. Geographers are poised to have the biggest impact on communities, businesses, and the planet in decades." Insight from Prof Trisalyn Nelson, Jack & Laura Dangermond Chair of Geography, UCSB. www.independent.com/2025/08/20/g...

Excited to share that I successfully defended my PhD dissertation in Remote Sensing (Forestry) at @forestry.ubc.ca. Thank you to all of my fantastic labmates in the @irssubc.bsky.social, as well as my supervisor, Nicholas Coops, and my research committee for all their support.

I am excited to share that I am a Guest Editor for this Special Issue of Forestry @forestryoup.bsky.social for #Silvilaser2025! Be sure to get your submissions in and feel free to DM me if you have any questions. 👋 Please share to let your colleagues know about this great publishing opportunity!

Having a great time at the #IRSSlab retreat 2025 @ Cowichan Lake!🫶 Thanks to all who demo’d the Outdoors Tips & Tricks!🔨 @la-stack.bsky.social with the #Trimble, @jamesmcglade.bsky.social with the the #GeoSlam & Liam with PostEx👏 @irssubc.bsky.social @forestry.ubc.ca @metafor-ulaval.bsky.social

Members from the IRSS attended the #WIRED2025 symposium to present their research on overhead power lines across forested landscapes, as well as engage with industry and project participants. Wonderful work from James (@jamesmcglade.bsky.social), Eliceo and Celine! #IRSSlab #ubcforestry

We tested ways to improve Canada’s National Forest Inventory (#NFI) estimates by integrating #Landsat derived #landcover data. Combining sample-based plots with wall-to-wall maps boosted estimation efficiency and helped track tree cover change. #OpenAccess #NTEMS Baral et al. doi.org/10.1139/cjfr...

Reminder: We have a call for papers for a new Special Issue with @silvilaser2025.bsky.social SilviLaser 2025: Laser scanning applications in forest management ⏰ Submission deadline: 30th November 2025 More information here👇 academic.oup.com/forestry/pag...

🌳🔥Out now: Our review on compound droughts and forest responses - from leaf to ecosystem. Featuring a stunning 20-yr map of canopy temperatures variation across European forests. @chriswernerlab.bsky.social @simonhaber.bsky.social @vallicrosah.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Really excited to share our new paper on #causalinference & #climatechange attribution out in #EcologyLetters today! Are you asking "how much" or "if" climate change has impacted your system, then this paper is for you! 🧪🌏🌐🍁🌺🌱🌿 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

New publishing options in @canjforestres.bsky.social! Submit a Data Paper to share your dataset—or a Methods Paper to explain a new technique. For more information ▶️ buff.ly/FBRmkG6 #ForestResearch #AcademicSky #SciComm 🧪

We showed how #lidar based #biomass models can be calibrated between leaf-on and leaf-off conditions using an empirical ratio estimator: doi.org/10.1080/2279...

Farewell #Landsat 7, our use of 5TB of Landsat 5&7 & AI algos a few yrs back for surface #water and #flooding dynamics at subcontinental scale was a highlight: landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/article/thir... earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/88292... landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/article/a-fi...

Thrilled to see this paper - helmed by @lucaskjohnson03.bsky.social - out in Remote Sensing of Environment! Lucas walks through methods for quantifying uncertainty in aboveground biomass estimates for small areas, relevant to the scales management happens over www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Me and Nicholas Coops! 😎 Invited to participate in @irssubc.bsky.social lab retreat at Cowichan Lake Research Station. Forests and remote sensing, so much great science in IRSS!

🔥 Hot off the press ! 🔥 Originally “sparked” from a conversation between @sarahmccg.bsky.social , Luke Collins , @brian-j-harvey.bsky.social , Meg Krawchuk and I. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Waite et al. (2025) find that heat & drought affect Douglas‑fir red‑edge spectral indices differently by tree size—mature trees show steeper red‑edge declines mid‑drought than saplings. #UAV #Lidar #multispectral #openaccess doi.org/10.1016/j.sr...

The #Landsat program is arguable THE most important satellite mission for ecology, land-system science and sustainability science (and many other fields). It must stay science-oriented. Open access is crucial. Independent oversight crucial to Landsat Next | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

We tested ways to improve Canada’s National Forest Inventory (#NFI) estimates by integrating #Landsat derived #landcover data. Combining sample-based plots with wall-to-wall maps boosted estimation efficiency and helped track tree cover change. #OpenAccess #NTEMS Baral et al. doi.org/10.1139/cjfr...

Job Alert! We are hiring a new PhD candidate to work with me and @louiseterryn.bsky.social on multitemporal terrestrial laser scanning for better understanding forest structural dynamics at @qforestlab.bsky.social . More info ➡️ bit.ly/449NunA Apply here ➡️ bit.ly/3I5AnMP Application deadline: Aug 3

🚀 Our new letter in Science. 🛰️ A proven formula: #Landsat’s success shows that commercial innovation, paired with public oversight, ensures continuity, #openaccess, and lasting public value in Earth observation. @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Remembering its quarter-century of faithful Earth observation, the USGS and NASA have announced the decommissioning of Landsat 7 from active service. Landsat 8 and Landsat 9 continue to collect images every day. Read more about Landsat 7: ow.ly/nz9k50W5CAQ

Issue is now resolved, good news! Thanks for dealing with and keeping the #HLS data stream active! Harmonized Landsat Sentinel 2 is such a critical piece of data infrastructure.

Having trouble accessing Harmonized #Landsat #Sentinel2 data? The LP DAAC is experiencing an Unplanned Data Outage. Started on June 1, 2025. #HLS Follow here for info and updates: www.earthdata.nasa.gov/data/alerts-...

👀👀 "The #Landsat Next project is currently assessing alternate mission architectures to support more affordable ways to maintain the continuity of Landsat imagery per the language in the FY26 President’s Budget Request (PBR). Updates will be forthcoming." landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/satellites/l...

🚀 Our new letter in Science. 🛰️ A proven formula: #Landsat’s success shows that commercial innovation, paired with public oversight, ensures continuity, #openaccess, and lasting public value in Earth observation. @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Seasonal #wildfire psa: Recall that initial burned area numbers are based on lower spatial resolution data and spatial modeling. The mapping is aimed to inform on where wildfires are active, aiding suppression activities and supporting community safety. 1/2

NEW! Title captures science well. 👇 Ye et al. A multi-resolution forest stand segmentation algorithm integrating Landsat imagery and forest structural, age, and species attributes. @irssubc.bsky.social #Landsat #landcover #NTEMS #OpenAccess: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Are you working on #Landsat or #Sentinel2 for mapping change or attributes (#landcover, #biomass, #species) over large areas and long time periods? So many options! We share the science behind the National Terrestrial Ecosystem Monitoring System (#NTEMS) here: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

🌐 Introducing GRIT: the First Global Bifurcating River Network 🏞 developed by Michel Wortmann as part of the NERC Large Grant EvoFLOOD, in the Hydro-Climate Extremes group @oxfordgeography.bsky.social

Stability of biophysical products indicates can quantify the physical response of vegetation to climate variability, disturbances & regeneration. 🏆 Djamai et al. On the consistency and stability of vegetation biophysical variables retrievals from #Landsat 8/9 and #Sentinel2. doi.org/10.1016/j.is...

Ma et al. Satellite canopy water content from #Sentinel2, #Landsat 8 and MODIS: Principle, algorithm and assessment. -sensor independent algorithm for CWC from optical satellites is developed. #PROSAIL -ground validation, inter-comparison at different scales is conducted. doi.org/10.1016/j.rs...

💥NEW POSTDOC POSITION💥 at #SmartForest at #NIBIO in Ås, Norway 📍 Full-time, 3-year position are you into #ComputerVision for sustainable #ForestManagement? 📆 Apply by June 8, 2025 Apply here 👉 www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... #PanopticSegmentation #MachineLearning #DeepLearning #AIforNature

NEW ARTICLE OUT @forestecosyst.bsky.social The origin and beginnings of modern Continuous Cover Forestry in Europe www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A further paper out this week! This time in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social - we detail a new leaf-wood classification method for terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) data, making use of co-registered near-infrared photography: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...