New focus collection in Environmental Research Letters #ERL on "Initial and Enduring Environmental Consequences of Armed Conflict"
Please send expressions of interest to the #ERL mailbox by 28 February 2026: erl@ioppublishing.org โบ๏ธ
๐ Find the full scope here: iopscience.iop.org/collections/...
I was happily surprised that our new Comment, โThe Responsible Use of Global Remote-Sensing Datasetsโ is out this week in Nature Ecology and Evolution. I want to thank the editors at @springernature.com for the holiday gift of speed! Please DM me if you would like a copy of the article.
Same here
Right! Of 770,000 tons of rice imported, only 100,000 tons are for human consumption
Interesting report. But, as far as I know, Japanese strongly prefer Japanese rice. This stems from their belief in the superior quality of local rice and the strong influence of the Japan Agricultural Cooperatives, which restrict importsโcontributing to the recent rice crisis in Japan.
This image features part of Bolivia. This vibrant image was created using the radar instrumentโs different polarisation channels, with each colour revealing distinct characteristics of the landscape. For instance, green hues mainly represent rainforest, red hues forested floodplains and wetlands, and blueโpurple is indicative of grasslands, while black areas are rivers and lakes. The image spans approximately 90 km along the Biomass satellite's flight path (length) and 60 km across in width, with north oriented to the right.
๐ The first stunning images from our groundbreaking #Biomass satellite mission have been released โ they mark a major leap forward in our ability to understand how Earthโs forests are changing and exactly how they contribute to the global carbon cycle ๐ณ๐
www.esa.int/Applications...
Bad papers can do more harm than none...
Definitely quality > quantity. But the challenge lies in how to evaluate 'quality'. I've come across poorly written papers in top journals and seen poor papers get significant citations.
This is a very timely article. Pray for Landsat Next!
A final farewell to Landsat 7. Farewell to the scan line errorsโฆ but gratitude for the improved thermal band and better spatial coverage. You served us well, thank you! ๐๐๐
www.usgs.gov/landsat-miss...
Good Intentions Are Not Enough:
Land-use spillovers from environmental policy interventions ๐๐ doi.org/10.1016/j.gl...
Savanna/woodland in the Brazilian Cerrado (Photo T Kuemmerle).
"[T]he Humboldtian, Eurocentric perception of forests as the ideal natural state persists, [...] at the expense of grasslands and other open ecosystems."
Nature conservation policies are biased toward forests and neglect grassy ecosystems worldwide | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
๐ณ๐ฐ๏ธ Our groundbreaking Biomass satellite lifted off on Vega-C #VV26 from Europeโs Spaceport in French Guiana at 10:15 BST/11:15 CEST on 29 April. The satellite is designed to provide unprecedented insights into the worldโs forests and their crucial role in Earthโs carbon cycle.
It's important that science continues, now more than ever. Hence I am happy to share our recent paper which shows the slowing of post-mortality forest recovery @natplants.nature.com. With great colleagues including @smmunson.bsky.social @wmhammond.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
๐ฃIn our new paper we analyzed the impact of #Landsat and #Sentinel-2 ๐ฐ๏ธ #satellite data density and SMA endmembers on trends in #grasslands ground cover:
- for monthly composites data density is irrelevant
- correct endmember definitions are criticalโผ๏ธ
Check out the full paper tinyurl.com/wha6pzax
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๐จ Fresh off the press in #RSE: D. Klehr's first #PhD chapter ๐ presents a new approach to surpass classification of tree species for large areas ๐ฐ๏ธ๐ณ๐ฒ. We pair #Sentinel2 #EarthObservation with #ANN #AI models to predict sub-pixel tree species! #OpenAccess: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Job announcement! Come work with us as Assoc Sr Lecturer in Earth and Env Data Science at U of Gothenburg, Sweden. Tenure track for someone with broad remote sensing & machine learning knowledge. Work with climate change, Earth systems, biodiversity, #EO, #UAV... Deadline 10 May tinyurl.com/58ft38du
๐ฃOur global ๐ overview of usable Landsat and Sentinel-2 ๐ฐ๏ธ data now comprises also information from 2024!
The complete 1982-2024 dataset can be browsed via a #GEE app: tinyurl.com/322e63p2 and downloaded from here:
doi.org/10.5061/drya...
Observations from 3 #Sentinel2 satellites! Increased revisit frequency. Terrific news!
โThis configuration will enhance the availability of Sentinel-2 data, with additional Sentinel-2 observations on the same relative orbit, occurring 2 days apart from Sentinel-2B and 1 day apart from Sentinel-2C.โ
Berlin is a wonderful place to liveโIโve always considered it my second home. The Geography department at @humboldtuni.bsky.social is especially strong, and you can work with many AMAZING colleagues there!
How can AI for #EarthObservation deliver for social good? Read our recent #openaccess IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine article, co-authored by @hostertp.bsky.social and @philrufin.bsky.social!
ESA has granted Sentinel-2A a one-year exceptional and temporary extension, delaying its retirement and increasing Sentinel-2 revisit times.
europeanspaceflight.com/sentinel-2a-...
The progress flag in the shape of a shield against an outdoorsy background, titled "Pride guidelines: pointers for research that is inclusive, diverse, and equitable for LGBTQ+ fieldworkers"
New LGBTQ+ science resources! Today, weโre excited to share our PRIDE Guidelines for LGBTQ+ inclusive field work at inclusivefieldwork.leeds.ac.uk/pride. Please share widely and see the thread below for more details ๐งช๐๐
Two professor positions open at Humboldt University Berlin:
๐น Human Geography: haushalt-und-personal.hu-berlin.de/de/personal/...
๐น Physical Geography: haushalt-und-personal.hu-berlin.de/de/personal/...
6-week application deadline. Please share!
Are you a postdoc working on global environmental change? Apply for the new #TenureTrack professorship on #Geography of #Global Environmental Change and join us at the Geography Department of Humboldt-University Berlin! @humboldtuni.bsky.social
--> hu.berlin/GeographyGEC
๐ ๐ ๐ We're hiring! Seeking a NASA-funded postdoc/PhD candidate to use #RemoteSensing and #machinelearning, particularly #deeplearning to study disaster impacts on #AgriculturalLand. Please share! www.senslandlab.com/opportunitie...
In these dark times, another sober reminder this @nytimes.com oped how war is destroying our #environment that not only directly impact human health and ecosystems we depend on from these toxic remnants of war, but also future generations.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/o...
Two recent papers show how richer countries tend to export some environmental harms, inc. biodiversity loss
๐ and www.theguardian.com/environment/...
This is just one of many cities in China that have their city walls demolished. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese...
Photograph of smallholder farmer presenting seeds in her hand.
Commercial very-high-resolution satellite imagery is crucial for monitoring smallholder farming systems (SDG 2), but paywalls block innovation and progress.
We call for open access to these data for sustainability-centered research in @pnas.org!
Read the full text here: doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
