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Water quality from space 🌊

Two early career scientists present research on chlorophyll-a, suspended solids & seagrass monitoring using EO data at the upcoming GEO AquaWatch Water Talks.

Strong science, relevant topics – worth tuning in 👇

#RemoteSensing #WaterQuality #EarthObservation

GEO AquaWatch's logo on a blue background with the words Plenary Speaker March 19th 12:00 UTC Ghada El Serafy GEO AquaWatch Director, Deltares. Water Quality Global Earth Observations and GEO AquaWatch.

🧪🛰️💧📅19 Mar ⏰ 12:00-14:00 UTC
📣💦🌊💧Join us for the 3rd Annual Water Talks Webinar! Hear Dr. El Serafy's talk at 12:00 UTC + more
#earlycareer #globalsouth #waterquality #earthobservation

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Read Abstracts and find meeting link here: www.geoaquawatch.org/future-geo-a...

GEO AquaWatch logo on a blue background with a photo of Mar Roca Mora and the words: Keynote Speaker March 19th 13:15 UTC Mar Roca Mora Spanish National Research Council. Assessing water quality impacts on submerged Seagrasses using EO data.

🧪🛰️💧📅19 Mar ⏰ 12:00-14:00 UTC
📣💦🌊💧Join us for the 3rd Annual Water Talks Webinar! Hear Ms. Roca's talk at 13:15 UTC
#earlycareer #globalsouth #waterquality #earthobservation

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Read Abstracts and find meeting link here: www.geoaquawatch.org/future-geo-a...

GEO AquaWatch Logo on a light blue background and a photo of Beatriz Silva Fernandes. The words Keynote Speaker March 19th 12:30 UTC, Beatriz Silva Fernandes Universidade Federal De Sao Paulo, Remote Sensing Assessment of Chlorophyll a and Suspended Solids in the Channels of the Santos Estuary, Sao Paulo, Brazil.

🧪🛰️💧📅19 Mar ⏰ 12:00-14:00 UTC
📣💦🌊💧Join us for the 3rd Annual Water Talks Webinar! Hear Ms. Fernandes talk at 12:30 UTC
#earlycareer #globalsouth #waterquality #earthobservation

Please share with your network!
Read Abstracts and find meeting link here: www.geoaquawatch.org/future-geo-a...

A record-breaking #phytoplankton bloom formed an elliptical ring around Chatham Island in Jan 2026. Sentinel-3 captured the structure 90 minutes before the widely shared NASA/VIIRS image. The bloom reached its peak in at least a decade. Check out our new #BCEarthGallery blog post:
👉 bit.ly/40zm9tI

Volcanoes as cloud factories:
Morning heating, rising moist air, and volcanic slopes – the perfect setup for small cumulus clouds. ☁️
Sentinel-3 captured this orographic cloud formation over Java, Bali, Lombok & Sumbawa – stretching nearly 1,200 km.
Check out our new #BCEarthGallery:
👉 bit.ly/4tNadC0

Two icebergs grounded near #Antarctica appeared to be racing eastward. But they weren't moving at all. Drift ice flowing west created the illusion. Sentinel-2 reveals what is really happening. We traced one of them back to Clarke Glacier. 🧊 Visit our new #BCEarthGallery article:
👉 bit.ly/4l307ct

New #BCEarthGallery blog post! Shūrehzār-e Mehragān (southern Iran) only fills after rare heavy rainfall. In Dec 2025, the lake expanded to ~200 km². NIR reveals rapid algae bloom development. Anthropogenic semicircles (~150 m diameter) surround the lake. Read more here:
👉 bit.ly/4bT3HDi

Thank you, András!

A striking cloud formation over Lake Baikal: cold air flowing out of a river valley meets warmer, moist air, creating wave-like oscillations in the lower troposphere – and a cloud formation resembling a fluffy dandelion.Check it out in our new #BCEarthGallery blog post!
👉 bit.ly/4ahjUQ7

Earth Observation meets in-situ biodiversity monitoring As a leader of the Work Package 6: “Dissemination, Multi-stakeholder outreach and synergies,” Pensoft is tasked to build an involved community around OBSGESSION.

ℹ️ You can find a brief overview for @obsgession.eu & its goals on the @pensoft.net blog: blog.pensoft.net/2024/02/19/e...

Cc: @mariahallfors.bsky.social @syke.fi @biologylu.bsky.social @w-u-r.bsky.social @cnrs.fr @cnrsecologie.bsky.social @brockmannconsult.bsky.social @unepwcmc.bsky.social

Satellite time series reveal the awakening of Haili-Gubbi (Ethiopia): no activity for years, then gas emissions, magma intrusion from Erta Ale, and a brief but intense Plinian eruption in Nov 2025. For the full story, visit our new #BCEarthGallery blog post:
👉 bit.ly/3NBZsSA

#Sentinel2 #Volcanology

Curved surf lines and foam fields off the East Frisian Islands reveal how wind, waves and seabed topography interact. Sentinel-2 scenes highlight how coastal dynamics and seabed structure become visible from space.
#WaddenSea #CoastalDynamics

Find out more in the #BCEarthGallery:
👉 bit.ly/3LMr3zN

Satellite data reveal Jingyu Hu, China’s last mountain lake to be mapped. Its whale-shaped outline, strong salinity contrast and recurring plankton vortex make this lake a unique feature of the Altun Mountains. Read more in our new #BCEarthGallery article:
👉 bit.ly/3Z7pgYY #RemoteSensing

A vast cloud-free region over the Southern Ocean: ~1150 km wide, formed by a strong high-pressure system. Its area is so large that entire Hurricane Melissa and Super Typhoon Fungwong (2025) would have fitted inside it.
Visit our new #BCEarthGallery post:
👉 bit.ly/4qNC17c

Season’s greetings from above the Arctic.
Fractured sea ice and snow-covered terrain in the Nares Strait between Greenland and Ellesmere Island.
Warm wishes to everyone in our community, and thanks for another year of collaboration, curiosity, and shared enthusiasm for Earth observation!

Windstreaks are common on Mars, but rare on Earth. Patagonia is one of those exceptions: dried-out volcanic maars in the Pali-Aike field act as sediment sources, forming long streaks shaped by persistent winds.
Visit the #BCEarthGallery to learn more:
👉 bit.ly/44rt76v
#Geomorphology #RemoteSensing

New #BCEarthGallery blog post: Sentinel-2 reveals impressive internal wave packets in the Celebes Sea, stretching over hundreds of kilometers. Find out what these waves mean for ocean dynamics and navigation:
👉 bit.ly/4psF5Fo
#InternalWaves #CelebesSea #RemoteSensing #Sentinel2 #Oceanography

We will be delivering the next @geoaquawatch.bsky.social webinar on 11 December showing you how #xcube software helps unify and explore fragmented datasets found across platforms and formats.
#datastores #analysisreadydata #interactive

How to join: www.geoaquawatch.org/future-geo-a...

Kerstin Stelzer and Carsten Brockmann are at #IOCS2025 in Darmstadt. Great keynotes and lightning talks so far — the first poster session already started, including our sen2water poster (No. 13).
#OceanColour #RemoteSensing #Copernicus

Supraglacial lakes, rivers, and channels on the 79°N Glacier reveal how surface melt reshapes one of Greenland’s largest ice shelves. A striking “Onion Lake” stands out in recent #Sentinel2 imagery.
Read our new #BCEarthGallery post:
👉 bit.ly/4pEfEAn

#Greenland #RemoteSensing #Glaciers

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: EOTDL: Community Webinar. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. Bring your projects, bring your questions, and help us shape the future of EOTDL during the EOTDL community workshop. Join us for an interactive EOTDL community workshop designed to help you get the ...

We're thrilled to be involved in this ESA project and can't wait to see you tomorrow! Be sure to register for free to the Community Webinar!
👉 bit.ly/43Qnui1

Mysterious Formations in Great Bahama Bank

Our 250𝘁𝗵 #BCEarthGallery post — still amazed by Earth’s artistry! 🌍 🎉
#Sentinel2 reveals mysterious milky-blue swirls on the Great Bahama Bank — a natural artwork still puzzling scientists. 🌊🌀
Beauty and mystery, seen from space. Read the full article:
👉 bit.ly/3JaL9T8

#EarthObservation #FromSpace

New #BCEarthGallery blog post: Exploring Wyoming’s 100-km arc of ancient sand dunes. Sentinel-2 reveals the full dune belt and detailed views of active and dormant formations, striking in imagery.
Read the full post: 👉 bit.ly/3LMOXuE

#Wyoming #SandDunes #RemoteSensing #Sentinel2 #EarthObservation

Interested in lake restoration? Let us share with you our nutrient recovery and reuse solutions. Apply until 30 November to become an "accociate region" of the @horizoneu.bsky.social @ferroproject.bsky.social for 2-year funding enabling you to apply FERRO solutions.
💦 ferroproject.eu/open-call

Severnaya Zemlya Glaciers

High in the Arctic, the glaciers of 𝗦𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘆𝗮 𝗭𝗲𝗺𝗹𝘆𝗮 display banded patterns that record centuries of ice formation and atmospheric dust — a frozen chronicle of climate history, seen from space. Visit our new #BCEarthGallery post:
👉 bit.ly/443pcfN

#Glaciers #Arctic #EarthObservation #Cryosphere

4 weeks left to apply for the @ferroproject.bsky.social funding call to co-develop with the FERRO team a 2-year action plan for #nutrient recovery and reuse in your local (or not!) #eutrophic lake.
#circulareconomy
⛵Apply here by 30 November ferroproject.eu/open-call

From space, the lakes near Bluenose Lake in Nunavut gleam in shades of turquoise and deep blue. Remote yet stable, they offer scientists a rare glimpse into pristine Arctic ecosystems.

Visit our new #BCEarthGallery article:
👉 bit.ly/438EEXM

#Arctic #RemoteSensing #EarthObservation #ClimateScience

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🚀 SNAP v13 released!
Five months after v12 and SNAP’s 10th anniversary, ESA’s Sentinel Applications Platform gets a new major version.
👉 step.esa.int/main/downloa...

Try also SNAPISTA, the interactive environment for SNAP scripting with Python.
👉 bit.ly/3JDriMx

#SNAP #ESA #EO #Copernicus

🚀 xcube v1.12.0 is here! 🎉

Big updates: New xcube DataStore and Server & Viewer features + fixes:

JPEG2000 support, smarter preload handling, improved metadata, and fresh Viewer visuals.

🔗 Learn more:
Documentation: bit.ly/3L8TDuD
GitHub: bit.ly/47qH8Sm

#xcube #Python #OpenSource #EOData