Peter Scarth

Spiritual shopping, Anthony Bourdain and the fragility of 'home' Where are we?

My daughter's first Substack post - In our modern world of "spiritual shopping," many of us are engaged in a restless search for belonging—a symptom of cultural homelessness in a society that commodifies meaning but offers no real home.

open.substack.com/pub/amitydel...

The #EUGW team had a blast at @esa.int's #LPS25 this week❗

We are grateful for the insightful discussions, new connections, and shared passion for #EO and land monitoring 🌱

A big thank you to everyone who attended our presentation, we appreciate your interest and enthusiasm 🌾

Announcement for upcoming Earth Observation Lab contribution at living planet symposium 2025: Schwieder et al.:Evaluating Grassland Mowing Detection Algorithms Across Europe - Results of the Mowing Detection Intercomparison Exercise (MODCiX) Session: A.02.07 Monitoring grasslands and rangelands from space - PART 1 Where: Room 1.34 When: Friday 27.06.25 / 08:30 h

Announcement for upcoming Earth Observation Lab contribution at living planet symposium 2025: Harkort et al.: Mapping Fractional Vegetation Cover in Sub-Saharan Rangelands Using Phenological Feature Spaces Session: A.02.07 Monitoring grasslands and rangelands from space - PART 2 Where: Room 1.34 When: Friday 27.06.25 / 11:30 h

Don’t miss EOLab’s contributions to #LPS25 Session A.02.07 - Monitoring Grasslands and Rangelands from Space

Part 1 with Dr. Marcel Schwieder at 8:30
Part 2 with @lasseharkort.bsky.social at 11:30

See you at Room 1.34!

For those who don't know it yet. There is a feed for Living Planet. You can pin it to your start page. This makes it easy to follow activities around ESA Living Planet.
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#LPS25 | #EsaLivingPlanet | #LivingPlanetSymposium
#EarthObservation #RemoteSensing

New release of Moamosaic (1.0.1) | UBARSC - The UB&A Remote Sensing Centre ubarsc.github.io/update/2025/...

Some #ESA #sentinel2 data showing the floodwaters in the outback - this extract covers Noccundra and Thargominda in the north to the Queensland NSW border in the south.

MODIS water index showing the extent of the following in Western Queensland

The scale of the flooding in Western Queensland is phenomenal.
Here's a mosaic of MODIS TERRA imagery for 2025-04-04 with water extent in blue and a 600km scale bar for comparison.

No it's a 500 X 500km area about 1000km West of Brisbane. The western side of it is currently covered in flood waters so it was a bit hard to get out there for field work.

Satellite Time Series mapping of land condition indicators across southwest Queensland, Australia

I've been road-testing some #RemoteSensing #LandCondition indicators in #QLD:
🔴 RESTREND (decreasing groundcover relative to rainfall)
🟢 Annual vs Perennial grass (dominance of annuals)
🔵 Landscape Function Index (cover resilience)
Brighter colour combinations = reduced #LandscapeFunction

Amping up soil carbon: soil carbon stocks in California rangelands under adaptive multi-paddock and conventional grazing management Adaptive multi-paddock (AMP) grazing is gaining attention for its potential to increase soil organic carbon (SOC), yet its efficacy on arid and semi-arid rangelands remains debated. Given the adapt...

🚨The last chapter of my dissertation is FINALLY out after 5 years in the making! 👀

How does #AMP #grazing impact #soil organic #carbon in CA #rangelands? I collected 1440 soil samples across AMP + conventional ranches in CA to find out

(open access)
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Knowledge is never knowing the answer. It’s knowing the territory.

Dollars in the dust: Is outback scrub really saving the planet? The nation has made a multi-billion dollar bet that carbon locked in desert scrub will offset emissions elsewhere, but doubters are growing from scientists in the city to the farmers on the land.

"Dollars in the dust: Is outback scrub really saving the planet?"

The Age newspaper uses drone and multi-temporal satellite imagery to visually tell a (paywalled) story about carbon dynamics in outback Australia.

www.theage.com.au/interactive/...

RIOS 2.0.5, with single-pass stats & pyramids | UBARSC - The UB&A Remote Sensing Centre ubarsc.github.io/update/2024/...

Foliage Cover over Australia Ozius Biome - Biome 3D Vegetation Structure 2020

Starting my posts here with a pretty (to me :) map of the first three PLS components of fractional cover time series against soil carbon plots, capturing the contrast between Mitchell Grass, Spinifex, and the Mount Isa Inlier. Next step: pump this through the brilliant www.pyshepseg.org library