Ignacio Borlaf-Mena

@borlafgis.bsky.social

All of the Jupyter notebooks used in the sessions are available through GitHub here: github.com/isceplus/202... (Note that the OSL online system that we used in the course is operated by ASF and only available during the course, so please don't bother the EarthScope staff with requests for access.)

GitHub - isceplus/2026-isceplus: Contains materials for the 2026 Technical Short Course: InSAR Processing and Analysis (ISCE+)

Contains materials for the 2026 Technical Short Course: InSAR Processing and Analysis (ISCE+) - isceplus/2026-isceplus

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Want to try forest LiDAR but don't know where to start? This new paper by Cushman et al. looks like a good introduction. 🧪🌳🌲https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ecs2.70730

Data characteristics of light detection and ranging (lidar) data represented as (a) point clouds or (b) waveforms; common lidar-derived products describing (c) the canopy and ground height or (d) individual tree woody structure; and (e) an overview of common structural metrics that can be estimated with lidar across different scales, shown above the lidar platforms typically used to derive those metrics. The lidar platforms named at the bottom of each panel indicate the platforms typically capable of producing that data type. The most relevant platform types (ALS, airborne laser scanning; MLS, mobile laser scanning; SLS, spaceborne laser scanning; TLS, terrestrial laser scanning; ULS, unoccupied aerial system laser scanning) for each type of data or application are denoted at the bottom of each panel. Illustration credit: A. Rosen (original digital art).

Fuck I just found out about this: when trying to download a PDF from Taylor&Francis---*ptew*---if you wanna skip their slow and shitty "PDF viewer", scroll to the bottom and below the list of notes/references there's a "Download PDF" link!

Precioso: Bill Swearingen, fundador de SIXCYBER y Python king, tiene un algoritmo que escribe patrones capaces de cegar a las cámaras de seguridad. Para gorras, hoodies, coches, paraguas. “You’re still on video; you’re still recorded, but it doesn’t say, ‘Jim walked by at 11'”

Zack Whittaker@zackwhittaker.com · last mo.

Bill Swearingen spent the past year developing a pattern that can block surveillance camera detections, including vehicles and people. At Def Con, for the first time, he demoed the pattern printed on a car against a Flock camera to prove it works. Ad-blocker bypass: web.archive.org/web/20260810...

'AI does result in deskilling. Some things I’m okay deskilling in, and others I’m not. I’m going to be more intentional with what I hand off to LLMs. I’m no longer handing over the work I’d miss if I forgot how to do it, or anything I’ll ever need to understand, defend, revise and own'

Stephen Turner@stephenturner.us · 2mo ago

How it started 👇... how it's going: blog.stephenturner.us/p/ai-dry-jul... Reflections on trying to go a month without AI. I made it two weeks (sort of).

A float column can hold two different kinds of missing: null for a value that is absent, and NaN for arithmetic that had no valid answer (think 0.0/0.0). Polars keeps them strictly separate.

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