🎉 Congratulations to Jun.-Prof. Dr. María Piquer-Rodríguez @mariapiquerr.bsky.social on receiving the runner-up award for the Rosalind Franklin Award for Scientific Integrity at #FUBerlin! shorturl.at/LBuEn

🎓 Congratulations to Dr. Aldino Rizaldi from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf on successfully defending his PhD thesis at FU Berlin: 🎓 "Deep Learning for 3D Point Clouds: Multimodal and Label-Efficient Learning for Geoscience Applications" 💾🛰️👨‍💻

🎓 Congratulations to Dr. Christopher Schiller from our group on successfully defending his PhD thesis: 🎓 "Towards Operational Large-Scale Forest Disturbance Monitoring in Central Europe Using Sentinel-2 Time Series and Deep Learning Methods" 🌲🛰️👨‍💻

🚲 #Stadtradeln Berlin // City cycling Berlin 🚲 In just 3 weeks, the Geoscience Cyclists biked 11.304 km! 🌍 That's 73 times the length of the Berlin Wall or 1.500 times the distance between the Geocampus in Lanwitz and the main Campus in Dahlem 🚲 Let this be the start of a great biking summer 🚴☀️

🛰️ The Magic/Avalon/Beam Campaign started 🛰️ - and Thomas from our group is in Belgium taking part! We are looking forward to the campaign! Only the weather could be better. It's raining in Belgium. 🌧️ But still, a lot is happening. Have a look at magic.aeris-data.fr/magic-avalon/ 🌈😊🌞

🚲 #Stadtradeln Berlin // City cicling Berlin 🚲 Starting today we are getting on our bikes. In just a few hours the Geoscientists already biked more than 100 km 🥳 Not enrolled jet? You can still join our team, the Geoscience Cyclists: shorturl.at/42rbX 🚴☀️🌍

*** Plot of the week: NO_11 (Østlandet, Norway) *** Do all boreal forests look alike? Definitely not! Each Picea abies plot surprised us in Norway—unique structure, unique story, caught in 3D. 🌲🦌🌲 #TLS #Riegl

*** Plot of the week: LP_16 (La Palma, Canary Islands) *** 🔥🌲 Post-fire regrowth means wild tree shapes and species mixes—scanning the Canary Island pines on La Palma was a 3D treat for tree nerds 🌲🔥 #TLS #Riegl

🚲 Stadtradeln Berlin // City cicling Berlin 🚲 Are you * biking * in Berlin * related to the Geography department at FU? Join our team!! The Geoscience Cyclists shorturl.at/42rbX From 20.05. to 09.06.2026 we are getting on our bikes - for sunny rides and a bike friendly city 🚲☀️🌍 #stadtradeln

How do Satellites 🛰️ help in the global monitoring of fires? 🔥 Have a look at the FIRE COMPASS - FIRE DATA FROM SPACE shorturl.at/xE1fi For students, teachers, researchers and anyone curious to learn more! Authored by Marion Stellmes (@maerien.bsky.social) and Helga Kuechly, published by WWF Germany.

*** Plot of the week: ES_18 (Galicia, Spain) *** Young pine forests can be dense! Compass, tape, and the mighty Riegl helped us through the thickets. 🌲🌲🌲 Worth every step for open 3D data. 💻📊 #TLS #Riegl

Plot of the week: CZ_14 (Czechia) A pure pine plantation—open understory, easy scanning, and the sweetest wild blueberries for the crew! Sometimes, the field’s a treat. 🌲🫐🌲 Interested in 3D forest data? Have a look! #TLS #Riegl

Spring is here — kicking off a new season of data collection on our #sensorfield in Brandenburg 🌱📡 We’re excited for another year of research into seeding and tree growth, powered by high-resolution climate and soil moisture measurements from our sensor network! 🌲🌳🌡️

*** Plot of the week: BB_12 (Brandenburg, Germany) *** Overstory pines tower above, but young Quercus are getting ready to take the forest throne! 🌲🌳🌿 Interested in 3D forest data showing a gradient from Pine to Oak-dominated forests? This dataset is for you 💻📊 #TLS #Riegl

Excited to see this published! 🐄📡 Using GPS tracking, we explore how pastoralists in East Africa navigate resource variability through cattle movements. Great to be part of this work led by Mohamed Shibia 🙂 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #Pastoralism #Livestock #EastAfrica #RemoteSensing

*** Data set alert *** We are excited to share our new 3D forest dataset 🌲🌳🌿💻📊 121 terrestrial laser-scanning plots across Europe, all scanned using the same protocol and scanner! From pines to oaks and spruce, it’s a journey through the continent’s forests in millimeter detail. #TLS #Riegl

👋 Farewell to Prof. Dr. Fabian Faßnacht We say goodbye to @ffassnacht.bsky.social. The past years were filled with fieldwork, international collaborations, and unforgettable excursions. Thank you for your openness, creativity, and the great atmosphere in the group!🙏 All the best at BOKU Vienna!🍀

🎉BREAKING: Die #BerlinUAlliance schreibt Geschichte und wird als erster Verbund für weitere sieben Jahre im Rahmen der #Exzellenzstrategie von Bund und Ländern gefördert! 👉 Mehr erfahren: www.berlin-university-alliance.de/items/2026/2...

Over the past year, we had the chance to take part in an art–science film exploring terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) 🎥🌲. Working with artists Stephen Cornford & Theo Stanley gave us a fresh perspective on how our forest data can be seen and questioned beyond science.

Still want to make cleaning biodiversity data shrimp-ler? 🦐 Good news: We just updated our Cleaning Biodiversity Data in R book, so you still can! We've updated data for 2025, added new content & fixed lots of silly typos 😀 Live the shrimp-le life: cleaning-data-r.ala.org.au #rstats #ecology 🧪🌏

Conference travel award opportunity: Foreign Scholar Travel Award to attend the International Association for Landscape Ecology - North America chapter (IALE-NA) conference in April 2026. www.ialena.org/foreign-scholar-award.html & bit.ly/IALENA-FSTA-.... Apply by Nov. 2, 2025! 🧪🌎

A new semester kicks off this week at Berlin’s universities - back to campus vibes! 🎓✨ Our team is ready for a winter term of teaching GIS & remote sensing at Lankwitz. Wishing students & lecturers alike a semester full of learning, discovery & good energy! 🚀📚🌍 #FreieUniversität #BackToCampus

Great to see so many #PlantScience journals, societies, and institutions here. Tag in if we missed one!

Plant Editors@planteditors.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Thanks, added! go.bsky.app/Q9QiX9C

We were delighted to host a research exchange with colleagues from @CzechGlobe 🇨🇿 in Berlin! 🌍 We discussed forestry-focused remote sensing, explored opportunities for future collaboration, and visited study sites like the #sensorfield in Brandenburg. 🌲📡 Thanks for the great visit! #TeamScience

20 plots, hundreds of #Riegl TLS scans, thousands of berries… 🌲🫐 and a million laughs. Norway field campaign = success! 💪 Now we are back in Berlin and ready to process our data. Shoutout to our amazing field crew: Arvin, Asad, Chiara, Ephraim, Johann, Marius & Miriam! #RonnieRieglOnTour

Our fieldwork is in full go – our team is out in the woods every day batteling rain, swamps, sheep and running from cows – the dangers you find in northern Europe 😉 – all with the #Riegl on our shoulders. But check out these stunning views we get in return! It’s all worth it. #RonnieRieglOnTour

We are getting ready to head to Norway! 🌲🌾🌲 Our team will collect terrestrial laser scanning data to on the connection between forest structure and biodiversity – we are looking forward to two weeks in the beautiful boreal forest north of Oslo. And we are prepared for swampy conditions 😉

🛰️ Spending 5 months at the Remote Sensing Lab, Freie Universität, to advance my research on protected area management. Grateful for this opportunity and looking forward to the Norway field trip with this amazing team! – chiaramansi93.bsky.social 🌳 #remotesensing #conservation #Erasmus+ #biodiversity

🚀 Getting started with Deep Learning for remote sensing? Check out these beginner tutorials from FU Berlin: 🧠 UNet in PyTorch: bit.ly/3GBWPx1 🛰️ Segment Anything for GeoTIFFs: bit.ly/3GBWRVF 🌍 #DeepLearning #PyTorch #GeospatialAI #UNet #SegmentAnything #EarthObservation #OpenScience

On our idyllic GeoCampus Lankwitz, smart sensors track tree growth, soil moisture & light of some of our many trees. TLS scans turn trees like "Rosie" 🌳 the chestnut into stunning 3D models 👓. #TTN #SmartForestry #IoT #TreeGrowth #LoRaWAN #ForestEcology #SensingFUB