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 ☺️ 🔗 Find the full scope here: iopscience.iop.org/collections/...

I was happily surprised that our new Comment, “The Responsible Use of Global Remote-Sensing Datasets” 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.

🆕 The first stunning images from our groundbreaking #Biomass satellite mission have been released – they mark a major leap forward in our ability to understand how Earth’s forests are changing and exactly how they contribute to the global carbon cycle 🌳🌍 www.esa.int/Applications...

A final farewell to Landsat 7. Farewell to the scan line errors… but gratitude for the improved thermal band and better spatial coverage. You served us well, thank you! 🙏🙏🙏 www.usgs.gov/landsat-miss...

A Final Farewell to Landsat 7

The Landsat 7 satellite will receive its final transmission from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) on June 4, 2025, at 1:08 PM CST. The satellite launched in April 1999 and will be decommissioned afte...

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Good Intentions Are Not Enough: Land-use spillovers from environmental policy interventions 🌐🌍 doi.org/10.1016/j.gl...

"[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/...

🌳🛰️ Our groundbreaking Biomass satellite lifted off on Vega-C #VV26 from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana at 10:15 BST/11:15 CEST on 29 April. The satellite is designed to provide unprecedented insights into the world’s forests and their crucial role in Earth’s carbon cycle.

Biomass launched to count forest carbon

ESA’s groundbreaking Biomass satellite, designed to provide unprecedented insights into the world’s forests and their crucial role in Earth’s carbon cycle, has been launched. The satellite lifted off ...

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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...

📣In our new paper we analyzed the impact of #Landsat and #Sentinel-2 🛰️ #satellite data density and SMA endmembers on trends in #grasslands ground cover: - for monthly composites data density is irrelevant - correct endmember definitions are critical‼️ Check out the full paper tinyurl.com/wha6pzax

🚨 Fresh off the press in #RSE: D. Klehr's first #PhD chapter 🎉 presents a new approach to surpass classification of tree species for large areas 🛰️🌳🌲. 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

📣Our global 🌍 overview of usable Landsat and Sentinel-2 🛰️ 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! “This 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.”

Andrew Parsonson@andrewparsonson.bsky.social · 2y ago

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-...

Berlin is a wonderful place to live—I’ve 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!

Earth Observation Lab@humboldteolab.bsky.social · 2y ago

Two professor positions open at Humboldt University Berlin: 🔹 Human Geography: haushalt-und-personal.hu-berlin.de/de/personal/... 🔹 Physical Geography: haushalt-und-personal.hu-berlin.de/de/personal/... 6-week application deadline. Please share!

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!

Philippe Rufin@philrufin.bsky.social · 2y ago

New #IEEE GRSM paper on responsible #AI for #EarthObservation! AI for EO data analysis holds great promise in addressing global challenges but simultaneously needs a careful examination of the dimensions of responsibility. We reviewed them in this #openaccess article: doi.org/10.1109/MGRS...

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-...

Sentinel-2A Given One-Year Exceptional and Temporary Extension

ESA has granted Sentinel-2A a one-year exceptional and temporary extension, delaying its retirement and increasing Sentinel-2 revisit times.

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New LGBTQ+ science resources! Today, we’re 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 🧪🌍🌐

Two professor positions open at Humboldt University Berlin: 🔹 Human Geography: haushalt-und-personal.hu-berlin.de/de/personal/... 🔹 Physical Geography: haushalt-und-personal.hu-berlin.de/de/personal/... 6-week application deadline. Please share!

W1 Professorship in Human Geography and Global Transitions (with tenure track to W3)

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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

W1 Professorship in Geography of Global Environmental Change (with tenure track to W3)

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👉 👉 👉 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...

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Kent State Campus. Credit: KSU

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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...

Opinion | War Is Killing The Planet

In pursuit of empire and domination, of territorial conquest or racial and religious supremacy, wars stand as a stubborn driver of planetary harm.

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Two recent papers show how richer countries tend to export some environmental harms, inc. biodiversity loss 👇 and www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Global biodiversity loss from outsourced deforestation

Nature - An analysis of global deforestation linked to consumption of products in the supply chains of large economies finds greater losses for vertebrate species’ ranges outside these...

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Erle Ellis@erleellis.bsky.social · 2y ago

Time to fix the biodiversity leak @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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...

We left behind ~10k followers on X, please reskeet to help us reach the community! #EOchat

Philippe Rufin@philrufin.bsky.social · 2y ago

Return of the good times: the Earth Observation Lab of @humboldtuni.bsky.social has joined Bluesky: Follow @humboldteolab.bsky.social for all things terrestrial remote sensing and geospatial at large!

Congratulations to Esmaeel Adrah on the publication of his first paper in #RSE! 👏 🏷️ In this paper, we integrated #GEDI, #Sentinel-1, and #Sentinel-2 data to map tree crops in a Mediterranean environment. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Integrating GEDI, Sentinel-2, and Sentinel-1 imagery for tree crops mapping

Mapping tree crops is essential for resource management and supporting local livelihoods and ecosystem services. However, tree crops are often overloo…

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1/n Please see our new paper in Nature Communications! We used 1,851 tree-ring fire-scar sites and contemporary fire perimeters to quantify the prevalence of wildfire from 1600-1880 compared to 1984-2022. 🧪🌍🔥 Our key findings are as follows ...

A fire deficit persists across diverse North American forests despite recent increases in area burned - Nature Communications

Across many North American forests, recent years with exceptional area burned are not unprecedented when considering the multi-century perspective offered by fire-scarred trees. Nevertheless, abundant...

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Six years in the making and finally published! Our viewpoint on how to improve tree mortality monitoring. With in-depth discussion on how to improve ground-based monitoring, integration of ground-based monitoring with remote sensing and modelling, and fair and collaborative science: lnkd.in/dJgSRQHt

I accidentally checked my "junk" #email folder today and was shocked to find so many legitimate emails wrongly marked as junk—even from senders in existing threads! My sincere apologies to anyone who hasn’t received a response from me.

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Katharine Hayhoe@katharinehayhoe.com · 2y ago

“My house is one of many that burned down. This event, for me, has destroyed any boundary between my work as a climate scientist and the rest of my life.” Read more from NASA JPL scientist Ben Hamlington:

When my house and community burned - where was the satellite information? A very raw blog post I am putting up so folks in the satellite, geospatial and tech fields can listen firsthand why I think we are failing the situations that need us the most. www.linkedin.com/pulse/when-o...

When our community burned where was the satellite information?

Video of our home burned down taken by a neighbor after the Palisades Fire. I am writing this as a follow-up to my brief post last week showing a video of our home destroyed by the Palisades fire.

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