🌍 New paper on key challenges in spatial machine learning! We discuss six major topics shaping the field: model validation, performance metrics, uncertainty quantification, algorithmic diversity, software implementation, and modeling protocols. www.erdkunde.uni-bonn.de/article/view... #SpatialML

Tree-planting is often hailed as a simple solution to climate change, but planting trees everywhere can actually harm ecosystems and reduce biodiversity. Read more: joelodimo.com/the-hidden-p...

The Hidden Problem With Global Tree-Planting Campaigns - The TanglePost

Why planting trees everywhere may harm ecosystems. Explore how global campaigns, including Kenya’s 15 billion tree plan, can impact biodiversity and carbon storage.

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Reminder: Join us today for the NITheCS Colloquium — “Turning Data into Decisions by Bridging Mathematics, Ecology & Policy” with Dr Sandra MacFadyen (SU). 🕓 Today, 16h00–17h00 SAST 📍 Attend in person or online buff.ly/GPtVsp2 #Biodiversity #EcologicalResearch #Conservation #Ecology #Mathematics

Come by poster stand L20 today at #LPS25. Happy to chat about #savanna ecosystems, vegetation structure, #GEDI #lidar, #Sentinel-1 and whatever else you have in mind!

The first #ESA #BIOMASS image was revealed at #LPS25 yesterday. You can find a few more images (like the one attached showing desert structures in Chad) as well as additional information in this article: www.esa.int/Applications...

🆕 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...

The 14 March NITheCS Micro-School titled ‘Introduction to Xarray: Empowering Multidimensional Data Analysis’ by Marco Wolsza (Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany) may now be viewed online at buff.ly/jLJ4KKI.

I am excited to announce that Remote Sensing of Forests Summer School registration is open! Details and program: earthbridge.eu/summer-school/. See you there! 🌲🌳🛰️🛩️🚀🌍🎓 #HorizonEU #EarthObservation #Copernicus #ForestMapping

Happy to give a short coffee break introduction to Xarray this Friday!

NITheCS@nithecs.bsky.social · 2y ago

NITheCS Micro-school: 'Introduction to Xarray: Empowering Multidimensional Data Analysis' - Marco Wolsza (Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany) - Fri, 14 Mar @ 12h00-12h30 SAST. Register to attend online. buff.ly/F15L0bv #xarray #dataanalysis #python #numpy #pandas #research

How depressing: 250 companies causing 73% of Ecosystem Damage globally #BIOSPACE25 @esa.int

Per their request, we decided to go for it. I changed the title to "The strain on antioxidant publishing" and did a bunch of ctrl find+replace for words like "publisher" with "gut niche" and just sent it back. Find the paper here: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... 1/3

Mark A. Hanson@hansonmark.bsky.social · 2y ago

#MDPI still invites me to submit to SIs🙃 I always respond w/ our strain on scientific publishing preprint. arxiv.org/abs/2309.15884 This time, they "welcome the submission" but I should edit it to "expand the discussion" on antioxidants.🤯 #SciPub #ResearchIntegrity #AcademicSky #PredatoryPublishing

The irony of reading this while attending a conference about bio********* from space #biospace25

David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 2y ago

We got a message from the university to remove any use of the "DEI", "diversity", "equity", or "inclusion" from all public-facing documents. They said that even "biodiversity" is being flagged by the federal government. We live in the dumbest timeline.

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Wieteke (Louise) Willemen@wietekewillemen.bsky.social · 2y ago

Look at all these superpowers combined here at #BIOSPACE25 🦸🏽‍♀️ Quite impressive. The welcome words are both grim and hopeful. Hoping to see even more bundling of these 🌱powers this week. Check the live stream: biospace25.esa.int/live-stream/

Some more good news for the Sentinel-2 mission! Sentinel-2A, which recently retired, has been given a temporary extension, where it will support S2B and S2C to provide additional data. Lots of hard work behind the scenes to make this happen. Glad to see it! sentinels.copernicus.eu/web/sentinel...

Sentinel-2A: Exceptional temporary extension campaign starting in March 2025 - Sentinel Online

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"Tropical and subtropical grasslands and savannas matter for biodiversity protection, and the future of this planet relies on these ecosystems to the same extent it relies on forests." 💚

juli g pausas@jgpausas.bsky.social · 2y ago

Open letter: There are more than just trees and forests to be conserved and restored COP16 🧪🌎🌐 💚 biodiversity EnvSci nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

First image taken by ESA Sentinel-1 C SAR radar over the svalbard /spitzberg. It was time ! S1A is in end of life and S1B is dead. The avantage of SAR is that it doesn't care if it is day or night or if there are clouds.

A new #Sentinel-1 satellite has already been launched in our office today and is now in orbit around the Christmas tree. Hopefully the Sentinel-1C launch is going to be just as successful tonight! 🛰️ #EarthObservation #remotesensing #EOChat #ESA #Copernicus

🌐 Did you know? “Desert” “rainforest” “tundra” “grassland” or “savanna” are widely used terms in common language, but each have multiple definitions and no universally accepted spatial distribution. Find out more in our recent paper 👉 doi.org/10.1002/ecm.... #biome #ecology #biogeography

Abstract submission deadline for ESA Living Planet Symposium #LPS25 has been extended to December 3rd! lps25.esa.int #EOChat #EarthObservation

Great advice for early career scientists! #phd #phdchat #phdsky

Markus Eichhorn@markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 2y ago

Who should you nominate as reviewers for your manuscript? After a long chat with a post-grad it appears that there's a lot of misguided advice out there. Thread 👇

Interested in machine learning in science? Timo and I recently published a book, and even if you are not a scientist, you'll find useful overviews of topics like causality and robustness. The best part is that you can read it for free: ml-science-book.com

Must read paper for anyone interested in studying #savanna #ecosystems using #EarthObservation!

Dr. Abdulhakim Abdi 🌍🛰️@hakimabdi.com · 2y ago

I wrote a short, but very informative, blog post summarizing a recent paper of ours that delves into the cutting-edge applications of remote sensing to monitor and understand #savanna ecosystems for improved #conservation and sustainable management. Read here: hakimabdi.com/blog/behind-...

The SARCalNet website is open to the public since last week https://www.sarcalnet.org/ Providing standardized information on #SAR calibration sites to the community, as well as other cal/val resources. #ceos #remotesensing #earthobservation

The strain on scientific publishing: we set out to characterise the remarkable growth of the scientific literature in the last few years, in spite of declining growth in total scientists. What is going on? direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... A 🧵 1/n #AcademicSky #PhDchat #ScientificPublishing #SciPub

I heard bluesky likes links. So here is a link to a book I’m writing. github.com/NannyML/The-...

GitHub - NannyML/The-Little-Book-of-ML-Metrics: The book every data scientist needs on their desk.

The book every data scientist needs on their desk. - NannyML/The-Little-Book-of-ML-Metrics

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Data preparation! It's crucial for machine learning, and we all hate it. Tools and techniques to reduce this burden? A talk summarizing of 10 years of R&D on this, from cheap tricks to LLMs and graph neural networks www.youtube.com/watch?v=nU_W... Entertaining and interesting, I hope

dotAI 2024 - Gael Varoquaux - Skrub: Less data wrangling, more machine learning

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