Miko Czerkawski
@mikonvergence.bsky.social
co-founder scientist of @asterisk-labs.bsky.social | ex @esa.int Φ-lab computer vision, earth observation, signal processing https://mikonvergence.github.io
🥳 Welcome onboard Paul Borne--Pons! Paul is joining us for a few months before starting his PhD on the topic of massively multi-modal 3D cloud observations. 😶🌫️ Paul will work on improving the efficiency of our cloud top height estimation in Clouds Decoded using DNN emulation!
Major TOM Google DeepMind's AlphaEarth Embeddings are now on @hf.co ! 🚀 A new 6 TB prototype dataset for the community. Get it here: huggingface.co/datasets/Maj... #EarthEngine #AlphaEarth
Hiring - we are ready to expand! Looking for a unique individual to create the 4th piece of the puzzle.
asterisk labs@asterisk-labs.bsky.social · 12mo agoAsterisk Labs is expanding its team of scientists. You could help us build an alternative to the usual routes for doing research, prioritising positive societal impact, and democratic worker control! asterisk.coop/careers.html (1/4)
It's almost time! TerraBytes starts tomorrow at @icmlconf.bsky.social 2025 in Vancouver #ICML2025 📍 08:30 West Meeting Room 111-112 🗞️ Papers are now accessible on the workshop website below the programme: terrabytes-workshop.github.io
𝐓𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐚𝐁𝐲𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐊𝐞𝐲𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐞 𝐀𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭: Razvan Cosac will deliver the second keynote at TerraBytes 2025! Stay tuned for more updates and join us at @icmlconf.bsky.social terrabytes-workshop.github.io
There's at least 6 different versions of me in the official @esa.int #LPS25 programme - but don't panic, most likely only one me will show up at the event. More info about my works & collaborations: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
Exciting news! Please get in touch with us if you'd like to contribute.
asterisk labs@asterisk-labs.bsky.social · last yr.📢 Join the conversation: @asterisk-labs.bsky.social has been contracted by the European Space Agency @esa.int to draft a dedicated expert report on AI for Copernicus and is gathering stakeholder feedback. More info: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
𝐓𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐚𝐁𝐲𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐊𝐞𝐲𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐞 𝐀𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭: Dr Sujit Roy from NASA-IMPACT will deliver the first keynote at TerraBytes 2025! Stay tuned for more updates and join us at @icmlconf.bsky.social 2025
If you're at @cvprconference.bsky.social today I have the pleasure to present 2 posters of my brilliant collaborators - Paul Borne--Pons and Miguel Espinosa. Please stop by near posters 127-139 today at 10.45 to chat about new generative models built on top of Major TOM! See 🧵
⚠️ Nearly 40 billion (39,820,373,479) new embeddings of Major TOM Copernicus data now released! More details: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
Our whole team will be at @egu.eu the entire week - give us a shout if you’d like to catch up, meet us, or chat about the vision we’re developing for @asterisk-labs.bsky.social 🟩🟨🟦
asterisk labs@asterisk-labs.bsky.social · last yr.Tomorrow at @egu.eu: 𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐤 𝐥𝐚𝐛𝐬 presenting 𝐂𝐥𝐨𝐮𝐝𝐬 𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐝 🌫️ (28 April at 12:20) Join us for early results, validation and future perspective for studying clouds in Sentinel-2 data! 𝐀𝐛𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭: meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/EGU25-... funded by @aria-research.bsky.social
🔵 𝐂𝐎𝐏-𝐆𝐄𝐍-𝐁𝐞𝐭𝐚: 𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐞𝐝 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐟 𝐂𝐎𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐮𝐬 𝐈𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐓𝐡𝐮𝐦𝐛𝐧𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐬 Now on @hf.co ⚖️ 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥 huggingface.co/mespinosami/... 📱 𝐃𝐞𝐦𝐨 huggingface.co/spaces/mikon... 📄 𝐏𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐫 arxiv.org/abs/2504.08548
𝐌𝐄𝐒𝐀 🏔️ 𝐓𝐞𝐱𝐭-𝐛𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐦𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥 𝐚𝐯𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐨𝐧 @hf.co Capable of generating 2.5D representations (co-registered colour and depth maps) of terrains based on text prompt conditioning. Website: paulbornep.github.io/mesa-terrain/
You can now find us on instagram and enjoy some breathtaking images of clouds from space 😶🌫️ 🎞️🛰️ www.instagram.com/asterisk_labs
Clouds are viewed as an obstacle to be avoided or removed in Earth observation, with millions of cloudy images left to gather dust in the archives - now, ARIA Creator Jacqueline Campbell and her team are using this abandoned data to garner fresh insights. ☁️ schmidtsciencefellows.org/news/gaining...
Gaining Clear Climate Insights From Cloudy Data • Schmidt Science Fellows
An innovative new approach, led by 2020 Schmidt Science Fellow Jacqueline Campbell, is utilizing AI to sift through abandoned data and garner fresh insights in our understanding of clouds and their co...
schmidtsciencefellows.org
𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗣𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀: 𝗧𝗲𝗿𝗿𝗮𝗕𝘆𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝘁 𝗜𝗖𝗠𝗟 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 We are now accepting submissions to 🌍💿𝗧𝗲𝗿𝗿𝗮𝗕𝘆𝘁𝗲𝘀! 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗜𝗻𝗳𝗼: terrabytes-workshop.github.io 𝗦𝘂𝗯𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗣𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗹: openreview.net/group?id=ICM... @icmlconf.bsky.social (1/3)
🚨 Workshop alert! 🌍💿 TerraBytes: Towards global datasets and models for Earth Observation Co-located with ICML 2025 (Vancouver, Canada) 🔗 terrabytes-workshop.github.io 📝 We accept short 4-pages and full 8-pages paper on remote sensing, Earth Observation and machine learning. 📆 Deadline: May 16th
Asterisk Labs has officially launched! Thank you to everyone who came to celebrate with us last night at the Institute of Physics. Asterisk is getting off the ground now, so stay tuned!
Latest coverage about 'what' and 'why' of @asterisk-labs.bsky.social and how Jacqueline went from driving London Underground to starting the first co-operative research lab in the UK with Ali and myself to work on AI-powered planetary-scale insights. schmidtsciencefellows.org/news/gaining...
Gaining Clear Climate Insights From Cloudy Data • Schmidt Science Fellows
An innovative new approach, led by 2020 Schmidt Science Fellow Jacqueline Campbell, is utilizing AI to sift through abandoned data and garner fresh insights in our understanding of clouds and their co...
schmidtsciencefellows.org
Until later @esa.int! Tomorrow I’m joining @asterisk-labs.bsky.social as a full-time co-founder. We are a co-operative research lab conducting open science on top of public data commons to find new unexpected uses of data programmes like @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social You will be hearing more soon!
Sentinel-2A expansion campaign announced and starting in 2 months! 🚀🥹 sentinels.copernicus.eu/web/sentinel...
Sentinel-2A: Exceptional temporary extension campaign starting in March 2025 - Sentinel Online
sentinels.copernicus.eu
𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐝𝐢𝐝 𝐒𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐥-𝟐 𝐜𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓? 🤔 Here's one of the earliest 2025 samples from Sentinel-2. Taken at 22:27:59 on the New Year's Eve in the UTC zone 🥳 The visible land of Funafuti Atoll (29 islets) belongs to the country of Tuvalu.
ᴍᴀᴊᴏʀ ᴛᴏᴍ ꜰʟᴏᴀᴛɪɴɢ ɪɴ ᴛʜᴇ ʟᴀᴛᴇɴᴛ ꜱᴘᴀᴄᴇ 🧑🚀️ 𝐆𝐥𝐨𝐛𝐚𝐥 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐃𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐞 𝐎𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐄𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐝𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐌𝐚𝐣𝐨𝐫 𝐓𝐎𝐌 - 𝐎𝐩𝐞𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐅𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐀𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐨𝐧 @hf.co Embedding Earth observation data with pre-trained AI models is starting to become a hot topic, for all the good reasons. More info in thread 🧵
To get in the habit of posting on 🦋, this is one of the first Landsat images capturing the region around Rome (11 August 1972). Here's me looking at my current home from space, over 2 decades before I was born. Open data programmes are an extraordinary treasure.
but you can also find me at x.com/mikonvergence because I still will likely forget to post to one place or the other