Christoph Rieke

What would happen if the Amazon rainforest collapsed?
Our look at deforestation and feedback loops.

Also, the perfect occasion to make use of our new MapLibre/Protomaps scroller component.
#maps #dataviz #ddj

www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft...

Don’t you sometimes just want to "see" a .tif file? Instead of opening Q/ArcGIS or writing a few lines of code, you just want to take a quick look. I made a lightweight GeoTIFF viewer that... Don’t you sometimes just want to "see" a .tif file? Instead of opening Q/ArcGIS or writing a few lines of code, you just want to take a quick look. I made a lightweight GeoTIFF viewer that runs dire...

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i think the 2005-2015 era open source boom was built on a nice job environment where people had a little free time and employers believed in creativity

the free time dried up, everyone burned out, 2015-2025 open source has been explicitly targeted toward getting funding & making money. what's next?

Still time to register for the hybrid workshop on satellite #EO data in agriculture!
Keynote: Prof. Dr. Patrick Hostert from @humboldteolab.bsky.social -Novel Opportunities in Optical Remote Sensing for Agricultural Monitoring Towards 2030.
🛠Hands-on with Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2, PlanetScope & EnMAP

So often felt like a hidden superpower if used in moderation, READMES etc. Now it's becoming an anti pattern

Recent tiny blogpost. I mourn Twitter-that-was, and a culture of working in public beyond just the sharing successes and announcements that I see on LinkedIn.

matthewrocklin.com/fail-in-public

(although admittedly this probably is less relevant to the BlueSky crowd)

Three-panel image showing a UNet model applied to remote sensing imagery. Left: grayscale UNet output showing probability map of detected features, here trees. Center: input false-color infrared satellite image with vegetation coloured in reddish colours. Right: same input with bright green overlay showing segmented tree crown areas after thresholding.

🚀 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

Even if you know the COG format pretty well, you will probably find new info in here. Great talk by Jeff Albrecht.

Anything markdown most likely. mkdocs material, docusaurus are popular for package documentation, for inspiration.

The U.S. Is Switching Sides Donald Trump is giving Vladimir Putin every incentive to keep killing Ukrainians.

"the American realignment with Russia and against Ukraine and Europe is gathering pace—not merely in rhetoric but in reality"

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

The uv build backend is now stable, and considered ready for production use.

An alternative to setuptools, hatchling, etc. for pure Python projects, with a focus on good defaults, user-friendly error messages, and performance.

When used with uv, it's 10-35x faster.

ML4Earth one is free though vs AI4EO 500Euro for industry, hmmmm

Both seem interesting! ml4earth.de/workshop_2025/ ai4eo2025.irisa.fr

So now there is the 2day AI4EO symposium in Renne in Sep 25 (previously 3 times in Munich organized by TU Munich), and new 1.5 day ML4Earth in Bonn also in Sep 25, directly organized by TU Munich. What's up with that.

Map of Europe and their forest use. Very little (1%?) is not managed at all

Very cool paper!
It is shocking how few forest areas in Europe are not managed www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Akis Karagiannis has written an excellent synopsis of the #LivingPlanet Symposium #earthobservation

https://www.spectralreflectance.space/p/reflections-from-the-2025-living

"Several sessions that were supposed to feature NASA researchers ended up half-empty. One session had eight scheduled […]

Nancy Grave style maps. @johnnelsonmaps.bsky.social
(NANCY GRAVES
Untitled #127 - Drawing of the Moon)

First time someone from far away knows my hometown just because of it's remote sensing department doing good work with @earth-observation.org & eagle

🌍 Geospatial Tech Meetup – Explore, Connect, Innovate!, Thu, Jul 10, 2025, 6:30 PM | Meetup Hey geoawesome folks and map lovers! We’ve got an epic **Geospatial Technology Meetup** coming your way – and you’re invited! Come hang out with fellow geo-geeks, data wiz

Join us at the Geospatial Tech Meetup in Munich, 10. July! Speakers from OroraTech, Ocell, Huawei. Chill chats after, everyone is welcome and super welcoming! meetu.ps/e/P7p3Q/BHlr...

🌲🚀 Big leap in #SmartForest AI!

Meet #ForestFormer3D – our new SOTA model for 3D forest segmentation (semantic + instance)! 🌳

🔗 Preprint arxiv.org/abs/2506.16991
🔗 Project bxiang233.github.io/FF3D/

👏 Led by Binbin Xiang + team @NIBIO

#AI #Forestry #SOTA

Let's do it! Let's pn during event after Monday!

At Living Planet Symposium next week. Looking forward to lots of ML&forest sessions, but also the random "I have 0 clue about this but it's awesome" volcano, ice etc session. That makes #LPS25 so great. Would love to meet some new people for coffe chat and learn new things! Just ping!

Cool, let's aim for Tuesday or wedn afternoon coffe break? Will send you PN next week!

Joined a forest EO company last year, would love to get to know some more people in the community! So much to learn still!

hah, scrolled back up to the cat picture "was that related". Congratulations :)

This looks amazing! How did you create that?

ah yes, you were using gemini-4o-xx1-beta-2, of course you got bad results, you have to use openai-o3-mini-xxl and toggle on the 'do it good' button

My uni professor was the science lead for the German X-band mission part, maybe someone to send an email to www.chemgeo.uni-jena.de/en/29590/sch...

I'm looking for any info about how & why it was decided to use the Space Shuttle do create SRTM in 2000

A few questions I have:
- How of the world had we mapped in 3D before 2000?
- Why the Space Shuttle over a dedicate satellite (or pair of satellites)
- How the data was processed

Chart from The Economist showing the contribution to California's energy supply of natural gas, wind, hydro, batteries, nuclear and solar. There's a huge jump in solar from around 8am to 6pm

We have a "never use yellow if you can help it" rule for our charts. We couldn't help it on this one
www.economist.com/united-state...