Robbi Bishop-Taylor 🛰️🌏

Registration link - open to anyone globally! ausycsec.org.au/registration...

Registration poster for AusYCSEC

Last chance to register for free online attendance at the #AusYCSEC Young Coastal Scientists & Engineers Conference!

Come along to hear lots of exciting coastal research happening across Australasia... plus a special new data announcement from Geoscience Aus in the opening session! 🤩🌊📷🛰️

Following up on this, here's an even cooler animation of the SWOT overpass!
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Happy National Science Week! 🎉 From the coast to the deep sea, IMOS Facilities like Acoustic Telemetry and Argo Floats are providing vital data to understand and protect marine life and ecosystems in a changing climate. Learn more 🔗 bit.ly/4mxjNVk

#NationalScienceWeek2025 #NCRISImpact

Hey cool--this is one of the satellites I regularly bounce a laser off of. Nice to contribute to missions like this. :)

We’re just days away from the launch of #MetopSGA1!
The upper composite housing the satellite has been transferred to the #Ariane6 launcher. 🚀
Are you ready?
🗓 Launch: 12 Aug
📍 Europe’s Spaceport, Kourou
🔗 Lift off scheduled at 21:37 local time (00:37 UTC, 02:37 CEST on August 13): bit.ly/4onryyV

Mosaic of desert fires, salt lakes and dunes. Great sandy desert Western Australia.

US-French SWOT Satellite Measures Tsunami After Massive Quake - NASA Data provided by the water satellite, a joint effort between NASA and the French space agency, is helping to improve tsunami forecast models, benefitting

This is incredibly cool: NASA/CNES's SWOT satellite captured a live view of the leading edge of the tsunami formed by the 8.8 magnitude Kamchatka Peninsula earthquake!

www.nasa.gov/missions/swo...

Understanding flood detection models across Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 modalities and benchmark datasets In recent years, research in flood mapping from remote sensing satellite imagery has predominantly focused on deep learning methods. While new flood s…

👉New paper: "Understanding #flood detection models across Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 modalities and benchmark datasets"

🌊This study presents a model generalization across different regions & satellite sensors.

📄 tr.ee/Understandin...

💻Code & models: github.com/kipoju/udl4fl

#RemoteSensing

How do we track water flowing through rivers from space? This major review says: 1–3 day revisit. Resolution down to 30–100 m widths. Must include width, slope, & velocity. Flood forecasting + water management depend on it. #EarthObservation #RemoteSensing #WaterResources doi.org/10.1029/2024...

Fair play to #foss4guk 2025: I will be giving a presentation called "Remote Sensing Sucks". I have my opinions, but what gets you worked up about modern EO and RS? It could be anything at all. Let me know and I might reference it in the slides :-) #earthobservation #geospatial #gis #rssucks

I'm giving a talk on Thurs about our work to improve tide modelling across Australia's remote and challenging coastlines. I'll also be around the Geoscience Australia booth if anyone wants to drop by and nerd out on coastal satellite remote sensing!

www.2025.ieeeigarss.org/view_paper.p...

Photograph of IGARSS opening ceremony

Wonderful to be at #IGARSS2025 in Brisbane! 🛰️Hopefully a nice Take 2 from my first IGARSS in Pasedena, CA where I spent half of the conference locked up in COVID hotel quarantine!

🛰️ As many in the Earth community know, NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites are soon to be decommissioned because they are past their designed life. Part of the process involves changing their orbits thus their overpass time. go.nasa.gov/44X3QSk 1/3

☁️ Clouds in the spotlight at #LPS2025!
The Algorithm Intercomparison Exercises session is on—an essential part of EO processing.
Jan Wevers presents our work on CMIX-II, the ESA–NASA initiative comparing cloud detection methods for 10–30 m sensors.
#CMIX #EOAlgorithms #CloudMasking #EarthObservation

Algal vortex in The Baltic Sea.

Image taken by Landsat-8 on July 18, 2018.

The Google Earth Engine code editor displaying an evaporation map loaded directly from ARCO-ERA5! The black and white map overlooks the continental US. It's easy to make out land masses, but there are also cloud-looking visuals on the map.

I've been waiting a few years for this: Zarr v2 support was just launched in Google Earth Engine! Check out this demo that loads ARCO-ERA5 into GEE 🔥

code.earthengine.google.com/67ac1e48848d...
developers.google.com/earth-engine...

Video Compression for Spatiotemporal Earth System Data Large-scale Earth system datasets, from high-resolution remote sensing imagery to spatiotemporal climate model outputs, exhibit characteristics analogous to those of standard videos. Their inherent sp...

Wow, today is just full of pleasant geospatial treats made for me. I just found out about xarrayvideo, which uses ffmpeg as a video codec to store EO/Climate/Weather data! arxiv.org/abs/2506.19656

Beneath the canopy: Pioneering satellite reveals rainforests' hidden worlds - BBC News First groundbreaking images from the Biomass satellite could change our understanding of rainforests

Had an amazing time at #LPS25 this week, where @esaearth.esa.int unveiled the first images from the Biomass satellite.

Read our story with @esmestallard.bsky.social and see the stunning new images for yourself:

These are old archived posts - I did a big all of time copy when I moved over from there a few months ago 🙂

A screenshot of the slides

A screenshot of the slides

A screenshot of the slides

Recently, I taught a session on landscape metrics in R—covering how to quantify spatial patterns in landscapes. 🌾📊

Slides + exercises here:

🔗 jakubnowosad.com/rgis2025/out...

#rGIS2025 #rstats #LandscapeMetrics #GIS #rspatial

This week experts gathered in Nice for the UN Ocean Conference. In our new article we highlight the role of satellite data in supporting ocean science 🌊

Dr Thomas Jackson explains how Sentinel-3 imagery helps identify/monitor algal blooms & how they are powerful indicators of change: bit.ly/4jQecrc

Come chat about quolls, puns, and finding any excuse to draw animals for science at my poster at #ICCB2025

Monday at 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM in Great Hall 3 & 4

See you there!

Landsat Next | Landsat Science The Landsat Next project is currently assessing alternate mission architectures to support more affordable ways to maintain the continuity of Landsat imagery per the language in the FY26 President’s B...

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"The #Landsat Next project is currently assessing alternate mission architectures to support more affordable ways to maintain the continuity of Landsat imagery per the language in the FY26 President’s Budget Request (PBR). Updates will be forthcoming."
landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/satellites/l...

VISIBLE image from SNPP-VIIRS sensor for Jun7 and 8, 2025

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Smoke over the pole?

Maybe, first its detection is difficult but it can be done.
Regular visible image do not show it unless it is super thick (where a regular white cloud would look brown or even black).

In this case, regular visible image does not show any indication of it.

But ...
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Southern part of Lake Eyre in Australia.

Multispectral image taken by Sentinel-2 on May 31, 2025.

@satellitesci.bsky.social 😊🎨

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As the ocean warms, conditions become less habitable for corals in the tropics, but some higher latitude seas might become more conducive to coral reef formation. Coral larvae can drift over large distances by ocean currents, so it is possible for coral reefs to shift polewards. (5/16)

Can tropical corals find refuge at higher latitudes under future warming? In our new paper in Science Advances, we argue that coral range expansion will be *far too slow* for most coral species to outpace climate change. 🪸🌊
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A short 🧵 (1/16)

What's going on here?
1. In the 1980s/90s the beach was still very narrow (dark lines), affected by sand starvation caused by extension of the Tweed River breakwaters, completed in the 1960s.
2. By the 2000s (pink lines) the beach was much wider, fed by the Tweed River sand bypass completed in 2001.

The surfing beach at 'Surfers Paradise' is now largely artificial. Here's the 'Narrow Neck' coastlines since 1988 via @satellitesci.bsky.social's system. Note dark lines == the oldest!

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