Andrew Cutts

7 days until liftoff! 🚀

On 4 Nov 2025 at 18:03 local (French Guiana) / 21:03 UTC / 22:03 CET, Sentinel-1D launches aboard Ariane 6 — keeping Copernicus radar eyes on Earth, all weather, all the time. 🌍

#Sentinel1D #Copernicus #ESA #Ariane6 #EarthObservation

Why Fintech Still Doesn't Get Earth Observation ROI: The Cultural Chasm Why Did I Write This

I wrote a thing about how #geospatial and #fintech don't speak the same language

open.substack.com/pub/geospati...

That is awesome. Thank you

Africa on a globe. Photo by James Wiseman on Unsplash

New blog. In Praise of the Digital Earth Africa Sandbox. Its back! A very good place to learn to work with Earth observation data and Python.
www.acgeospatial.co.uk/in-praise-of...

#Earthobervation
#eochat
#opendatacube

🚀 New Feature in Leafmap – Interactive Time-Series Visualization! 🌍🛰️

Leafmap now supports time sliders for visualizing large collections of remote sensing images.

Try it out
Web App: huggingface.co/spaces/giswq...
Notebook: leafmap.org/maplibre/tim...

#geospatial #leafmap #opensource #mapping

🚨 Applications are now open!

We are excited to announce that the @geospatialwomen.bsky.social Mentorship Programme is now accepting applications for our 25/26 cohort, open until 7th September!

🔗 Interested? Apply here: lnkd.in/ek7veWdG

#gischat #remotesensing #geospatial #eo #gis #mentorship

Sentinel Hub Custom Scripts migration from EO Browser to Copernicus Browser Platform migration and update of my scripts.

🟢 Worth a read if you are using the Copernicus Browser and custom scripts. „Sentinel Hub Custom Scripts migration from EO Browser to Copernicus Browser“ by Mohor Gartner
medium.com/@mohor.gartn...

Chunks and Chunkability: Tyranny of the Chunk • Element 84 We discuss our attempt to understand chunks and chunking more deeply including where we are today and where we might go from here.

Our latest deep-dive series is live now on the blog! 🗞️💡 Check out Chunks and Chunkability (parts one and two) now.

"It is a truth universally acknowledged in cloud native geospatial that data formats must be chunked."

Part One: element84.com/software-eng...

Two #Copernicus #Sentinel-2 images show the massive burn scar of ~100 km2 in northeast #Scotland caused by a fire between 28 June to 2 July. Uplands need better management, including rewilding & rewetting. #eochat @guyshrubsole.bsky.social @chrisgpackham.bsky.social @wildjustice.bsky.social

maps paper on table from https://unsplash.com/photos/maps-paper-on-table-Uk3t05ndSng

New blog. Now I have a robust way of loading my Garmin tracks and activities into #PostGIS - I connect kepler.gl to it to visualise the data in a Jupyter Lab widget. This is a simple guide.

www.acgeospatial.co.uk/kepler-gl-in...

The fantastic first image released by @esa.int Biomass satellite.

In glorious false colour to represent its P-band radar imaging, capable of penetrating even the highest biomass forests in the Amazon and Congo.

From unsplash - https://unsplash.com/photos/graphs-of-performance-analytics-on-a-laptop-screen-JKUTrJ4vK00 data dashboard

New blog in my Garmin tracks series. This time 'Load activities from Garmin Connect and join to tracks in PostGIS' www.acgeospatial.co.uk/garmin-conne...

#garmin

#PostGIS

code:

github.com/acgeospatial...

Great idea! While not a paper, a terrific resource is the book Landsat's Enduring Legacy: Pioneering Global Land Observations from Space.
Bit of everything. History of remote sensing. System design. Orbits. Applications. Has it all, AND is #openaccess!
Get a free copy: my.asprs.org/common/Uploa...

image credit https://unsplash.com/photos/worms-eye-view-photography-of-ceiling-LqKhnDzSF-8 worms eye view of ceiling

New blog. This time handling updates from Garmin Connect to #PostGIS.

www.acgeospatial.co.uk/update-postg...

All the code is on GitHub - github.com/acgeospatial...

#python

#datamanagement

📢 Last 3 days to apply for #ESA 14th Advanced #Training Course on Land #RemoteSensing with a focus on #Agriculture!

📅 When: 29 September - 3 October 2025
📍 Where: Thessaloniki, Greece
👉 Deadline: 12 June 2025

🔗 More info and registration: landtraining2025.esa.int

#GISchat #EOchat #geosky #eo

New blog. This time Getting tracks from #Garmin connect to #PostGIS. I present two options with code. www.acgeospatial.co.uk/getting-trac...

Using #geopandas, #sqlalchemy

A breath of fresh data: Sentinel-4 innovates for clean air From its vantage point outside Earth's atmosphere, more than 36,000 km above Earth's surface, the Copernicus Sentinel-4 mission will detect major air pollutants over Europe in unprecedented detail. It will observe how they vary on an hourly basis—a real breakthrough for air quality forecasting.

✨High above Earth, Copernicus Sentinel-4 will watch Europe’s air pollution *hourly*! 🤯 Unprecedented detail for forecasting & a clearer view of our atmosphere. 🌍 #EarthObservation

Source: https://phys.org/news/2025-06-fresh-sentinel-air.html

End of an Era: Landsat 7 Decommissioned After 25 Years of Earth Observation After 25 years of capturing Earth's changing landscape, the Landsat 7 satellite received its final transmission from the U.S. Geological Survey and was officially decommissioned June 4, closing a rema...

After 25 years of watching Earth's changes, Landsat 7 has been decommissioned. It helped monitor forests, glaciers, disasters, and coastlines, providing decades of open science data. Its archive will continue to support research and environmental management
🧪⚒️🌊🌋❄️
#Landsat
#RemoteSensing
#GIS

A short blog on getting your tracks / routes from #Garmin Connect into #QGIS. www.acgeospatial.co.uk/getting-rout...

🚀SNAP 12 is here! 🌍
Marking 10 years of ESA's Sentinel App Platform with powerful new features:
🛰️Sentinel-1C support
⚙️JDK 21
🌐ETAD: smarter SLCs, interferograms & auto-download
🌍REACTIV, InSAR, OLCI/SLSTR
📦New vector tools
👉 step.esa.int/main/snap-12...
#EO #RemoteSensing #SentinelData #ESA #SNAP

This is crazy. 'The economic value of just one year of Landsat data far exceeds the multi-year total cost of building, launching, and managing Landsat satellites and sensors.' www.usgs.gov/news/feature... #eochat

New blog post on cloud frequency. www.acgeospatial.co.uk/cloud-freque... asked if a project I was working on was impacted by the distribution of clouds(>in the west?). Answer was not for this project. but I didn't know until I checked. #Python code here github.com/acgeospatial...
#Sentinel2
#eochat

EXCLUSIVE: UK and New Zealand's space sectors to join forces - UKTN Prime Minister Keir Starmer hosted New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon this week.

EXCLUSIVE: UK and New Zealand's space sectors to join forces. 🚀

➡️ www.uktech.news/climate-tech... 🔗

#exclusive #space #climatetech #earthobservation #uktech #newzealand #spacetech #internationalcollaboration #sciencepartnership #startups #UKtech

Satellite Data Show Motion of Burma Earthquakes NASA scientists employed a pixel-tracking method to reveal how much the ground shifted during one of the largest documented surface ruptures of its type.

Using satellite data from ESA’s Sentinel-1A & Sentinel-2B/C + NASA JPL’s ARIA, scientists mapped >3 m horizontal land shifts along Myanmar’s Sagaing Fault during the Mar 28, 2025 quakes. #RemoteSensing #Earthquake - earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/15415...

Join us as a Research Associate in Tropical Methane with the EOS group at Uni of Leicester🏛️

You will be working with @drrobparker.bsky.social team on a cutting-edge Environmental Digital Twin to study wetland methane & climate change🌍

📍 Apply by 4 May
🔗 tinyurl.com/mrxzkzya

#ClimateJobs #NCEO

The bayesEO package provides a Bayesian approach to post-processing ML-generated images. It refines class probabilities, removes outliers, and improves labeling for more accurate classification.

🔗 https://github.com/e-sensing/bayesEO/

#rstats #MachineLearning #RemoteSensing #Bayesian #rspatial

The bayesEO package provides a Bayesian approach to post-processing ML-generated images. It refines class probabilities, removes outliers, and improves labeling for more accurate classification.

🔗 github.com/e-sensing/ba...

#rstats #MachineLearning #RemoteSensing #Bayesian #rspatial

🌍 I have created an interactive #GEE app to generate #Sentinel2 cloud-free mosaics for any country and timeframe, defined by the user.

Generate your mosaics: danielp.users.earthengine.app/view/sentinel2-cloudfree-mosaic-generator

GitHub: github.com/palubad/S2-Mosaic-Generator

#gischat #dataviz

Level-2 data boost EarthCARE's profiling power - Earth Online EarthCARE’s Level-2 data products are now fully available, offering users more precise and detailed atmospheric profiling data.

Now fully available! 𝗘𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗵𝗖𝗔𝗥𝗘’𝘀 𝗟𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹-𝟮 data products.
L2A contains data from individual instruments, and L2B provides data from two instruments. Final L2 data will be ready by year-end, integrating information from all four instruments. buff.ly/EAz9ZlZ
#EarhtObs #remotesensing

The github.dev web-based editor - GitHub Docs You can use the github.dev web-based editor to edit files and commit your changes.

If you are logged into github and in a repo press the . key and it will open up a vs code web editor. docs.github.com/en/codespace...