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Belize GEO: Belize Group on Earth Observation & GIS. Shares SciComm re: EO, GIS relevant to Belize, the Caribbean, and other regions. Administered by a real live Belizean scientist.

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Belize GEO @bzgeo.bsky.social · 15h
This ⬇️. Let's minimize the #AI_hype and #hype_salad. 😉
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Belize GEO @bzgeo.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
"SkyNet has become self aware!" T2 Judgement Day 😆
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Geoff Smith @drgeoffsmith.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Dramatic scenes of devastation on the Rhinog National Nature Reserve in North Wales as seen by the #Copernicus #Sentinel-2 satellite in this false colour infrared time series. Over 9 km2 burnt so far. @plaidcymru.bsky.social @angelaeagle1.bsky.social @esaearth.esa.int @northwaleswt.bsky.social
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Belize GEO @bzgeo.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
#EOchat: Following the recent release of NASA / ISRO #NISAR 🛰️ data for *everywhere*, here's a sample viz of ascending orbit data from 28.06.2026 over #Belize. Forests are mainly displayed in shades of green, while non-forest areas are shown in darker tones. #EarthEngine #GoldenAgeOfSAR #ScienceSky
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Morgan Crowley, PhD @morganahcrowley.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Check out last week’s episode of Spatial Signals to learn more about my journey in EO and my current work with @natural-resources.canada.ca's CFS! We talked about #WildFireSat, #AI, #outreach, and my approach to collaboration with #operational users. americaview.podbean.com/e/surrounded...
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Surrounded By Maps with Morgan Crowley | Spatial Signals
Morgan Crowley from the Great Lakes Forestry Centre joins us to talk about growing up with maps and aerial images, Russ Congalton’s mentorship of Morgan at the University of New Hampshire, Ladies of L...
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Jessica McCarty @jmccartygeo.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
You can explore this data & imagery here firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/usfs/map/#d:... & here www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES/conus.p... (GeoColor products).
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NASA-FIRMS
Fire Information for Resource Management System US / Canada
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Jessica McCarty @jmccartygeo.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
As the Great Lakes & eastern seaboard experience ongoing smoke events from hundreds of actively burning Canadian wildfires, here are recent NASA and NOAA imagery showing smoke & fire locations. Smoke events will be likely to co-occur throughout the summer. Smoke, like 🔥, is a global issue.
NASA FIRMS showing smoke and fire locations from MODIS, VIIRS, and Landsat NOAA’s GOES East showing two distinct rivers of smoke.
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Jessica McCarty @jmccartygeo.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Fires in the boreal & Arctic regularly impact the mid latitudes - just as pollution from the temperate impacts the North. Chapter 4 of this Arctic Council working group report provides a recent deep dive: www.amap.no/documents/do...
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Robert Simmon @rsimmon.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
As someone who has been asked many many time to make satellite images of open ocean to show the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch” (no, you can’t see tiny bits of plastic distributed over 1,000s of square kilometers), this story really resonates with me.
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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Are you a Canadian PhD student or recent grad (or international person with a PhD from Canada or currently in Canada) and want to do geohazards or geomorphology research with me @ucalgaryscience.bsky.social , get in touch! 🧪⚒️❄️🛰️ nserc-crsng.canada.ca/en/funding-o...
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Canada Postdoctoral Research Award program
The Canada Postdoctoral Research Award (CPRA) program supports and promotes research excellence in a wide variety of disciplines and broad fields of health, natural sciences and engineering and social...
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Belize GEO @bzgeo.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
#GISchat: The following was said yesterday during the #EsriUC2026 Plenary: "ArcGIS is the most widely used GIS program in the world." #QGIS: "Say what now?"
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Hilarious Spit Take Reaction
ALT: Hilarious Spit Take Reaction
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Belize GEO @bzgeo.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Ever been in a meeting that should just have been a recording that you could just ignore completely? 🤔
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Tim Mayer @tmayerscience.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
ℹ️ Join us on 6/24/26 for a talk from Dr. Kelsey Doerksen Quantifying robustness of Geospatial Foundation Models with EarthShift 🔗 Call: lnkd.in/ebHgTVcc 🌐 Group: lnkd.in/eCqiQKts 📷 videos: lnkd.in/eJWqm7i6 tinyurl.com/mryw44ka #EarthObservation #GeoAI #geospatial #ai #deeplearning #FoundationModels
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Robert Simmon @rsimmon.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
The Data Visualization Society’s 2026 Outlier conference is *this week*. I’ll be presenting (with a ton of amazing speakers) on Wednesday morning about how audio engineering (and my love of a certain Canadian trio) taught me everything I know about #dataviz outlier2026.vfairs.com/en/speakers-...
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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Irony is not only dead, it has been baked, broiled, and toasted.
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Belize GEO @bzgeo.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Say it again for the folks in the back of the room! 🧐 #GeoAI / #GeoML
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Robert Simmon @rsimmon.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
AI image sharpening *cannot produce new information* that wasn’t present in the original data. That scene in Blade Runner was make believe.
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Global Nitrogen Congress @globalnitrogen.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
🌍 Join Global Nitrogen Congress 2027 to explore sustainable nitrogen solutions for a greener future. 📅 June 3–4, 2027 | 📍 Amsterdam 🌐 nitrogencongress.com 📧 billalapuram@sciinovhealth.com 📞 +1 732 526 1166 🚨 First Round Abstracts Open! #GNC2027 #NitrogenSustainability #ClimateAction
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Belize GEO @bzgeo.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
#GISchat: ICYMI, Esri's #ArcGIS Pro v. 3.7 dropped *yesterday*. If you're into #DeepLearning or #embeddings, see the following snippets: github.com/BzGEO/GeoAI_.... #GeoAI #GeoML
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Tim Mayer @tmayerscience.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
ℹ️ Join us on 5/13/26 for a talk from Dr. Hugo Kyo Lee on Fine-tuning Foundation Models: Earth System Foundation Models for Downscaling and Prediction + LLM Applications 🔗 Call: lnkd.in/ebHgTVcc 🌐 Group: lnkd.in/eCqiQKts 📷 videos: lnkd.in/eJWqm7i6 #EarthObservation #LLM #GeoAI #geospatial #ai #Agents
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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
This is interesting - daily 5 meter imagery across 22 spectral bands 🧪🛰️
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Belize GEO @bzgeo.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
#EOchat 📢: It's @Planet.com's #Tanager Open Data Competition: www.planet.com/pulse/announ.... 👀
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Jessica McCarty @jmccartygeo.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
If you’d like to learn more about heat shields, including the Artemis I and Artemis II heat shields developed at NASA Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley, this is a good place to start: www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/a...
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Artemis II splashdown: Heat shield developed at Nasa Ames in Mountain View
Here's a closer look at a heat shield developed at Nasa Ames Research Center in Mountain View that will help Artemis II return to Earth.
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Belize GEO @bzgeo.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
You don't have to tell that to someone who enjoys making science 🧪 memes as a side hobby. 🤷‍♂️ #ScienceSky
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Robert Simmon @rsimmon.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
I was curious what a view of Earth matching the Artemis II pic would look like from a conventional weather satellite. Here’s a thermal infrared (heat) image from directly above the Prime Meridian at 00:30 April 3rd from @eumetsat.int (MTI1) rotated to match as closely as possible. 🚀🌍🌔
Thermal infrared image of Earth. Cold high clouds are white, warm ocean is dark gray or black. In some areas it is hard to distinguish clouds from land or water because the temperature is similar. Rotated 145˚ counter-clockwise, so north is to the lower-left.Long exposure view of Earth at Night. Blue ocean, brown desert, and green forest are all visible I between vast expanses of blue water and swirling white clouds.
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Belize GEO @bzgeo.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
GIS for good? 🤔 Where have I heard that before? 😆 #GISchat #Geo4good #G4G #geospatial
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Belize GEO @bzgeo.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
#GISchat: GIS for Good: Esri’s Commitment to People, Planet, Prosperity, and Peace
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GIS for Good: Esri’s Commitment to People, Planet, Prosperity, and Peace
This collection of programs and resources supports organizations that seek to create a more sustainable future.
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Belize GEO @bzgeo.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
I was going to listen to the Nature Careers podcast episode ⬇️, but then I decided I would check it out later because I had other things I want to do first. 🤷‍♂️ What's that called again? 😆
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Belize GEO @bzgeo.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
#GISchat / #EOchat 📢 - We know that a lot of you #geospatial folks out there are #Esri users. 😉
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Tim Mayer @tmayerscience.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
ℹ️ Join us on 4/1/26 for a talk from Lisa Tanh and Vinay Viswambharan on Applications of Geo-AI in ESRI’s ArcGIS Online 🔗 Call: lnkd.in/ebHgTVcc 🌐 Group: lnkd.in/eCqiQKts 📷 videos: lnkd.in/eJWqm7i6 #EarthObservation #GEE #GeoAI #geospatial #ai #graphnetworks #ArcGIS #SAR #Drone #ML #ESRI
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Tim Mayer @tmayerscience.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
ℹ️ Join us on 1/21/26 for a talk by Renee Johnston on Accelerating scientific discovery with AI-powered empirical software 🔗 Call: lnkd.in/ebHgTVcc 🌐 Group: lnkd.in/eCqiQKts 📷 videos: lnkd.in/eJWqm7i6 #LLM #GeoAI #AIforEarth
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Tim Mayer @tmayerscience.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
ℹ️ Join us on 3/4/26 for a talk from Erin Trochim and Simon Ilyushchenko on Cooperative Geospatial Attention: Creating New Spaces for the Neighborhood Problem 🔗 Call: lnkd.in/ebHgTVcc 🌐 Group: lnkd.in/eCqiQKts 📷 videos: lnkd.in/eJWqm7i6 #EarthObservation #GEE #GeoAI #geospatial #ai #graphnetworks
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Belize GEO @bzgeo.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
#EOchat: One of the things I'll always be fascinated by w/ #EarthEngine is the ability to rapidly pull wall-to-wall imagery from sources like #Landsat and use simple #ML to extract features like #LandCover. Kudos to the GEE team, b/c "no pixels were downloaded in the processing of this data." 😉
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Robert Simmon @rsimmon.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
After mapping the heatwave I’m currently living through, I thought it might be interesting to take a look at some non-spatial ways of showing how unusual this is. So I dove into the data for downtown San Francisco, which goes back more than 100 years, to 1921. First up: a ridgeplot. #dataviz
Ridgeplot showing March daily high for downtown San Francisco from 1921 to 2026. (Data past March 19, 2026, are from the NWS forecast.)

It’s hot this spring, but it was 1 degree hotter — 86˚F — in 2005.
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Kenneth Field @kennethfield.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Oh no! Jeff was a regular at NACIS conferences and I enjoyed our conversations. Very sad indeed. Sending my very best wishes to his family, friends and the many students he has taught.
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Robert Simmon @rsimmon.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Jeff taught one of the colleagues I hired at Planet. He was an excellent teacher, and will be missed.
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Belize GEO @bzgeo.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Prof. Howarth was one of the co-authors of the #EarthEngine #EEFA book. Condolences to his family and his friends. May he rest in peace. www.middlebury.edu/stories/arch...
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In Memoriam: Jeff Howarth
The geography professor known for his excellence in teaching and commitment to research died following a battle with cancer.
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Michelle Stuhlmacher, PhD @mstuhlmacher.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Hey #AAG2026, tomorrow afternoon's going to be pretty warm so come cool off at our urban green space sessions! Co-organized by the wonderful @jkhawes.bsky.social & @urbanparksgirl.bsky.social. Come for the great research, stay for the post session social 🍻
Screenshot of Friday's hourly weather with the hottest part of the day circled (i.e., the best time to be in our sessions).
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Belize GEO @bzgeo.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
This 👇
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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
I can’t believe we’re at the stage of a techbro CEO declaring loudly that they want to replace innate human intelligence with a product that they’ll sell, and everyone is like “yeah, but look at how quickly I can make a graph now!”
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Morgan Crowley, PhD @morganahcrowley.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Rounding out 2025 with exciting news… I’m honoured to join the 2026–2030 Landsat Science Team! A full-circle moment for me after starting my career using Landsat for fire monitoring. #EOChat #GISChat Announcement from USGS + NASA here: www.usgs.gov/landsat-miss...
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New Landsat Science Team Announced
The U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with NASA, has named the new Landsat Science Team that will support the world’s longest-running Earth observation mission for a planned 2026-2030 term.
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Alastair @ajgwords.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
#eochat #landdegradation #LDN #SDG15 #geospatial If you are involved in land process monitoring, particularly about the degradation of land or the change in land covers, then please consider completing this survey related to the #GEO-LDN toolbox: forms.gle/e2xx65o9Xa9T...
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GEO-LDN Toolbox Surveys
The following survey is designed for users of, and tool providers to, the GEO-LDN Toolbox. The GEO-LDN Toolbox is a curated entry point to help users select the right analytic tools and methods for mo...
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Belize GEO @bzgeo.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Do YOU need more #PACE #hyperspectral in your life? 🤔 Then sign up for the PACE [virtual] applications workshop next week (11th-12th March 2026). Registration: www.eventbrite.com/e/pace-appli... #KeepingPACE
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PACE Applications Workshop 2026
Join us! Virtual, 2 day PACE Applications Workshop - Free registration
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Belize GEO @bzgeo.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
#EOchat: Following last week's initial release of #NISAR L-band #SAR 🛰️ data by the #ASFDAAC, here's some sample data over northeastern #Guatemala. The large red splotches in the 1st 2 images (freq. A) are RFI artefacts, not visible in the 2nd 2 images (freq. B). #GoldenAgeOfSAR
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Belize GEO @bzgeo.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
#GISchat: #OTD in 2000, NASA's Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) wrapped up its mapping of much of Earth's surface. For many years (probably until Copernicus DEM was released a few yrs ago), SRTM's output was considered *the* best quality global DEM. 🧐 www.earthdata.nasa.gov/data/instrum...
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Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) | NASA Earthdata
Used to gather topographic (elevation) data of Earth's surface, NASA's SRTM used interferometry.
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AGU (American Geophysical Union) @agu.org · 14/02/2026
🌎 El programa de AGU Ciencias para la Comunidad, @thrivingearth.bsky.social, centra en conectar a las comunidades con los recursos que necesitan para llevar a cabo un proyecto con un impacto local razonable y claro. Solicite antes del 11 de marzo para formar parte de la convocatoria: buff.ly/pDuYMqo
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Dr. Rocío Paola Caballero-Gill (she/her/ella) @caballerogill.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
En caso tengan personas interesadas dentro de sus comunidades? Aquí les va un programa de apoyo al impacto local 👏🏽 @geolatinas.bsky.social , @amigasdelatierra.bsky.social , @peruscientist.bsky.social , @bzgeo.bsky.social , @climatewiki.substack.com , @friendsofmother.earth ,
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Belize GEO @bzgeo.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
"...When an AI entrepreneur tells you that AI is a world-changing technology on the order of COVID-19 or the agricultural revolution, you have to take this message for what it really is — a sales pitch." #AI_hype #hype_salad
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ForestSAT @forestsat.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
📣 Registration for ForestSAT 2026 is officially OPEN! 📣 Early Bird: Now – March 5, 2026 Presenter Deadline: March 5, 2026 (registration required to be included in the program) 🔗 Register here: carlos-alberto-silva.github.io/silvalab/For...
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