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Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 25/07/2026

Remembering when I made lenticular prints of aerial imagery of data center sites in 2016

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CNG @cloudnativegeo.org · 11/05/2026

Registration for CNG London 2026 is now open. Tuesday, 23 June, during #London Climate Action Week. Space is limited to 50 participants. CNG members attend free. Register for the full day here (8:00-16:00) luma.com/xgl73unv & for the reception only here (16:00–18:00) luma.com/gmmdwwp5

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CNG London 2026 | 8am-4pm · Luma

Join us for a one-day, in-person gathering with the CNG community at The Jellicoe in London, UK. Practitioners from across the cloud-native geospatial…

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Qiusheng Wu @giswqs.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

I’m excited to introduce OpenGeoPub (opengeopub.com), a new platform designed for geospatial learning and publishing. The goal is simple: bring books, video courses, and hands-on lab assignments together in one place, with flexible pricing and lifetime access.

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Kyle Barron @kylebarron.dev · 03/02/2026

Introducing 𝐀𝐬𝐲𝐧𝐜-𝐆𝐞𝐨𝐓𝐈𝐅𝐅, a new library for reading GeoTIFFs and COGs. developmentseed.org/async-geotif... - Fast, with a Rust core - Uses a non-blocking thread pool for image decoding - Integrates with NumPy, PyProj, Affine & Morecantile - Remote data support with Obstore - No GDAL dependency

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Introducing Async-GeoTIFF - async-geotiff

A fast, async GeoTIFF and Cloud-Optimized GeoTIFF (COG) reader for Python.

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Kyle Barron @kylebarron.dev · 07/01/2026

Announcing deck.gl-raster: 𝐟𝐮𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭-𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐂𝐎𝐆 𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠. No server required. 1.3 𝐠𝐢𝐠𝐚𝐛𝐲𝐭𝐞 COG, streamed directly into the browser: developmentseed.org/deck.gl-rast... - GPU-accelerated raster reprojection - GPU image processing for colormaps, nodata values - Efficient use of COG overviews

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Patrick Stotz @patrickstotz.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

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...

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Tom MacWright @macwright.com · 14/10/2025

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?

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Gohar Ghazaryan @ggohar.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

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

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mrocklin.bsky.social @mrocklin.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

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)

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Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics - Freie Universität Berlin @fub-remotesensing.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

🚀 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

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.

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Christoph Rieke @chrieke.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

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

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 04/07/2025

"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...

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The U.S. Is Switching Sides

Donald Trump is giving Vladimir Putin every incentive to keep killing Ukrainians.

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Charlie Marsh @crmarsh.com · 03/07/2025

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.

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Christoph Rieke @chrieke.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

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.

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Martin A. Nuñez @martin-nunez.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

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

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

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Fiona Gregory @fionag11.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 29/06/2025

Akis Karagiannis has written an excellent synopsis of the #LivingPlanet Symposium #earthobservation www.spectralreflectance.space/p/ref… "Several sessions that were supposed to feature NASA researchers ended up half-empty. One session had eight scheduled […]

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Jose Caldas @josemanolitocaldas.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

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

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Christoph Rieke @chrieke.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

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

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SmartForest4.0 @smartforest.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

🌲🚀 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

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Christoph Rieke @chrieke.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

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!

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Tom MacWright @macwright.com · 27/05/2025

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

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Max Lenormand @maxlenormand.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

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

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Alex Selby-Boothroyd @alexselbyb.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

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...

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

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CNG @cloudnativegeo.org · 21/05/2025

If you're attending the Living Planet Symposium in Vienna, join us for happy hour on Wed, June 25 at 5pm #LPS25 This free event is hosted in partnership with thriveGEO, @developmentseed.org & our local host, EOX. Space is limited, so please register to attend lu.ma/56jksm3l

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Cloud-Native Geospatial Community Social · Luma

Join us for a lively social gathering with connection and conversation on Wednesday, after the Living Planet Symposium wraps for the day. We're celebrating the…

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Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Timbervision: a YOLO-based approach to identifying and measuring timber based on RGB imagery (Steininger et al. on arXiv). This is very cool and has loads of potential applications in forestry and forest management. 🧪

Figure 8: Representative fusion results on test images. The left side shows detected and derived OBBs. The right side shows ISEG results along with center points of cut surfaces and middle axes estimated by our fusion algorithm. Colors identify individual trunk instances, with lighter and darker shades of the same hue corresponding to associated Side and Cut components, respectively.

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Jakub Nowosad @jakubnowosad.com · 13/04/2025

Updated the GitHub repo with a list of Geospatial Conferences 2025 🌍 Covers events on GIS, remote sensing, and more. Browse the list and improve it here: github.com/Nowosad/conf... #geospatial #GISchat #remotesensing #Geo2025

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Kyle Barron @kylebarron.dev · 24/03/2025

Obstore v0.6 brings simple, painless integration with Microsoft Planetary Computer! - *Automatic token refresh*. No need to manually fetch SAS tokens and never think about token expiration times again. - STAC API integration developmentseed.org/obstore/late...

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Releasing obstore 0.6! - obstore

The simplest, highest-throughput Python interface to S3, GCS & Azure Storage, powered by Rust.

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Sabrina Szeto @sabrinaszeto.com · 10/03/2025

The new episode of #SceneFromAbove is here! Our guest is Swetha Kolluri, who works on #AI and Digital Innovations at the World Bank. Swetha shares how the cloud powers development experiments, and how EO, citizen science and AI can address global challenges. ☕ www.podbean.com/pu/pbblog-8i...

Is the future of geospatial in the cloud? A conversation with Swetha Kolluri

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ELLIS unit Jena @ellisunitjena.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Apply for the ELLIS Summer School on AI for Earth and Climate Sciences 📆 Deadline March 31, Notifications by April. 📍 Jena, Germany from Sep 1–5, 2025 🔗 www.ellis-jena.eu/summer-schoo... @uni-jena.de, MPI-BGC, @carlzeissstiftung.bsky.social Co-organised with National Technical University of Athens

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Christoph Rieke @chrieke.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

"Is there another industry in the world where the buyer is willing to spend thousands of dollars and gets ghosted?" Great read by @kevinbullock.bsky.social kbullock.substack.com/p/welcome-to...

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Welcome to the Satellite Hunger Games

may the odds be ever in your favor

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Christoph Rieke @chrieke.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Wow, great resolution comparison!

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Julius Tröger @juliustroeger.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

So hat euer Wahlkreis seit 1949 gewählt. Unsere interaktiven Karten zeigen Ergebnisse aller Bundestagswahlen in heutigen Wahlkreiszuschnitten. www.zeit.de/politik/deut...

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Qiusheng Wu @giswqs.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

🎉 The recording of our 90-minute workshop on SAMGeo is now available on YouTube!. A big thank you to Rohini Sampoornam Swaminathan and Maria Antonia Brovelli for hosting the session! 📺 Watch the Recording: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTlI...

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Christopher Kilner, PhD @christopher.eco · 04/02/2025

🚨We’re hiring! 🚨 In just six months, Isometric built & certified the most rigorous Reforestation Protocol. Now, we need experts to help scale our impact. If you have experience in #Forestry or #RemoteSensing, join us! Let’s rebuild trust in the VCM together 🌳 Application 🔗 ⬇️ #CarbonRemoval #CDR

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Carbon Removal Scientist, Forestry

ABOUT US Isometric is the world’s most trusted carbon registry http://registry.isometric.com. We issue scientifically rigorous carbon credits to help Fortune 100 companies avoid greenwashing while ta...

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

You may not have a billion dollars but your dignity is all yours

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Jessica McCarty @jmccartygeo.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

I have decorate much of my career to satellite 🛰️ data. So, at first I thought this was different images (band combinations) of center pivot agriculture. ⭕️ 👩‍🌾 👨‍🌾 🌾 🌽

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Dr. Brianna R. Pagán @briannaritapagan.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

When my house and community burned - where was the satellite information? A very raw blog post I am putting up so folks in the satellite, geospatial and tech fields can listen firsthand why I think we are failing the situations that need us the most. www.linkedin.com/pulse/when-o...

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When our community burned where was the satellite information?

Video of our home burned down taken by a neighbor after the Palisades Fire. I am writing this as a follow-up to my brief post last week showing a video of our home destroyed by the Palisades fire.

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Jennifer Walter | Sociologist 🇨🇭 @itsjenniferwalter.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

The fix isn't motivational quotes or "digital detox" weeks. Your neural pathways need time to reset. It'll feel awful at first. Your brain will scream for stimulation. But it's either temporary discomfort or permanent numbness. Choose wisely.

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Pete Gadomski @gadom.ski · 08/01/2025

I think #STAC API search parameters, with extensions, can be a "lingua franca" for geospatial search, regardless of whether the underlying data store is STAC. Here's the search parameters I'm talking about: www.gadom.ski/stacrs/lates... Reasoning in 🧵

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Mike Noordijk @klondijk.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

What are the chances Trump is obsessed with Greenland because he doesn't understand Mercator projection?

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Charlie Loyd 🌯🛰️ @vruba.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

How different can two reasonable pansharpening algorithms be? Pretty different in pathological cases like planes in flight. Left is from Maxar, right is from Potato (the thing I’ve been tinkering with). Same underlying data, from the Maxar Open Data Program, CC BY-NC.

Side-by-side images of a plane flying over dense Yucatán forest. On the left is Maxar’s version, which shows a bright and rainbowed image of the plane in the lead, then a very faint and translucent but sharp image of the plane. On the right is Potato, which shows a fainter rainbowed image, then a bright and opaque off-white image of the plane, then an even fainter trailing rainbowed image.

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Christoph Rieke @chrieke.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

There is a common conda-forge/staged-recipes repo which you have to commit to to get your package published. A simple @ conda-forge in a PR just started a reply-all thread to 6500 authors which get an email for every reply, and people are having fun with it :D

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Jakub Nowosad @jakubnowosad.com · 05/01/2025

🌍📊 OpenGeoHub Summer School 2025 "Data Science for Earth Observation: Hands-on Training in Python, R, and Julia." Workshops, ML competitions, demos, and more! 📅 1-6 Sept 2025 | 📍 Wageningen, Netherlands 🔗 Apply by 18 Jan 2025: buff.ly/41C8y6y #EarthObservation #DataScience #gischat

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ELLIS unit Jena @ellisunitjena.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

🌍 Exciting news! Jena is one of seven units hosting an @ellis.eu #SummerSchool in 2025! 📅 Sep 1-5🌿We´ll focus on "AI for Earth and Climate Sciences". www.ellis-jena.eu/summer-schoo... Stay tuned - more infos will be shared in January!

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