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Earth Observation Lab @humboldteolab.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

The 2026-2030 #Landsat Science Team met on 20 Jan 2026 for the first time. EOLab alumni @dfrantz.bsky.social introduced our project on "Synergistic data processing pipelines for Landsat and European satellite missions" 🛰️ Explore the mission and the full team here: science.nasa.gov/missions/lan...

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New Landsat Science Team Announced - NASA Science

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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David Frantz @dfrantz.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Sascha Willmes from @unitrier.bsky.social just presented his work on sea ice lead detection using #sentinel3 SLSTR at #LPS25

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David Frantz @dfrantz.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Come see me at poster O43 to chat about out approach of developing a space-borne weighing machine to measure human-made materials. #LPS

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David Frantz @dfrantz.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

#FORCE_EO meets #LPS. Join us this afternoon for a gathering of developers, contributors and users. 17:45 - 19:00, 1st Floor, Foyer L3, Area 2. More info here: github.com/davidfrantz/...

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David Frantz @dfrantz.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

On my way to #LPS25 and looking forward to one week of condensed #earthobservation! Our team will present a broad portfolio of tree species unmixing, sea ice, land surface phenology, and human-made material mapping. Also come and chat with me during the open science in the making session - #FORCE_EO

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David Frantz @dfrantz.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

The application window for our English-taught MSc in Geoinformatics is now open! Join us in Trier to become an expert in 🌞 #remotesensing, 🛰️ #earthobservation and 🗺️ #GIS! www.uni-trier.de/en/studium/s...

MSc Geoinformatics at Trier University. Apply until May 30

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Katarzyna Ewa Lewińska @kelewinska.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

📣In our new paper we analyzed the impact of #Landsat and #Sentinel-2 🛰️ #satellite data density and SMA endmembers on trends in #grasslands ground cover: - for monthly composites data density is irrelevant - correct endmember definitions are critical‼️ Check out the full paper tinyurl.com/wha6pzax

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David Frantz @dfrantz.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

🚨 Fresh off the press in #RSE: D. Klehr's first #PhD chapter 🎉 presents a new approach to surpass classification of tree species for large areas 🛰️🌳🌲. We pair #Sentinel2 #EarthObservation with #ANN #AI models to predict sub-pixel tree species! #OpenAccess: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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He YIN | 殷贺 @he-yin.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

👉 👉 👉 We're hiring! Seeking a NASA-funded postdoc/PhD candidate to use #RemoteSensing and #machinelearning, particularly #deeplearning to study disaster impacts on #AgriculturalLand. Please share! www.senslandlab.com/opportunitie...

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Opportunities

Kent State Campus. Credit: KSU

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Earth Observation Lab @humboldteolab.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

📣PNAS piece led by @philrufin.bsky.social: commercial very-high-resolution EO data is needed for monitoring SDG 2 indicators in smallholder landscapes but costs are prohibitive. A call for open access for sustainability-centered research: doi.org/10.1073/pnas... @humboldtuni.bsky.social

$A drone capture of a smallholder farming landscape. Overlaid are squares of the size of typical optical satellite missions. Openly accessible data (e.g. Landsat or Sentinel-2) is often not sufficient to capture the landscape complexity in full detail, for example when trying to delineate individual fields. Here, one Landsat pixel contains fractions of multiple fields. Commercial data come at higher spatial resolution, offering potential to discriminate indivudual landscape components.$

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Earth Observation Lab @humboldteolab.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

📣 New in Remote Sensing of Environment! PhD candidate @lasseharkort.bsky.social and team introduce a novel Phenological Feature Space (PFS) approach for mapping fractional vegetation cover in Sub-Saharan rangelands using Sentinel-2 time series. 🛰️ 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.rs...

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David Frantz @dfrantz.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Excellent to have you here! I joined 2mo ago, and so far it has been great :)

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HagollEO @hagolleo.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

I'm so happy and proud of this decision 🙂. It is very important now to use the data, and compare the performances obtained with 2 and 3 satellites in your future communications. It will be the good way to thank @esa.int and #Copernicus.

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David Frantz @dfrantz.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

💼Job Alert: I am hiring a PostDoc/PhD (100%, 3yrs) to develop and orchestrate cloud-based workflows within a project that will create a forest information system 🌳 for Germany based on #sentinel2 🛰️ and #als ✈️. tinyurl.com/4hw426vw #RemoteSensing #EarthObservation @unitrier.bsky.social @thuenen.de

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Jonas Alsleben @jalsleben.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Happy to share our new paper on soil-specific unmixing of croplands in Germany led by Felix Lobert. We adapted @katjakowalski.bsky.social’s approach using #Landsat and #Sentinel-2 🛰️ to account for soil variability using a soil reflectance composite developed at @thuenen.de EO: tinyurl.com/5n92ae5z

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Earth Observation for Ecosystem Management at TUM @eoem-tum.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

🎥 How do we study forests using satellite and laser data? Here's a overview by our Prof. Cornelius Senf (@corneliussenf.bsky.social) in a short video produced by @daadworldwide.bsky.social (with English subs): www.youtube.com/watch?si=KPm...

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Satelliten und Laser in der Waldforschung – Prof. Dr. Cornelius Senf zu seiner Forschung

YouTube video by DAAD Worldwide

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David Frantz @dfrantz.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

The first #sentinel2c #s2c image being processed by #FORCE_EO 🛰️ Data quality looks awesome!

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David Frantz @dfrantz.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

We just got word for being funded 🎅🎉 The next 3 years, we will work with @thuenen.de and other partners to develop a web-based forest information system 🌲🌳 for Germany 🇩🇪based on 🛰️ #sentinel2 and 🛩️ #als. We will put out a job offering soon! Keep your eyes open here on bluesky for updates (⬆️ follow)

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David Frantz @dfrantz.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

📢Our research on mapping societal material stocks 🏡🚗 is now featured on the #CDSE page as a use case! #sentinel1 #sentinel2 dataspace.copernicus.eu/cases/nation...

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Helmut Haberl a.k.a. Doc Dooley @hehaberl.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Fresh from the press: We map material stocks (concrete, steel, glass, bricks, etc.) in buildings world-wide. Maps are at 90m spatial resolution. Huge progress over previous results thanks to an excellent collaboration with German Aerospace. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Weighing the global built environment: High‐resolution mapping and quantification of material stocks in buildings

Buildings provide indispensable services for human well-being, but their construction and use are responsible for a substantial fraction of societies’ resource requirements and greenhouse gas emissio...

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David Frantz @dfrantz.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

📢Our research on mapping societal material stocks 🏡🚗 is now featured on the #CDSE page as a use case! #sentinel1 #sentinel2 dataspace.copernicus.eu/cases/natio… @BOKU_SEC

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David Frantz @dfrantz.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

🛰️🍷🌱🇩🇪 Are you interested in a fully-funded PhD position in #uav #remotesensing for health assessment of #vineyards for #precision #agriculture and #harvest #optimization? Apply here @TrierUni: www.uni-trier.de/fileadmin/organisa…...

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David Frantz @dfrantz.bsky.social · 12/09/2024

How can #Sentinel2 satellite data enhance large-scale forest fire risk maps for locally adaptive management? The #BrandSat project by @TrierUni and @HumboldtUni's @HumboldtEOLab explores this crucial issue. #ForestFireRisk #RemoteSensing #ClimateAction tinyurl.com/2s48st85

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David Frantz @dfrantz.bsky.social · 22/07/2024

What is the fastest way to get global #sentinel2 metadata from CDSE? I am currently struggling with pages and item limits. All, and @azlinszky, do you have some suggestions?

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David Frantz @dfrantz.bsky.social · 15/05/2024

📢New paper: temporally transferring crop type 🌽 maps based on #Sentinel2 & #Landsat🛰️using new data augmentation methods and CNNs. Also, Dong Pham's 1st #phd chapter 🥳: www.sciencedirect.com/science/artic…

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David Frantz @dfrantz.bsky.social · 07/05/2024

Interested in high thematic/spatial resolution, US-wide, and #OpenAccess data on building+roads in terms of area, height, volume, type, and mass? Check out our new demo video youtu.be/9CgVqCweuss?feature=shared via @YouTube @NatureComms @Axelsson_Ch

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David Frantz @dfrantz.bsky.social · 02/05/2024

📢 New paper: We mapped the whole "technomass" in the UK 🇬🇧 & Ireland 🇮🇪 at fine spatial (10m) and detailed thematic resolution based on #sentinel2 #sentinel1🛰️ + other GIS data --> 🇮🇪 has much more roads per🧑‍🤝‍🧑than 🇬🇧. #openaccess: www.sciencedirect.com/science/artic…...

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David Frantz @dfrantz.bsky.social · 28/03/2024

We compiled a huge, multi-faceted, high-resolution, #OpenAccess dataset across the whole CONUS, incl. building area, height, volume, type, mass. Plus infrastructure area and mass (roads, parking, and many other). Download: Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-…

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David Frantz @dfrantz.bsky.social · 11/03/2024

can anyone recommend open educational books in the field of geoinformatics / geospatial / GIS?

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David Frantz @dfrantz.bsky.social · 05/12/2023

📢Paper alert! How heavy is the USA 🇺🇸🏋️? In a nutshell: the mass of all US buildings, roads/rails, and parking spaces is ca. 130 Gt - or ~400 tonnes per person! Built structures 🏘️are 2.6 times heavier than all plant biomass 🌳! www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-… @NatureComms #ope...

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David Frantz @dfrantz.bsky.social · 08/11/2022

German #EO users: DYK that we have a harmonized #FORCE_EO #Landsat #Sentinel2 analysis-ready datacube on CODE-DE/EOLab covering the whole of Germany from 1984 to today? Updated nightly. Free data. More information: github.com/CODE-DE-EO-Lab/community…

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David Frantz @dfrantz.bsky.social · 20/10/2022

🌊🧊🛰️Are you excited about sea ice dynamics with remote sensing and machine learning? Work with us in the Earth Observation and Climate Processes dept @TrierUni www.uni-trier.de/fileadmin/organisa… #phdpos...

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David Frantz @dfrantz.bsky.social · 05/09/2022

#FORCE_EO v.3.7.8 was just released. FORCE is an all-in-one solution to enable large-scale EO applications using #Landsat and #Sentinel2. Preprocessing, ARD, temporal aggregation, machine learning, ........ best use with docker davidfrantz/force

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David Frantz @dfrantz.bsky.social · 19/07/2022

Interested in Arctic ice formation? New paper published with my colleague Sascha Willmes in @NatureComms that reports on the annual cycle of ice nucleating particles in the Arctic🚢🔍 #openaccess

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David Frantz @dfrantz.bsky.social · 15/06/2022

Interested in #fire #dynamics obtained from #remotesensing #MODIS? Six years after publishing a paper about obtaining fire spread information, we have eventually managed to release the Code! (better late than never, I reckon) github.com/davidfrantz/fire-spread @maerieninberlin

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David Frantz @dfrantz.bsky.social · 27/05/2022

#LPS22 is nearly over - if you are still here and interested in building height retrieval from #Sentinel2 #Sentinel1 data, come and have a chat at poster board 230 during lunch. For all, who could not attend: www.researchgate.net/publication/36…...

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David Frantz @dfrantz.bsky.social · 24/05/2022

Nice overview of the CMIX paper by Sergii Slaking at #LPS22 on cloud detection comparisons. Read the full paper here doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2022.112990

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David Frantz @dfrantz.bsky.social · 23/05/2022

The #FORCE_EO is strong with Hungary! Nice talk by @azlinszky about fuzzy crop monitoring

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David Frantz @dfrantz.bsky.social · 19/05/2022

International application for our #geoinformatics program is still possible until end of May. Study with us at @TrierUni ( and learn about #earthobservation #remotesensing #gis #dataviz #spatial #datascience #maps! More info at storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/3f6e9e…...

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David Frantz @dfrantz.bsky.social · 10/04/2022

We have completed the first large-scale cloud masking intercomparison eXercise for #Landsat and #Sentinel2! CMIX! A subjective IMHO-style thread ⬇️ www.sciencedirect.com/science/artic…

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David Frantz @dfrantz.bsky.social · 14/02/2022

#FORCE_EO v3.7.6 was just released. Most prominent feature: #Landsat9 support! 🚀🌎🌍🌏➡️🗺️ Thanks to @USGSLandsat @NASA_Landsat for this brilliant data quality!

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David Frantz @dfrantz.bsky.social · 11/02/2022

I just processed my first #landsat9 with #FORCE_EO 🚀. Expect a software update early next week!

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David Frantz @dfrantz.bsky.social · 21/10/2021

#FORCE_EO users beware (and please RT): ESA will launch the new #Sentinel2 baseline 04.00 on October 26 2021, which will break FORCE Level 2 Processing. Please upgrade to v. 3.7.2 asap to continue processing after this date!

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David Frantz @dfrantz.bsky.social · 01/09/2021

Just settling in at @TrierUni in my new position as Assistant Professor for Geoinformatics - Spatial Data Science 🛰️

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David Frantz @dfrantz.bsky.social · 01/06/2021

Do not miss Andreas Rabe's talk on #FORCE_EO-4-#QGIS next week at @FOSSGIS_Konf #FOSSGIS2021. #UI/#GIS-based compositing of #Landsat and #Sentinel2 #ARD! June 9 11:00 CET. fossgis-konferenz.de/2021/sessions/…

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David Frantz @dfrantz.bsky.social · 25/03/2021

Delightful to learn more about @PaoloDiTommaso 's take on enabling reproducible but highly scalable research. Although developed for bioinformatics, we are currently looking into @nextflowio for scaling #remotesensing #Landsat #Sentinel2 #datascience workflows!

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David Frantz @dfrantz.bsky.social · 05/09/2019

Just finished a very constructive workshop @EODC_GmbH @geodepartment talking about #Sentinel data cubes ...and visiting the supercomputer VSC-3 that is producing my #FORCE_EO #ARD data 🥳

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