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Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics - Freie Universität Berlin @fub-remotesensing.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

🎉 A very warm welcome to Prof. Dr. Philippe Rufin! As of 17 August 2026, Philippe Rufin @philrufin.bsky.social has taken over as Head of the Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics group at the Institute of Geographical Sciences at Freie Universität Berlin. We are delighted to have you with us 🌍🛰️

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Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics - Freie Universität Berlin @fub-remotesensing.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

🌲🌲🌲 DATASET ALERT 🌲🌳🌲 We just published a highly detailed terrestrial laser scanning dataset of a pine (Pinus sylvestris) stand in Brandenburg, Germany, covering no less than 5 ha in area! More than 450 scans - combined into one point cloud. Find it here: zenodo.org/records/2177... 💻 #TLS #Riegl

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Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics - Freie Universität Berlin @fub-remotesensing.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

🎉 Congratulations to Jun.-Prof. Dr. María Piquer-Rodríguez @mariapiquerr.bsky.social on receiving the runner-up award for the Rosalind Franklin Award for Scientific Integrity at #FUBerlin! shorturl.at/LBuEn

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Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics - Freie Universität Berlin @fub-remotesensing.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

🎓 Congratulations to Dr. Aldino Rizaldi from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf on successfully defending his PhD thesis at FU Berlin: 🎓 "Deep Learning for 3D Point Clouds: Multimodal and Label-Efficient Learning for Geoscience Applications" 💾🛰️👨‍💻

Dr. Aldino Rizaldi during the presentation of his PhD defence standing on stage in a lecture hall showing his presentation.

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Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics - Freie Universität Berlin @fub-remotesensing.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

🎓 Congratulations to Dr. Christopher Schiller from our group on successfully defending his PhD thesis: 🎓 "Towards Operational Large-Scale Forest Disturbance Monitoring in Central Europe Using Sentinel-2 Time Series and Deep Learning Methods" 🌲🛰️👨‍💻

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Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics - Freie Universität Berlin @fub-remotesensing.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

🚲 #Stadtradeln Berlin // City cycling Berlin 🚲 In just 3 weeks, the Geoscience Cyclists biked 11.304 km! 🌍 That's 73 times the length of the Berlin Wall or 1.500 times the distance between the Geocampus in Lanwitz and the main Campus in Dahlem 🚲 Let this be the start of a great biking summer 🚴☀️

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Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics - Freie Universität Berlin @fub-remotesensing.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

🛰️ The Magic/Avalon/Beam Campaign started 🛰️ - and Thomas from our group is in Belgium taking part! We are looking forward to the campaign! Only the weather could be better. It's raining in Belgium. 🌧️ But still, a lot is happening. Have a look at magic.aeris-data.fr/magic-avalon/ 🌈😊🌞

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Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics - Freie Universität Berlin @fub-remotesensing.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

🚲 #Stadtradeln Berlin // City cicling Berlin 🚲 Starting today we are getting on our bikes. In just a few hours the Geoscientists already biked more than 100 km 🥳 Not enrolled jet? You can still join our team, the Geoscience Cyclists: shorturl.at/42rbX 🚴☀️🌍

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STADTRADELN - Radeln für ein gutes Klima

Beim Wettbewerb STADTRADELN trittst du 21 Tage in die Pedale für mehr Radförderung, Klimaschutz und Lebensqualität in deiner Kommune.

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Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics - Freie Universität Berlin @fub-remotesensing.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

*** Plot of the week: NO_11 (Østlandet, Norway) *** Do all boreal forests look alike? Definitely not! Each Picea abies plot surprised us in Norway—unique structure, unique story, caught in 3D. 🌲🦌🌲 #TLS #Riegl

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Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics - Freie Universität Berlin @fub-remotesensing.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

*** Plot of the week: LP_16 (La Palma, Canary Islands) *** 🔥🌲 Post-fire regrowth means wild tree shapes and species mixes—scanning the Canary Island pines on La Palma was a 3D treat for tree nerds 🌲🔥 #TLS #Riegl

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Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics - Freie Universität Berlin @fub-remotesensing.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

🚲 Stadtradeln Berlin // City cicling Berlin 🚲 Are you * biking * in Berlin * related to the Geography department at FU? Join our team!! The Geoscience Cyclists shorturl.at/42rbX From 20.05. to 09.06.2026 we are getting on our bikes - for sunny rides and a bike friendly city 🚲☀️🌍 #stadtradeln

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STADTRADELN - Radeln für ein gutes Klima

Beim Wettbewerb STADTRADELN trittst du 21 Tage in die Pedale für mehr Radförderung, Klimaschutz und Lebensqualität in deiner Kommune.

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Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics - Freie Universität Berlin @fub-remotesensing.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

How do Satellites 🛰️ help in the global monitoring of fires? 🔥 Have a look at the FIRE COMPASS - FIRE DATA FROM SPACE shorturl.at/xE1fi For students, teachers, researchers and anyone curious to learn more! Authored by Marion Stellmes (@maerien.bsky.social) and Helga Kuechly, published by WWF Germany.

Title page of the WWF FIRE COMPASS - Fire Data from Space
The Document can be found here: https://www.wwf.de/fileadmin/fm-wwf/Publikationen-PDF/Wald/WWF-Feuerkompass-Daten-englisch.pdf
The picture shows a sattelite image with an actively buring fire and big smoke columns

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Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics - Freie Universität Berlin @fub-remotesensing.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

*** Plot of the week: ES_18 (Galicia, Spain) *** Young pine forests can be dense! Compass, tape, and the mighty Riegl helped us through the thickets. 🌲🌲🌲 Worth every step for open 3D data. 💻📊 #TLS #Riegl

A screenshot of a terrestrial laser scanning forest point cloud showing a dense, young pine plantation in Spain

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Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics - Freie Universität Berlin @fub-remotesensing.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Plot of the week: CZ_14 (Czechia) A pure pine plantation—open understory, easy scanning, and the sweetest wild blueberries for the crew! Sometimes, the field’s a treat. 🌲🫐🌲 Interested in 3D forest data? Have a look! #TLS #Riegl

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Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics - Freie Universität Berlin @fub-remotesensing.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Spring is here — kicking off a new season of data collection on our #sensorfield in Brandenburg 🌱📡 We’re excited for another year of research into seeding and tree growth, powered by high-resolution climate and soil moisture measurements from our sensor network! 🌲🌳🌡️

The solar powered base station we are using for our Lorawan Network (picture copyright: Johann Meindl)

Pine tree crowns above our sensorfield (picture copyright: Miriam Herrmann)

Fieldwork impressions, a GPS receiver, tablet and note pad on the forest floor (picture copyright: Johann Meindl)

Evening light in the pine forest (picture copyright: Miriam Herrmann)

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Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics - Freie Universität Berlin @fub-remotesensing.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

*** Plot of the week: BB_12 (Brandenburg, Germany) *** Overstory pines tower above, but young Quercus are getting ready to take the forest throne! 🌲🌳🌿 Interested in 3D forest data showing a gradient from Pine to Oak-dominated forests? This dataset is for you 💻📊 #TLS #Riegl

A screenshot of a 3D point cloud showing forest structure of a Pine forest in Brandenburg, Germany

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Marion Stellmes @maerien.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Excited to see this published! 🐄📡 Using GPS tracking, we explore how pastoralists in East Africa navigate resource variability through cattle movements. Great to be part of this work led by Mohamed Shibia 🙂 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #Pastoralism #Livestock #EastAfrica #RemoteSensing

A cow carrying a GPS collar in a cattle herd (on May 9th 2014) grazes on a grazing unit in Irbi village, southern Ethiopia. Based on the published data, this area denotes a flat, abundant-vegetation, highly fluctuating grazing unit.

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Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics - Freie Universität Berlin @fub-remotesensing.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

*** Data set alert *** We are excited to share our new 3D forest dataset 🌲🌳🌿💻📊 121 terrestrial laser-scanning plots across Europe, all scanned using the same protocol and scanner! From pines to oaks and spruce, it’s a journey through the continent’s forests in millimeter detail. #TLS #Riegl

Dataset structure of the advertised Terrestrial laser scanning dataset collection.
The collection contains 121 forest plots, each 50 x 50 m at 1 cm spatial resolution. The collection is structured in 5 campaigns, one in Galicia, Spain, one in La Palma, Spain, one in Ostlandet, Norway, one n Brandenburg, Germany and one in Czechia. For each campaign a picture of an example point cloud is shown.

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Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics - Freie Universität Berlin @fub-remotesensing.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

👋 Farewell to Prof. Dr. Fabian Faßnacht We say goodbye to @ffassnacht.bsky.social. The past years were filled with fieldwork, international collaborations, and unforgettable excursions. Thank you for your openness, creativity, and the great atmosphere in the group!🙏 All the best at BOKU Vienna!🍀

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Berlin University Alliance @berlinualliance.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

🎉BREAKING: Die #BerlinUAlliance schreibt Geschichte und wird als erster Verbund für weitere sieben Jahre im Rahmen der #Exzellenzstrategie von Bund und Ländern gefördert! 👉 Mehr erfahren: www.berlin-university-alliance.de/items/2026/2...

BEYOND BOUNDARIES - MOVING FORWARD TOGETHER: Wir feiern weitere sieben Jahre Exzellenzförderung!

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Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics - Freie Universität Berlin @fub-remotesensing.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Over the past year, we had the chance to take part in an art–science film exploring terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) 🎥🌲. Working with artists Stephen Cornford & Theo Stanley gave us a fresh perspective on how our forest data can be seen and questioned beyond science.

Colored terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) point clouds showing a forest in 3D. Trees and vegetation appear as dense constellations of points, revealing forest structure through measurement while highlighting how laser scanning reshapes the way we see, interpret, and abstract natural environments.

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Dax Kellie @daxkellie.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Still want to make cleaning biodiversity data shrimp-ler? 🦐 Good news: We just updated our Cleaning Biodiversity Data in R book, so you still can! We've updated data for 2025, added new content & fixed lots of silly typos 😀 Live the shrimp-le life: cleaning-data-r.ala.org.au #rstats #ecology 🧪🌏

The cover of the Cleaning Biodiversity Data in R book. It has an illustration of an Pacific Cleaner Shrimp in the middle of a navy background. The shrimp has a bright red-orange shell, pale-yellow body and white whiskers.

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Erin Buchholtz @erinbuchholtz.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Conference travel award opportunity: Foreign Scholar Travel Award to attend the International Association for Landscape Ecology - North America chapter (IALE-NA) conference in April 2026. www.ialena.org/foreign-scholar-award.html & bit.ly/IALENA-FSTA-.... Apply by Nov. 2, 2025! 🧪🌎

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Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics - Freie Universität Berlin @fub-remotesensing.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

A new semester kicks off this week at Berlin’s universities - back to campus vibes! 🎓✨ Our team is ready for a winter term of teaching GIS & remote sensing at Lankwitz. Wishing students & lecturers alike a semester full of learning, discovery & good energy! 🚀📚🌍 #FreieUniversität #BackToCampus

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Jennifer Mach (she/they) @jennifermach.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Great to see so many #PlantScience journals, societies, and institutions here. Tag in if we missed one!

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Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics - Freie Universität Berlin @fub-remotesensing.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

We were delighted to host a research exchange with colleagues from @CzechGlobe 🇨🇿 in Berlin! 🌍 We discussed forestry-focused remote sensing, explored opportunities for future collaboration, and visited study sites like the #sensorfield in Brandenburg. 🌲📡 Thanks for the great visit! #TeamScience

We are visiting our study site in the forest. Under tall pine trees our technichian shows a station with a solar pannel that is used to send data collected on the site to an online dashboard.

Together we are looking at small oak seedings in mossy undergrowth that grow beneath the big pine trees to form a new forest generation. Some small oaks are tagged with numbered blue plates. Their size is remeasured every year. In the background one can see a station with sensors that measure air temperature, humidity and light intensity.

We dig up a soil sample to see how much organic material is present on the forest floor. One can see a small pit and one of our senior researchers feeling how sandy the soil is.

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Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics - Freie Universität Berlin @fub-remotesensing.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

20 plots, hundreds of #Riegl TLS scans, thousands of berries… 🌲🫐 and a million laughs. Norway field campaign = success! 💪 Now we are back in Berlin and ready to process our data. Shoutout to our amazing field crew: Arvin, Asad, Chiara, Ephraim, Johann, Marius & Miriam! #RonnieRieglOnTour

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Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics - Freie Universität Berlin @fub-remotesensing.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Our fieldwork is in full go – our team is out in the woods every day batteling rain, swamps, sheep and running from cows – the dangers you find in northern Europe 😉 – all with the #Riegl on our shoulders. But check out these stunning views we get in return! It’s all worth it. #RonnieRieglOnTour

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Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics - Freie Universität Berlin @fub-remotesensing.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

We are getting ready to head to Norway! 🌲🌾🌲 Our team will collect terrestrial laser scanning data to on the connection between forest structure and biodiversity – we are looking forward to two weeks in the beautiful boreal forest north of Oslo. And we are prepared for swampy conditions 😉

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Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics - Freie Universität Berlin @fub-remotesensing.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

🛰️ Spending 5 months at the Remote Sensing Lab, Freie Universität, to advance my research on protected area management. Grateful for this opportunity and looking forward to the Norway field trip with this amazing team! – chiaramansi93.bsky.social 🌳 #remotesensing #conservation #Erasmus+ #biodiversity

A sunlit path lined with stone-filled metal gabion walls and dense green foliage on a university campus, leading through a lush, tree-covered area with a bright blue sky overhead. (photo by Chiara Mansi)

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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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Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics - Freie Universität Berlin @fub-remotesensing.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

On our idyllic GeoCampus Lankwitz, smart sensors track tree growth, soil moisture & light of some of our many trees. TLS scans turn trees like "Rosie" 🌳 the chestnut into stunning 3D models 👓. #TTN #SmartForestry #IoT #TreeGrowth #LoRaWAN #ForestEcology #SensingFUB

Blooming horse chestnut tree ‘Rosie’ on the GeoCampus Lankwitz, with pink blossoms, green grass, and a partly cloudy sky.

Close-up of a tree trunk equipped with environmental sensors for measuring growth, light, and soil moisture on the GeoCampus Lankwitz.

3D point cloud model of a tree from TLS scan, color-coded by height from pink at the base to yellow in the upper canopy, on a black background.

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Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics - Freie Universität Berlin @fub-remotesensing.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

🌳 In Brandenburg, we’ve set up a TTN-connected station to monitor soil moisture & light intensity—exploring how these factors affect young oak seedlings growing under mature pines. Stay tuned for more news from our #sensorfield! #SmartForestry #IoT #TreeGrowth #LoRaWAN #ForestEcology #SensingFUB

Young oak seedlings growing in a row on a mossy forest floor under tall pine trees.

Two people wearing yellow safety vests working with a sensor device in a pine forest.

Looking up at the canopy of tall pine trees against a cloudy sky.

Solar-powered LoRaWan station with a large solar panel and control units mounted on a metal frame, installed in a forest clearing.

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Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics - Freie Universität Berlin @fub-remotesensing.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

🌲 Meet Hua (shorturl.at/3DGFl), one of our PhD researcher! His research focuses on generating high-quality virtual point clouds that realistically include lower vegetation. This helps improve tasks like semantic segmentation and biomass estimation. Smarter, more reliable ecological AI starts here.

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Biogeography Berlin @biogeoberlin.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Considering land use complexity and overlap is critical for sustainability planning. New paper led by Marie Pratzer - out in OneEarth: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @tkuemmerle.bsky.social @matthiasbaumann.bsky.social @pedrofernandez91.bsky.social @oneearthofficial.bsky.social

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Silvilaser2025 @silvilaser2025.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

LAST CALL📣 for early bird registration! These rates will NOT be extended 💸 Prices go up July 2! Students (MSc/PhD): $650 early bird/$750 regular Standard registration (including PDF): $950 early bird/$1,150 regular See you in Quebec Sep 29-Oct 3! ⚜️ event.fourwaves.com/silvilaser2025/pages

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Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics - Freie Universität Berlin @fub-remotesensing.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

📣 Just a few days to go! Join us this Saturday, June 28 at #LNDW2025 in the Theaterhof of the Silberlaube @FUBerlin. As a special add on we’ll be showcasing a small art project by ZK/U fellows, created in collaboration with us: Visual Cultures of Forest Carbon - www.zku-berlin.org/fellows/754/ 🌳🌲

Colored laser scan of a forest in Brandenburg.

Colored laser scan of an office and the trees outside.

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Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics - Freie Universität Berlin @fub-remotesensing.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

🌲 Curious about what trees do for us—and how we can measure it? Visit us at #LNDW2025 in the Theaterhof of the Silberlaube #FUBerlin on June 28th! Together we use our new laser scanner to turn trees into 3D models to study their health, structure, & carbon storage. Don’t miss it! 🌳

Illustration of a Mobil Laser Scanning device

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Miriam Herrmann @miriamher.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Just picked up my poster! Off to Vienna tomorrow—can’t wait to share my work in the "Advances in Monitoring and Management of Forest Ecosystems" session next Friday. Come say hi if you're around! 🌲🔥🛰️ #LPS25

An excerpt of a scientific poster showing a graphic of a Terrestrial Laser Scanner

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Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics - Freie Universität Berlin @fub-remotesensing.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Three of us—@ffassnacht.bsky.social , @miriamher.bsky.social & @HuaJiang—are heading to the Living Planet Symposium in Vienna next week! We will present on forest practitioners' requirements for remote sensing-based products and modeling surface fuels from 3D TLS Data. Hope to see you there!🌍 #LPS25

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Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics - Freie Universität Berlin @fub-remotesensing.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Hello everyone! We’re the Remote Sensing & Geoinformatics Group at FU Berlin. We study trees and ecosystems using tech like LiDAR, satellites & AI. From forests to cities, we’re all about research, learning, teaching and collaboration. Excited to share our journey with you! 🌳📡💥🛸🛰️🤓💻🌍

False color view of a Sentinel-2 Scene showing Berlin

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