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European Research Council (ERC) @erc.europa.eu · 31/05/2026

How to better understand droughts, fires and logging impacts on forests? ERC grantee Kim Calders builds digital twin forests using 3D laser scanning and satellite data. This can help improve climate models and forecasts of forest carbon dynamics 👉 bit.ly/4dstaT2 @kimcalders.bsky.social

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Mathias Disney @matdisney.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

New paper by Wout Cherlet & @qforestlab.bsky.social team led by @kimcalders.bsky.social, comparing tree extraction methods from TLS data. TL;DR it's hard to automate, ecosystem dependent & parametric approaches currently outperform DL www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Benchmarking tree instance segmentation of terrestrial laser scanning point clouds

Terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) has revolutionized forest measurement techniques by providing detailed three-dimensional (3D) point cloud data that c…

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ForNaLab @fornalab.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

The most well-know use-case of optical fibres is internet. We show that it actually allows us to measure microclimate temperatures at the ultra-high resolution of 25 cm! Since these fibres can be very long, up to 30 km (!), this novel means of environmental monitoring seems super promising.

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European Space Agency @esa.int · 23/06/2025

🆕 The first stunning images from our groundbreaking #Biomass satellite mission have been released – they mark a major leap forward in our ability to understand how Earth’s forests are changing and exactly how they contribute to the global carbon cycle 🌳🌍 www.esa.int/Applications...

This image features part of Bolivia. This vibrant image was created using the radar instrument’s different polarisation channels, with each colour revealing distinct characteristics of the landscape. For instance, green hues mainly represent rainforest, red hues forested floodplains and wetlands, and blue–purple is indicative of grasslands, while black areas are rivers and lakes. The image spans approximately 90 km along the Biomass satellite's flight path (length) and 60 km across in width, with north oriented to the right.

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Mathias Disney @matdisney.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Our new perspective on the use (& misuse) of what we're calling virtual forests (rather than digital twins!), for forest change from space, led by @kimcalders.bsky.social w many great colleagues 🔭 🧪🔬 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Realistic virtual forests for understanding forest disturbances and recovery from space

Forests worldwide are undergoing large-scale and unprecedented changes in terms of structure and composition due to land use change and natural distur…

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Kim Calders @kimcalders.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Job Alert! We are hiring a new PhD candidate to work with me and @louiseterryn.bsky.social on multitemporal terrestrial laser scanning for better understanding forest structural dynamics at @qforestlab.bsky.social . More info ➡️ bit.ly/449NunA Apply here ➡️ bit.ly/3I5AnMP Application deadline: Aug 3

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Kim Calders @kimcalders.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Our campaign in the Blue Mountains is coming to an end. Since late April, we have been scanning several plots covering different vegetation types (33 done currently) within the Blue Mountains Hub for Ecology & Conservation. [1/4]

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Emily Lines @emilyrlines.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Sensors, scientists and sunshine. Thanks for the great Strucnet vegetation structural dynamics meeting @kimcalders.bsky.social.

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Mathias Disney @matdisney.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Strucnet meeting organised by @kimcalders.bsky.social very much fun!

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Belinda Medlyn @bmedlyn.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

The #EucFACE canopy has finally recovered from the 19-20 drought and the 21-22 floods. Beautiful time for new Lidar scans! @westsyduhie.bsky.social @kimcalders.bsky.social

Ring 2 of the EucFACE experiment, May 2025. Trees have finally returned to good health after a string of extreme events

PhD students Wout and Zane from University of Ghent with TLS scanner at EucFACE

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Kim Calders @kimcalders.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Job Alert - Come work with us at @qforestlab.bsky.social! I'm hiring a postdoctoral fellow in vegetation remote sensing and radiative transfer to work on my @erc.europa.eu SPACETWIN project (spacetwin.ugent.be). More info ➡️ www.ugent.be/en/work/scie... Deadline: March 7

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Kim Calders @kimcalders.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

We are currently in Patagonia for our @ercresearch.bsky.social project #SPACETWIN, looking at the impact of caterpillar (Ormiscodes amphimone) disturbance on the Nothofagus forests. This is a @qforestlab.bsky.social collaboration with the team of Roberto O. Chávez from PUCV in Valparaíso [1/4]

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shilinchen.bsky.social @shilinchen.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

@qforestlab.bsky.social There are so many leaf-wood separation algorithms, don't know how to choose? Our latest work (from @qforestlab.bsky.social ) has addressed this issue by providing a robust evaluation framework. Interested? please check our paper: authors.elsevier.com/a/1kKNW7qzT3...

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Kim Calders @kimcalders.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Wouter & Wout from @qforestlab.bsky.social are currently collecting TLS data at the Caxiuanã through-fall exclusion (TFE) experiment for our #ERC SPACETWIN working with our Brazilian collaborators and Patrick Meir. Continuing the TLS time-series that was initiated by @matdisney.bsky.social [1/2]

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Rupert Seidl @rupertseidl.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Important finding for impact modelers by @kornhuber.bsky.social et al.: Climatic extremes change faster/ more severely than anticipated by climate models. The consequences anticipated with impact models (based on climate model-driven forcings) might thus be conservative. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Global emergence of regional heatwave hotspots outpaces climate model simulations | PNAS

Multiple recent record-shattering weather events raise questions about the adequacy of climate models to effectively predict and prepare for unprec...

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Phil Wilkes @kungphil.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Check out our database of 30+ ancient oaks 🌳 captured with #LiDAR For the tree 😍: sketchfab.com/SCATTER.project For the tree 🧑‍🔬: doi.org/10.5281/zenodo… Funded by the Woodland Trust. With support from the Ancient Tree Forum.

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Kim Calders @kimcalders.bsky.social · 15/07/2024

The first month of our field campaign in the Queensland Permanent Rainforest Plots (@QPRPaus - ) has been a success with 6 plots already completed and 10 more to go in the coming weeks! [1/5]

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Kim Calders @kimcalders.bsky.social · 17/04/2024

It was great having Maurice Leponce give a guest lecture in our BSc course on Ecology, covering Tropical forest biodiversity: large-scale inventories, canopy access, and the role of natural history museums. Great inspiration for our students!

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Kim Calders @kimcalders.bsky.social · 05/02/2024

Experimental work on nondestructive monitoring of the dielectric permittivity dynamics of trees for @ERC_Research SPACETWIN with the installation of 2 wood penetrating radars. In collaboration with François Demontoux & Ludovic Villard.

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Kim Calders @kimcalders.bsky.social · 19/01/2024

Lathamus Keep, a Tasmanian giant Eucalyptus globulus (+80 m tall) in the Huon Valley scanned by terrestrial and canopy laser scanning. At 8 m high, it’s diameter is still an astonishing 3 m! View it in 3D here: w. @TerraLuma @l_hambrecht @BarbaraDhont

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Kim Calders @kimcalders.bsky.social · 15/01/2024

Vacancy! Join our team as a postdoctoral fellow (2yr position) on our newly funded @FWOVlaanderen project with @LouiseTerrynn and @shaunlevick! Info: Apply by Feb 9:

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Kim Calders @kimcalders.bsky.social · 19/12/2023

What a great two weeks in Tasmania with @TerraLuma and @l_hambrecht mapping giant and old trees for @ERC_Research SPACETWIN. We managed to scan 10 giants (with some well over >80m in height).

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Kim Calders @kimcalders.bsky.social · 05/12/2023

I have arrived in Big Tree State Tasmania! Working with @UTAS_ @TerraLuma on giant tree mapping for @ERC_Research SPACETWIN, with help from @CorigJan, @l_hambrecht & the tree projects. More soon!

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Kim Calders @kimcalders.bsky.social · 03/12/2023

The first leg of my Australian fieldwork trip was a success with a range of benchmark scans covering various forest structures with our RIEGL TLS and the autonomous LEAF scanners from ESS Darius Culvenor. Glad to have some hands-on training for LEAF installment from Darius!

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Kim Calders @kimcalders.bsky.social · 27/10/2023

Wrapping up 2 weeks of fieldwork with @WoutCherlet in Brazil's Atlantic Forest at @araca_project and @antonelli_lab. Our main goal was to map the well-studied ficus tree from the ground & up in the canopy! [1/4]

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Kim Calders @kimcalders.bsky.social · 12/10/2023

Wouter & Zane are currently collecting data at the Caxiuanã through-fall exclusion (TFE) experiment for our @ERC_Research SPACETWIN working with our Brazilian collaborators and @pwmeir @EdinburghUni and further building the TLS time-series that was initiated by @mathiasdisney

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Kim Calders @kimcalders.bsky.social · 30/09/2023

New paper led by @Chang_Liu_RTM on the impact of # of individual reconstructed trees on stand level 3D scenes for radiative transfer modelling @WythamWoods . Full paper:

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Kim Calders @kimcalders.bsky.social · 13/09/2023

The wind conditions have not often been on our side this summer, but the coming days look very promising. @barryshilin and I will continue scanning our #bosland plots for #SPACETWIN and #projectWEAVE with @corneliussenf. Also check out the new graphics from @StudioKnets 👇

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Kim Calders @kimcalders.bsky.social · 17/08/2023

Very pleasant to have a #LOT meeting in the museum of natural sciences and quickly check out the dinosaurs too!

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Kim Calders @kimcalders.bsky.social · 17/08/2023

For an MSc project we are looking for any TLS data of #Oak trees to complement our own dataset. Reach out if you have some data that you are willing to share with us! (Any high-quality point cloud data is very welcome!)

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Kim Calders @kimcalders.bsky.social · 07/07/2023

Mapping out 3 x 1 ha sites and installing microclimate loggers (+ boar protection!) in #bosland w. @LouiseTerrynn. One more site is to be set up in a few weeks and many more sensors will be installed over the next months for @FWOVlaanderen #projectWEAVE with @corneliussenf

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Kim Calders @kimcalders.bsky.social · 21/06/2023

Next week we will start the first larger TLS field campaign supported by the @ERC_Research #SPACETWIN team in beautiful Berchtesgaden with @corneliussenf & @RupertSeidl!

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Kim Calders @kimcalders.bsky.social · 14/06/2023

Last week we finalised the training and calibrated ourselves in #Bosland before starting the fieldwork for our @ERC_Research SPACETWIN project. First trip will be later this month to Berchtesgaden with @corneliussenf and @RupertSeidl.

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Kim Calders @kimcalders.bsky.social · 01/06/2023

Good weather & good discussions at the first StrucNet User Workshop in @GFZ_Potsdam! More information on this very soon. Check our recent publication here: or catch my or @benjamin_brede presentations at #LPVE23 and @Silvilaser23 later this year.

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Kim Calders @kimcalders.bsky.social · 26/05/2023

Always nice to be back @ucl. Even nicer to have @prof_plewis talk about his favourite equations. Made me relive the vegetation science course again!

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Kim Calders @kimcalders.bsky.social · 25/04/2023

Great to have @Toby_D_Jackson visiting @CAVElab_UGent and learning more about forest disturbances and dynamics!

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Kim Calders @kimcalders.bsky.social · 14/04/2023

Check out our new publication where we propose StrucNet: a global network for automated vegetation structure monitoring: [1/4]

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Kim Calders @kimcalders.bsky.social · 23/03/2023

Join our team as a postdoctoral fellow (3yr position)! You will work on multi-temporal laser scanning to quantify forest dynamics and their impact on microclimate. Newly funded project with @corneliussenf. Info: Apply by 21/04:

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Kim Calders @kimcalders.bsky.social · 23/01/2023

Our open-source teaching materials from the COST action @3DForEcoTech summer school are online! Hopefully a useful resource for all, but especially for educators who want to include UAV/TLS/mobile laser scanning or photogrammetry in their teaching. ➡️

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Kim Calders @kimcalders.bsky.social · 17/01/2023

The first field campaign of the year is currently going on. @jasperfeyen is back in Suriname for more #mangrove scans!

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Kim Calders @kimcalders.bsky.social · 20/12/2022

After more than five years of work: our new publication on how to almost double woodland carbon overnight; or, when models work a bit too well. Full paper: [1/10]

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Kim Calders @kimcalders.bsky.social · 13/12/2022

New paper on topology-based individual tree segmentation for automated processing of TLS point clouds. Led by Xin Xu, w. @IuricichF @ArmstonJohn & De Floriani. Full paper:

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Kim Calders @kimcalders.bsky.social · 07/12/2022

Hands-on training before the first leaf-off TLS campaign of this winter. Robbe will be scanning more hedgerows in Flanders for his @FbwUGent MSc thesis!

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Kim Calders @kimcalders.bsky.social · 28/11/2022

New publication led by Bartholomeus where we compare 3 different UAV lidar sensors for vegetation monitoring. Full article: w. @LouiseTerrynn @sruthiMoorthy @shaunlevick @ReneeBartolo @Hans1Verbeeck @BelgianEO 1/2

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Kim Calders @kimcalders.bsky.social · 17/11/2022

More fieldwork capacity for our lab with the addition of another @RIEGL VZ400i. Next year looks very busy already! @ERC_Research #SPACETWIN

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Kim Calders @kimcalders.bsky.social · 27/10/2022

It's my @FbwUGent inaugural lecture today - you can still join!

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Kim Calders @kimcalders.bsky.social · 19/10/2022

Major update on the @WythamWoods virtual model: Version 5 (on master) fixes an error where the LAI was twice as large as it should be (created in version 3). If you have a local copy of the model, we encourage you to update your files:

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