Sign in

Luke A. Brown

@lukeabrown.bsky.social
777 followers 178 following 16 posts

Senior Lecturer in Earth Observation @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social and recent @esa.int Living Planet Fellow. Views my own. scholar.google.com/citations?user=0…

PostsRepliesMedia
Luke A. Brown @lukeabrown.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
It was great to be back at ESRIN today for the 7th @esa.int Sentinel-2 Validation Team meeting, presenting GROUNDED EO results and next steps, as well as celebrating 10 years of the Sentinel-2 mission.
040
Reposted by Luke A. Brown
Mathias Disney @matdisney.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Our new perspective on what TLS can (& can't) do in forest research www.nature.com/articles/s41... - led by Eduardo Maeda w lots of great colleagues including @kimcalders.bsky.social @emilyrlines.bsky.social @louiseterryn.bsky.social @benjaminbrede.bsky.social (apols for any I don;t have @ for)
nature.com
Expanding forest research with terrestrial LiDAR technology - Nature Communications
This Review highlights how terrestrial laser scanning is transforming forest research by enabling highly detailed 3D measurements of trees, supporting applications in forest ecology, carbon monitoring, and biodiversity assessment.
22913
Luke A. Brown @lukeabrown.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Pleased to be in Helsinki yesterday for the @esa.int QA4EO-2 Calibration/Validation Workshop, hosted by the Finnish Meteorological Institute: earth.esa.int/eogateway/ev...
030
Reposted by Luke A. Brown
Dr Heidi Colthup @heidi-colthup.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
A colleague has just shared this with me - it's a really good article from @davehitchcock.bsky.social about the crisis in UK Universities. The situation is more dire than the public realise. www.historyworkshop.org.uk/education/a-... #AcademicSky
historyworkshop.org.uk
A Decade of Crisis
The UK's universities are in crisis. Dave Hitchcock on how the sector became 'broken' and why it must be understood as an interdependent system.
0117
Luke A. Brown @lukeabrown.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
In Warsaw for the 3DForEcoTech final conference this week, and was happy to be able to share our latest work on terrestrial laser scanning of forest environments yesterday!
050
Reposted by Luke A. Brown
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...
sciencedirect.com
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…
03513
Luke A. Brown @lukeabrown.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
In Vienna this week for the @esa.int Living Planet Symposium! I'll be presenting my GROUNDED EO project in the "A.01.11 Living Planet Fellowship Programme Coordination" session on Friday morning (Room 0.14). If you can't make that, I'll also have a poster up on Friday afternoon (Zone S-T).
000
Reposted by Luke A. Brown
Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
📖Published📖 Brown et al. describe their new leaf-wood classification approach and benchmark its performance for leaf area index (LAI) and wood area index (WAI) estimation 🍃🌍 🧪 Read the article here 👇 buff.ly/H56JQ3B
0111
Reposted by Luke A. Brown
Mike Wulder @mikewulder.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Stability of biophysical products indicates can quantify the physical response of vegetation to climate variability, disturbances & regeneration. 🏆 Djamai et al. On the consistency and stability of vegetation biophysical variables retrievals from #Landsat 8/9 and #Sentinel2. doi.org/10.1016/j.is...
061
Luke A. Brown @lukeabrown.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
A further paper out this week! This time in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social - we detail a new leaf-wood classification method for terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) data, making use of co-registered near-infrared photography: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
062
Luke A. Brown @lukeabrown.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Four(!) permanent positions are now open within our @salforduni.bsky.social Geography & Environmental Management team: 1 x Prof. and 1 x Lecturer in Physical Geography, 1 x Senior Lecturer in Geography, and 1 x Lecturer in Occupational Safety & Health. Deadline 12th June, apply at jobs.salford.ac.uk
011
Luke A. Brown @lukeabrown.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
New @esa.int GROUNDED EO results out in RSE! See the paper for a new data-driven Sentinel-2 LAI & FAPAR algorithm that reduces bias w.r.t. state-of-the-art. Based on a huge in situ database with uncertainties (>16,000 samples from 81 NEON, ICOS & TERN sites). www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
0174
Reposted by Luke A. Brown
Emily Lines @emilyrlines.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Sensors, scientists and sunshine. Thanks for the great Strucnet vegetation structural dynamics meeting @kimcalders.bsky.social.
0142
Reposted by Luke A. Brown
Mathias Disney @matdisney.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Strucnet meeting organised by @kimcalders.bsky.social very much fun!
0113
Reposted by Luke A. Brown
Alastair Owens @alastairhackney.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Our @geographicalassoc.bsky.social statement on the crisis impacting UK Higher Education Geography. We urge universities to maintain their current capacity for geography and to capitalise on its growth in schools and relevance to the workplace and wider economy. geography.org.uk/ga-higher-ed...
geography.org.uk
GA Higher Education geography statement - Geographical Association
As the subject association for geography the Geographical Association is concerned about the funding position of many UK universities...
01916
Luke A. Brown @lukeabrown.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
First look at some data from last week's leaf-off scanning with our new VZ-600i
050
Luke A. Brown @lukeabrown.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Just in time for leaf-off scans with the new kit
0100
Reposted by Luke A. Brown
Martin Mokros @mokros.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
📢 Call for Participants! 3rd Interdisciplinary Summer School on Forest Ecosystems 💰 No registration fee + full expenses covered! Organized by four COST Actions 📍 Where: Oxford University & Wytham Woods 📅 When: 4–8 August 2025 📝 More here: bit.ly/3FWRvDp #SummerSchool #Forest #COSTActions
01713
Reposted by Luke A. Brown
Emily Lines @emilyrlines.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
I am #hiring! Do you like #lidar #data and #forests? Enjoy both computational & field work? I am hiring a Computational and Field Senior Technician to join my UKRI FLF project team for 2 yrs, based in Cambridge, UK (not remote). More details here (closing April 7th) www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50700/
jobs.cam.ac.uk
Computational & Field Senior Technician (Fixed Term) - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge
Computational & Field Senior Technician (Fixed Term) in the Department of Geography at the University of Cambridge.
11212
Luke A. Brown @lukeabrown.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Very happy to have taken delivery of our new RIEGL VZ-600i terrestrial laser scanner earlier this week. A huge upgrade over our ageing LMS-Z390. Now looking forward to getting out for some data collection...
070
Reposted by Luke A. Brown
HagollEO @hagolleo.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
#Sentinel2 -A is back for 12 months, together with S2B and S2C ! Many thanks to #Copernicus and @esa.int, and to all those who asked for it in our petition.
Copernicus browser view showing S2A images acquired on the 14th of March 2025.
0195
Reposted by Luke A. Brown
Prof Charles Musselwhite @charliemuss.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Imagine being a government and having a truly world leading industry that also contributes directly and indirectly to regional and national economy, produces leaders, thinkers and workers of the future and then not supporting it. This is the result - now coming to several UK universities…
01910
Reposted by Luke A. Brown
Mathias Disney @matdisney.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Fully funded PhD w me and @kungphil.bsky.social looking at the structure & function of urban forests in 3D using ground data, lidar, modelling, all the fun stuff. Check it out and get in touch if you're interested www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/qua...
trees-dla.ac.uk
Quantifying the structure, function and utility of urban forests | UCL Trees
60% of the global population will be urban by 2030. Urban forests provide massively important ecosystem and amenity benefits including health, climate mitigation, recreational and aesthetic. But these...
0119
Reposted by Luke A. Brown
Luke A. Brown @lukeabrown.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Reminder about our funded PhD opportunity on dual-wavelength laser scanning for estimating chlorophyll content & vegetation health. Based at @unisouthampton.bsky.social under the IGNITE NERC DLA with supervision from Jadu Dash, Jo Nield and myself. Further details: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
056
Reposted by Luke A. Brown
Feng Yin (Marc) @marcyin.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Happy to share our new paper: Archetypal crop trait dynamics for enhanced retrieval of biophysical parameters from Sentinel-2 MSI It’s out on RSE now: doi.org/10.1016/j.rs...
024
Luke A. Brown @lukeabrown.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Reminder about our funded PhD opportunity on dual-wavelength laser scanning for estimating chlorophyll content & vegetation health. Based at @unisouthampton.bsky.social under the IGNITE NERC DLA with supervision from Jadu Dash, Jo Nield and myself. Further details: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
056
Reposted by Luke A. Brown
Ben Whitham @drbenwhitham.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Yesterday a story about 1k possible job losses in the automotive sector was top of the morning news. 10k possible job losses in HE was buried in the sector trade paper's coverage of redundancies at Sussex. Gov't & media refuse to recognise a crisis in HE. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/around-...
From the Times Higher Education: The announcement makes it the 80th known university to announce cuts in recent years, according to an influential list compiled by the University and College Union branch at Queen Mary University of London. 

The milestone comes as Times Higher Education recently reported that university leaders anticipate job losses to hit 10,000 by the end of the year, as major cuts become commonplace in the sector.
112695
Reposted by Luke A. Brown
Robert Simmon @rsimmon.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Wyvern Space (working on a hyperspectral constellation) has an open position for a calibration & validation scientist in Edmonton: wyvern.rippling-ats.com/job/864009/i...
wyvern.rippling-ats.com
IMAGE AND CALIBRATION / VALIDATION SCIENTIST
<strong>Wyvern </strong>is making something big. Our vision is to provide actionable intelligence from space, anywhere in the solar system. To achieve this we need to entirely reimagine how satellite ...
051
Reposted by Luke A. Brown
Emily Lines @emilyrlines.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Interested in a #phd in remote sensing of forests? Want to come work with me in Cambridge using drones and ground-based Lidar and photogrammetry? Check out this funding opportunity for the EPSRC Sensor CDT #phd #forests #remotesensing #lidar 🌳🌲🛰️⚡ www.findaphd.com/phds/program...
findaphd.com
FindAPhD : EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Sensor Technologies and Applications in an Uncertain World (Sensor CDT) at University of Cambridge
Apply for a PhD: EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Sensor Technologies and Applications in an Uncertain World (Sensor CDT) at University of Cambridge
15634