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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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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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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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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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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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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 · 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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Marion Stellmes @maerien.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

🌐🛰️ Ever wondered how Deep Learning models like UNet can be applied? Checkout the beginner tutorials from @ffassnacht.bsky.social @fub-remotesensing.bsky.social

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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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Marion Stellmes @maerien.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Das war ein schöner Abend und es hat Spaß gemacht teilzunehmen mit dem Team von @fub-remotesensing.bsky.social

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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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Freie Universität Berlin @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

🔥 Feuer als Werkzeug des Menschen: Internat. Studie mit Beteiligung der #Paläontologie der #FUBerlin & @paleoclimategirl.bsky.social in @pnas.org zeigt: Schon vor über 50.000 Jahren formten Menschen mit Feuer gezielt Landschaften – 10.000 Jahre früher als gedacht PM➡️ www.fu-berlin.de/presse/infor...

Die Grafik zeig den eine brennende Savanne. Darüber gelegt ist der Schriftzug "Vom Lag rf u r zur Klimakris". Im Schrifzug wurde bewusst der Buchstabe "E" weggelassen, um auf die Einsparungen für Universitäten durch den Berliner Senat aufmerksam zu machen.
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Freie Universität Berlin @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Vom 23. bis 29. Juni streicht die #FUBerlin das "E", um zu zeigen, was fehlt, wenn Substanz gestrichen wird. Allein für 2025 sollen die Kürzungen rund 37 Million n uro betragen. D r B rlin r S nat g fährd t damit L hr, Forschung und Zukunftssich rh it. All Infos ➡️ tinyurl.com/aktionswoche...

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