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Daniel Plauba @palubad.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Our study was awarded the 2025 Outstanding Paper Award by the @bigearthdata1.bsky.social at @tandfresearch.bsky.social ! I am grateful for this recognition to the editorial board, reviewers and my co-athors! Read the full paper here: doi.org/10.1080/2096... @sciencecharles.bsky.social

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Daniel Plauba @palubad.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Introducing GEM-Forest, a 10m Global EMbedding-based #forest and tree crop map for 2020 that combines linear SVM and Google DeepMind's AEF satellite #embeddings. Read the preprint: doi.org/10.5194/egus... @valeriomarsocci.bsky.social @adamhastie.bsky.social #philab #GISChat #GeoSky #EOChat

We created a new global map of forests and tree crops for 2020 at 10 meter resolution using satellite embeddings. After testing several machine learning methods, we found that simple linear models performed as well as or better than more complex ones. The map identifies forests with 91 % accuracy and separates tree crops with low confusion with forests. This shows that satellite embeddings can support reliable and efficient global forest monitoring and inform international and national policies.

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Big Earth Data @bigearthdata1.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

📢Evaluation of ten #satellite-based and #reanalysis #precipitation datasets on a daily basis for #Czechia (2001–2021) by Daniel Paluba et al. @palubad.bsky.social 👉https://doi.org/10.1080/20964471.2025.2592444 💌 #ERA5 #timeseries #meteorology #remotesensing #earthobservation #GIS #opendata

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Daniel Plauba @palubad.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Our new #OpenAccess paper in @bigearthdata1.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social on evaluation of 10 satellite-based and reanalysis #precipitation datasets on a daily basis for #Czechia doi.org/10.1080/20964471.2025.2592444 Most accurate: GSMaP & ERA5-Land Worst results: CHIRPS, GLDAS & PERSIANN

The front page of our article in Big Earth Data journal titled "Evaluation of ten satellite-based and reanalysis precipitationdatasets on a daily basis for Czechia (2001–2021)" by Daniel Paluba, Vojtěch Bližňák, Miloslav Müller and Přemysl Štych. Access the study using the DOI link: https://doi.org/10.1080/20964471.2025.2592444

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Daniel Plauba @palubad.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Now you can watch the recording of my presentation on estimating #NDVI, EVI, LAI and FAPAR using #SAR and ancillary data through #machinelearning approaches during the @pangeos-ca22136.bsky.social webinar, summarizing two studies: doi.org/10.14712/233... & doi.org/10.1080/2096... #geosky #GEE #EO

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Can we estimate optical vegetation indices and biophysical parameters usingSentinel-1 SAR data?

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Daniel Plauba @palubad.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

‼️ Fully-funded #PhD #position on “Integration of Advanced Spectral and Thermal #RemoteSensing Methods and #ArtificialIntelligence for Assessing the State and Functioning of Ecosystems across Scales” at @sciencecharles.bsky.social 🇨🇿 🔗 Detailed info: shorturl.at/GKICI 🗓️ Deadline: December 15, 2025

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Daniel Plauba @palubad.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Last Monday, during the @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social C3S User engagement workshop within the #CzechSpaceWeek, I got a chance to present our work on the evaluation of precipitation datasets in Czechia. The paper is currently under review, but the preprint is available here: doi.org/10.13140/RG....

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Daniel Plauba @palubad.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

🌳 Last week I participated at the Interdisciplinary Summer School on Forest Ecosystems in Oxford with 40+ participants from 25 countries. 5 intensive days with a field trip, lectures, hands-ons & even keynotes in pubs. Thanks @mokros.bsky.social and his team for the organization! #ConnectedByTrees

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Daniel Plauba @palubad.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

During the ESA #LPS2025 in Vienna last week, I had the chance to present our work on estimating time series of vegetation indices for Central European #forests using Sentinel-1 #SAR, ancillary data and #ML approaches. 🔗 More details in our paper published earlier this year: doi.org/10.1080/2096...

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Daniel Plauba @palubad.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

⏳ Reminder: The application deadline for the 14th #ESA Advanced Land #Training course with the focus on #agriculture has been extended to 1st July 2025! 🗓️ 29 Sept. - 3 Oct. 2025 📍 Thessaloniki, Greece 👇 Find out more directly on the course website: landtraining2025.esa.int #EOchat #GISchat

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ESA Advanced Land Training Course 2025

The European Space Agency (ESA) is organising an Advanced Training Course on Land Remote Sensing with the focus on Agriculture in collaboration with the University of Thessaloniki. This course is dedi...

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Daniel Plauba @palubad.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

📢 Last 3 days to apply for #ESA 14th Advanced #Training Course on Land #RemoteSensing with a focus on #Agriculture! 📅 When: 29 September - 3 October 2025 📍 Where: Thessaloniki, Greece 👉 Deadline: 12 June 2025 🔗 More info and registration: landtraining2025.esa.int #GISchat #EOchat #geosky #eo

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Daniel Plauba @palubad.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Last week, I participated the #CLMSGA2025 in Kraków, Poland, where I presented the MMTS-GEE tool to generate spatially and temporally aligned SAR, optical, topographic and meteo. data. I also showed two case studies using MMTS-GEE: 1️⃣ doi.org/10.14712/233... 2️⃣ doi.org/10.1080/2096... #GisChat #GeoSky

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Daniel Plauba @palubad.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

🌍 Join us for a presentation by Dr. Francesco Sarti from ESA/ESRIN on "Our planet from space: ESA’s satellite missions & education" 📅 Wednesday, 28 May 2025 14:00–15:30 📍 Kampus Hybernská, A.3 Velká zasedací místnost, Hybernská 998/4, Prague, Register: evening-closet-d98.notion.site/1ff8779ec7b7...

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Daniel Plauba @palubad.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

🌧️ Which #precipitation dataset is the most accurate on a daily basis in Central European conditions? We tried to answer this question evaluating 10 satellite-based and #reanalysis precipitation datasets on a daily basis for #Czechia (2001-2021). 🔗More in our #preprint: dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG....

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Daniel Plauba @palubad.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Can we estimate optical vegetation indices and biohpysical parameters for forests using #Sentinel1 #SAR & ancillary data? We tried to answer this in our latest paper in @bigearthdata1.bsky.social With the help of #machinelearning we generated SAR-based NDVI, EVI, LAI & FAPAR doi.org/10.1080/2096...

https://doi.org/10.1080/20964471.2025.2459300

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Daniel Plauba @palubad.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

🌍 I have created an interactive #GEE app to generate #Sentinel2 cloud-free mosaics for any country and timeframe, defined by the user. Generate your mosaics: danielp.users.earthengine.app/view/sentinel2-cloudfree-mosaic-generator GitHub: github.com/palubad/S2-Mosaic-Generator #gischat #dataviz

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Daniel Plauba @palubad.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

The March issue of the #CopernicusAcademy CZ #newsletter is here! It brings a plenty of #EarthObservation opportunities: online and face-to-face trainings, workshops and conferences. Read it here: shorturl.at/NTIUD While it is in Czech, most events are in English, so don’t miss out any! #gischat

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Daniel Plauba @palubad.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

🌍🛰️ Přihlašte se do našeho magisterského studijního programu #Geoinformatika, #kartografie a dálkový průzkum Země! ⏳ Máte posledních 10 dní - do 31. 3. 2025 - na podání přihlášky! Více o programu: natur.cuni.cz/uchazeci/stu... #RemoteSensing #EarthObservation #GIS #Cartography

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Daniel Plauba @palubad.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

AI to generate #podcast from research papers? I just tested Google's #NotebookLM tool by uploading our 2 research papers on #unsupervised #wildfire progression monitoring with #SAR data. It resulted in a surprisingly engaging podcast. Full podcast and papers attached in the comment 👇 #gischat

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Robbi Bishop-Taylor 🛰️🌏 @satellitesci.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

There's now so many awesome #geospatial people here it's hard to keep track! 🤩 Here's a thread of some of my favourite starter packs so far - let me know what I've missed! 🛰️ Earth Observation & remote sensing: go.bsky.app/4PMRhNL 🌏 GIS: go.bsky.app/TJ7qQF6 @milos-makes-maps.bsky.social (1/n)

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Daniel Plauba @palubad.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

📰 The February issue of the Copernicus Academy CZ newsletter is out! It’s packed with new EO training and webinar invitations, exciting ESA opportunities, upcoming conferences and more. Read it here: eo4landscape.natur.cuni.cz/wp-admin/adm...

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Daniel Plauba @palubad.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

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Charles University @charlesuni.cuni.cz · 22/02/2025

🇨🇿 Study in one of the world’s safest countries! 📚 Thinking about studying abroad? The Czech Republic ranks 12th in the Global Peace Index 2025, making it one of the safest destinations for international students! 📌 Learn more at studycharles.cz

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Daniel Plauba @palubad.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

🔥 This Wednesday, I reached a major milestone: I successfully completed my #PhD journey by defending my thesis ‘Advancing #Forest Monitoring using #Sentinel1 C-band #SAR Time Series and #MachineLearning Approaches' at the @sciencecharles.bsky.social @charlesuni.cuni.cz Details on my thesis 👇

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Daniel Plauba @palubad.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

🌍 🛰️ Are you in Prague on 13th of February? Join our seminar at @sciencecharles.bsky.social on 'Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) from basics to applications in Earth Observation' with our special guest Prof. Fabio Del Frate from the University of Rome "Tor Vergata".

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Daniel Plauba @palubad.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Using your bikes🚴🏼 have a high financial benefit as well!

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Cycling UK Official @cyclinguk.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

💸 Does cycling boost your (bank) balance? With petrol over £75 a tank and car servicing at £151, driving costs add up fast. Meanwhile, cycling—no fuel, no pricey repairs, just savings. Swap short car trips for cycling and ease the squeeze on your wallet. 🔗 cyclinguk.org/financial-benefits-cycling

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The financial benefits of cycling: How pedalling more can save you money

Learn more about the money saving benefits of embracing cycling

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Daniel Plauba @palubad.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

🌍🛰️ Calling for EO researchers and professionals (especially) from the Baltics - Latvia, Lithuania & Estonia! 🎓 Your response is needed to help us identify your needs for the upcoming ESA course "Big Data Foundations for EO" in Riga Latvia, 22–26 Sep 2025. 🔗 Take the survey here: lnkd.in/gkzT8gGu

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Daniel Plauba @palubad.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

🔥 The newest issue of the Copernicus Academy CZ Newsletter (in Czech 🇨🇿) is out! Read it here: eo4landscape.natur.cuni.cz/wp-admin/adm... Find invitations to some upcoming conferences, webinars, online tranings, workshops and courses. Subscribe here: eo4landscape.natur.cuni.cz/newsletter-2/

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Michelle Wille @duckswabber.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Between 2019 and 2023, researchers paid $8.968 billion to make papers open access. Imagine what else could be done with this money if it wasnt paid to for profit publishing companies... 👉 arxiv.org/abs/2407.16551

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Simon Proud @simonsat.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Some more good news for the Sentinel-2 mission! Sentinel-2A, which recently retired, has been given a temporary extension, where it will support S2B and S2C to provide additional data. Lots of hard work behind the scenes to make this happen. Glad to see it! sentinels.copernicus.eu/web/sentinel...

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Sentinel-2A: Exceptional temporary extension campaign starting in March 2025 - Sentinel Online

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Nico Lang @nicolang.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Recordings of the SSL4EO-2024 summer school are now released! This blog post summarizes what has been covered: langnico.github.io/posts/SSL4EO... Recordings: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... Course website: ankitkariryaa.github.io/ssl4eo/ [1/3]

Screenshot of the course website for "SSL4EO: Self-Supervised Learning for Earth Observation"

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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 18/11/2024

We strongly suggest that academic publishers and other platforms that host research rapidly implement a Share to Bluesky button for their articles. Here's how: docs.bsky.app/docs/advance... #AcademicSky #HigherEd #Altmetrics

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Action Intent Links | Bluesky

Authors, websites, and apps can use action intent links to implement "Share on Bluesky" buttons, or similar in-app actions. Logged-in users will be directed to the corresponding action view in the Blu...

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Samuel Müller @sammuller.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

This might be the first time after 10 years that boosted trees are not the best default choice when working with data in tables. Instead a pre-trained neural network is, the new TabPFN, as we just published in Nature 🎉

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Jáchym Brzezina @jachymbrzezina.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

1/X Hotovo! Envidata 10.0 jsou k dispozici-dosud největší aktualizace v historii tohoto projektu. Pojďme se podívat, co je nového. Kromě aktualizovaného vzhledu jsou to zejména kompletní časové řady, nové prvky, více stanic, výrazně lepší grafické zpracování a mnoho nových možností práce s daty.

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Daniel Plauba @palubad.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

⌛️ Last Tuesday marked the end of my more than six-year journey at the PR Department of @sciencecharles.bsky.social 🐣 I started here during my master's, but over these 6 years, I had the opportunity to get to know it from a much different perspective than an average student could.

📸 The headquarters of the Faculty of Science, Charles University (home to the Dean's office, Geography and Geology sections) at Albertov 6, Prague by Petr Jan Juračka

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Daniel Plauba @palubad.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

🌳 Our latest paper identifies the most effective #Sentinel1 #SAR features for #forest monitoring, exploring their relationship with optical vegetation indices, DEM-based and climate data Paper: karolinum.cz/data/clanek/... Tool to generate multi-modal time series in #GEE: github.com/palubad/MMTS...

Fig. 5. Average and individual time series for 2021 of a) NDVI, b) EVI, c) LAI and d) FAPAR using all input data for broad-leaved and coniferous forests.
Note: dec. = deciduous forests, con. = coniferous forests

Fig. 6. Average and individual time series of a) VH, b) VV, c) VV/VH and d) VH/VV using all input data for broad-leaved and coniferous forests.
Note: dec. = broad-leaved forests, con. = coniferous forests

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Daniel Plauba @palubad.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

📰 Právě jsme vydali listopadové číslo Copernicus Academy CZ newsletter: eo4landscape.natur.cuni.cz/wp-admin/adm... Čekají na vás novinky a příležitosti ze světa dálkového průzkumu Země #remotesensing #earthobservation 👇 Přihlašte se k odběru zde: eo4landscape.natur.cuni.cz/newsletter-2

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Daniel Plauba @palubad.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Hi, I am Daniel, a PhD candidate at Charles University in Prague, focusing on #forest monitoring using #SAR, #timeseries & #machinelearning. I am also passionate about education and capacity building, promoting #remotesensing and #GIS at all levels of education, from primary schools to universities.

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