Philippe Rufin @philrufin.bsky.social · 02/09/2026The crowdfunding campaign to acquire an irrigation pump for farmers in the surroundings of Gilé National Park in Mozambique was a success - thanks to everyone involved! Here´s a short blog post on the campaign, featuring a video message from the farmers: philipperufin.github.io/blog/crowdfu... 020
Reposted by Philippe RufinEarth Observation Lab @humboldteolab.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Beneath the tundra and forests of the Arctic lies permafrost: ground frozen year-round. @smstuenzi.bsky.social's research focuses on how boreal forests and permafrost interact, and what happens when that relationship breaks down. Read all about it in this new StoryMap! arcg.is/18Wa810 152
Philippe Rufin @philrufin.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Blurry Vision - Do context-aware Earth embeddings such as Alpha Earth Foundations suppress spatial variability? Check out our experiment in the blog post: philipperufin.github.io/blog/blurryv... 012
Reposted by Philippe RufinMegha Satyanarayana @megha.bsky.social · 16/06/2026@timnitgebru.blacksky.app was really generous with her time when i asked her for this interview for @sciam.bsky.social #sciamyoungscientists. she has a lot of prescient things to say here. take a look. www.scientificamerican.com/article/timn...scientificamerican.comTimnit Gebru on how to safeguard independent science for the AI ageOn safeguarding independent research in the age of big tech 19437
Philippe Rufin @philrufin.bsky.social · 14/06/2026GLP Week of Land System Science is coming up with plenty of cool content, including the remote sensing working group´s webinar on "Pixel Politics: Advancing Critical Remote Sensing": Join @glp-earth.bsky.social & sign up: members.glp.earth/networks/eve...members.glp.earthPixel Politics: Advancing Critical Remote Sensing<!--br {mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> The GLP Working Group on Remote Sensing for Land System Science is proud to have Mia Bennett as a guest speaker for this webinar on "Pixel Politics". Mia´s wo... 021
Reposted by Philippe RufinEarth Observation Lab @humboldteolab.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Grassland age is a critical parameter influencing carbon sequestration potential, biodiversity support, and ecosystem resilience. A new study published in Remote Sensing of Environment presents a national-scale framework to estimate grassland age across Germany using satellite time series: 111
Reposted by Philippe RufinTobias Kuemmerle @tkuemmerle.bsky.social · 13/05/2026Angola’s northern escarpment forest is disappearing before our eyes --> doi.org/10.1038/s415... 043
Philippe Rufin @philrufin.bsky.social · 12/05/2026🛰️⌨️🌽Field delineation code repository v1 online: github.com/philipperufi... Test smallholder field delineation workflow in Mozambique with sample data and pre-trained models: produce pseudo-labels, run fine-tuning, inference and post-processing.github.comGitHub - philipperufin/smallholder-fieldsContribute to philipperufin/smallholder-fields development by creating an account on GitHub. 011
Reposted by Philippe RufinEarth Observation Lab @humboldteolab.bsky.social · 04/05/2026Smallholder farming systems are notoriously difficult to map from space. Landscapes are fragmented and global maps often disagree, yet data on where farming actually happens is fundamental to designing effective land use and sustainability policies. A few things stood out in the data! 📊 ⬇️ 183
Reposted by Philippe RufinEarth Observation Lab @humboldteolab.bsky.social · 23/04/2026New publication out now! @philrufin.bsky.social, Pauline Hammer et al. mapped 17M fields in Mozambique using deep learning and satellite imagery. With 78% of fields being <0.5 ha, this provides critical data for sustainable land use policies! Read more here: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1... 042
Reposted by Philippe RufinIngrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 01/04/2026www.microsoft.com/en-us/micros... is it good to build an entire economy and software infrastructure on this 18177492017
Reposted by Philippe RufinSam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social · 30/03/2026ICYMI, I got to talk to dynamic duo @emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social for the 404 Media podcast. we get into what keeps us hopeful, why Emily is done with the word "democratizing" in AI, and ridicule as praxis. listen wherever you get your pods! www.404media.co/ridicule-as-... 513238
Philippe Rufin @philrufin.bsky.social · 25/03/2026Worthwile feature on Dr. Ibrahim´s PhD research @humboldteolab.bsky.social on farming systems in Nigeria! 001
Reposted by Philippe RufinESA Earth Observation @esaearth.esa.int · 09/03/2026We love reading good news! In the past three years alone, the TPM programme has contributed to 882 research projects, helping teams from 66 countries, including Greece, Italy, the UK, and many more. Here are some examples: earth.esa.int/eogateway/in... 0173
Reposted by Philippe RufinCommon Space @commonspace.bsky.social · 15/08/2025Posting for reach because I dont know how the Blue Sky Algorithm works: The Moral Case for a Humanitarian Satellite: www.linkedin.com/pulse/moral-... It's about time that the space race included missions that actually help the people. #Remotesensing #CivilSociety #humanitarian #GISlinkedin.comA Moral Case for a Humanitarian Satellite: At what point does inaction become unconscionable?What does it say about our world when we spend over $54 billion a year on defense and intelligence satellites to spy on each other - yet cannot dedicate even one satellite to saving lives? We take pic... 0139
Reposted by Philippe RufinTatsuya Amano @tatsuya-amano.bsky.social · 18/02/2026In this work led by Josh Wilson, we labelled 4824 drone-based images containing 49990 birds from 101 species and trained a bird detection and ID model. The model achieved precision = 0.91 for detection & 0.65 for species/age/sex classification. zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.comBig Bird: A global dataset of birds in drone imagery annotated to species levelDrones are a valuable tool for surveying birds, but manually detecting and identifying birds in drone images is costly. We assembled a diverse dataset of 23 865 images of birds captured with 21 diffe... 02513
Reposted by Philippe RufinEarth Observation Lab @humboldteolab.bsky.social · 13/02/2026How can a “Digital Twin” help to build a more resilient agricultural future? The #EOAgriTwin project creates virtual replicas of agricultural systems to monitor crop conditions under various stressors. Explore the tools, use cases and methods in this video!youtube.comEOAgriTwin: Earth Observation-based Digital Twin for Resilient Agriculture under Multiple StressorsYouTube video by Leibniz-Zentrum für Agrarlandschaftsforschung (ZALF) e.V. 022
Reposted by Philippe RufinBiogeography Berlin @biogeoberlin.bsky.social · 12/02/2026Commodity frontiers expand more slowly into tropical forests where forest smallholders are present – new paper out in PNAS led by Marie Pratzer www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... @tkuemmerle.bsky.social @humboldtuni.bsky.social @pnas.org 195
Reposted by Philippe RufinAdmirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 08/02/2026Valerie Thomas spent 30+ years at NASA helping revolutionize how we see images from space & our own world. #WomenInSTEM Managed the development of the first image-processing systems for the Landsat program allowing satellites to send the 1st multi-spectral pictures of Earth back to scientists.(1/2) 131365324
Reposted by Philippe RufinEarth Observation Lab @humboldteolab.bsky.social · 04/02/2026EOLab’s Florian Poetzschner is presenting current progress of Field delineation and water use assessment for EOAgriTwin - ‘A Digital Twin for Agriculture under multiple stressors’ at ESA's Open Science Meeting in Frascati Find out more about the project: www.eoagritwin.eu 031
Reposted by Philippe RufinThe Maybe @themaybe.org · 03/02/2026In two weeks, world leaders and tech executives will descend on Delhi for the AI Impact Summit 2026. There, power brokers will paint a pretty picture of the role AI will play in saving the world - from sharing prosperity to fixing climate change. 46230
Reposted by Philippe RufinMirela G. Tulbure, PhD @mirelagtulbure.bsky.social · 11/12/2025🌍 Geospatial data science in 2025 still comes down to two words: foundation models. And over the past months, we’ve had the chance to put that idea into practice for global flood mapping. Summary figures & discussion on Hugging Face: 👉 lnkd.in/euR9DXfX Full technical preprint: 👉 lnkd.in/eYMCZd9e 163
Reposted by Philippe RufinGohar Ghazaryan @ggohar.bsky.social · 05/12/2025Join us for the upcoming #EOAgriTwin webinar focusing on the latest progress of our #DigitalTwin Component for agriculture. We will share the current status and demonstrate key capabilities. 📅 13 January 2026, 13:00 Registration: www.eoagritwin.eu/webinar @zalf.bsky.social 031
Philippe Rufin @philrufin.bsky.social · 05/11/2025Thanks to an amazing network of colleagues and friends, 50% of the funding have been secured already! 🌍🌽💧 000
Philippe Rufin @philrufin.bsky.social · 26/10/2025Following a field campaign in Gilé National Park, Mozambique, I´ve launched a crowdfunding campaign to support nature conservation by helping farmers improve their production with irrigation: www.gofundme.com/f/fight-pove... Please help make this work and donate or share with friends & family! ❤️gofundme.comDonate to Protecting nature by fighting poverty in Mozambique, organized by Philippe RufinI am Philippe Rufin, a scientist working in the nexus of small-scal… Philippe Rufin needs your support for Protecting nature by fighting poverty in Mozambique 020
Reposted by Philippe RufinBill Greer @billfgreer.bsky.social · 21/08/2025I was on a podcast talking about Common Space: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQof... I can't stand listening to myself speak, so let me know if i was any good.youtube.comEarth Observed | Episode 1: Bill Greer | How Nonprofit Satellites Could Change EverythingYouTube video by The Leadership Lab 021
Philippe Rufin @philrufin.bsky.social · 21/07/2025Great to see this out - Shupel is a true role model, paving the way for female researchers from northern Nigeria! 030
Reposted by Philippe RufinEarth Observation Lab @humboldteolab.bsky.social · 21/07/2025Using Remote Sensing and Agro-Ecosystem Modelling 🛰️🌽📈, Esther Shupel Ibrahim analyzes impacts of climate change and diseases on smallholder agriculture in Nigeria and develops strategies to support and empower smallholder farmers. Find out more about her PhD research in this StoryMap: arcg.is/1bG48K 175
Reposted by Philippe RufinSimeon Schmauß @stim3on.bsky.social · 19/07/2025On July 3rd, astronaut Nichole Ayers photographed a rare Gigantic jet from the ISS. These upward directed electrical discharges extend 90-100 km high into the atmosphere. I processed this image from the RAW file, adjusting the white balance, contrast and noise reduction. Full res: flic.kr/p/2rhxqcK 320280
Reposted by Philippe RufinKevin Anchukaitis @thirstygecko.bsky.social · 18/07/2025Fascinating ... and a hopeful sign 0329
Philippe Rufin @philrufin.bsky.social · 17/07/2025🌍 🛰️ 🌱 🌽👨🏿🌾🛖💻⚙️ Preprint on national-scale satellite-based crop field delineation in smallholder landscapes is out: doi.org/10.48550/arX... 🌍 🛰️ 🌱 🌽👨🏿🌾🛖💻⚙️ 1133
Reposted by Philippe RufinDr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 17/07/2025We have decided to ban the use of GenAI for research, writing & creative work at our organization. In fact, we make people sign an agreement saying that their research, analysis, writing, and creative work are *theirs* and not done by GenAI. 371968370
Reposted by Philippe RufinCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 16/07/2025Peer review meltdown in one diagram. Greater emphasis on glamour journals leads people to try their luck with mediocre papers. This drains the review pool (they often have to be re-reviewed elsewhere). That drops the accuracy of peer review, creating more incentive to submit mediocre papers… 610828
Reposted by Philippe RufinNASAWATCH @nasawatch.bsky.social · 16/07/2025U.S. House Subcommittee Rejects Proposed NASA Budget Cuts aviationweek.com/space/budget... #NASAaviationweek.comU.S. House Subcommittee Rejects Proposed NASA Budget Cuts | Aviation Week NetworkA U.S. House subcommittee on July 15 voted to reject NASA funding cuts contained in the White House’s fiscal 2026 budget proposal. 2258
Reposted by Philippe RufinDaniel Müller @danielmu11er.bsky.social · 30/06/2025The data cover 19 EU countries with up to 17 years of annual data. It includes detailed crop codes, farm identifiers, and organic cultivation status—crucial for analysing land-use changes and farming practices 043
Reposted by Philippe RufinDaniel Müller @danielmu11er.bsky.social · 30/06/2025A comprehensive field- and farm-level land-use dataset from the Integrated Administration and Control System (IACS) is now available: doi.org/10.1038/s415... #OpenData #EUAgri #LandUse #SustainableFarmingdoi.orgField and farm-level data on agricultural land use for the European Union - Scientific DataScientific Data - Field and farm-level data on agricultural land use for the European Union 042
Philippe Rufin @philrufin.bsky.social · 30/06/2025#LPS25 was a fantastic experience but let´s take a step back and reflect on the potential (and the role) of commercial EO data providers in contributing to pressing #sustainability challenges. Here´s a short recap of arguments from the scientific community: doi.org/10.1073/pnas...doi.orgTo enhance sustainable development goal research, open up commercial satellite image archives | PNASTo enhance sustainable development goal research, open up commercial satellite image archives 072
Reposted by Philippe RufinEarth Observation Lab @humboldteolab.bsky.social · 27/06/2025#LPS25 wildE presentation on High resolution reconstructions of Pan-European woody cover timeseries from 1990-2024 by Shawn Schneidereit upcoming in Hall F2 at 11:30h! 042
Reposted by Philippe RufinQiusheng Wu @giswqs.bsky.social · 27/06/2025🎉 Happy to see that my "Introduction to GIS Programming" book has reached #1 in the Top Books category on Leanpub! 🚀 I've sold 200 copies in just 2 days! Huge thanks to the incredible #geospatial community for your amazing support! 🙏 Check it out: leanpub.com/gispro 0111
Reposted by Philippe RufinEarth Observation Lab @humboldteolab.bsky.social · 27/06/2025Don’t miss EOLab’s contributions to #LPS25 Session A.02.07 - Monitoring Grasslands and Rangelands from Space Part 1 with Dr. Marcel Schwieder at 8:30 Part 2 with @lasseharkort.bsky.social at 11:30 See you at Room 1.34! 192
Reposted by Philippe RufinEarth Observation Lab @humboldteolab.bsky.social · 25/06/2025SEN4MOZ - @eoafrica-rd.org collaboration between @humboldteolab.bsky.social and Universidade Eduardo Mondlane! Poster presentation by @lennarteichfuss.bsky.social and João Chibue Domingos upcoming at X5 – Poster Area – Zone R. More info: eolab.geographie.hu-berlin.de/research_pro... 142
Philippe Rufin @philrufin.bsky.social · 25/06/2025Great in-person meeting of the entire SEN4MOZ @eoafrica-rd.org project team at #LPS25! @humboldteolab.bsky.social 0121
Philippe Rufin @philrufin.bsky.social · 25/06/2025#LPS25 poster alert: National scale field delineation in #Mozambique using 1.5m SPOT data, mapping field size & linking to #deforestation. Come by @ Hall X5, Poster S18. 0112
Reposted by Philippe RufinEarth Observation Lab @humboldteolab.bsky.social · 25/06/2025Big day ahead at @esa.int’s #LPS25 with contributions by EOLab's @jakimowb.bsky.social, @philrufin.bsky.social, @lennarteichfuss.bsky.social and many more - come by! 062
Reposted by Philippe RufinEarth Observation Lab @humboldteolab.bsky.social · 24/06/2025#LPS25 ESA Digital Twin Project EOAgriTwin: Earth Observation based Digital Twin for Resilient Agriculture under Multiple Stressors led by @ggohar.bsky.social @zalf.bsky.social - more info at www.eoagritwin.eu/%E2%80%AC 061
Philippe Rufin @philrufin.bsky.social · 24/06/2025Brilliant opening statement for #LPS25 - we need to join forces to accelerate the move from more data to more knowledge! 050
Reposted by Philippe RufinMarco Wolsza @maawoo.bsky.social · 24/06/2025The first #ESA #BIOMASS image was revealed at #LPS25 yesterday. You can find a few more images (like the one attached showing desert structures in Chad) as well as additional information in this article: www.esa.int/Applications... 0102
Reposted by Philippe RufinGohar Ghazaryan @ggohar.bsky.social · 24/06/2025Join the @esaearth.esa.int project #EOAgriTwin presentation today and also don't miss the Booth Area tomorrow!youtu.beEOAgriTwin: Earth Observation-based Digital Twin for Resilient Agriculture under Multiple StressorsYouTube video by Leibniz-Zentrum für Agrarlandschaftsforschung (ZALF) e.V. 031
Philippe Rufin @philrufin.bsky.social · 24/06/2025Follow our EOAgriTwin project and the latest development in #EarthObservation based #DigitalTwins at #LPS25! Today 14:00 in Hall K1, presentation by @ggohar.bsky.social @zalf.bsky.social @humboldteolab.bsky.social 073
Reposted by Philippe RufinEarth Observation Lab @humboldteolab.bsky.social · 23/06/2025Humboldt EOLab at #LPS25 in Vienna! We are looking forward to lots of interesting presentations and posters from @hostertp.bsky.social, @ggohar.bsky.social , @kelewinska.bsky.social and many more. Have a look at the full list of EOLab contributions: eolab.geographie.hu-berlin.de/uploads/EOLa.... 086