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Christoph Rieke

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Christoph Rieke @chrieke.bsky.social · Nov 11

If you are looking for geospatial jobs or customers have a look at the geospatial-companies list. Around 700 companies from all over the world, working with 🌎 GIS 🛰️ Earth Observation ☁️️ Climate ✈️ UAV etc. New platform, maybe someone doesn't know it yet :) github.com/chrieke/awes...

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Gohar Ghazaryan @ggohar.bsky.social · Aug 21

Still time to register for the hybrid workshop on satellite #EO data in agriculture!
Keynote: Prof. Dr. Patrick Hostert from @humboldteolab.bsky.social -Novel Opportunities in Optical Remote Sensing for Agricultural Monitoring Towards 2030.
🛠Hands-on with Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2, PlanetScope & EnMAP

Leibniz-Zentrum für Agrarlandschaftsforschung (ZALF) @zalf.bsky.social · Aug 12

📡🌍 🌱 Analyzing fields with #satellite data & #AI:

On September 10, 2025, ZALF in Müncheberg is hosting a hybrid KiKompAg workshop. 👩‍💻
Learn more about #remote sensing, artificial intelligence and modern analysis methods for #agriculture!

👉 Registration & more Info:
www.zalf.de/en/aktue...

Workshop on Advanced Earth Observation, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
for Agricultural Applications
MULTI-SOURCE REMOTE SENSING FOR AGRICULTURE
Date: September 10th, 2025
Location: Hybrid – Online & In-Person (at ZALF)

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Christoph Rieke @chrieke.bsky.social · Aug 5

So often felt like a hidden superpower if used in moderation, READMES etc. Now it's becoming an anti pattern

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mrocklin.bsky.social @mrocklin.bsky.social · Jul 24

Recent tiny blogpost. I mourn Twitter-that-was, and a culture of working in public beyond just the sharing successes and announcements that I see on LinkedIn.

matthewrocklin.com/fail-in-public

(although admittedly this probably is less relevant to the BlueSky crowd)

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Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics - Freie Universität Berlin @fub-remotesensing.bsky.social · Jul 22

🚀 Getting started with Deep Learning for remote sensing? Check out these beginner tutorials from FU Berlin: 🧠 UNet in PyTorch: bit.ly/3GBWPx1 🛰️ Segment Anything for GeoTIFFs: bit.ly/3GBWRVF 🌍 #DeepLearning #PyTorch #GeospatialAI #UNet #SegmentAnything #EarthObservation #OpenScience

Three-panel image showing a UNet model applied to remote sensing imagery. Left: grayscale UNet output showing probability map of detected features, here trees. Center: input false-color infrared satellite image with vegetation coloured in reddish colours. Right: same input with bright green overlay showing segmented tree crown areas after thresholding.

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Christoph Rieke @chrieke.bsky.social · Jul 15

Even if you know the COG format pretty well, you will probably find new info in here. Great talk by Jeff Albrecht.

CNG @cloudnativegeo.org · Jul 9

🆕 #CNG2025 session recording
Jeff Albrecht from Regrow's talk on whether the Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF (COG) data format is scalable. Jeff shares his insights from working with COGs, including the pain points and solutions for serving COG data
▶️ youtu.be/-9tNOBRidVA

[CNG 2025] Is COG Scalable? – Jeff Albrecht

YouTube video by Cloud-Native Geospatial Forum

youtu.be

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Christoph Rieke @chrieke.bsky.social · Jul 6

Anything markdown most likely. mkdocs material, docusaurus are popular for package documentation, for inspiration.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · Jul 4

"the American realignment with Russia and against Ukraine and Europe is gathering pace—not merely in rhetoric but in reality"

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

The U.S. Is Switching Sides

Donald Trump is giving Vladimir Putin every incentive to keep killing Ukrainians.

www.theatlantic.com

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Charlie Marsh @crmarsh.com · Jul 3

The uv build backend is now stable, and considered ready for production use.

An alternative to setuptools, hatchling, etc. for pure Python projects, with a focus on good defaults, user-friendly error messages, and performance.

When used with uv, it's 10-35x faster.

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Christoph Rieke @chrieke.bsky.social · Jul 2

ML4Earth one is free though vs AI4EO 500Euro for industry, hmmmm

Christoph Rieke @chrieke.bsky.social · Jul 2

Both seem interesting! ml4earth.de/workshop_2025/ ai4eo2025.irisa.fr

Workshop 2025 – ML4

ml4earth.de

Christoph Rieke @chrieke.bsky.social · Jul 2

So now there is the 2day AI4EO symposium in Renne in Sep 25 (previously 3 times in Munich organized by TU Munich), and new 1.5 day ML4Earth in Bonn also in Sep 25, directly organized by TU Munich. What's up with that.

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Martin A. Nuñez @martin-nunez.bsky.social · Jul 1

Very cool paper!
It is shocking how few forest areas in Europe are not managed www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Map of Europe and their forest use. Very little (1%?) is not managed at all

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Fiona Gregory @fionag11.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · Jun 29

Akis Karagiannis has written an excellent synopsis of the #LivingPlanet Symposium #earthobservation

https://www.spectralreflectance.space/p/reflections-from-the-2025-living

"Several sessions that were supposed to feature NASA researchers ended up half-empty. One session had eight scheduled […]

Original post on mapstodon.space

mapstodon.space

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Jose 💀"Mangler-ito"💀 Caldas @josemanolitocaldas.bsky.social · Jun 29

Nancy Grave style maps. @johnnelsonmaps.bsky.social
(NANCY GRAVES
Untitled #127 - Drawing of the Moon)

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Christoph Rieke @chrieke.bsky.social · Jun 27

First time someone from far away knows my hometown just because of it's remote sensing department doing good work with @earth-observation.org & eagle

Christoph Rieke @chrieke.bsky.social · Jun 27

Join us at the Geospatial Tech Meetup in Munich, 10. July! Speakers from OroraTech, Ocell, Huawei. Chill chats after, everyone is welcome and super welcoming! meetu.ps/e/P7p3Q/BHlr...

🌍 Geospatial Tech Meetup – Explore, Connect, Innovate!, Thu, Jul 10, 2025, 6:30 PM | Meetup

Hey geoawesome folks and map lovers! We’ve got an epic **Geospatial Technology Meetup** coming your way – and you’re invited! Come hang out with fellow geo-geeks, data wiz

meetu.ps

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SmartForest4.0 @smartforest.bsky.social · Jun 26

🌲🚀 Big leap in #SmartForest AI!

Meet #ForestFormer3D – our new SOTA model for 3D forest segmentation (semantic + instance)! 🌳

🔗 Preprint arxiv.org/abs/2506.16991
🔗 Project bxiang233.github.io/FF3D/

👏 Led by Binbin Xiang + team @NIBIO

#AI #Forestry #SOTA

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Christoph Rieke @chrieke.bsky.social · Jun 21

Let's do it! Let's pn during event after Monday!

Christoph Rieke @chrieke.bsky.social · Jun 20

At Living Planet Symposium next week. Looking forward to lots of ML&forest sessions, but also the random "I have 0 clue about this but it's awesome" volcano, ice etc session. That makes #LPS25 so great. Would love to meet some new people for coffe chat and learn new things! Just ping!

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Christoph Rieke @chrieke.bsky.social · Jun 20

Cool, let's aim for Tuesday or wedn afternoon coffe break? Will send you PN next week!

Christoph Rieke @chrieke.bsky.social · Jun 20

Joined a forest EO company last year, would love to get to know some more people in the community! So much to learn still!

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Christoph Rieke @chrieke.bsky.social · Jun 19

hah, scrolled back up to the cat picture "was that related". Congratulations :)

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Christoph Rieke @chrieke.bsky.social · Jun 17

This looks amazing! How did you create that?

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Tom MacWright @macwright.com · May 27

ah yes, you were using gemini-4o-xx1-beta-2, of course you got bad results, you have to use openai-o3-mini-xxl and toggle on the 'do it good' button

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Christoph Rieke @chrieke.bsky.social · May 25

My uni professor was the science lead for the German X-band mission part, maybe someone to send an email to www.chemgeo.uni-jena.de/en/29590/sch...

Prof. Dr. Christiane Schmullius

Universitätsprofessorin