Ryder Kimball
@ryderk.bsky.social
Earth, satellites, photos, sci comms. Formerly @ Planet Labs
Website: https://www.ryderkimball.com/
Newsletter: https://uncanny-landscapes.ghost.io/
Website: https://www.ryderkimball.com/
Newsletter: https://uncanny-landscapes.ghost.io/
Can balloons and AI crack the weather? WindBorne thinks so. My latest piece for Core Memory covers NOAA’s perils, climate change chaos, and one company’s big bet to full-stack the weather forecast.
open.substack.com/pub/ashleeva...
open.substack.com/pub/ashleeva...
It’s AI Versus The Weather Now
WindBorne Systems is chasing the once mythical 21-day forecast
open.substack.com
July 15, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Can balloons and AI crack the weather? WindBorne thinks so. My latest piece for Core Memory covers NOAA’s perils, climate change chaos, and one company’s big bet to full-stack the weather forecast.
open.substack.com/pub/ashleeva...
open.substack.com/pub/ashleeva...
photos taken on the surface of the Moon and comets. the cliff in the first image is a kilometer tall and was the first comet—67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko—to be landed on by an Earth-origin spacecraft (pictured in the second image)
#astronomy #photography
#astronomy #photography
April 17, 2025 at 3:43 PM
photos taken on the surface of the Moon and comets. the cliff in the first image is a kilometer tall and was the first comet—67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko—to be landed on by an Earth-origin spacecraft (pictured in the second image)
#astronomy #photography
#astronomy #photography
some images from my latest essay, The Limits of Modeling. Check it out if you want to learn about the difficulty in documenting #Arctic landscapes, Earth's decreasing albedo, and the loss of the planet's radiance:
open.substack.com/pub/ryderkim...
open.substack.com/pub/ryderkim...
April 9, 2025 at 5:14 PM
some images from my latest essay, The Limits of Modeling. Check it out if you want to learn about the difficulty in documenting #Arctic landscapes, Earth's decreasing albedo, and the loss of the planet's radiance:
open.substack.com/pub/ryderkim...
open.substack.com/pub/ryderkim...
Reposted by Ryder Kimball
Small part of Lake Erie in Canada.
Image taken by Sentinel-2 on March 21, 2025.
Image taken by Sentinel-2 on March 21, 2025.
March 31, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Small part of Lake Erie in Canada.
Image taken by Sentinel-2 on March 21, 2025.
Image taken by Sentinel-2 on March 21, 2025.
Some absolutely delightful fluvial and aeolian dune features near the deadest-end of a dead-end marsh (Sossusvlei, Namibia)
#satellite data from SkySat • Planet Labs PBC
#satellite data from SkySat • Planet Labs PBC
March 28, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Some absolutely delightful fluvial and aeolian dune features near the deadest-end of a dead-end marsh (Sossusvlei, Namibia)
#satellite data from SkySat • Planet Labs PBC
#satellite data from SkySat • Planet Labs PBC
Reposted by Ryder Kimball
For much of February and March of 2025, multiple NASA satellites observed a bloom that drifted across the Gulf of Oman and into the Arabian Sea
Blooms typically occur in the winter/early spring and summer, when water temperatures, light conditions, and nutrient availability are favorable 🧪
Blooms typically occur in the winter/early spring and summer, when water temperatures, light conditions, and nutrient availability are favorable 🧪
March 25, 2025 at 10:30 PM
For much of February and March of 2025, multiple NASA satellites observed a bloom that drifted across the Gulf of Oman and into the Arabian Sea
Blooms typically occur in the winter/early spring and summer, when water temperatures, light conditions, and nutrient availability are favorable 🧪
Blooms typically occur in the winter/early spring and summer, when water temperatures, light conditions, and nutrient availability are favorable 🧪
March 27, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Latest essay—Giant Squids and Energy Scars—is out! It's loosely based on hunting for valuable resources in dark places, but more specifically about critical mineral extraction in North America and the transitioning energy landscape
open.substack.com/pub/ryderkim...
open.substack.com/pub/ryderkim...
Giant Squids and Energy Scars
Examining the cost of critical mineral extraction and transitioning energy landscapes in North America
open.substack.com
March 20, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Latest essay—Giant Squids and Energy Scars—is out! It's loosely based on hunting for valuable resources in dark places, but more specifically about critical mineral extraction in North America and the transitioning energy landscape
open.substack.com/pub/ryderkim...
open.substack.com/pub/ryderkim...
March 18, 2025 at 7:36 PM
March 16, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Some personal thoughts on what I've learned the past few years working with #satellite imagery, the pictures I found most influential, and why I think this tech is transforming what data, and maps, can be. I'll be in the mountains, but give it a read:
ryderkimball.substack.com/p/22000-orbits
ryderkimball.substack.com/p/22000-orbits
22,000 Orbits
Observations on satellite imagery, the compression of meaning, and the emergence of living maps.
ryderkimball.substack.com
February 20, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Some personal thoughts on what I've learned the past few years working with #satellite imagery, the pictures I found most influential, and why I think this tech is transforming what data, and maps, can be. I'll be in the mountains, but give it a read:
ryderkimball.substack.com/p/22000-orbits
ryderkimball.substack.com/p/22000-orbits
Some of my favorite images I’ve made with Planet #satellite data over the years—going to miss this view
February 13, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Some of my favorite images I’ve made with Planet #satellite data over the years—going to miss this view
Small bit of ice clinging to a mountaintop amid wildfires in Patagonia
@planet.com PlanetScope • February 9, 2025
@planet.com PlanetScope • February 9, 2025
February 12, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Small bit of ice clinging to a mountaintop amid wildfires in Patagonia
@planet.com PlanetScope • February 9, 2025
@planet.com PlanetScope • February 9, 2025
February 9, 2025 at 6:30 PM
some trippy deltas in near-infrared @planet.com data
February 6, 2025 at 8:04 PM
some trippy deltas in near-infrared @planet.com data
spent the day writing about hyperspectral data, then saw this number on the commute home
February 5, 2025 at 5:00 PM
spent the day writing about hyperspectral data, then saw this number on the commute home
Dead redwood fell about a hundred yards across the trail ahead of me. Sounded like the crack of gunfire but with the resonance of something older than powder. Walking through the wet mulch was nice though.
#photography
#photography
February 4, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Dead redwood fell about a hundred yards across the trail ahead of me. Sounded like the crack of gunfire but with the resonance of something older than powder. Walking through the wet mulch was nice though.
#photography
#photography
February 2, 2025 at 6:04 PM
It can can take a while looking back for a cloudless image of the Amazon, but the patience pays off
@planet.com
@planet.com
January 31, 2025 at 7:39 PM
It can can take a while looking back for a cloudless image of the Amazon, but the patience pays off
@planet.com
@planet.com
odd and slightly unnerving sights found scrolling through the Gobi Desert on google maps
January 29, 2025 at 8:28 PM
odd and slightly unnerving sights found scrolling through the Gobi Desert on google maps
Heard this morning that the #Ivanpah CSP facility will be taken offline. They call it the world’s ugliest solar plant but I think it’s nice, though I was mostly worried that its blindingly-white, bird-frying obelisks of death would disintegrate my drone
January 28, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Heard this morning that the #Ivanpah CSP facility will be taken offline. They call it the world’s ugliest solar plant but I think it’s nice, though I was mostly worried that its blindingly-white, bird-frying obelisks of death would disintegrate my drone
Martian landscapes from melted glaciers. Muddy, mostly.
image for an upcoming #photography project, taken in Svalbard
image for an upcoming #photography project, taken in Svalbard
January 27, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Martian landscapes from melted glaciers. Muddy, mostly.
image for an upcoming #photography project, taken in Svalbard
image for an upcoming #photography project, taken in Svalbard
I recently learned about the idea of "alert fatigue", or becoming desensitized to the increasing frequency of emergency messages, and it scared me more than the multiple EAS alarms I've received this winter. I found that interesting so I wrote about an idea to strengthen emergency #climate comms
The Sound & The Fury: Climate Semiotics
There’s a popular Tweet that’s gone viral during recent catastrophic weather events. It reads: “climate change will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through phones with footage that gets close...
uncanny-landscapes.ghost.io
January 26, 2025 at 10:25 PM
I recently learned about the idea of "alert fatigue", or becoming desensitized to the increasing frequency of emergency messages, and it scared me more than the multiple EAS alarms I've received this winter. I found that interesting so I wrote about an idea to strengthen emergency #climate comms
January 24, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Jefferson Grids of the American West, a legacy of easy surveying techniques and dedication to order. Still very apparent in @planet.com data
January 23, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Jefferson Grids of the American West, a legacy of easy surveying techniques and dedication to order. Still very apparent in @planet.com data