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Mike Wulder

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Senior Research Scientist with the Canadian Forest Service. 🍁 #Landsat super-fan. #Lidar. #Forests. #Remotesensing. 🌲🛰 Member of the #OrderOfCanada. 🎖 📎https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Michael-Wulder

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Mike Wulder @mikewulder.bsky.social · Nov 20

We use satellite data to map Canada's forests. 🛰️🌲
National maps represent forest status and trends. Peer reviewed methods & accuracy statements.
#landcover #biomass #wildfire #Landsat #Sentinel2
Access open data here:
opendata.nfis.org/mapserver/nf...
Info/pubs: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

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Mike Wulder @mikewulder.bsky.social · 29d

White et al. Enhanced forest inventories in Canada: implementation, status, and research needs. #EFI
➡️ Airborne Laser Scanning (ALS) is operational for forest inventory in Canada enabling EFIs.
➡️ Coverage exceeds 66% of Canada’s managed forest area (~230 million ha). #lidar
🔗 doi.org/10.1139/cjfr...

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Silvilaser2025 @silvilaser2025.bsky.social · Sep 4

#Silvilaser2025 schedule & program are now online! 🥳

Check out the line up of workshops, speakers, field tour & social events! 👉 www.silvilaser2025.com/program

Which plenary session are you most looking forward to?!

Registration for extra activities closes Sep 10
📍 Quebec City Convention Centre

Program — SilviLaser 2025

www.silvilaser2025.com

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IRSS at UBC @irssubc.bsky.social · Sep 3

NEW PAPER 📣 Temporally Consistent Forest Stand Segmentation using Landsat Imagery

dx.doi.org/10.1109/LGRS...

📖: Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

✍️: Ye, Coops, Hermosilla @txominhermos.bsky.social, Wulder @mikewulder.bsky.social, Gergel

#Segmentation #ChangeDetection #Landsat #ubcforestry

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Mike Wulder @mikewulder.bsky.social · Aug 29

Link to Ramon's science below. Prepare to be amazed!
Research themes:
-Vegetation Resilience in Boreal Ecosystems
-Satellite Data and Model Integration
-Climate Change Impacts
-Early Warning Indicators
➡️https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ramon-Melser

Ramon MELSER, Postdoctoral Research Fellow | Cited by 13 | of University of British Columbia, Vancouver (UBC) | Read 4 publications | Contact Ramon MELSER

www.researchgate.net

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IRSS at UBC @irssubc.bsky.social · Aug 28

Congratulations again and again and again to Dr. Ramon Melser! (@ramonmelser.bsky.social)

He joins the wall after successfully defending his thesis: “Enhanced assessment of boreal vegetation productivity using integrated satellite-derived datasets and analysis approaches.”

#IRSSLab #UBCForestry

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Mike Wulder @mikewulder.bsky.social · Aug 27

Check out this innovative work in Forestry:
Yrttimaa et al. Quantifying architectural uniqueness of Scots pine trees using terrestrial laser scanning: toward individual tree fingerprinting. #lidar #tls
academic.oup.com/forestry/art...

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Mike Wulder @mikewulder.bsky.social · Aug 27

Fantastic! Our paper made the list! Development and implementation of a stand-level satellite-based forest inventory for Canada. #SBFI
academic.oup.com/forestry/art...
Check out the link below for collection of High-Impact Research from Forestry 👇👇

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IRSS at UBC @irssubc.bsky.social · Aug 26

Work hard, play hard! 🌲✨ The #IRSSLab just wrapped up our annual summer retreat.

This week away gave lab members the chance to share research updates, pick up new skills from colleagues and guests, and, of course, enjoy some much-needed R&R!

#UBCForestry #remotesensing

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Nikola Besic @nikobesic.bsky.social · Aug 24

Happy to be part of the team led by Martin Schwartz (@lsce-ipsl.bsky.social) behind our new publication:

“Retrieving yearly forest growth from satellite data: A deep learning based approach.”

📖 Published in Remote Sensing of Environment:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Retrieving yearly forest growth from satellite data: A deep learning based approach

High-resolution mapping of forest attributes is crucial for ecosystem monitoring and carbon budget assessments. Recent advancements have leveraged sat…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Mike Wulder @mikewulder.bsky.social · Aug 22

Canada's Satellite-Based Forest Inventory uses image segmentation to create stand-level maps for forest science & monitoring, including tree species & biomass. #SBFI
Paper: doi.org/10.1093/fore...
Download data opendata.nfis.org/mapserver/nf...
Data on #GEE: gee-community-catalog.org/projects/ca_...

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Tom Hengl @tomhengl.bsky.social · Aug 22

The global bimonthly 30m GPP product (2000-2024) is now ready for use (landcarbonlab.org/insights/glo...); available on GEE, STAC... so proud of the @opengeohub.bsky.social and @worldresources.bsky.social & colleagues!
📝 doi.org/10.7717/peer...
🖥️ stac.openlandmap.org/gpw_ugpp.dai...

Tracking the Health of Earth’s Ecosystems with New Global Productivity Data

Gross primary productivity (GPP) is a key indicator of ecosystem health. New data from Land & Carbon Lab provides the first global, higher resolution GPP data.

landcarbonlab.org

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Mike Wulder @mikewulder.bsky.social · Aug 22

Innovative, interesting, and successful!
Great work on this James. 👏👏
@jamesmcglade.bsky.social

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Mike Flannigan @mikeflannigan.bsky.social · Aug 21

A good story about current and historical fire activity in Canada (and the US) though I may be biased

thetradeoff.substack.com/p/north-amer...

North America’s forests used to burn a lot more than present…

So, is climate change really making wildfires worse today?

thetradeoff.substack.com

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Mike Wulder @mikewulder.bsky.social · Aug 21

"AI is not replacing the geographer; it is super-charging the geographer. Geographers are poised to have the biggest impact on communities, businesses, and the planet in decades."
Insight from Prof Trisalyn Nelson, Jack & Laura Dangermond Chair of Geography, UCSB.
www.independent.com/2025/08/20/g...

Geographers Aren't Going Anywhere

Why Microsoft is wrong about my profession when it comes to AI.

www.independent.com

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Forestry - An Int. Journal of Forest Research @forestryoup.bsky.social · Aug 20

treecbh: a new R package for crown base height (CBH) detection using aerial laser-scanned data in broad leaved forests 🌳

Diószegi et al. develop a workflow that automates and optimises CBH detection in already segmented individual trees.

🗞️ doi.org/10.1093/fore...
🔧 github.com/DijoG/treecbh

Framework of the treecbh R package: tree isolation (a), vertical cross-sectional K-means clustering (b), and the 2D kernel method (c). The detected crown base height is illustrated in the graph at the bottom right.

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Ramon Melser @ramonmelser.bsky.social · Aug 18

Excited to share that I successfully defended my PhD dissertation in Remote Sensing (Forestry) at @forestry.ubc.ca. Thank you to all of my fantastic labmates in the @irssubc.bsky.social, as well as my supervisor, Nicholas Coops, and my research committee for all their support.

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IRSS at UBC @irssubc.bsky.social · Aug 15

Members from the IRSS attended the #WIRED2025 symposium to present their research on overhead power lines across forested landscapes, as well as engage with industry and project participants.

Wonderful work from James (@jamesmcglade.bsky.social), Eliceo and Celine!

#IRSSlab #ubcforestry

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Amy Wotherspoon, PhD @dr-spoon.bsky.social · Aug 14

Having a great time at the #IRSSlab retreat 2025 @ Cowichan Lake!🫶

Thanks to all who demo’d the Outdoors Tips & Tricks!🔨
@la-stack.bsky.social with the #Trimble, @jamesmcglade.bsky.social with the the #GeoSlam & Liam with PostEx👏

@irssubc.bsky.social @forestry.ubc.ca @metafor-ulaval.bsky.social

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Dr. Joan Dudney @dudney-joan.bsky.social · Aug 14

Really excited to share our new paper on #causalinference & #climatechange attribution out in #EcologyLetters today!

Are you asking "how much" or "if" climate change has impacted your system, then this paper is for you!

🧪🌏🌐🍁🌺🌱🌿
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

A Causal Inference Framework for Climate Change Attribution in Ecology

Accurately attributing ecological shifts to climate change remains a significant challenge. Here, we present an accessible causal inference framework designed for climate change attribution in observ...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Reposted by Michael A. Wulder, Ben Bond‐Lamberty, David L. Roberts , and 2 more Michael A. Wulder, Ben Bond‐Lamberty, David L. Roberts, Mathias Disney, Neil Pederson

Tommaso Jucker @tommaso-jucker.bsky.social · Aug 14

We have a #Tansley review out today @newphyt.bsky.social led by Becky Banbury Morgan in which we put forward a new framework that aims to explain how and why edge effects on forest structure vary across ecosystems and through time

📜 doi.org/10.1111/nph....

Graphical illustration of the four key stages of edge evolution following edge creation.

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Forestry - An Int. Journal of Forest Research @forestryoup.bsky.social · Aug 14

Reminder:

We have a call for papers for a new Special Issue with
@silvilaser2025.bsky.social

SilviLaser 2025: Laser scanning applications in forest management

⏰ Submission deadline: 30th November 2025

More information here👇
academic.oup.com/forestry/pag...

Call for Papers

SilviLaser 2025: Laser scanning applications in forest management Guest editors: Dr. Alexis Achim, Université Laval, Canada; Dr. Nicholas Coops, University of

academic.oup.com

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