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Alexander Brenning
@alexanderbrenning.bsky.social
Professor of Geographic Information Science, University of Jena, Germany
Blog: https://geods.netlify.app/
geographic data science | Earth surface processes | geospatial analysis | machine learning | geostatistics
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6th talk of 4th session AI for Good Webinar series
AI for Earth & Sustainability Science
📅8 Dec 2025
⏰5-6 pm CET
📚 Risks and solutions when using non-stationary training data in earth system science
🧑‍🏫 Speaker: Joachim Denzler (@uni-jena.de)
👨🏻‍💻 Moderator: Ribana Roscher
🔗 loom.ly/jyU-P78
December 1, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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📢 Hot off the press!
"Mapping forest-covered #landslides using Geographic Object-Based Image Analysis (GEOBIA), Jena region, Germany" by @ikram-zangana.bsky.social, Rainer Bell, Lucian Drăguţ, Flavius Sîrbu & Lothar Schrott in NHESS @egu.eu
#geosky #geomorphology

doi.org/10.5194/nhes...
Mapping forest-covered landslides using Geographic Object-Based Image Analysis (GEOBIA), Jena region, Germany
Abstract. Landslide inventories are crucial for the assessment of landslide susceptibility and hazard. An analysis of old landslides can reveal periods of intensified landslide activity, but the featu...
nhess.copernicus.org
December 2, 2025 at 11:36 AM
First Chilean mountain #permafrost model & map is out!

Preprint: egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20...

🌎We used the most complete compilation of permafrost evidences - mainly rock glaciers & boreholes - along with climatic+topographic data to inform a nonlinear statistical model. 📈

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November 30, 2025 at 8:54 PM
💥Kicking off my geographic information science advent calendar in my blog geods.netlify.app + Instagram in English+German.

🌍Core concepts that every #geographer... & everyone else... should know. Concepts that are also introduced in my #GIScience intro course in our #BScGeography @uni-jena.de
November 30, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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ELLIS Unit Jena Vernissage-Nov 6 “When Machines Learn for Nature: AI Research on Climate & Biodiversity”
Speaker: Dr. Thomas Nitzsche (Mayor of Jena) Prof. Andreas Marx (President, @uni-jena.de) Prof. Markus Reichstein, Prof. Joachim Denzler & Prof. @alexanderbrenning.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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GIS Day’25 – GeoAI for the Environment by @alexanderbrenning.bsky.social +GIScience Group (@uni-jena.de) on 17 Nov
Highlights: Disaster-image AI, SAR ship detection, landslide mapping, environmental insights and poster presentations 🌍🤖
Thanks to all speakers
@ellis.eu
🔗 www.gisday.com/en-us/overview
November 22, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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Prof. Dr. Alexander Brenning coordinates the GENAI-X project at the @ellisunitjena.bsky.social at #UniJena together with partner institutions. The @carlzeissstiftung.bsky.social is funding GENAI-X with around six million euros over five years.

➡️ www.uni-jena.de/369974/zuver...
November 4, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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GENAI-X 🌍, 👨🏻‍🏫Coordinated by @alexanderbrenning.bsky.social (@uni-jena.de) develops AI🤖 for robust prediction in non-stationary environmental systems — tackling floods 🌊, droughts 🌵 & landslides ⛰️
💡Funded by @carlzeissstiftung.bsky.social
🤝 @ellis.eu @bgc-jena.mpg.de
🔗 www.genai-x.uni-jena.de
November 4, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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Dr. @alexanderbrenning.bsky.social + the GIScience Group (@uni-jena.de) invite you to GIS Day 2025 — focus: GeoAI for Environment.

📅 17 Nov 2025
🕐 13:00–17:30 CET
📍 Rosensäle Jena + Zoom (hybrid)

🖼️ Poster registration until 10 Nov

🔗 www.chemgeo.uni-jena.de/48059/gis-da...
November 4, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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🚀 Yesterday at Zero-to-Hero sessions at #SummerSchool2025 @ellis.eu
A) Beyond Accuracy: Understanding & Quantifying Uncertainty in Deep Learning — Aishwarya Venkataramanan 🎯
B) Scalable AI for Earth & Climate Sciences — Ioannis Papoutsis 🌍
🔗 www.ellis-jena.eu/summer-schoo...
September 5, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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Project Spotlight #2: ELLIS Unit Jena 🌊
@alexanderbrenning.bsky.social & the GIScience Group, funded by the @umweltbundesamt.bsky.social ‬, are using geostat+#ML to:
📍Identify nitrate-affected areas
📊Support regulatory decisions
🧠Improve monitoring accuracy
🔗 geods.netlify.app/post/nitrate/
August 8, 2025 at 10:59 AM
How will #climatechange impact #rivers across Europe? 🌍 #DRYvER H2020's model projects increases in frequency & duration of drying periods.
➡️New paper in #HESS! 🚨
hess.copernicus.org/articles/29/...

Shoutout to Annika Künne in my group @uni-jena.de for leading key parts of modeling & analysis! 👏
Projections of streamflow intermittence under climate change in European drying river networks
Abstract. Climate and land use changes, as well as human water use and flow alteration, are causing worldwide shifts in river flow dynamics. During the last decades, low flows, flow intermittence, and...
hess.copernicus.org
April 27, 2025 at 4:25 PM
🚀Kickstart your academic career in #GIScience as a #Postdoc in my group! Looking for geospatial #machinelearning / #GeoAI for Earth surface processes & #naturalhazards. Join our team
at University of #Jena & ELLIS Unit Jena @ellisunitjena.bsky.social. 🔍 See job ad for details: bit.ly/giscience
February 14, 2025 at 9:45 AM
📢RSAGA 1.4.2 is out! 🎉
💡My R package integrates SAGA GIS with R, facilitating #geocomputation & environmental #modeling.
🚀Fun fact: It's among the 10% most downloaded packages!
Blog: geods.netlify.app/post/rsaga-u...
#Rstats #GIS #opensource #GIScience #Geoinformatik
@ellisunitjena.bsky.social
Announcing the New RSAGA Release | GeoDS
A new version of RSAGA is available, the R package that provides an interface to SAGA GIS for geospatial analysis, digital terrain analysis, and geocomputing...
geods.netlify.app
February 14, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Reposted by Alexander Brenning
7th Data Science Day Jena on May 13 at @uni-jena.de 📊 📢 Submit your abstracts by April 13:
🔗 www.fmi.uni-jena.de/12727/data-s...
Lead by our ELLIS member Joachim Giesen and the Interactive Inference group (inference.uni-jena.de?events/dsd2025).
Supported by @carlzeissstiftung.bsky.social
February 12, 2025 at 6:26 PM