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Robbi Bishop-Taylor 🛰️🌏

@satellitesci.bsky.social

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Coastal Earth Observation Scientist from Canberra, Australia. Using satellite remote sensing 🛰️, open-source geospatial 🔓🗺️, Python + R 🧑‍💻 and dataviz 🎨 to map the earth through space + time... 🌏

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Robbi Bishop-Taylor 🛰️🌏 @satellitesci.bsky.social · Nov 10

Really exciting to see such so many familiar #ScienceTwitter faces appearing here! 🎉

Reintroduction time: I'm a coastal Earth Observation scientist from Canberra, Australia - my work involves mapping coastal change from space using petabytes of open satellite data! 🛰️🌊🧑‍🔬

Image of coastal change mapped from space

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Robbi Bishop-Taylor 🛰️🌏 @satellitesci.bsky.social · 14d

Registration link - open to anyone globally! ausycsec.org.au/registration...

Registration – Australasian Young Coastal Scientists and Engineers Conference

ausycsec.org.au

Robbi Bishop-Taylor 🛰️🌏 @satellitesci.bsky.social · 14d

Last chance to register for free online attendance at the #AusYCSEC Young Coastal Scientists & Engineers Conference!

Come along to hear lots of exciting coastal research happening across Australasia... plus a special new data announcement from Geoscience Aus in the opening session! 🤩🌊📷🛰️

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Jake Lee @jakehlee.com · Aug 18

Following up on this, here's an even cooler animation of the SWOT overpass!
earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/15466...

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Integrated Marine Observing System @imos-aus.bsky.social · Aug 9

Happy National Science Week! 🎉 From the coast to the deep sea, IMOS Facilities like Acoustic Telemetry and Argo Floats are providing vital data to understand and protect marine life and ecosystems in a changing climate. Learn more 🔗 bit.ly/4mxjNVk

#NationalScienceWeek2025 #NCRISImpact

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James Petruzzi @hawaiianimages.bsky.social · Aug 8

Hey cool--this is one of the satellites I regularly bounce a laser off of. Nice to contribute to missions like this. :)

Robbi Bishop-Taylor 🛰️🌏 @satellitesci.bsky.social · Aug 8

This is incredibly cool: NASA/CNES's SWOT satellite captured a live view of the leading edge of the tsunami formed by the 8.8 magnitude Kamchatka Peninsula earthquake!

www.nasa.gov/missions/swo...

US-French SWOT Satellite Measures Tsunami After Massive Quake - NASA

Data provided by the water satellite, a joint effort between NASA and the French space agency, is helping to improve tsunami forecast models, benefitting

www.nasa.gov

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EUMETSAT @eumetsat.int · Aug 8

We’re just days away from the launch of #MetopSGA1!
The upper composite housing the satellite has been transferred to the #Ariane6 launcher. 🚀
Are you ready?
🗓 Launch: 12 Aug
📍 Europe’s Spaceport, Kourou
🔗 Lift off scheduled at 21:37 local time (00:37 UTC, 02:37 CEST on August 13): bit.ly/4onryyV

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Rohan Fisher @rohanfisher.bsky.social · Aug 7

Mosaic of desert fires, salt lakes and dunes. Great sandy desert Western Australia.

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Robbi Bishop-Taylor 🛰️🌏 @satellitesci.bsky.social · Aug 8

This is incredibly cool: NASA/CNES's SWOT satellite captured a live view of the leading edge of the tsunami formed by the 8.8 magnitude Kamchatka Peninsula earthquake!

www.nasa.gov/missions/swo...

US-French SWOT Satellite Measures Tsunami After Massive Quake - NASA

Data provided by the water satellite, a joint effort between NASA and the French space agency, is helping to improve tsunami forecast models, benefitting

www.nasa.gov

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Image and Signal Processing • ISP @isp-uv-es.bsky.social · Aug 7

👉New paper: "Understanding #flood detection models across Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 modalities and benchmark datasets"

🌊This study presents a model generalization across different regions & satellite sensors.

📄 tr.ee/Understandin...

💻Code & models: github.com/kipoju/udl4fl

#RemoteSensing

Understanding flood detection models across Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 modalities and benchmark datasets

In recent years, research in flood mapping from remote sensing satellite imagery has predominantly focused on deep learning methods. While new flood s…

tr.ee

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Eric Ness @eric.ness.net · Aug 7

How do we track water flowing through rivers from space? This major review says: 1–3 day revisit. Resolution down to 30–100 m widths. Must include width, slope, & velocity. Flood forecasting + water management depend on it. #EarthObservation #RemoteSensing #WaterResources doi.org/10.1029/2024...

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Alastair @ajgwords.bsky.social · Aug 2

Fair play to #foss4guk 2025: I will be giving a presentation called "Remote Sensing Sucks". I have my opinions, but what gets you worked up about modern EO and RS? It could be anything at all. Let me know and I might reference it in the slides :-) #earthobservation #geospatial #gis #rssucks

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Robbi Bishop-Taylor 🛰️🌏 @satellitesci.bsky.social · Aug 3

I'm giving a talk on Thurs about our work to improve tide modelling across Australia's remote and challenging coastlines. I'll also be around the Geoscience Australia booth if anyone wants to drop by and nerd out on coastal satellite remote sensing!

www.2025.ieeeigarss.org/view_paper.p...

IGARSS 2025 || Brisbane, Australia || 3 - 8 August 2025

www.2025.ieeeigarss.org

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Robbi Bishop-Taylor 🛰️🌏 @satellitesci.bsky.social · Aug 3

Wonderful to be at #IGARSS2025 in Brisbane! 🛰️Hopefully a nice Take 2 from my first IGARSS in Pasedena, CA where I spent half of the conference locked up in COVID hotel quarantine!

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Santiago Gassó @sangasso.bsky.social · Aug 1

🛰️ As many in the Earth community know, NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites are soon to be decommissioned because they are past their designed life. Part of the process involves changing their orbits thus their overpass time. go.nasa.gov/44X3QSk 1/3

go.nasa.gov

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Brockmann Consult @brockmannconsult.bsky.social · Jun 26

☁️ Clouds in the spotlight at #LPS2025!
The Algorithm Intercomparison Exercises session is on—an essential part of EO processing.
Jan Wevers presents our work on CMIX-II, the ESA–NASA initiative comparing cloud detection methods for 10–30 m sensors.
#CMIX #EOAlgorithms #CloudMasking #EarthObservation

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kosmi.bsky.social @kosmi.bsky.social · Jun 27

Algal vortex in The Baltic Sea.

Image taken by Landsat-8 on July 18, 2018.

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Al Merose (he/him) @al.merose.com · Jun 27

I've been waiting a few years for this: Zarr v2 support was just launched in Google Earth Engine! Check out this demo that loads ARCO-ERA5 into GEE 🔥

code.earthengine.google.com/67ac1e48848d...
developers.google.com/earth-engine...

The Google Earth Engine code editor displaying an evaporation map loaded directly from ARCO-ERA5! The black and white map overlooks the continental US. It's easy to make out land masses, but there are also cloud-looking visuals on the map.

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Al Merose (he/him) @al.merose.com · Jun 28

Wow, today is just full of pleasant geospatial treats made for me. I just found out about xarrayvideo, which uses ffmpeg as a video codec to store EO/Climate/Weather data! arxiv.org/abs/2506.19656

Video Compression for Spatiotemporal Earth System Data

Large-scale Earth system datasets, from high-resolution remote sensing imagery to spatiotemporal climate model outputs, exhibit characteristics analogous to those of standard videos. Their inherent sp...

arxiv.org

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Erwan Rivault @erwanrivault.com · Jun 28

Had an amazing time at #LPS25 this week, where @esaearth.esa.int unveiled the first images from the Biomass satellite.

Read our story with @esmestallard.bsky.social and see the stunning new images for yourself:

Beneath the canopy: Pioneering satellite reveals rainforests' hidden worlds - BBC News

First groundbreaking images from the Biomass satellite could change our understanding of rainforests

www.bbc.co.uk

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Robbi Bishop-Taylor 🛰️🌏 @satellitesci.bsky.social · Jun 27

These are old archived posts - I did a big all of time copy when I moved over from there a few months ago 🙂

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Jakub Nowosad @jakubnowosad.com · Apr 6

Recently, I taught a session on landscape metrics in R—covering how to quantify spatial patterns in landscapes. 🌾📊

Slides + exercises here:

🔗 jakubnowosad.com/rgis2025/out...

#rGIS2025 #rstats #LandscapeMetrics #GIS #rspatial

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EUMETSAT @eumetsat.int · Jun 13

This week experts gathered in Nice for the UN Ocean Conference. In our new article we highlight the role of satellite data in supporting ocean science 🌊

Dr Thomas Jackson explains how Sentinel-3 imagery helps identify/monitor algal blooms & how they are powerful indicators of change: bit.ly/4jQecrc

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Erin Thomas @erinbthomas.bsky.social · Jun 12

Come chat about quolls, puns, and finding any excuse to draw animals for science at my poster at #ICCB2025

Monday at 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM in Great Hall 3 & 4

See you there!

Quollity Control
Identifying eastern quoll behaviours to increase translocation success

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Mike Wulder @mikewulder.bsky.social · Jun 11

👀👀
"The #Landsat Next project is currently assessing alternate mission architectures to support more affordable ways to maintain the continuity of Landsat imagery per the language in the FY26 President’s Budget Request (PBR). Updates will be forthcoming."
landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/satellites/l...

Landsat Next | Landsat Science

The Landsat Next project is currently assessing alternate mission architectures to support more affordable ways to maintain the continuity of Landsat imagery per the language in the FY26 President’s B...

landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov

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Santiago Gassó @sangasso.bsky.social · Jun 9

🧪🛰️🔥🧊

Smoke over the pole?

Maybe, first its detection is difficult but it can be done.
Regular visible image do not show it unless it is super thick (where a regular white cloud would look brown or even black).

In this case, regular visible image does not show any indication of it.

But ...
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VISIBLE image from SNPP-VIIRS sensor for Jun7 and 8, 2025

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