2025 GDAL User Survey is now active for the entire month of December! Visit gdal.org/survey/ & tell the project how you use it, where you get help, what it should do in the future, & how/if it should use LLMs going forward. (optionally) give us your email, we'll even enter you to win a GDAL t-shirt!
🗺 This week, our team is raising awareness about Arctic change at #EsriUC2025 in San Diego. Today, @cmshintani.bsky.social's “Navigating the new Arctic"—co-produced with Sámi partners at the International Centre for Reindeer Husbandry —is featured in the Map Gallery.
Point Cloud Processing in QGIS workshop at GIS OpenCourseWare
🚀 Today, I'm running a workshop on #PointCloud Processing in #QGIS at #FOSS4GEurope 2025 in #Mostar! We'll dive into the newest features in QGIS.
💻 Can’t join in person? Free access at @gisopencourseware.bsky.social: courses.gisopencourseware.org
Thrilled that our urban tree cover work is leading to meaningful change. We provided 75 cities in NZ with an estimate of their tree cover and just a week later one town is looking at changing their Tree Policy to increase its canopy cover.
www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3607...
Map of rainfall and topography for July 4 showing what led to the flooding in Kerr County, Texas. About 12 inches of rain fell on steep hillside that funneled into narrow stream valleys.
Four maps of the flooding in Kerr County, TX. Each newsroom drew on varied data sources & focused on a different aspect of the disaster.
Refined combination of color-coded rainfall data & shaded relief by Laris Karklis, @washingtonpost.com
wapo.st/3IpvrTu
#dataviz #cartography #ddj
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Map of sea surface temperatures in the Mediterranean Sea showing parts of it reached 30C such as off the coast of Calabria, and the islands of Majorca and Sicily. Below the map is a chart showing daily maximum temperature at a buoy next to Majorca where it reached 30C for the first time this early in the season.
Parts of the Mediterranean Sea reached 30C this week, much earlier than usual, raising fears for marine life.
For some areas, this is 6 or 7C warmer than usual at this time of year.
Our story with more maps by @markpoynting.bsky.social and me here:
www.bbc.com/news/article...
📢 Join us virtually for the 3DForEcoTech Final Conference!
🗓️ July 2–4, 2025
🌲 Proximal sensing in forestry & ecology
🖥️ Open online – everyone welcome!
📄 Program: bit.ly/3TMTOfZ
📝 Register: forms.gle/HfR7rfstt7W6...
💬 Feel free to share and join us!
#3DForEcoTech #Forestry #RemoteSensing #COSTAction
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:
This looks impressive. Curious to get to know more details once available.
You also tested this on ALS data with lower point densities?
🌲🚀 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
Stupid question, would it also be possible to improve gdal read performance?
Cover of the book STRATA: William Smith’s Geological Maps. It’s predominantly ocean blue with map details on the bound edge and corners.
Two-page spread from STRATA: William Smith’s Geological MapsWilliam Smith’s Geological Maps.
Composite of Smith’s Geological Map of England and Wales and Part of Scotland—the first geologic map to cover such a large area in such fine detail. The map used hand-applied color gradations to show where one formation gave way to the next, conveying three dimensions of information on a two-dimensional surface.
I’m intrigued by this compilation of William Smith’s maps: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
He was instrumental in both the development of geological mapping & the idea of faunal succession:
earthobservatory.nasa.gov/features/Wil...
#cartography #maps 🗺️
@schwehr@fosstodon.org?
Let's dive into this a bit. A short and very incomplete thread on US Forest Service research. 1/
The word is out officially, now: SoilTemp has finished its transformation into 'The MEB-network' - a fully-fledged research network that goes far beyond just being a database. And boy, does that make me proud!
Let me show you all the ways you can get involved here:
the3dlab.org/2025/05/31/s...
The new GDAL 3.11 CLI has context-aware bash completion and spelling suggestions – options, formats, sub-commands, and more! No more fumbling for inconsistent names or orderings.
Join us at the GDAL CLI Deep Dive webinar on June 3rd at 1400 UTC to learn more. numfocus-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
We’re chuffed to announce the 0.2 release of the GeoArrow specification! We released the first version in September, 2023 and have since worked with the community towards our vision that getting spatial data from one library to another should be fast, easy, and preserve properties like the CRS.
Rhynchites caeruleus. These small, shiny beetles are currently easy to observe. They initially appear black to our eyes, but upon closer inspection, they remind me of liquid metal.
Looking for a fun read to kick off your long weekend?
In this blog Jarrett and Julia work to debunk the "Zarr vs COG" dichotomy in favor of a more collaborative approach - all inspired by discussions at #CNG2025 @cloudnativegeo.org
Check it out: element84.com/software-eng...
can add me as well
🚨 Postdoc in Computer Vision & AI!
Love forests & you are a CV ninja? Join #SmartForest at #NIBIO to build vision models for full ecosystem understanding 🌲🤖
🔥 we offer A100s, unique EU dataset, fun team
📍 Ås, Norway |
🗓 Apply by June 8 👇
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
#ForestAI #DeepLearning
Excited to be the Mountainfilm 2025 mural artist in Telluride! My mural, "Cartographies of Arctic Change" (a massive 26.5' x 36'!), visualizes our Arctic research. It's going up now on Telco Coffee, a wall previously graced by JR, Gregg Deal, Banksy, and more. Come see it in Telluride!
A weevil from the genus Polydrusus. Like many other weevils, it also has the mysterious hole between its compound eyes.
Upcoming webinar on the #GDAL cli modernization (free) lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/gd...
"... the new CLI will make it easier to explore, learn, and reason about GDAL while manipulating geospatial data. webinar to provide a deep dive into the new CLI on June 3rd at 1400 UTC."
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{gdalraster} 2.0.0 hit CRAN today, a massive release with vector support added to the comprehensive raster support for the #GDAL api
#rstats Chris Toney of USDA Forest Service doing amazing work as the creator and maintainer
fosstodon.org/@ctoney/1144...
Woo!! /1
🎓 Come work with us!
We are offering a new PhD position in our lab! You will study the impacts of forest disturbance and fragmentation on microclimate and forest regeneration, together with @katjakowalski.bsky.social.
Applicants from diverse backgrounds encouraged!
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Please RT!
Ich habe die Erfahrung gemacht dass düstere Prognosen zum Klimawandel verdrängt werden weil die meisten sich das nicht vorstellen können und wollen (Wissenschaftler eingeschlossen).
Super dass hier mal eine alte Studie zu den Auswirkungen des Klimawandels gegengecheckt wird. Das passiert selten. Nicht super dass die Prognosen leider auch eintreten.
Der Klimawandel wir die Wälder in der Schweiz stark betreffen - wieso scheint das Interesse bei Politik und Gesellschaft so gering? #Don'tLookUp
www.szf-jfs.ch/de/artikel/w...
