Satellites, climate change, Canadian at heart. BU Center for Remote Sensing. Trying to make a difference every day. #landcover #climate #phenology
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2 Feb 2025
New paper led by Dr. Xiaojie Gao at Harvard Forest: "Cross-scalar analysis of multisensor land surface phenology" Check it out! doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2025.1…
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19 Nov 2024
We are looking for a post-doc to work on a joint project focusing on large-scale land use/land cover change, funding via BU's Global Development Policy Center. Please share. Interested applicants can email me at my BU address. bu.edu/gdp/2021/10/...
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1 Oct 2024
Please RT and spread the word: We are hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Global Change Remote Sensing, as part of a cluster hire in Global Change & Sustainability at Boston University. A great place to work and live! jobs.silkroad.com/BUCareers/…
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19 Oct 2023
Cluster hire in remote sensing at Northern Arizona University. Great location, very cool department and program! #remotesensing #jobsearch
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28 Sep 2023
As a certain for profit family of journals methodically displaces much of the traditional scientific publication space, I'm glad to see Science making this point. It needs to be said more often....
Proudly nonprofit | Science science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…
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Mark Friedl retweeted
22 Aug 2023
If you're still on "X", please share widely: Open-rank tenure track position in environmental science, Washington DC. The Department of Environmental Science at American University, Washington, DC is inviting applications for a faculty appointment starting August 1, 2024.
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2 Aug 2023
GFW and the Forest Resources Assessment (FRA), explained in 5 graphics.
[1/X] GFW and FRA both talk about “forests,” but what are we actually measuring and monitoring?
Take a look 👇
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Mark Friedl retweeted
16 Jun 2023
Fire Facts from a Boreal 🔥 Ecologist to help you understand what is really going on in Canada.
Fire Fact 1: The term “forest fire” is misleading in boreal regions. Also burning are peatlands and permafrost ecosystems, which store LOTS of ancient carbon. 1/
10 Jun 2023
Helicopter view of the current forest fire in Canada approximately 10 hectares of trees are in flames !!! Pray for everyone’s safety fighting these fires!
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10 Jun 2023
This is amazing - thanks for sharing @aravindEO
10 Jun 2023
Here’s a breakdown of the at least 20 Earth observation satellites launching on the @SpaceX Transport-8 mission on Monday, June 12.
As always, there are first satellites from some companies, constellation updates for others and technology demonstrations 🚀
(Just look at this!)
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Mark Friedl retweeted
6 Jun 2023
Fires have burned more than 3 million hectares in Canada so far this year.
The ten-year average over the same timeframe was 254,429 hectares burned.
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Mark Friedl retweeted
25 May 2023
GLanCE has grown! The Global #LandCover Mapping and Estimation product now covers Europe. This product includes seven land classes or a greenness index as shown in this image over Venice, Italy.
Visit NASA’s #LPDAAC to learn more: bit.ly/3I8cjXB
ALT Global Land Cover Mapping and Estimation (GLanCE) Yearly 30 m Version 1 Data showing Enhanced Vegetation Index near Venice, Italy in July, 2018.
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19 Apr 2023
Congrats Zhe - well deserved and over-due! Now you can rest on your laurels 😎
19 Apr 2023
UConn celebrates promotion and tenure of 96 faculty today.uconn.edu/2023/04/ucon…
After 10 years of hard work after my Ph.D., I have at last been granted tenure and elevated to Associate Professor at the University of Connecticut! Looking forward to this new chapter of my career.
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6 Apr 2023
Check out our brand new FLUXNET newsletter! Issue No. 1 is hot off the presses:
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26 Mar 2023
Hey all of you #remotesensing folks out there - here's a beer that's branded just for us 😎🍻 "Beer balanced by science" Science balanced by beer?
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24 Mar 2023
Bumped into an old friend from Montreal at the Bruins game in Boston last night: Yvan Cournoyer. 16 Seasons, 10 Stanley Cups. One of the greatest ever and a true gentleman! Huge thrill for a kid who grew up playing & obsessed with hockey in Montreal #GoHabsGo
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19 Mar 2023
Amazing and great news!!!
17 Mar 2023
In fall of 2024 GEDI will be back at its original location and again collecting data, potentially through 2030, starting a new epoch of ecosystem structure observations. Congratulations to the entire GEDI team for an amazing first chapter and looking forward to the next! 🚀🌟
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15 Mar 2023
Check out this new paper from recent LCSC PhD Leticia Lee in #AFM! We use UAV imagery and airborne LiDAR to show how variation in canopy shadows solar zenith angle affect VIs, leaf area, and fAPAR from harmonized #Landsat and #Sentinel 2 imagery. doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.…
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Mark Friedl retweeted
20 Jan 2023
Today marks two years since the Biden-Harris administration began. I’ve been reflecting on how fortunate we’ve been to have the steady leadership of @POTUS and @VP—and all the public servants working to deliver for folks across the country.
ALT President Biden and Vice President Harris in the Rose Garden of the White House.
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Mark Friedl retweeted
30 Dec 2022
The single biggest “tell” that someone is inexperienced in the satellite imagery industry is thinking cloud detection is an easy problem (or a solved one!)
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