Geo geek & tech enthusiast. Earth observation scientist turned data / ML engineer. Love dogs, bicycles, motorcycles, coffee, Python. open data/source/science

Joined March 2009
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3 Apr 2018
The German language summed up in one picture.
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We are planning to grow > 50% till the end of the year and will be hiring for multiple geospatial roles for the data, processing and integration teams. up42gmbh.recruitee.com/o/sen…

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"... Man kommt nämlich von der Straße ab und ehrlich gesagt, hilft dann auch gar keine Notbremse mehr." #Wieler #RKI über #Bundesnotbremse
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16 Feb 2021
PhD position in Leipzig, combining #DeepLearning and #earthobservation. The topic looks great and Hannes is one of the best mentors I met during my time in academia!
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🟢A new update from our #eoresearch #datascience team - using Deep learning to automatically detect parcel boundaries. Read more here: medium.com/sentinel-hub/parc…
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Holy mother... @planetlabs will be releasing monthly basemaps for the entire central swath of the world for FREE because @Climateforest is funding them to publish this data for climate work. Mind-boggling barely begins to cover it. nicfi.no/current/new-satelli…
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Do you hate Coordinate Systems? Here is your favorite web page.🤪 ihatecoordinatesystems.com
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I just built a *functioning* React app by describing what I wanted to GPT-3. I'm still in awe.
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Höcke verklagt den Bürgermeister auf Löschung des Tweets. Dann teilen wir das mal. ❤🖤
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14 Jul 2020
Bachelor party is happening right now 👉
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6 Jul 2020
We'd announce that we're stopping too, but we never started turning over user data to HK police. Also, we don't have user data to turn over.
Exclusive: Telegram to temporarily refuse data requests from Hong Kong courts amid security law 'terrorism' row hongkongfp.com/2020/07/05/ex… @telegram #Hongkong #china
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18 Jun 2020
Mapillary acquired by Facebook and as a result making all their imagery available for commercial use. Could be interesting for self-driving car developers if this also extends to the Vista and Traffic Sign Datasets. blog.mapillary.com/news/2020…
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Die #CoronaWarnApp herunterladen – und gemeinsam das #Coronavirus bekämpfen: Die App ist jetzt im App Store und im Google Play Store verfügbar. corona-warn-app.de
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Check out 3 new public datasets in COG format!💥 We partnered w/ @NASA @awscloud to make Earth Observation data in more user-friendly formats (COGs!) via the AWS Public Datasets Program. @_aimeeb shares more on the blog. (I can haz moar COGs plz?🦝) medium.com/devseed/data-for-…

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14 Jun 2020
Sentinelsat v0.14 has been released with some long overdue bug fixes under the hood and improved handling of @CopernicusEU Long-Term Archive search and download. Thanks to all the contributors! 🧑‍💻github.com/sentinelsat/senti…
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Thread) Today I share with you a giant effort to provide an unprecedented estimation of the global cover and geography of human settlements (HSs). We produced a 10 m resolution binary mask outlining HSs and built a model to explain settlement formation arxiv.org/abs/2006.06584
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The first beta release of STAC 1.0.0 is out! I'm excited we've reached this milestone, as it means things are really stabilizing. Thanks to the STAC community, and especially @GeoSkeptic and @matthmohr for their tireless work. See medium.com/@cholmes/stac-1-0… for more information.
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Some figures about 3 months of #FFMEET: - 360 CPU Cores - 720 GB of RAM - 847.955.871 HTTPS Requests - ~800.000 Unique Users - 810TB of Videotraffic - ~10.000 app downloads - 500 Tickets answered - many commits and bug reports Run by volunteers! meet.ffmuc.net

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29 May 2020
Today's office was all right. #workingfromhome #outsideisfree
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