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Cute, and informative! A zine about, of all things, cloud optimized geospatal data formats! https://zines.developmentseed.org/zines/cloud-native/#zine/1/

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[satellite doom post] Just had a meeting with my group of collaborators working on calculating collision timescales of satellites and junk in orbit. I keep convincing myself "oh I'm exaggerating it can't possibly be that dangerous." But uh. It's really bad, guys. I'm not going to say any […]

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Data preservation projects for US federal data as it vanishes from government sites https://veryspatial.com/2025/02/data-preservation-projects/

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So much for co-management of the Great Lakes. Maybe scientists can communicate on Signal. Actually, I hope they already are. Resist. https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/scientists-at-u-s-weather-forecasting-agency-ordered-to-get-clearance-before-talking-to-canadian-counterparts/ar-AA1zgE9t

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Yup

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"A new peer-reviewed study on the health impacts of pollution from Alberta's oil and gas sector has found the odds of having negative respiratory and cardiovascular health outcomes increase by nine to 21 per cent, depending on the number of oil and gas wells […] [Original post on mapstodon.space]

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An early career geospatial analyst gives his two top picks for free ways to develop #GIS and #remotesensing skills in an application focused way https://gogeomatics.ca/making-geomatics-accessible-empowering-beginners-through-purpose-driven-applications/

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In the free world, today is the day to celebrate women in STEM. Happy to be one, and I salute all my colleagues. In the GIS/RemoteSensing/Geomatics field, my teachers were all male, but my classmates and then my students had gender parity; now in my immediate work group there are three women […]

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"Browsing through all posts made with the hashtag #superbowl gave me more than five times as much superb pictures of owls as it gave me posts about the halftime show." - Laurens Hof, The #Fediverse Report https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-103/ #Mastodon, I love you

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Trump Killed a Major Report on Nature. They’re Trying to Publish It Anyway. "More than 150 scientists and other experts had collectively spent thousands of hours working on the report, a first-of-its-kind assessment of nature across the United States." […]

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Seeing a bunch of NASA posts in my feed, and wondering if this is a new social media outreach on a platform where I hope they will always feel they can post freely without censorship

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Satellite images reveal scope of agricultural loss in #Gaza #earthobservation https://theconversation.com/gaza-we-analysed-a-year-of-satellite-images-to-map-the-scale-of-agricultural-destruction-248796

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CarbonMapper - point sources of #methane and CO2 identified worldwide by Planet's Tanager satellites #earthobservation #hyperspectral #planetscope https://data.carbonmapper.org

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New! #QGIS plugin for aerial #photointerpretation , #stereophoto can be used on any computer. Developed in Quebec, Canada, so it is en français

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All you need to know to work with #lidar for #forestry and ecology applications, and the open source software to do it https://r-lidar.github.io/lidRbook/

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A map of continuous #methane emitters, from a recent science report (Vanselow et al 2024) using Sentinel-5P satellite data. Some are anthropogenic and some are natural. The #wetands we need to leave intact because they are also storing lots of methane and […] [Original post on mapstodon.space]

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Fellow Canadians, if you are thinking "Crazy Americans; that cannot happen here" remember that the censorship of science, under Harper. And now Canadians are on track to elect his protégé. And if you're thinking "Oh, it wasn't as bad" note that even Trump wasn't as bad in his first term.

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This is practically the end of NASA. NASA pauses work of science groups, citing Trump executive orders | SpaceNews #uspol #space https://spacenews.com/nasa-pauses-work-of-science-groups-citing-trump-executive-orders/

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There were lots of #floods last year! You may have noticed. So #Canada 's Historic Flood Events data layer has been updated with 123 new data points. Amazingly, it includes floods going back to 1696 […] [Original post on mapstodon.space]

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This is a new report on the larger #Oilsands Region of northern Alberta, the world's fourth largest petroleum reserve, which contains the area where active surface mining of bitumen is occurring. #ABMI tracks #humanfootprint. There is still a lot of valuable […] [Original post on mapstodon.space]

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Join ABMI Field Technologist Madison Szafranski and Field Coordinator Stephanie Ball as they explore the ABMI Monitoring Centre's 2024 Wrapped. What were our top site locations? What was the mood in the field? Just how many soil cores did we take? And, more generally, exactly what are our field […]

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Hooray, my organization is finally talking about getting off Xitter! For replacements, I'm sure BlueSky will be mentioned, and they probably should, but I'm going to push for Mastodon and Pixelfed (promoting the idea that we also need to leave Instagram for the same reason). So what do you […]

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⁂ #fediverse #TheFutureIsFederated

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Here in Canada the #GulfofMexico is still the Gulf of Mexico on Google Maps. Wondering how it looks to American colleagues.

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Introducing {wbw}, a new geospatial powerhouse in the R ecosystem by Anatolii Tsyplenkov! 🌍⚡ {wbw} provides R bindings for Whitebox Workflows for Python—a fast & powerful library for hydrology, geomorphometry, remote sensing, and more (raster, vector […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

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Crisis in the magic bean market https://www.thebeaverton.com/2025/01/chinas-new-and-cheaper-magic-beans-shock-americas-unprepared-magic-bean-salesmen/ #deepseek_ai

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https://docpop.org/2023/10/move-purposefully-and-fix-things/

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I can't stop thinking about the 9 hours on Trump's inauguration day when Facebook intentionally "hid" all hashtags related to American Democrats. I think it's a preview of what's to come: an American version of The Great Firewall where the tech oligopoly voluntarily censors results of any terms […]

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So, are the #GulfofMexico and #Denali really renamed?

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It's happening! I'm going to write a book!!! I get to take my science communication about satellite pollution to a whole different level! I'm so excited to have this opportunity, but wow, writing a book takes a long time...

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I downloaded #LibreOffice for the first time today and my life is already so much better

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If you're interesting in #earthobservation and not reading this newsletter you're missing out! Earth observation news is world news https://www.spectralreflectance.space/p/spectral-reflectance-newsletter-106

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I've onboarded 100+ users to Pixtagram.social in the last hour. I'm approving people as quickly as I can. If everyone who joined actually uses their accounts I'll probably need to increase the resources available to the server (especially Instagram imports). If you'd like to contribute to help […]

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#Alberta #toponymy map! Find out the meaning of any Alberta place name https://geospatial.alberta.ca/portal/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=a297e74e4fb4445db337df3850652862

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Is #mybinder gone for good?

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Get the code of any #EarthEngine App https://geeadd.geetools.xyz/projects/app2script/

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Global #Fishing Watch: Over 75% of industrial fishing is not documented i.e. done in dark vessels with AIS turned off. Two million gigabyte of satellite data from the European Space Agency were analyzed to construct a picture of maritime traffic between 2017 and 2021. These visualizations also […]

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A number of interesting datasets for the province of #Alberta can be quickly viewed in ABMI's Mapping Portal. To name a few: wetlands, human footprint, wildfires, stream connectivity, and the ranges of all the species we gather data on https://abmi.ca/abmi-home/data-resources/mapping-portal.html

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A large proportion of Alberta's land area is under Forest Management Agreements. What's going on in them in terms of human footprint - is it increasing, what's the effect on species? ABMI has reports on three FMA's here, also wetlands and an overall human footprint report. Open data! […]

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Map showing areas of the Amazon with high aboveground #carbon and which parts are protected. Courtesy of Reuters and based on data from #planetscope from Planet's newsletter roundup of 2024 newsworthy imagery […] [Original post on mapstodon.space]

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"It turns out the consensus was a mirage. Or, more accurately, a sham. Maybe it shouldn’t have surprised me that our industry partners were working against us from the inside." […]

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