Explore regrowth, fire impacts, and structure using our European Terrestrial laser scanning dataset. Harmonized, high-res, plot by plot. 🌱📡
Find the collection here: zenodo.org/records/1867...
Or jump to the dataset for the La Palma campaign: zenodo.org/records/1884...
*** Plot of the week: LP_16 (La Palma, Canary Islands) ***
🔥🌲 Post-fire regrowth means wild tree shapes and species mixes—scanning the Canary Island pines on La Palma was a 3D treat for tree nerds 🌲🔥
#TLS #Riegl
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Are you
* biking
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* related to the Geography department at FU?
Join our team!! The Geoscience Cyclists shorturl.at/42rbX
From 20.05. to 09.06.2026 we are getting on our bikes - for sunny rides and a bike friendly city 🚲☀️🌍
#stadtradeln
Title page of the WWF FIRE COMPASS - Fire Data from Space The Document can be found here: https://www.wwf.de/fileadmin/fm-wwf/Publikationen-PDF/Wald/WWF-Feuerkompass-Daten-englisch.pdf The picture shows a sattelite image with an actively buring fire and big smoke columns
Excerpt page from the FIRE COMPASS The page is split in two, the top part of the page shows a satellite image of the fire in Evros, Greece, in August 2023. The image combines visible light (band 2, blue, and band 3, green) with short-wave infrared SWIR imaging (band 12) to show the fire front, which was approximately 70 kilometres long at the time the image was captured on 23 August. The smoke cloud extended more than 1,600 kilometres south-westwards towards Tunisia. Burned areas appear in the image as reddish-brown areas. The bottom part of the page shows a spectral profile. using the example reflectance signatures of different surfaces, burned areas can be distinguished from other types of surface. The differences between healthy vegetation and areas affected by surface or crown fires are clearly visible. As surface fires do not reach the canopy, the reflectance signature shows a mixture of healthy vegetation and charcoal. Crown fires, by contrast, usually consume all vegetation, producing a reflectance signature resembling that of pure ash. In other words, reflectance signatures vary according to the intensity of the fire, allowing conclusions to be drawn about the severity of the fire.
How do Satellites 🛰️ help in the global monitoring of fires? 🔥
Have a look at the FIRE COMPASS - FIRE DATA FROM SPACE shorturl.at/xE1fi
For students, teachers, researchers and anyone curious to learn more!
Authored by Marion Stellmes (@maerien.bsky.social) and Helga Kuechly, published by WWF Germany.
See how forest structure grows and changes—121 plots are available for your research. Technical details, point clouds, trees, and more:
zenodo.org/records/1867...
or jump straight to the Galicia, Spain campaign: zenodo.org/records/1884...
A screenshot of a terrestrial laser scanning forest point cloud showing a dense, young pine plantation in Spain
*** Plot of the week: ES_18 (Galicia, Spain) ***
Young pine forests can be dense! Compass, tape, and the mighty Riegl helped us through the thickets. 🌲🌲🌲
Worth every step for open 3D data. 💻📊
#TLS #Riegl
But our dataset shows more than just plantations: explore small differences and big patterns with our harmonized European Terrestrial Laser Scanning forest plots. 💻📊
Find the collection here: zenodo.org/records/1867...
Or jump to the dataset for the Czechia campaign: zenodo.org/records/1867...
Plot of the week: CZ_14 (Czechia)
A pure pine plantation—open understory, easy scanning, and the sweetest wild blueberries for the crew! Sometimes, the field’s a treat. 🌲🫐🌲
Interested in 3D forest data? Have a look!
#TLS #Riegl
The solar powered base station we are using for our Lorawan Network (picture copyright: Johann Meindl)
Pine tree crowns above our sensorfield (picture copyright: Miriam Herrmann)
Fieldwork impressions, a GPS receiver, tablet and note pad on the forest floor (picture copyright: Johann Meindl)
Evening light in the pine forest (picture copyright: Miriam Herrmann)
Spring is here — kicking off a new season of data collection on our #sensorfield in Brandenburg 🌱📡
We’re excited for another year of research into seeding and tree growth, powered by high-resolution climate and soil moisture measurements from our sensor network! 🌲🌳🌡️
BB_12 is just one plot in our full Terrestrial Laser Scanning dataset — 121 forest landscapes made 3D across Europe!
Same protocol, same scanner, so you can compare with confidence.
Access to the collection zenodo.org/records/1867...
Or the campaign subset: zenodo.org/records/1867...
A screenshot of a 3D point cloud showing forest structure of a Pine forest in Brandenburg, Germany
*** Plot of the week: BB_12 (Brandenburg, Germany) ***
Overstory pines tower above, but young Quercus are getting ready to take the forest throne! 🌲🌳🌿
Interested in 3D forest data showing a gradient from Pine to Oak-dominated forests? This dataset is for you 💻📊
#TLS #Riegl
A cow carrying a GPS collar in a cattle herd (on May 9th 2014) grazes on a grazing unit in Irbi village, southern Ethiopia. Based on the published data, this area denotes a flat, abundant-vegetation, highly fluctuating grazing unit.
Excited to see this published! 🐄📡
Using GPS tracking, we explore how pastoralists in East Africa navigate resource variability through cattle movements.
Great to be part of this work led by Mohamed Shibia 🙂
🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#Pastoralism #Livestock #EastAfrica #RemoteSensing
Point clouds, tree maps, terrain, and climate for every plot 🌲🌳⛰️🌡️ —open and harmonized for easy comparisons. Dive in here: zenodo.org/records/1867...
Questions on the data? Get in touch. We are curious to see who is interested in our data.
Dataset structure of the advertised Terrestrial laser scanning dataset collection. The collection contains 121 forest plots, each 50 x 50 m at 1 cm spatial resolution. The collection is structured in 5 campaigns, one in Galicia, Spain, one in La Palma, Spain, one in Ostlandet, Norway, one n Brandenburg, Germany and one in Czechia. For each campaign a picture of an example point cloud is shown.
*** Data set alert ***
We are excited to share our new 3D forest dataset 🌲🌳🌿💻📊
121 terrestrial laser-scanning plots across Europe, all scanned using the same protocol and scanner!
From pines to oaks and spruce, it’s a journey through the continent’s forests in millimeter detail.
#TLS #Riegl
Point clouds, tree maps, terrain, and climate for every plot—open and harmonized for easy comparisons. Dive in here: zenodo.org/records/1867...
Questions on the data? Get in touch. We are curious to see who is interested in our data.
👋 Abschied von Prof. Dr. Fabian Faßnacht
Wir verabschieden uns von @ffassnacht.bsky.social.
Danke für deine Offenheit, deinen Ideenreichtum und die großartige Atmosphäre in der Gruppe! 🙏
Alles Gute für deine neue Professur an der BOKU Wien! 🍀
👋 Farewell to Prof. Dr. Fabian Faßnacht
We say goodbye to @ffassnacht.bsky.social. The past years were filled with fieldwork, international collaborations, and unforgettable excursions.
Thank you for your openness, creativity, and the great atmosphere in the group!🙏
All the best at BOKU Vienna!🍀
👋 Abschied von Prof. Dr. Fabian Faßnacht
Unsere Arbeitsgruppe verabschiedet sich von @ffassnacht.bsky.social.
Danke für deine Offenheit, deinen Ideenreichtum und die großartige Atmosphäre in der Gruppe! 🙏
Alles Gute für deine neue Professur an der BOKU Wien! 🍀
BEYOND BOUNDARIES - MOVING FORWARD TOGETHER: Wir feiern weitere sieben Jahre Exzellenzförderung!
🎉BREAKING: Die #BerlinUAlliance schreibt Geschichte und wird als erster Verbund für weitere sieben Jahre im Rahmen der #Exzellenzstrategie von Bund und Ländern gefördert! 👉 Mehr erfahren: www.berlin-university-alliance.de/items/2026/2...
The film Occlusion (2026, 19′15″) is premieringat the “Visual Politics of Digital Ecologies” conference in Oxford, which is held today and tomorrow 🎬📡.
If you’re attending, don’t miss it!
Thanks so much, Stephen and Theo, for letting us be part of this experience!
Laser scan that was taken while filming for the movie.
We went into the forest together, carried out TLS scans, shared current research projects, and talked about forestry, data, and measurement.
Seeing how artists engage with our 3D data — critically and creatively — was an inspiring and enriching experience for our whole team.
Colored terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) point clouds showing a forest in 3D. Trees and vegetation appear as dense constellations of points, revealing forest structure through measurement while highlighting how laser scanning reshapes the way we see, interpret, and abstract natural environments.
Over the past year, we had the chance to take part in an art–science film exploring terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) 🎥🌲.
Working with artists Stephen Cornford & Theo Stanley gave us a fresh perspective on how our forest data can be seen and questioned beyond science.
The cover of the Cleaning Biodiversity Data in R book. It has an illustration of an Pacific Cleaner Shrimp in the middle of a navy background. The shrimp has a bright red-orange shell, pale-yellow body and white whiskers.
Still want to make cleaning biodiversity data shrimp-ler? 🦐
Good news: We just updated our Cleaning Biodiversity Data in R book, so you still can! We've updated data for 2025, added new content & fixed lots of silly typos 😀
Live the shrimp-le life:
cleaning-data-r.ala.org.au
#rstats #ecology 🧪🌏
Conference travel award opportunity:
Foreign Scholar Travel Award to attend the International Association for Landscape Ecology - North America chapter (IALE-NA) conference in April 2026.
www.ialena.org/foreign-scholar-award.html & bit.ly/IALENA-FSTA-....
Apply by Nov. 2, 2025! 🧪🌎
A new semester kicks off this week at Berlin’s universities - back to campus vibes! 🎓✨ Our team is ready for a winter term of teaching GIS & remote sensing at Lankwitz. Wishing students & lecturers alike a semester full of learning, discovery & good energy! 🚀📚🌍 #FreieUniversität #BackToCampus
Great to see so many #PlantScience journals, societies, and institutions here. Tag in if we missed one!
We are visiting our study site in the forest. Under tall pine trees our technichian shows a station with a solar pannel that is used to send data collected on the site to an online dashboard.
Together we are looking at small oak seedings in mossy undergrowth that grow beneath the big pine trees to form a new forest generation. Some small oaks are tagged with numbered blue plates. Their size is remeasured every year. In the background one can see a station with sensors that measure air temperature, humidity and light intensity.
We dig up a soil sample to see how much organic material is present on the forest floor. One can see a small pit and one of our senior researchers feeling how sandy the soil is.
We were delighted to host a research exchange with colleagues from @CzechGlobe 🇨🇿 in Berlin! 🌍
We discussed forestry-focused remote sensing, explored opportunities for future collaboration, and visited study sites like the #sensorfield in Brandenburg. 🌲📡
Thanks for the great visit!
#TeamScience
Arvin, your time with our team has been immensely valuable. Your collaborative spirit and the insightful lessons you shared have left a lasting impression.
We are so grateful to have worked with you — we’ll miss you and wish you all the best in your new work in Norway! 🇳🇴✨
20 plots, hundreds of #Riegl TLS scans, thousands of berries… 🌲🫐 and a million laughs.
Norway field campaign = success! 💪
Now we are back in Berlin and ready to process our data.
Shoutout to our amazing field crew:
Arvin, Asad, Chiara, Ephraim, Johann, Marius & Miriam!
#RonnieRieglOnTour
A laser scanner in the forest
A marsh landscape with scattered trees
A small path in a beech forest
Our fieldwork is in full go – our team is out in the woods every day batteling rain, swamps, sheep and running from cows – the dangers you find in northern Europe 😉 – all with the #Riegl on our shoulders.
But check out these stunning views we get in return! It’s all worth it.
#RonnieRieglOnTour