🚲 Stadtradeln Berlin // City cicling Berlin 🚲
Are you
* biking
* in Berlin
* 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.
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! 🌲🌳🌡️
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
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
👋 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!🍀
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.
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
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
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
Wellington boots in a box
We are getting ready to head to Norway! 🌲🌾🌲
Our team will collect terrestrial laser scanning data to on the connection between forest structure and biodiversity – we are looking forward to two weeks in the beautiful boreal forest north of Oslo.
And we are prepared for swampy conditions 😉
🌐🛰️ Ever wondered how Deep Learning models like UNet can be applied? Checkout the beginner tutorials from @ffassnacht.bsky.social @fub-remotesensing.bsky.social
Blooming horse chestnut tree ‘Rosie’ on the GeoCampus Lankwitz, with pink blossoms, green grass, and a partly cloudy sky.
Close-up of a tree trunk equipped with environmental sensors for measuring growth, light, and soil moisture on the GeoCampus Lankwitz.
3D point cloud model of a tree from TLS scan, color-coded by height from pink at the base to yellow in the upper canopy, on a black background.
On our idyllic GeoCampus Lankwitz, smart sensors track tree growth, soil moisture & light of some of our many trees. TLS scans turn trees like "Rosie" 🌳 the chestnut into stunning 3D models 👓. #TTN #SmartForestry #IoT #TreeGrowth #LoRaWAN #ForestEcology #SensingFUB
Young oak seedlings growing in a row on a mossy forest floor under tall pine trees.
Two people wearing yellow safety vests working with a sensor device in a pine forest.
Looking up at the canopy of tall pine trees against a cloudy sky.
Solar-powered LoRaWan station with a large solar panel and control units mounted on a metal frame, installed in a forest clearing.
🌳 In Brandenburg, we’ve set up a TTN-connected station to monitor soil moisture & light intensity—exploring how these factors affect young oak seedlings growing under mature pines. Stay tuned for more news from our #sensorfield!
#SmartForestry #IoT #TreeGrowth #LoRaWAN #ForestEcology #SensingFUB
Das war ein schöner Abend und es hat Spaß gemacht teilzunehmen mit dem Team von @fub-remotesensing.bsky.social
📣 Just a few days to go!
Join us this Saturday, June 28 at #LNDW2025 in the Theaterhof of the Silberlaube @FUBerlin.
As a special add on we’ll be showcasing a small art project by ZK/U fellows, created in collaboration with us: Visual Cultures of Forest Carbon - www.zku-berlin.org/fellows/754/ 🌳🌲
Die Grafik zeig den eine brennende Savanne. Darüber gelegt ist der Schriftzug "Vom Lag rf u r zur Klimakris". Im Schrifzug wurde bewusst der Buchstabe "E" weggelassen, um auf die Einsparungen für Universitäten durch den Berliner Senat aufmerksam zu machen. Bildquelle: African Savannah Fire ©Wikimedia This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.
🔥 Feuer als Werkzeug des Menschen: Internat. Studie mit Beteiligung der #Paläontologie der #FUBerlin & @paleoclimategirl.bsky.social in @pnas.org zeigt: Schon vor über 50.000 Jahren formten Menschen mit Feuer gezielt Landschaften – 10.000 Jahre früher als gedacht
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Vom 23. bis 29. Juni streicht die #FUBerlin das "E", um zu zeigen, was fehlt, wenn Substanz gestrichen wird. Allein für 2025 sollen die Kürzungen rund 37 Million n uro betragen.
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