Announcement graphic for a scientific publication in Environmental Research Letters titled "National-scale field delineation in Mozambique refines our understanding of cropland distribution, field size, and deforestation actors" by Rufin, Hammer et al. The central feature is a map of Mozambique color-coded by Mean Field Size, ranging from 0.01 hectares (tan) to 2.50 hectares (teal). Additionally, various maps and statistical graphs regarding mean field size show close-up field boundaries across the country and correlate field size with variables such as cropland fraction, travel time, and population density. The background is dark navy blue, right bottom corner shows the Earth Observation Lab pictogram, a satellite orbiting a globe.

New publication out now!

@philrufin.bsky.social, Pauline Hammer et al. mapped 17M fields in Mozambique using deep learning and satellite imagery. With 78% of fields being <0.5 ha, this provides critical data for sustainable land use policies!

Read more here: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

Hyperspektrale Erdbeobachtung in der Praxis - Die EnMAP-Box in QGIS Die EnMAP-Box ist ein QGIS Plugin zur Visualisierung, Analyse und Prozessierung von hyper- und multispektralen Erdbeobachtungsdaten. Unse...

Last week the #FOSSGIS2026 took place in Göttingen. Thanks to @media.ccc.de the presentations were recorded and posted online the same (!) day. Here you see how to efficiently view and analyze hyper- and multispectral rasters #QGIS using the EnMAP-Box (german language). media.ccc.de/v/fossgis202...

In her PhD research at the Earth Observation Lab, Dr. Esther Shupel Ibrahim analyzed impacts of climate change and diseases on smallholder agriculture in Nigeria.

Explore her research in this StoryMap and watch the interview with @hostertp.bsky.social about findings and challenges ⬇️

arcg.is/1bG48K

The results highlight pathways to advance hyperspectral & enhanced multispectral products (e.g., plant N, SOC, species, water quality) from prototype (TRL 4–6) to policy-ready services via stronger science–policy interfaces and co-design.


#EO #Copernicus #Hyperspectral #RemoteSensing

Announcement of a new paper by Berger et al. titled "Improving spectral Earth observations for EU policies: needs, opportunities, recommendations," published in Environmental Sciences Europe. The image features an artist's impression of the CHIME satellite in orbit, projecting a green scan beam onto the Earth’s surface. The image is from the website https://sentiwiki.copernicus.eu/web/chime.

Advancing optical #EarthObservation for #EU policies!

We systematically link EU land-related agricultural & environmental legislation to EO-derived variables from next-generation optical missions (CHIME, Sen-2 NG) and assess their TRLs for operational uptake.

➡️ link.springer.com/article/10.1...

How can a “Digital Twin” help to build a more resilient agricultural future?

The #EOAgriTwin project creates virtual replicas of agricultural systems to monitor crop conditions under various stressors.

Explore the tools, use cases and methods in this video!

Hyperspektrale Erdbeobachtung in der Praxis - Die EnMAP-Box in QGIS FOSSGIS-Konferenz 2026 Die EnMAP-Box ist ein QGIS Plugin zur Visualisierung, Analyse und Prozessierung von hyper- und multispektralen Erdbeobachtungsdaten. Unsere Demo zeigt, wie EnMAP-Daten bezogen und in der EnMAP-Box fac...

From March 24-28, the #FOSSGIS2026 takes place in Göttingen, Germany. There, we will demonstrate how easy it is in #QGIS to evaluate satellite images from hyperspectral sensors, such as #EnMAP, #PRISMA and #Tanager, when using the EnMAP-Box pretalx.com/fossgis2026/...

BEOBACHTUNG AUS DEM ALL: Jeder Fleck auf der Erde, jeden Tag! SPACETIME S08E03 YouTube video by WELT Space

Have you ever wondered how #RemoteSensing and #Geography play together? 🛰️🌍

This Space Time episode explores the past and future of #EarthObservation, featuring former German astronaut Ulrich Walter, ESA Director General @josefaschbacher.esa.int & EOLab’s @hostertp.bsky.social. Subtitles available!

EOLab’s Florian Poetzschner is presenting current progress of Field delineation and water use assessment for EOAgriTwin - ‘A Digital Twin for Agriculture under multiple stressors’ at ESA's Open Science Meeting in Frascati

Find out more about the project:
www.eoagritwin.eu

The #GreenGrass 2.0 Project aims to enhance the resilience and long-term protection of grassland pasture systems in Germany with smart farming systems.
Check out our new StoryMap to see how #remotesensing helps to develop these sustainable pasture management strategies ➡️ arcg.is/1LOKDC1

New Landsat Science Team Announced - NASA Science The U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with NASA, has named the new Landsat Science Team that will support the world’s longest-running Earth observation mission for a planned 2026-2030 term.

The 2026-2030 #Landsat Science Team met on 20 Jan 2026 for the first time.
EOLab alumni @dfrantz.bsky.social introduced our project on "Synergistic data processing pipelines for Landsat and European satellite missions"

🛰️ Explore the mission and the full team here:
science.nasa.gov/missions/lan...

A research graphic titled "From local to national scale: Earth Observation of semi-natural grasslands within the GreenGrass 2.0 project network." The background shows a cow grazing in a green pasture. The right side features two technical diagrams, illustrating spectral-temporal monitoring and intra-annual time series. Credits list Katja Janson, Scientist Jonas Alsleben, and PI Patrick Hostert.

From local fields to national scales: EOLab’s @jalsleben.bsky.social is contributing remote sensing expertise to the interdisciplinary GreenGrass 2.0 Project! 🌱🐄🛰️

Find out more about the project, research challenges, and methodological approaches in this StoryMap:
arcg.is/1LOKDC1

#EarthObservation

On Jan 29.+30, the German Space Agency will hold a webinar on the Applications and Commercialization Potential of #EnMAP. The webinar also shows how EnMAP data can be obtained and processed using the EnMAP-Box in #QGIS
www.enmap.org/data/news/En...

Exciting times for #EOAgriTwin project! Join the first webinar on the latest developments in a @esa.int #EarthObservation Digital Twin for #agriculture under stressors in #Europe!

2025 GDAL User Survey In 2024, the GDAL User Survey solicited feedback to help focus GDAL Sponsorship Program activities. Your contribution mattered. Last years' results triggered the project to embark on the GDAL CLI Mode...

2025 GDAL User Survey is now active for the entire month of December! Visit gdal.org/survey/ & tell the project how you use it, where you get help, what it should do in the future, & how/if it should use LLMs going forward. (optionally) give us your email, we'll even enter you to win a GDAL t-shirt!

We just released EnMAP-Box 3.17.1, bringing numerous new features and improvements. For example, the new Spectral Index Explorer visualizes numerous spectral indices on-the-fly with just a mouse click. #EnMAP #Hyperspectral #ImagingSpectroscopy

The 14th EARSeL Workshop on Imaging Spectroscopy will take place in Helsinki, Finnland, from 2-4. Jun 2026. It is followed by a tutorial day on 5. June. There we will show the EnMAP-Box and how to use it for visualizing and analyzing EnMAP and other EO datasets.
is.earsel.org/workshop/14-...

@jakimowb.bsky.social presented the #EnMAP-Box and the EO Time Series Viewer at ESA #BiDS25 in Riga, Latvia.
Thanks to the QGIS API, these QGIS plugins allow for an integrated and interactive display of raster data, facilitating the creation of reference data for model training and validation.

Want to do a PhD in remote sensing? Interested in mountain forest ecosystems? Then apply for a PhD position in our lab! You will be part of the newly founded Centre for Forest Management in the Alps, working on scaling tree productivity from tree to landscape scale. Deadline 21st September.

Shupel and @hostertp.bsky.social discuss key findings and challenges of her PhD research, full video in the StoryMap - section Key Messages: arcg.is/1bG48K

Header Image of Maize field with a picture of Esther Shupel Ibrahim and text: Research for Smallholder Farmers' Food Security in Nigeria

Using Remote Sensing and Agro-Ecosystem Modelling 🛰️🌽📈, Esther Shupel Ibrahim analyzes impacts of climate change and diseases on smallholder agriculture in Nigeria and develops strategies to support and empower smallholder farmers.
Find out more about her PhD research in this StoryMap:
arcg.is/1bG48K

National-scale map of mean field size across Mozambique. Selected zoom ins provide details on individual fields.

🌍 🛰️ 🌱 🌽👨🏿‍🌾🛖💻⚙️
Preprint on national-scale satellite-based crop field delineation in smallholder landscapes is out:
doi.org/10.48550/arX...
🌍 🛰️ 🌱 🌽👨🏿‍🌾🛖💻⚙️

Independent oversight crucial to Landsat Next

The #Landsat program is arguable THE most important satellite mission for ecology, land-system science and sustainability science (and many other fields). It must stay science-oriented. Open access is crucial.

Independent oversight crucial to Landsat Next | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Considering land use complexity and overlap is critical for sustainability planning. New paper led by Marie Pratzer - out in OneEarth:

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

@tkuemmerle.bsky.social @matthiasbaumann.bsky.social @pedrofernandez91.bsky.social @oneearthofficial.bsky.social

To enhance sustainable development goal research, open up commercial satellite image archives | PNAS To enhance sustainable development goal research, open up commercial satellite image archives

#LPS25 was a fantastic experience but let´s take a step back and reflect on the potential (and the role) of commercial EO data providers in contributing to pressing #sustainability challenges. Here´s a short recap of arguments from the scientific community: doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

Announcement for upcoming Earth Observation Lab contribution at living planet symposium 2025: Nghiyalwa et.al: Spatio-temporal Unmixing of the South African Protected Savanna Ecosystems Using a multi-data approach with spectral temporal metrics Session: A.02.07 - Monitoring grasslands and rangelands from space Where: X5 - Poster Area / Zone D-F When: Friday 27.06.25 / 13:00 h

Announcement for upcoming Earth Observation Lab contribution at living planet symposium 2025: Pfoch et al.: Building development is the main cause of rapid wildland-urban interface growth in wildfire-prone Mediterranean-type ecosystems Session: A.02.04 - Advances in Monitoring and Management of Forest Ecosystems Where: X5 - Poster Area / Zone F-J When: Friday 27.06.25 / 13:00 h

Has it really been a week already at @esa.int’s #LPS25?
Come and find our final two Earth Observation Lab contributions by Nangula Nghiyalwa and Kira Pfoch at today’s Poster Sessions!
📍 X5 Poster Area - Zone D-F / F-J
🗓️ 27.06.25, 13:00 h

Announcement for upcoming Earth Observation Lab contribution at living planet symposium 2025: Alsleben et al.: Monitoring Species-Specific Tree Dieback across Central European Temperate Forests using Sentinel-2 Time Series Session: A.02.04 Advances in Monitoring and Management of Forest Ecosystems Where: X5 - Poster Area / Zone F-J When: Friday 27.06.25 / 13:00 h

How well can we map NPV across temperate forest heterogeneity? Can we use NPV time series to reveal tree dieback? And how does dieback vary between species in Germany?
Visit @jalsleben.bsky.social to discuss these questions:

📍 X5 Poster Area
🗓️ Friday, 13:00h

#LPS25 #Sentinel2 #foresthealth

Announcement for upcoming Earth Observation Lab contribution at living planet symposium 2025: Schneidereit et al.: High resolution reconstructions of Pan-European woody cover timeseries from 1990-2024 Session: A.02.04 Advances in Monitoring and Management of Forest Ecosystems - PART 6 Where: Hall F2 When: Friday 27.06.25 / 11:30 h

#LPS25 wildE presentation on High resolution reconstructions of Pan-European woody cover timeseries from 1990-2024 by Shawn Schneidereit upcoming in Hall F2 at 11:30h!

Lasse Harkorts contribution has been postponed to the session at 2:30 pm!

Announcement for upcoming Earth Observation Lab contribution at living planet symposium 2025: Schwieder et al.:Evaluating Grassland Mowing Detection Algorithms Across Europe - Results of the Mowing Detection Intercomparison Exercise (MODCiX) Session: A.02.07 Monitoring grasslands and rangelands from space - PART 1 Where: Room 1.34 When: Friday 27.06.25 / 08:30 h

Announcement for upcoming Earth Observation Lab contribution at living planet symposium 2025: Harkort et al.: Mapping Fractional Vegetation Cover in Sub-Saharan Rangelands Using Phenological Feature Spaces Session: A.02.07 Monitoring grasslands and rangelands from space - PART 2 Where: Room 1.34 When: Friday 27.06.25 / 11:30 h

Don’t miss EOLab’s contributions to #LPS25 Session A.02.07 - Monitoring Grasslands and Rangelands from Space

Part 1 with Dr. Marcel Schwieder at 8:30
Part 2 with @lasseharkort.bsky.social at 11:30

See you at Room 1.34!