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Luke A. Brown @lukeabrown.bsky.social · 6h

It was great to be back at ESRIN today for the 7th @esa.int Sentinel-2 Validation Team meeting, presenting GROUNDED EO results and next steps, as well as celebrating 10 years of the Sentinel-2 mission.

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Mathias Disney @matdisney.bsky.social · 9d

Our new perspective on what TLS can (& can't) do in forest research www.nature.com/articles/s41... - led by Eduardo Maeda w lots of great colleagues including @kimcalders.bsky.social @emilyrlines.bsky.social @louiseterryn.bsky.social @benjaminbrede.bsky.social (apols for any I don;t have @ for)

Expanding forest research with terrestrial LiDAR technology - Nature Communications

This Review highlights how terrestrial laser scanning is transforming forest research by enabling highly detailed 3D measurements of trees, supporting applications in forest ecology, carbon monitoring, and biodiversity assessment.

www.nature.com

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Luke A. Brown @lukeabrown.bsky.social · 12d

Pleased to be in Helsinki yesterday for the @esa.int QA4EO-2 Calibration/Validation Workshop, hosted by the Finnish Meteorological Institute: earth.esa.int/eogateway/ev...

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Dr Heidi Colthup @heidi-colthup.bsky.social · Aug 21

A colleague has just shared this with me - it's a really good article from @davehitchcock.bsky.social about the crisis in UK Universities.
The situation is more dire than the public realise.
www.historyworkshop.org.uk/education/a-...
#AcademicSky

A Decade of Crisis

The UK's universities are in crisis. Dave Hitchcock on how the sector became 'broken' and why it must be understood as an interdependent system.

www.historyworkshop.org.uk

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Luke A. Brown @lukeabrown.bsky.social · Jul 4

In Warsaw for the 3DForEcoTech final conference this week, and was happy to be able to share our latest work on terrestrial laser scanning of forest environments yesterday!

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Mathias Disney @matdisney.bsky.social · Jun 28

Our new perspective on the use (& misuse) of what we're calling virtual forests (rather than digital twins!), for forest change from space, led by @kimcalders.bsky.social w many great colleagues 🔭 🧪🔬 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Realistic virtual forests for understanding forest disturbances and recovery from space

Forests worldwide are undergoing large-scale and unprecedented changes in terms of structure and composition due to land use change and natural distur…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Luke A. Brown @lukeabrown.bsky.social · Jun 24

In Vienna this week for the @esa.int Living Planet Symposium! I'll be presenting my GROUNDED EO project in the "A.01.11 Living Planet Fellowship Programme Coordination" session on Friday morning (Room 0.14). If you can't make that, I'll also have a poster up on Friday afternoon (Zone S-T).

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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · May 30

📖Published📖

Brown et al. describe their new leaf-wood classification approach and benchmark its performance for leaf area index (LAI) and wood area index (WAI) estimation 🍃🌍 🧪 Read the article here 👇

buff.ly/H56JQ3B

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Mike Wulder @mikewulder.bsky.social · May 21

Stability of biophysical products indicates can quantify the physical response of vegetation to climate variability, disturbances & regeneration. 🏆
Djamai et al. On the consistency and stability of vegetation biophysical variables retrievals from #Landsat 8/9 and #Sentinel2.
doi.org/10.1016/j.is...

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Luke A. Brown @lukeabrown.bsky.social · May 20

A further paper out this week! This time in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social - we detail a new leaf-wood classification method for terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) data, making use of co-registered near-infrared photography: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Luke A. Brown @lukeabrown.bsky.social · May 20

Four(!) permanent positions are now open within our @salforduni.bsky.social Geography & Environmental Management team: 1 x Prof. and 1 x Lecturer in Physical Geography, 1 x Senior Lecturer in Geography, and 1 x Lecturer in Occupational Safety & Health. Deadline 12th June, apply at jobs.salford.ac.uk

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Luke A. Brown @lukeabrown.bsky.social · May 19

New @esa.int GROUNDED EO results out in RSE! See the paper for a new data-driven Sentinel-2 LAI & FAPAR algorithm that reduces bias w.r.t. state-of-the-art. Based on a huge in situ database with uncertainties (>16,000 samples from 81 NEON, ICOS & TERN sites). www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Emily Lines @emilyrlines.bsky.social · May 15

Sensors, scientists and sunshine. Thanks for the great Strucnet vegetation structural dynamics meeting @kimcalders.bsky.social.

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Mathias Disney @matdisney.bsky.social · May 15

Strucnet meeting organised by @kimcalders.bsky.social very much fun!

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Alastair Owens @alastairhackney.bsky.social · May 14

Our @geographicalassoc.bsky.social statement on the crisis impacting UK Higher Education Geography.

We urge universities to maintain their current capacity for geography and to capitalise on its growth in schools and relevance to the workplace and wider economy.

geography.org.uk/ga-higher-ed...

GA Higher Education geography statement - Geographical Association

As the subject association for geography the Geographical Association is concerned about the funding position of many UK universities...

geography.org.uk

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Luke A. Brown @lukeabrown.bsky.social · Apr 14

First look at some data from last week's leaf-off scanning with our new VZ-600i

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Luke A. Brown @lukeabrown.bsky.social · Apr 5

Just in time for leaf-off scans with the new kit

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Martin Mokros @mokros.bsky.social · Mar 28

📢 Call for Participants!
3rd Interdisciplinary Summer School on Forest Ecosystems

💰 No registration fee + full expenses covered!

Organized by four COST Actions

📍 Where: Oxford University & Wytham Woods
📅 When: 4–8 August 2025
📝 More here: bit.ly/3FWRvDp

#SummerSchool #Forest #COSTActions

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Emily Lines @emilyrlines.bsky.social · Mar 24

I am #hiring! Do you like #lidar #data and #forests? Enjoy both computational & field work?

I am hiring a Computational and Field Senior Technician to join my UKRI FLF project team for 2 yrs, based in Cambridge, UK (not remote). More details here (closing April 7th) www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50700/

Computational & Field Senior Technician (Fixed Term) - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge

Computational & Field Senior Technician (Fixed Term) in the Department of Geography at the University of Cambridge.

www.jobs.cam.ac.uk

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Luke A. Brown @lukeabrown.bsky.social · Mar 23

Very happy to have taken delivery of our new RIEGL VZ-600i terrestrial laser scanner earlier this week. A huge upgrade over our ageing LMS-Z390. Now looking forward to getting out for some data collection...

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HagollEO @hagolleo.bsky.social · Mar 14

#Sentinel2 -A is back for 12 months, together with S2B and S2C !
Many thanks to #Copernicus and @esa.int, and to all those who asked for it in our petition.

Copernicus browser view showing S2A images acquired on the 14th of March 2025.

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Prof Charles Musselwhite @charliemuss.bsky.social · Dec 13

Imagine being a government and having a truly world leading industry that also contributes directly and indirectly to regional and national economy, produces leaders, thinkers and workers of the future and then not supporting it. This is the result - now coming to several UK universities…

Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · Dec 13

What a disgrace the university crisis is. University of York has released 272 staff in an attempt to save £34m. All because of central government's stupid, wasteful and thick policies. www.yorkvision.co.uk/news/difficu...

"Difficult and Painful": 272 Staff Members Cut as the University Tackles Financial Crisis | York Vision

Alice Lilley reports on the University’s £34 million financial crisis.

www.yorkvision.co.uk

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Mathias Disney @matdisney.bsky.social · Dec 6

Fully funded PhD w me and @kungphil.bsky.social looking at the structure & function of urban forests in 3D using ground data, lidar, modelling, all the fun stuff. Check it out and get in touch if you're interested www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/qua...

Quantifying the structure, function and utility of urban forests | UCL Trees

60% of the global population will be urban by 2030. Urban forests provide massively important ecosystem and amenity benefits including health, climate mitigation, recreational and aesthetic. But these...

www.trees-dla.ac.uk

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Luke A. Brown @lukeabrown.bsky.social · Dec 3

Reminder about our funded PhD opportunity on dual-wavelength laser scanning for estimating chlorophyll content & vegetation health. Based at @unisouthampton.bsky.social under the IGNITE NERC DLA with supervision from Jadu Dash, Jo Nield and myself. Further details: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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