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🚀SNAP 12 is here! 🌍
Marking 10 years of ESA's Sentinel App Platform with powerful new features:
🛰️Sentinel-1C support
⚙️JDK 21
🌐ETAD: smarter SLCs, interferograms & auto-download
🌍REACTIV, InSAR, OLCI/SLSTR
📦New vector tools
👉 step.esa.int/main/snap-12...
#EO #RemoteSensing #SentinelData #ESA #SNAP

May 8, 2025 at 12:14 PM

Ian Brown

@ianabrown.bsky.social

Wow! 🌨️🏞️🤯

Kenneth Becker @geophotographer.org · May 7

New research reveals that much of the spring runoff in the Western U.S. is not from recent snowmelt but from snow that fell 3–15 years ago. This challenges existing water models and has significant implications for water management.
#Hydrology
#Groundwater
#WaterResources
#ClimateScience
🧪⚒️

Spring runoff is older than you think: Study reveals years-long underground journey

Growing communities and extensive agriculture throughout the Western United States rely on meltwater that spills out of snow-capped mountains every spring. The models for predicting the amount of this...

phys.org

May 7, 2025 at 6:13 AM

Ian Brown

@ianabrown.bsky.social

NASA budget details: spacenews.com/white-house-...
A 50% cut to Earth Sciences proposed 😞

spacenews.com

May 6, 2025 at 4:03 PM

Reposted by Ian Brown

Polar Geospatial Center

@polargeospatial.bsky.social

Effective immediately, the PGC is no longer accepting new NSF-supported requests due to a lack of renewal funding. Current work is wrapping up. Please contact your NSF program officer if impacted. We’re grateful to have supported your polar research. Read our full statement at www.pgc.umn.edu

May 5, 2025 at 9:33 PM

Ian Brown

@ianabrown.bsky.social

Congratulations to @esa.int on the launch of #biomass. Looking forward to some great new advances in #EarthObservation #remotesensing

April 30, 2025 at 4:31 AM

Ian Brown

@ianabrown.bsky.social

Downtown #Stockholm

April 30, 2025 at 4:30 AM

Ian Brown

@ianabrown.bsky.social

A big yellow ball has appeared in the sky 😲

March 28, 2025 at 6:44 AM

Reposted by Ian Brown

Ruth Mottram

@ruthmottram.bsky.social

🚨 New position alert! 🚨

Climate and ice sheet modelling at DMI, come and work with me and my colleague Christian Rodehacke on coupled ice sheet - climate models. 3 year position in #HorzionEurope #LiquidIce

candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...

Scientist for Modeling Ice Sheet–Climate Interaction

Are you interested in working with climate and ice sheet models? And motivated by understanding climate change in the Arctic and Antarctic regions? Here is a gr

candidate.hr-manager.net

March 19, 2025 at 1:03 PM

Ian Brown

@ianabrown.bsky.social

#Snow

February 14, 2025 at 4:44 PM

Ian Brown

@ianabrown.bsky.social

Caption competition anyone?

February 3, 2025 at 8:12 AM

Ian Brown

@ianabrown.bsky.social

Sentinel-1C launches tomorrow at 22:20 CET. S1-B died in 2021 in the middle of our field work 🙄

🤞🤞🤞

December 3, 2024 at 1:09 PM

Ian Brown

@ianabrown.bsky.social

It just rained so hard my goretex jacket couldn't hold out. We're so wet that on the way home we happily waded across mires and weren't fussed at stream crossings.
#fieldwork

August 4, 2024 at 3:03 PM

Reposted by Ian Brown

SAOCousins

@saocousins.bsky.social

New paper out ! #plants #meadows #landscapeecology #maps 🧪🌍
#openaccess

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/ZZKTIE...

Habitat loss and isolation threaten specialist flora in Baltic coastal meadows

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onlinelibrary.wiley.com

July 23, 2024 at 3:35 PM

Ian Brown

@ianabrown.bsky.social

New paper alert! 🚨📢

Weather impacts on #drone #photogrammetry:
- seasonal and weather effects on accuracy
- canopy height model and DEMs evaluated
- reference #lidar dataset with #dGPS control points
with @linegreis.bsky.social

#UAV #forest #remotesensing
dx.doi.org/10.1111/avsc...