Jonas Alsleben
jalsleben.bsky.social
Jonas Alsleben
@jalsleben.bsky.social
Geographer combining remote sensing and field data to disentangle the impacts of land use and climate on biodiversity and earth surface processes

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Doctoral Researcher @humboldteolab.bsky.social, @humboldtuni.bsky.social

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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:
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July 21, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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Preprint on national-scale satellite-based crop field delineation in smallholder landscapes is out:
doi.org/10.48550/arX...
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July 17, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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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
June 27, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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#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!
June 27, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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Excited to present at #LPS25! 🛰️

I’ll share how Phenological Feature Spaces help map vegetation fractions in semiarid rangelands.

🔗 Paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Make sure to check @humboldteolab.bsky.social at #LPS25 eolab.geographie.hu-berlin.de

#EOchat #LPS25
June 22, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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📣Attending @esa.int's #LPS25 next week?
Make sure to catch the 𝐂.𝟎𝟓.𝟎𝟒 session (𝐓𝐮𝐞 𝟐𝟒𝐭𝐡 | 𝟏𝟔:𝟏𝟓-𝟏𝟕:𝟒𝟓 | 𝐇𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐋𝟏/𝐋𝟐), during which I will talk about 🌍 global 🛰️ #Landsat and #Sentinel-2 data availability and how it shapes feasibility of long-term analyses.
See you in Vienna!
June 20, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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Grateful to Prof. Mia Bennett (@cryopolitics.com ,Univ. of Washington) for stirring questions at today’s EO Lab colloquium. “Pixel Politics” probed who owns the satellites—and the narratives—behind our data. Exposure→engagement→empowerment: roadmap for critical #RemoteSensing
June 16, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Meet the EnMAP-Box at the @esa.int #LivingPlanetSymposium. Come to our tutorial on Sun 22Jun, and poster on Wed 25Jun, right after the #EnMAP Mission session (C.05.05).
June 12, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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Starting tomorrow (13th of March)
Observations from 3 #Sentinel2 satellites! Increased revisit frequency. Terrific news!
“This configuration will enhance the availability of Sentinel-2 data, with additional Sentinel-2 observations on the same relative orbit, occurring 2 days apart from Sentinel-2B and 1 day apart from Sentinel-2C.”
ESA has granted Sentinel-2A a one-year exceptional and temporary extension, delaying its retirement and increasing Sentinel-2 revisit times.
europeanspaceflight.com/sentinel-2a-...
March 12, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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Observations from 3 #Sentinel2 satellites! Increased revisit frequency. Terrific news!
“This configuration will enhance the availability of Sentinel-2 data, with additional Sentinel-2 observations on the same relative orbit, occurring 2 days apart from Sentinel-2B and 1 day apart from Sentinel-2C.”
March 12, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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Proud to be part of a great @eoafrica-rd.org team and an exciting project! Looking forward to the collaboration Prof. Natasha Ribeiro, @hostertp.bsky.social, @lennarteichfuss.bsky.social, João Chibue Domingos & Pauline Hammer! More info here: eolab.geographie.hu-berlin.de/research_pro...
February 19, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Congratulations to @lasseharkort.bsky.social for his first Phd chapter! The maps reveal impressive patterns of management-driven fragmentation and woody-herbaceous cover along a rainfall gradient.
📣 New in Remote Sensing of Environment!

PhD candidate @lasseharkort.bsky.social and team introduce a novel Phenological Feature Space (PFS) approach for mapping fractional vegetation cover in Sub-Saharan rangelands using Sentinel-2 time series. 🛰️

🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.rs...
February 13, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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📣PNAS piece led by @philrufin.bsky.social: commercial very-high-resolution EO data is needed for monitoring SDG 2 indicators in smallholder landscapes but costs are prohibitive. A call for open access for sustainability-centered research: doi.org/10.1073/pnas... @humboldtuni.bsky.social
February 13, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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Commercial very-high-resolution satellite imagery is crucial for monitoring smallholder farming systems (SDG 2), but paywalls block innovation and progress.

We call for open access to these data for sustainability-centered research in @pnas.org!

Read the full text here: doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
February 12, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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We left behind ~10k followers on X, please reskeet to help us reach the community! #EOchat
Return of the good times: the Earth Observation Lab of @humboldtuni.bsky.social has joined Bluesky: Follow @humboldteolab.bsky.social for all things terrestrial remote sensing and geospatial at large!
February 12, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Congratulations to Esmaeel Adrah on the publication of his first paper in #RSE! 👏
🏷️ In this paper, we integrated #GEDI, #Sentinel-1, and #Sentinel-2 data to map tree crops in a Mediterranean environment.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Integrating GEDI, Sentinel-2, and Sentinel-1 imagery for tree crops mapping
Mapping tree crops is essential for resource management and supporting local livelihoods and ecosystem services. However, tree crops are often overloo…
www.sciencedirect.com
February 11, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Productive days at @esaearth.esa.int Digital Twin Earth Open Science Meeting!
We presented #EOAgriTwin, a project that uses #EO data to assess stressors & build #DigitalTwin for drought, heat, pests & pathogens.
Collab: @zalf.bsky.social, RSS, @humboldtuni.bsky.social, ICIPE & UCSC.
🔗 eoagritwin.eu
February 6, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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Productive discussions on G4B grassland habitat and diversity remote sensing and protection with our partners at Humboldt University today. #G4B @g4biodiv.bsky.social @wslresearch.bsky.social @biodiversaplus.bsky.social @tkuemmerle.bsky.social
January 21, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Happy to share our new paper on soil-specific unmixing of croplands in Germany led by Felix Lobert.

We adapted @katjakowalski.bsky.social’s approach using #Landsat and #Sentinel-2 🛰️ to account for soil variability using a soil reflectance composite developed at @thuenen.de EO:

tinyurl.com/5n92ae5z
January 13, 2025 at 9:54 AM