Benoît Smets
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Benoît Smets
@bensmets.bsky.social
Geoscientist – Remote sensing of Geohazards and Volcanoes | Assistant Prof. at Vrije Universiteit Brussel; Senior Researcher at AfricaMuseum (Belgium)
Great morning start, today, when I discovered this message on my whiteboard, written by two students from ENSG-Geomatique (France) happy of their internship at the AfricaMuseum. Thank YOU, guys! It was a pleasure to welcome you.

#africamuseum #geohazards #ScienceRocks
August 7, 2025 at 6:57 AM
ESA Sentinel-1 SAR amplitude change image highlighting the current flood (cyan colours) in Kinshasa, D.R.Congo. The extent within the city is probably much larger, as the backscattering of the buildings in densely urbanised areas tends to hide floods.

#flood #Kinshasa #DRCongo
April 9, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Last Tuesday, MSc students in Geography of @vubrussel.bsky.social and @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social came to the #AfricaMuseum to learn more about photogrammetry. The programme included a guest lecture by @adille.bsky.social on remote sensing of slow-moving landslides and a UAV demonstration
March 30, 2025 at 9:36 AM
My tweet of last November: The "what have you done?" resonates everyday in my head. It is like we are in a bad James Bond movie, except that the powerful villain is #POTUS and Bond is not there to save us.

#saveUkraine #saveUSAID #saveNOAA #saveNASA #saveNIH #saveUSGS ... #saveEarth
March 1, 2025 at 1:37 PM