Robbi Bishop-Taylor 🛰️🌏
@satellitesci.bsky.social
Coastal Earth Observation Scientist from Canberra, Australia. Using satellite remote sensing 🛰️, open-source geospatial 🔓🗺️, Python + R 🧑💻 and dataviz 🎨 to map the earth through space + time... 🌏
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Really exciting to see such so many familiar #ScienceTwitter faces appearing here! 🎉
Reintroduction time: I'm a coastal Earth Observation scientist from Canberra, Australia - my work involves mapping coastal change from space using petabytes of open satellite data! 🛰️🌊🧑🔬
Reintroduction time: I'm a coastal Earth Observation scientist from Canberra, Australia - my work involves mapping coastal change from space using petabytes of open satellite data! 🛰️🌊🧑🔬
Last chance to register for free online attendance at the #AusYCSEC Young Coastal Scientists & Engineers Conference!
Come along to hear lots of exciting coastal research happening across Australasia... plus a special new data announcement from Geoscience Aus in the opening session! 🤩🌊📷🛰️
Come along to hear lots of exciting coastal research happening across Australasia... plus a special new data announcement from Geoscience Aus in the opening session! 🤩🌊📷🛰️
September 24, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Last chance to register for free online attendance at the #AusYCSEC Young Coastal Scientists & Engineers Conference!
Come along to hear lots of exciting coastal research happening across Australasia... plus a special new data announcement from Geoscience Aus in the opening session! 🤩🌊📷🛰️
Come along to hear lots of exciting coastal research happening across Australasia... plus a special new data announcement from Geoscience Aus in the opening session! 🤩🌊📷🛰️
Reposted by Robbi Bishop-Taylor 🛰️🌏
Following up on this, here's an even cooler animation of the SWOT overpass!
earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/15466...
earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/15466...
August 18, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Following up on this, here's an even cooler animation of the SWOT overpass!
earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/15466...
earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/15466...
Reposted by Robbi Bishop-Taylor 🛰️🌏
Happy National Science Week! 🎉 From the coast to the deep sea, IMOS Facilities like Acoustic Telemetry and Argo Floats are providing vital data to understand and protect marine life and ecosystems in a changing climate. Learn more 🔗 bit.ly/4mxjNVk
#NationalScienceWeek2025 #NCRISImpact
#NationalScienceWeek2025 #NCRISImpact
August 9, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Happy National Science Week! 🎉 From the coast to the deep sea, IMOS Facilities like Acoustic Telemetry and Argo Floats are providing vital data to understand and protect marine life and ecosystems in a changing climate. Learn more 🔗 bit.ly/4mxjNVk
#NationalScienceWeek2025 #NCRISImpact
#NationalScienceWeek2025 #NCRISImpact
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Hey cool--this is one of the satellites I regularly bounce a laser off of. Nice to contribute to missions like this. :)
This is incredibly cool: NASA/CNES's SWOT satellite captured a live view of the leading edge of the tsunami formed by the 8.8 magnitude Kamchatka Peninsula earthquake!
www.nasa.gov/missions/swo...
www.nasa.gov/missions/swo...
US-French SWOT Satellite Measures Tsunami After Massive Quake - NASA
Data provided by the water satellite, a joint effort between NASA and the French space agency, is helping to improve tsunami forecast models, benefitting
www.nasa.gov
August 8, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Hey cool--this is one of the satellites I regularly bounce a laser off of. Nice to contribute to missions like this. :)
Reposted by Robbi Bishop-Taylor 🛰️🌏
We’re just days away from the launch of #MetopSGA1!
The upper composite housing the satellite has been transferred to the #Ariane6 launcher. 🚀
Are you ready?
🗓 Launch: 12 Aug
📍 Europe’s Spaceport, Kourou
🔗 Lift off scheduled at 21:37 local time (00:37 UTC, 02:37 CEST on August 13): bit.ly/4onryyV
The upper composite housing the satellite has been transferred to the #Ariane6 launcher. 🚀
Are you ready?
🗓 Launch: 12 Aug
📍 Europe’s Spaceport, Kourou
🔗 Lift off scheduled at 21:37 local time (00:37 UTC, 02:37 CEST on August 13): bit.ly/4onryyV
August 8, 2025 at 8:32 AM
We’re just days away from the launch of #MetopSGA1!
The upper composite housing the satellite has been transferred to the #Ariane6 launcher. 🚀
Are you ready?
🗓 Launch: 12 Aug
📍 Europe’s Spaceport, Kourou
🔗 Lift off scheduled at 21:37 local time (00:37 UTC, 02:37 CEST on August 13): bit.ly/4onryyV
The upper composite housing the satellite has been transferred to the #Ariane6 launcher. 🚀
Are you ready?
🗓 Launch: 12 Aug
📍 Europe’s Spaceport, Kourou
🔗 Lift off scheduled at 21:37 local time (00:37 UTC, 02:37 CEST on August 13): bit.ly/4onryyV
Reposted by Robbi Bishop-Taylor 🛰️🌏
Mosaic of desert fires, salt lakes and dunes. Great sandy desert Western Australia.
August 7, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Mosaic of desert fires, salt lakes and dunes. Great sandy desert Western Australia.
This is incredibly cool: NASA/CNES's SWOT satellite captured a live view of the leading edge of the tsunami formed by the 8.8 magnitude Kamchatka Peninsula earthquake!
www.nasa.gov/missions/swo...
www.nasa.gov/missions/swo...
US-French SWOT Satellite Measures Tsunami After Massive Quake - NASA
Data provided by the water satellite, a joint effort between NASA and the French space agency, is helping to improve tsunami forecast models, benefitting
www.nasa.gov
August 8, 2025 at 2:16 AM
This is incredibly cool: NASA/CNES's SWOT satellite captured a live view of the leading edge of the tsunami formed by the 8.8 magnitude Kamchatka Peninsula earthquake!
www.nasa.gov/missions/swo...
www.nasa.gov/missions/swo...
Reposted by Robbi Bishop-Taylor 🛰️🌏
👉New paper: "Understanding #flood detection models across Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 modalities and benchmark datasets"
🌊This study presents a model generalization across different regions & satellite sensors.
📄 tr.ee/Understandin...
💻Code & models: github.com/kipoju/udl4fl
#RemoteSensing
🌊This study presents a model generalization across different regions & satellite sensors.
📄 tr.ee/Understandin...
💻Code & models: github.com/kipoju/udl4fl
#RemoteSensing
Understanding flood detection models across Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 modalities and benchmark datasets
In recent years, research in flood mapping from remote sensing satellite imagery has predominantly focused on deep learning methods. While new flood s…
tr.ee
August 7, 2025 at 8:32 AM
👉New paper: "Understanding #flood detection models across Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 modalities and benchmark datasets"
🌊This study presents a model generalization across different regions & satellite sensors.
📄 tr.ee/Understandin...
💻Code & models: github.com/kipoju/udl4fl
#RemoteSensing
🌊This study presents a model generalization across different regions & satellite sensors.
📄 tr.ee/Understandin...
💻Code & models: github.com/kipoju/udl4fl
#RemoteSensing
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How do we track water flowing through rivers from space? This major review says: 1–3 day revisit. Resolution down to 30–100 m widths. Must include width, slope, & velocity. Flood forecasting + water management depend on it. #EarthObservation #RemoteSensing #WaterResources doi.org/10.1029/2024...
August 7, 2025 at 1:18 PM
How do we track water flowing through rivers from space? This major review says: 1–3 day revisit. Resolution down to 30–100 m widths. Must include width, slope, & velocity. Flood forecasting + water management depend on it. #EarthObservation #RemoteSensing #WaterResources doi.org/10.1029/2024...
Reposted by Robbi Bishop-Taylor 🛰️🌏
Fair play to #foss4guk 2025: I will be giving a presentation called "Remote Sensing Sucks". I have my opinions, but what gets you worked up about modern EO and RS? It could be anything at all. Let me know and I might reference it in the slides :-) #earthobservation #geospatial #gis #rssucks
August 2, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Fair play to #foss4guk 2025: I will be giving a presentation called "Remote Sensing Sucks". I have my opinions, but what gets you worked up about modern EO and RS? It could be anything at all. Let me know and I might reference it in the slides :-) #earthobservation #geospatial #gis #rssucks
Wonderful to be at #IGARSS2025 in Brisbane! 🛰️Hopefully a nice Take 2 from my first IGARSS in Pasedena, CA where I spent half of the conference locked up in COVID hotel quarantine!
August 3, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Wonderful to be at #IGARSS2025 in Brisbane! 🛰️Hopefully a nice Take 2 from my first IGARSS in Pasedena, CA where I spent half of the conference locked up in COVID hotel quarantine!
Reposted by Robbi Bishop-Taylor 🛰️🌏
🛰️ As many in the Earth community know, NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites are soon to be decommissioned because they are past their designed life. Part of the process involves changing their orbits thus their overpass time. go.nasa.gov/44X3QSk 1/3
go.nasa.gov
August 1, 2025 at 9:46 PM
🛰️ As many in the Earth community know, NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites are soon to be decommissioned because they are past their designed life. Part of the process involves changing their orbits thus their overpass time. go.nasa.gov/44X3QSk 1/3
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☁️ Clouds in the spotlight at #LPS2025!
The Algorithm Intercomparison Exercises session is on—an essential part of EO processing.
Jan Wevers presents our work on CMIX-II, the ESA–NASA initiative comparing cloud detection methods for 10–30 m sensors.
#CMIX #EOAlgorithms #CloudMasking #EarthObservation
The Algorithm Intercomparison Exercises session is on—an essential part of EO processing.
Jan Wevers presents our work on CMIX-II, the ESA–NASA initiative comparing cloud detection methods for 10–30 m sensors.
#CMIX #EOAlgorithms #CloudMasking #EarthObservation
June 26, 2025 at 9:02 AM
☁️ Clouds in the spotlight at #LPS2025!
The Algorithm Intercomparison Exercises session is on—an essential part of EO processing.
Jan Wevers presents our work on CMIX-II, the ESA–NASA initiative comparing cloud detection methods for 10–30 m sensors.
#CMIX #EOAlgorithms #CloudMasking #EarthObservation
The Algorithm Intercomparison Exercises session is on—an essential part of EO processing.
Jan Wevers presents our work on CMIX-II, the ESA–NASA initiative comparing cloud detection methods for 10–30 m sensors.
#CMIX #EOAlgorithms #CloudMasking #EarthObservation
Reposted by Robbi Bishop-Taylor 🛰️🌏
Algal vortex in The Baltic Sea.
Image taken by Landsat-8 on July 18, 2018.
Image taken by Landsat-8 on July 18, 2018.
June 27, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Algal vortex in The Baltic Sea.
Image taken by Landsat-8 on July 18, 2018.
Image taken by Landsat-8 on July 18, 2018.
Reposted by Robbi Bishop-Taylor 🛰️🌏
I've been waiting a few years for this: Zarr v2 support was just launched in Google Earth Engine! Check out this demo that loads ARCO-ERA5 into GEE 🔥
code.earthengine.google.com/67ac1e48848d...
developers.google.com/earth-engine...
code.earthengine.google.com/67ac1e48848d...
developers.google.com/earth-engine...
June 27, 2025 at 7:28 PM
I've been waiting a few years for this: Zarr v2 support was just launched in Google Earth Engine! Check out this demo that loads ARCO-ERA5 into GEE 🔥
code.earthengine.google.com/67ac1e48848d...
developers.google.com/earth-engine...
code.earthengine.google.com/67ac1e48848d...
developers.google.com/earth-engine...
Reposted by Robbi Bishop-Taylor 🛰️🌏
Wow, today is just full of pleasant geospatial treats made for me. I just found out about xarrayvideo, which uses ffmpeg as a video codec to store EO/Climate/Weather data! arxiv.org/abs/2506.19656
Video Compression for Spatiotemporal Earth System Data
Large-scale Earth system datasets, from high-resolution remote sensing imagery to spatiotemporal climate model outputs, exhibit characteristics analogous to those of standard videos. Their inherent sp...
arxiv.org
June 28, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Wow, today is just full of pleasant geospatial treats made for me. I just found out about xarrayvideo, which uses ffmpeg as a video codec to store EO/Climate/Weather data! arxiv.org/abs/2506.19656
Reposted by Robbi Bishop-Taylor 🛰️🌏
Had an amazing time at #LPS25 this week, where @esaearth.esa.int unveiled the first images from the Biomass satellite.
Read our story with @esmestallard.bsky.social and see the stunning new images for yourself:
Read our story with @esmestallard.bsky.social and see the stunning new images for yourself:
Beneath the canopy: Pioneering satellite reveals rainforests' hidden worlds - BBC News
First groundbreaking images from the Biomass satellite could change our understanding of rainforests
www.bbc.co.uk
June 28, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Had an amazing time at #LPS25 this week, where @esaearth.esa.int unveiled the first images from the Biomass satellite.
Read our story with @esmestallard.bsky.social and see the stunning new images for yourself:
Read our story with @esmestallard.bsky.social and see the stunning new images for yourself:
Reposted by Robbi Bishop-Taylor 🛰️🌏
Recently, I taught a session on landscape metrics in R—covering how to quantify spatial patterns in landscapes. 🌾📊
Slides + exercises here:
🔗 jakubnowosad.com/rgis2025/out...
#rGIS2025 #rstats #LandscapeMetrics #GIS #rspatial
Slides + exercises here:
🔗 jakubnowosad.com/rgis2025/out...
#rGIS2025 #rstats #LandscapeMetrics #GIS #rspatial
April 6, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Recently, I taught a session on landscape metrics in R—covering how to quantify spatial patterns in landscapes. 🌾📊
Slides + exercises here:
🔗 jakubnowosad.com/rgis2025/out...
#rGIS2025 #rstats #LandscapeMetrics #GIS #rspatial
Slides + exercises here:
🔗 jakubnowosad.com/rgis2025/out...
#rGIS2025 #rstats #LandscapeMetrics #GIS #rspatial
Reposted by Robbi Bishop-Taylor 🛰️🌏
This week experts gathered in Nice for the UN Ocean Conference. In our new article we highlight the role of satellite data in supporting ocean science 🌊
Dr Thomas Jackson explains how Sentinel-3 imagery helps identify/monitor algal blooms & how they are powerful indicators of change: bit.ly/4jQecrc
Dr Thomas Jackson explains how Sentinel-3 imagery helps identify/monitor algal blooms & how they are powerful indicators of change: bit.ly/4jQecrc
June 13, 2025 at 11:47 AM
This week experts gathered in Nice for the UN Ocean Conference. In our new article we highlight the role of satellite data in supporting ocean science 🌊
Dr Thomas Jackson explains how Sentinel-3 imagery helps identify/monitor algal blooms & how they are powerful indicators of change: bit.ly/4jQecrc
Dr Thomas Jackson explains how Sentinel-3 imagery helps identify/monitor algal blooms & how they are powerful indicators of change: bit.ly/4jQecrc
Reposted by Robbi Bishop-Taylor 🛰️🌏
Come chat about quolls, puns, and finding any excuse to draw animals for science at my poster at #ICCB2025
Monday at 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM in Great Hall 3 & 4
See you there!
Monday at 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM in Great Hall 3 & 4
See you there!
June 12, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Come chat about quolls, puns, and finding any excuse to draw animals for science at my poster at #ICCB2025
Monday at 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM in Great Hall 3 & 4
See you there!
Monday at 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM in Great Hall 3 & 4
See you there!
Reposted by Robbi Bishop-Taylor 🛰️🌏
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"The #Landsat Next project is currently assessing alternate mission architectures to support more affordable ways to maintain the continuity of Landsat imagery per the language in the FY26 President’s Budget Request (PBR). Updates will be forthcoming."
landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/satellites/l...
"The #Landsat Next project is currently assessing alternate mission architectures to support more affordable ways to maintain the continuity of Landsat imagery per the language in the FY26 President’s Budget Request (PBR). Updates will be forthcoming."
landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/satellites/l...
Landsat Next | Landsat Science
The Landsat Next project is currently assessing alternate mission architectures to support more affordable ways to maintain the continuity of Landsat imagery per the language in the FY26 President’s B...
landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov
June 11, 2025 at 8:06 PM
👀👀
"The #Landsat Next project is currently assessing alternate mission architectures to support more affordable ways to maintain the continuity of Landsat imagery per the language in the FY26 President’s Budget Request (PBR). Updates will be forthcoming."
landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/satellites/l...
"The #Landsat Next project is currently assessing alternate mission architectures to support more affordable ways to maintain the continuity of Landsat imagery per the language in the FY26 President’s Budget Request (PBR). Updates will be forthcoming."
landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/satellites/l...
Reposted by Robbi Bishop-Taylor 🛰️🌏
🧪🛰️🔥🧊
Smoke over the pole?
Maybe, first its detection is difficult but it can be done.
Regular visible image do not show it unless it is super thick (where a regular white cloud would look brown or even black).
In this case, regular visible image does not show any indication of it.
But ...
1/n
Smoke over the pole?
Maybe, first its detection is difficult but it can be done.
Regular visible image do not show it unless it is super thick (where a regular white cloud would look brown or even black).
In this case, regular visible image does not show any indication of it.
But ...
1/n
June 9, 2025 at 10:13 PM
🧪🛰️🔥🧊
Smoke over the pole?
Maybe, first its detection is difficult but it can be done.
Regular visible image do not show it unless it is super thick (where a regular white cloud would look brown or even black).
In this case, regular visible image does not show any indication of it.
But ...
1/n
Smoke over the pole?
Maybe, first its detection is difficult but it can be done.
Regular visible image do not show it unless it is super thick (where a regular white cloud would look brown or even black).
In this case, regular visible image does not show any indication of it.
But ...
1/n
Reposted by Robbi Bishop-Taylor 🛰️🌏
Southern part of Lake Eyre in Australia.
Multispectral image taken by Sentinel-2 on May 31, 2025.
@satellitesci.bsky.social 😊🎨
bsky.app/profile/kosm...
Multispectral image taken by Sentinel-2 on May 31, 2025.
@satellitesci.bsky.social 😊🎨
bsky.app/profile/kosm...
June 8, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Southern part of Lake Eyre in Australia.
Multispectral image taken by Sentinel-2 on May 31, 2025.
@satellitesci.bsky.social 😊🎨
bsky.app/profile/kosm...
Multispectral image taken by Sentinel-2 on May 31, 2025.
@satellitesci.bsky.social 😊🎨
bsky.app/profile/kosm...
Reposted by Robbi Bishop-Taylor 🛰️🌏
As the ocean warms, conditions become less habitable for corals in the tropics, but some higher latitude seas might become more conducive to coral reef formation. Coral larvae can drift over large distances by ocean currents, so it is possible for coral reefs to shift polewards. (5/16)
June 7, 2025 at 9:06 AM
As the ocean warms, conditions become less habitable for corals in the tropics, but some higher latitude seas might become more conducive to coral reef formation. Coral larvae can drift over large distances by ocean currents, so it is possible for coral reefs to shift polewards. (5/16)
Reposted by Robbi Bishop-Taylor 🛰️🌏
Can tropical corals find refuge at higher latitudes under future warming? In our new paper in Science Advances, we argue that coral range expansion will be *far too slow* for most coral species to outpace climate change. 🪸🌊
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
A short 🧵 (1/16)
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
A short 🧵 (1/16)
June 7, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Can tropical corals find refuge at higher latitudes under future warming? In our new paper in Science Advances, we argue that coral range expansion will be *far too slow* for most coral species to outpace climate change. 🪸🌊
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
A short 🧵 (1/16)
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
A short 🧵 (1/16)