Landscape Geoinformatics

We presented the initial Estonian Environmental Data Cube portal (geokuup.ee ) at the Estonian Spatial Planning Conference! This portal, developed under #FutureScapes & #WaterSmartLand (funded by #ETAG 🔬), offers structured environmental data 📊 for spatial planning

New study alert!🚨 We developed 5 Random Forest models with spatial strategies to predict soil organic carbon 🌍🌱Our top performer? Random Forest Spatial Interpolation for capturing spatial structure. Small but meaningful accuracy gains & spatial covariates often replaced others

Friday evening chill in our new #geoinformatics corner @unitartu 😎

We were really happy to be present at the annual Delta Career Day yesterday! 🌐 We met with so many eager students and also had great conversations with them! 🙌✨ It was great to see such high interest from the participants towards us! 👏 #geoinformatics #unitartudelta

Our latest research has been published in Environmental Monitoring and Assessment from @SpringerNature We analyzed how land cover influences air quality in southern Ecuador using Sentineldata. Thanks to my co-authors @evelynuuemaa,Szilard and Danilo Read: tinyurl.com/lulc-air

Last week, our team went on a writing retreat to focus on crafting scientific articles. 📝✨ The days were filled with deep work and collaboration. We also shared valuable tips and tricks on scientific writing tools and methods.💡 Also, we enjoyed quality time as a team! 👥

We have just opened an exciting PhD position in GeoAI & LLMs and are looking for motivated PhD candidates! The PhD will be supervised by me and @NicoWeghe from the GeoAI Research Center, Ghent University.  Apply by March 2nd, 2025 from here (+ details): aalto.fi/en/open-positi…

🌍 We're building a #datacube @LGeoinformatics to integrate spatial data with varying resolutions. Resampling is key for aligning datasets with different resolutions, coordinate systems, or extents. Check out our quick cheat sheet for resampling tips! Have any suggestions?💬

🌍 Last week, @M_Jemeljanova, @allixender & @evelynuuemaa visited @AaltoGeoinfo & @fgi_nls's Geoinformatics Dept. 🤝 Excited about collaboration between Digital Waters Flagship & ERC #WaterSmartLand, and sharing insights on teaching #FOSS4G. Thanks a lot for having us! 🌊

Happy holidays from our team! 🎄🎅🛷❄️☃️

🌍 In our @ERC_Research funded WaterSmartLand (water-smart-land.eu) project, we’re building an environmental datacube using DGGS tech. On 17 Dec, @allixender visited #ESA HQ in Paris 🇫🇷 to discuss DGGS and share insights with science and technology staff. 🤝

We have Christmas Sweater office day today 🤪🎄🧑‍🎄lots of cool/funny/weird sweaters and three best were awarded big Grinch Christmas sweater gingerbread 😅

Last Thursday, we attended the Estonian Remote Sensing Day gathering of experts and enthusiasts exploring remote sensing innovations at @tartuobs ! 🛰️📡 💬 Our team member @holgervirro presented on using deep learning to identify drainage ditches from lidar data.

We are excited to contribute to the @opengeospatial #DGGS API standard through our novel DGGS #datacube @ERC_Research project #WaterSmartLand 💦🌍Interoperabitlity is crucial, and we presented our open-source DGGS server at the 130th @opengeospatial meeting in Seoul!

📰 Reflections from @evelynuuemaa on how satellite & open data fuel innovation! 🌍 🛰️ New models from research, like those at our Centre of Excellence, help to unlock full potential of satellite data. Read more bit.ly/3CnGQ2Q 📷 SCANPIX

We had an awesome opportunity to host @spatialthoughts @unitartu last week and teaching in our @GemMsc programme #remotesensing with #GEE🛰️🌍 and advising our team on large-scale #spatial analysis 🙌

Last week, we joined the @Hytruck project quarterly meeting in Riga, where experts in economics, transportation and hydrogen discussed the future of hydrogen-powered freight transport! We got great feedback on our work and explored hydrogen-powered public transport in Riga! 🚌

💧 Key Insights: •RF excels with historical flows & time-lags 📈 •Shows robust daily performance💪 •SWAT struggles with daily forecasts, overestimating by 27%! 😲 While SWAT shines in monthly predictions, RF is the go-to for daily accuracy, especially in arid regions!🔍💡

🌊🚀 Our recent study proposes a novel time-lag-informed Random Forest (RF) framework that outperforms traditional methods for streamflow predictions! 🌟 See key insights in the comments below. Paper: tinyurl.com/52cazpet