Samuel Bowers

Come work with me! As part of the SECO project we have a 3 year post-doctoral remote sensing job opportunity available at the University of Edinburgh. The SECO project aims to resolve the carbon dynamics of the dry tropics. elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candidat…

@douglasfinch Great paper

@douglasfinch But I was so sure of my labelling😶

My paper is out! 📝 Using image recognition to find emission plumes across the globe from satellite NO2 data. 🔥amt.copernicus.org/articles/15/72… You can have a look around the map of plumes here: ukatmosphere.org/dataplot/plume…

@Keiko_geo @rachelneugarten Have you tried something like forest_cover.not().fastDistanceTransform()? I think that'd do it!

@rachelneugarten @SamuelJBowers So great to hear this - very similar examples (or something you can definitely start with) are in the book! DM me, I can direct you to some resources

Ver excited that the very first comprehensive Google Earth Engine book is coming together! I'm contributing to one section with @SamuelJBowers. We can't wait for you to see! #comingsoon #deadline

Edinburgh and Glasgow from Sentinel-1

Four great positions (3 x postdoc, 1 x RA) at University of Edinburgh. Carbon cycling, remote sensing, and biogeography of the global dry tropics. blogs.ed.ac.uk/seco-project/n…

@Keiko_geo Desperate to visit

@Keiko_geo That's right. The pan is fed by three rivers to the north, where water evaporates rather than ever reaching the ocean. Before reaching Etosha water flows through the 'Oshana system', a series of wetlands that supports a high (by Namibian standards) population density.

Etosha pan, Namibia

Scotland this morning, seen by Sentinel-3

@Keiko_geo I present my favoured solution to this scaling issue: contrast limited adaptive histogram equalisation. From OpenCV.

👀❄️ Pentland Hill, Edinburgh 8/2/2021 11:25:40

Brandberg Mountain, The Namib

Make your own: bit.ly/3rLm43k

Gas flare fireworks from VIIRS nighttime lights. Happy new year!

@KristianBodolai @MapMakinMeyers Pentlands is the plan for later this week. Ground truth:

@MapMakinMeyers @SamuelJBowers I've been going to Pentlands for exercise since covid measures were strengthened. Nice cycle + hikes from Edinburgh to do in half a day!

Scotland's exercise boundaries. Find out where you can legally travel for outdoor exercise: bit.ly/2Ju4Kij [PC only]

@MapMakinMeyers Well I think so. As I interpret the rules anyhow. Know any good 'wild' spots?

@SamuelJBowers holy shit, is this legit!?? I can help you find some spots in this buffer if you want adventure ideas!!?

Discovering some nice spots in my shrunken world.

@DOverview Pretty images, but not 'Great Green Wall'. This is irrigated agriculture (rice?), imaged at different times of year.

The Great Green Wall is an anti-desertification initiative underway in Africa’s Sahel region, on the southern edge of the Sahara Desert. See more here: bit.ly/32yN0Zf /// #dailyoverview #aerialphotography #earth #picoftheday #greatgreenwall #sahara #africa #desert #news

@mzaas @gartn001 @sentinel_hub I'm definitely not a meteorologist though!

@mzaas @gartn001 @sentinel_hub That is odd. I wonder if there's some bias associated with cloud detection over water bodies? There is some mention of inconsistency here: medium.com/sentinel-hub/i…

Probability of cloud cover in Sentinel-2 images. Borrowing cloud cover estimates from @sentinel_hub's s2cloudless.