Mikko Rauhala

Proud of have being part of this breaking technology and method development , with implications for accurate and more cost-efficient blue forest mapping. Even at depth to >10m guide from #drone #imagery! Relevant not least to the HEU projects OBAMA-NEXT Project and C-BLUES EU By NIVA - Norsk institutt for vannforskning & Norsk Regnesentral

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Question for My laser scanning contacts: How do you identify tree species from your data? 🌳 🌴 🌲 We're encountering challenges in identifying tree species from laser scanning data. In Estonia, surveying regulations mandate the differentiation of trees by species. On drawings, each tree must be distinctly classified as either deciduous, spruce, pine, or another type of conifer. While we can quickly vectorize all our measurement data from point clouds, we hit a snag when it comes to tree identification, requiring us to handle everything manually. However, we cannot overlook this step, as topographic maps must have trees marked accordingly. Does anyone have recommendations or software suggestions that could help?

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🌍 𝗠𝗼𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗗𝗲𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗠𝗼𝘇𝗮𝗺𝗯𝗶𝗾𝘂𝗲: 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗠𝘂𝗹𝗲𝗹𝗮 🌿 I recently used monthly satellite images from the Planet constellation, provided by the #NICFISatelliteDataProgram (a collaboration between NICFI - Norway's International Climate and Forest Initiative, KSAT – Kongsberg Satellite Services and Planet), to track #deforestation in #Zambézia province, specifically in the #Pebane district, #Mulela administrative post (#Mualamba), and Mulela locality. Between May and July 2024, I detected 21 hectares of #deforestation in the area. What’s striking is the linear pattern of the #deforested land, which is unusual for #shiftingCultivation practices common in this region . This pattern hints at potential activities beyond traditional agriculture. This finding underscores the value of satellite monitoring and detailed analysis in understanding land use changes and environmental threats 🌳. I’ll keep investigating to pinpoint the causes🌍. A big thanks to the #NICFISatelliteDataProgram and Planet for their crucial support in my environmental work 🙏. #Deforestation #EnvironmentalMonitoring #REDD+ #miombo #forest #SatelliteTech #Conservation

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🌟Happy to be featured by Copernicus ECMWF! 🌟 🗺 Our #AtmoHub dust forecast map, depicting the intense #SaharanDust transport that affected Greece in June, has been selected by Copernicus as one of the top three charts for this month. Explore more on our portal: https://lnkd.in/d5kvmn4U European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts Hellenic Ministry of Environment and Energy Hellenic Ministry of Digital Governance #EarthObservation #EnvironmentalData

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😎 Good day everyone! I am glad to announce that new updates have been released for GISCARTA! 🏆 🔥New Bivariate map style! 🎷New Light theme for you and for your map viewers! Additional settings for labels! And many other nice changes are available right now on our platform! 👨‍🏫 See instructions for more information: https://lnkd.in/eRYuGXhB #GISCARTA #gis #dataviz #geo #map #bivariateMap #geodata #update

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🌍 Geoportti: Powering Geospatial Research 🌐 Geoportti is a cornerstone of geospatial research in Finland, offering researchers the tools and infrastructure needed to address critical questions about our world. At the Digital Geography Lab (DGL), University of Helsinki, we benefit from Geoportti’s resources to access high-performance computing, manage diverse geospatial datasets, and explore innovative tools that enhance our research. With Geoportti’s support, we explore topics like urban mobility, socio-spatial dynamics, accessibility, and biodiversity conservation—advancing both science and sustainability. #Geoportti #GeospatialResearch #DigitalGeographyLab #Sustainability #SpatialAnalysis

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Feeling nostalgic about the days when ByGIS meetups were held in Belarus. Those meetups were my entry point into OpenStreetMap and the GIS world. At the QGIS User Conference, it seemed like there were few newcomers; it was more of a professional gathering. However, the atmosphere was still conducive to discussions on a wide range of topics. If there were any newbies, they surely found it insightful. For us, it was beneficial to learn what companies are doing for the Polish market. Many of their activities overlap with what we do at Kontur, but rather than seeing it as competition, I see it as potential collaboration opportunities and topics for experience sharing. A few years ago, there were many GIS companies in Belarus—well-known navigators like Maps.me, Osmand, and Guru Maps originated from Belarus. The Belarusian GIS community organized regular meetups on various technical and non-technical topics. Companies like Mapbox, Juno, Kontur, OneSoil, and others complemented the mobile navigators. Now, many of these companies have moved their offices entirely to Europe, particularly Poland, and developers have relocated often regardless of the company's location. I hope that someday we can revive GIS events and gather the community here. If you're in Poland/Europe and would like to participate in such events, let me know. Tight-knit professional communities are great. A big thank you to Włodzimierz Bartczak and Alina Gerlée for organizing the QGIS conference in Poznań—an excellent example of a well-organized event and community building.

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🌍 Check out our Newest Publication!🌲 Vast areas are now inaccessible for field data collection in Ukraine. Therefore, we are proud to present the results from our latest collaboration with an international team from Ukraine, the USA and Germany: A #framework for assessing Ukraine's #forestResources. Amidst the challenges posed by the 2022 war, through combined field observations and remotely-sensed imagery, forest conditions and changes across the country could be mapped and updated now. #NationalForestInventory (NFI) Key highlights include: 🗺 the development of a 2023 forest cover map (>90% accuracy). 🌳 mapping #DominantTreeSpecies and #ForestAttributes through the use of NFI and Forest Management Planning data. 🚫 Implementing a model-assisted estimation procedure to gather #ForestResourceData, even in Russian-occupied territories. #sentinel2SatelliteImagery The framework not only provides essential tools for ongoing #forestMonitoring but also allows a spatial assessment of war-induced forest damage (with around 1.7 million hectares potentially impacted by the conflict). Congratulations to: Myroniuk Viktor, Axel Weinreich (Unique), Vincent von Dosky (Unique), Victor Melnychenko, Andrii Shamrai, Maksym Matsala, Matt Gregory, David M. Bell and Raymond Davis! For a deeper dive into the findings, you can find the full paper here: https://lnkd.in/dWra5G-U and here: https://lnkd.in/dh2SYy2y #MappingForestCover #Ukraine #ForestManagement

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2023 November Storm in The Port of Klaipeda; Why was The Port Closed? | Pure and Applied Geophysics (https://lnkd.in/dMc8zise) Our recently published study (led by Laura Nesteckytė) investigates the impact of different components of sea level variability (storm surges, infragravity waves, wider area and harbour seiches and meteotsunamis) on the port of Klaipėda in the Baltic Sea, during the severe storm that occurred from November 22–24, 2023 that resulted with a closure of the port. It was shown that the closure was mainly due to long ocean waves (infragravity waves and seiches) and not a storm surge. Our results underline the critical need for improved forecasting and mitigation strategies to increase the safety and efficiency of port activities during severe weather events. By: Laura Nesteckytė, Gintautas Stankūnavičius, Loreta Kelpšaitė-Rimkienė & Jadranka Šepić 

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KYRGYZSTAN STARTS THE HIGH-QUALITY AIR QUALITY MEASUREMENTS Finnish Meteorological Institute cooperate with Kyrgyzhydromet to deliver weather, climate, and environmental information and early warning services for the benefits of Kyrgyzstan society since 2014 and many significant stages of development and improvement have already been achieved already. Currently, within the framework of the FINKMET project, an air quality station is being installed on the territory of Kyrgyzhydromet. The reference air quality station will be the first in Kyrgyzstan, which has no similar characteristics in the entire country. The issue of air quality monitoring is the focus of attention of the management of the KyrgyzHydromet and on this continuous work is being carried out to improve the technical condition of observation station. The new reference multifunctional station, equipped with the latest high-tech equipment from worldwide manufacturers, is designed to measure the most dangerous chemical elements for health - dioxide, nitrogen oxide, sulfur and carbon monoxide. Also, for the first time in Kyrgyzstan, ozone measurement and high-precision measurement of ultrafine PM particles will begin at the Hydromet test field. This will be a significant boost for improving the Kyrgyzhydromet air quality services for the safety and well-being of the Kyrgyz society. During the period of cooperation between the Finnish Meteorological Institute and KyrgyzHydromet, research work has already been carried out in measuring air quality, modeling and systematizing the results of air quality measurements. At present, the equipment of the new station requires training of personnel in the use and calibration of equipment and software. This bilateral cooperation will strengthen the service capacity and promote the ambitious modernisation plan of the Kyrgyzhydromet to enhance its observation and service delivery processes, early warning capacity and services to various sectors by drawing from the technological leading expertise of the FMI in the fields of meteorology, climate change and air quality. A major effort in the FINKMET previous phase was focused on establishing an automatic pilot air quality station for Kyrgyzhydromet in Bishkek. The FINKMET Air Quality station is currently the only reference type multicomponent air quality station in operation in Kyrgyzstan and thus provides fundamentally important information to any air quality assessments or policy decisions and general public. 

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Today, on April 18th, from 2:00 PM to 6:00 PM, as part of #EGU24, we've co-organized a training session led by #IREA Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche to present the basic techniques of satellite Differential Interferometry and the on-demand P-SBAS web tool for processing Sentinel-1 and ENVISAT SAR data, all integrated into the EarthConsole® platform. If you happen to be at EGU 2024 and are involved in #research related to Earth surface displacement induced by natural events like volcanic eruptions or earthquakes, or by human actions such as building of infrastructures, you can get more info here: https://lnkd.in/ddwc_bWV

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Highlights: Concrete use cases demonstrating Copernicus Marine Service products Focus on ecosystem monitoring studies and major marine challenges Practical Session: Live demonstrations using Jupyter Notebooks, QGIS software, and R Studio Grateful for the opportunity to learn and collaborate on solutions for our marine and coastal environments! #CopernicusMarineService #EcosystemMonitoring #MarineConservation #CoastalManagement #ResearchAndInnovation

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👉 Faroe Islands: a micro-community of the North ===================> The Faroese statistics office, Hagstova Føroya, has published demographic data on the archipelago, which is an autonomous territory within the Kingdom of Denmark. According to the statistics, as of 1 February 2024, the entire Faroese population was 54,569. It is one of the smallest nations in Europe, then. On a year-on-year basis, the population increased by 450 people, a growth rate of 0.8 per cent, which is one of the lowest rates in a decade. Although this is the 10th consecutive year with population growth, the rate of growth has slowed markedly in the last two years. The reasons for this were an increase in deaths - Farers does not state this, but it may have to do with the timing of the pandemic and its impact (a clear peak in H1 2022 - the most deaths since 2014) and a decline in births. There was also a smaller influx of migrants: between February 2023 and February 2024, around 1 700 arrived, compared to around 1 900 the year before. The largest city is Tórshavn on the island of Streymoy -14,000 inhabitants. The second largest is Klaksvík on Borðoy - 5,000, followed by Hoyvík - 4,600 (Tórshavn agglomeration), Argir - 2,500 (Tórshavn agglomeration) and Fuglafjørður on Eysturoy Island - 1,600. The least populous settlements are Norðtoftir on the island of Bordøy - last year there were two residents registered there, now there is only one, and Sund on Streymoy - also with one resident. The statistics also show five villages without permanent residents: Mjørkadalur (Streymoy), Múli (Borðoy), Nesvík (Eysturoy), Víkarbyrgi (Suðuroy) and Koltur on the island of the same name. The only one of the 18 islands in the archipelago that is uninhabited and where there has never been any settlement is Lítla Dímun. Looking at it from a distance, one can guess why. There is little economic exchange POL-FAROE - according to 2022 data, the value of imports from Poland was only about DKK 500,000. In addition, 100-200 Poles work on contracts in, among others, the local shipyard or fishing companies. Good news is that tourists from Poland are arriving in increasing numbers, to which - I hope – helped our book "Faroe Islands. A tourist and cultural guide": www.wyspy-owcze.pl #FaroeIslands #Faroe #WyspyOwcze #Føroyar #Scandinavia #Nordic

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Nordic Cryosphere Digital Twin (NOCOS DT) models key sea ice impact sectors in the Arctic, Nordic and Baltic regions. It contributes to the global climate change information system and Destination Earth, a digital model of the whole world. 📡 The project provides real-time monitoring by integrating satellite data, ground observations, and climate models for up-to-date insights. 🌡️ It assesses and predicts changes in the cryosphere to understand future climate scenarios. 🧭 NOCOS DT offers policymakers and stakeholders vital information for climate adaptation and disaster management. CSC coordinates the project, funded by the Nordic Council of Ministers. The other partners are Danmarks Meteorologiske Institut (DMI), Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI), Norwegian Meteorological Institute | Meteorologisk institutt (MetNo), SMHI (Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute), and TalTech – Tallinn University of Technology. Read more about the project on our website: https://lnkd.in/gvrJK2J5 #DestinationEarth #DigitalTwins #NordicScience

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MapCloud: Your Ultimate GIS Solution: Are you looking for a powerful mapping engine that can handle all your GIS needs? Look no further! MapCloud efficiently manages the loading, modification, and exporting of a wide range of popular GIS formats, including: DWG, DXF, SHP, KML, GPX TIF, IMG, MBTiles, JPG WMS and WFS Key Features:  *Effortlessly load GB-grade SHP files and visualize detailed attributes.  *Process TB-grade TIF files with fast browsing and seamless integration.  *Connect with online base maps from Google, Bing, WMS, and WFS. * Simplify complex data analysis and visualization with unique thematic values and labels. MapCloud ensures you have the tools you need to handle your GIS projects with ease and efficiency. What are the biggest challenges you face with your current GIS solutions? and how do you think MapCloud could help overcome them? Let's discuss in the comments section! #GIS #Mapping #DataVisualization #GeoSpatial #MapCloud #TechInnovation https://rise-geo.com/

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The longest cruise of radar surveys of migratory birds in the Baltic Sea using ornithological radars that automatically detect bird migration.

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