If you use #positron #rstats and #duckdb I'd love to know what you think of this:
`duckdb-r-editor` a Positron extension for duckdb SQL code highlighting and completion within R files.
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New paper in Current Biology: liana cutting accelerated canopy recovery in logged tropical forest three times faster than tree planting, at one tenth of the cost. From 24 years of the Sabah Biodiversity Experiment, Sabah, Borneo.
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This seems not tooo shabby.
We've been awarded @esa.int funding for "Conservation Integrity: Geo-AI powered transparency 4 Nature-Based Solutions" π°οΈπ³
Its a difficult question in #forestconservation: what would have happened without intervention?
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#Carbon #RemoteSensing #GeoAI @science.esa.int
Everyone's arguing about precision of biomass maps. Nobody wants to talk about baseline uncertainty. The spread between a good baseline and a bad one dwarfs any two biomass products. We wrote about why we need a shift toward rigorous counterfactuals
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Automated #SQL formatting within #rstats files has just been added to the `duckdb-r-editor` #positron extension. github.com/belian-earth... βοΈ
We are supporting the ML4EO conference 2026 @exeter.ac.uk We wrote about the conference what Machine Learning for earth observation gets wrong and why it matters for carbon baselines.
Why Pixels Aren't Enough for Carbon Market Integrity. belian.earth/news/ml4eo-2...
Climate Hub Davos. "How you interpret data is crucial to interpreting risk."
Everyone's building data products. Few are building the interpretation layer - Geospatial foundation models + causal inference + counterfactual baselines, not just maps.
Blog: belian.earth/news/davos-w...
A vscode extension to create a rich in-line SQL editor experience - belian-earth/duckdb-r-editor
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Liana cutting accelerates tropical forest recovery 3x faster than tree planting. What this means for forest carbon baselines and Verra's new methodologies.
Seven women. Seven careers. Seven pieces of advice.
For #InternationalDayOfWomenAndGirlsInScience weβre celebrating the voices and wisdom of women shaping science and technology across Europe. #IDWGS #WomenInSTEM
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belian.earth awarded European Space Agency funding to advance geospatial AI and causal inference methods for forest carbon baseline assessment.
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Carbon baseline uncertainty dwarfs biomass map quality in forest projects. Learn why we need robust counterfactual solutions to solve the integrity crisis.
On permanence in Nature-Based Solutions: the ICVCM Permanence Trust, Article 6.4 PACM, and why solving permanence alone will not finance nature at scale.
Still a WIP but I've been building a new #rstats π¦ for cloud optimised reads of #GEDI and IceSat-2 data. It's 20 x quicker than direct download and saves 10-100s of GiB on disk. The #rust powered hdf5 parser is crazy fast - with help from the π€.
belian-earth.github.io/spacelaser/ #rspatial #rextendr
An R package for cloud optimised partial reading of GEDI and IceSat data. - belian-earth/spacelaser