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This year Lyndon continued a long standing collaboration with Chinese partners in Beijing, teaching a workshop at the Belgian embassy …
Last updated on 1 min read swift, ornithology, swifts

Sometimes it is good to step back and take a broad perspective on accomplishments. The UN Sustainable development goals are a useful …
3 min read policy, outreach, impact

The CHELSA dataset provides access to climatologies at high resolution for the earth’s land surface areas. Among those are the global …
4 min read API, spatial, software, COG

BlueGreen Labs was happy to co-author and support a research paper on Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) of tabulated data led by Bas …
2 min read data recovery, climate

Yesterday (2025-04-25) evening around 21:30h we got confirmation of the first swift arrival at the colony in Melsele. This good news …
1 min read bio-logging, movement ecology, ornithology, monitoring

Today I helped finalize the ICOS carbon portal PhenoCam server infrastructure setup, together with Jan Segers. We also adjusted the …
1 min read phenocam, hardware, software

Today we received the news from Dr. Michele Thornton at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) that the DAYMET API they host will be …
1 min read R, package, software

The past week BlueGreen Labs provided expert input at the Hermes Bring-Your-Own-Data (BYOD) workshop on text recognition and text …
1 min read software, ocr, machine learning, htr, workshop, teaching

A new paper summarizes methods, data sources and proximal remote applications. It gives guidance on best practices and valuable …
1 min read hydrology, ecology, biogeochemical cycling, plant ecology, ecology, remote sensing

Plants store little water compared to other pools, and the time it takes to return that water to the atmosphere is among the fastest …
1 min read hydrology, biogeochemical cycling, plant ecology, ecology