Our paper now published in Nature Scientific Data
"Global 30-m annual median vegetation height maps (2000–2022) based on ICESat-2 data and ML"
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-025-05739-6
Annual SVH data is available via: https://stac.openlandmap.org/gpw_gsvh-30m/collection.json?.language=en
View changes in SVH calculated on-the fly for 2000 to 2024: https://global-pasture-watch.projects.earthengine.app/view/gsvh-30m
Read more about why are these data important: https://landcarbonlab.org/insights/global-short-vegetation-height-outside-forest/
earthmonitor.org #OpenData #OpenLandMap

Are you looking for global dynamic soil data or have general interest in soil-landscape relations and land degradation monitoring? Register for the upcoming 1hr webinar on 30-m resolution global soil mapping and the new #Open #soil data kindly hosted by GeoLDN
To register use: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/openlandmap-soildb-global-dynamic-soil-data-at-30-m-resolution-tickets-1683661560049
📅 24 September 2025
🕐 13:00 – 14:00 (CEST)
💬 Seminar language: English
For more info about the GeoLDN webinars see: https://geo-ldn.org/events/geo-ldn-seminars/

The terra pkg (created by Robert Hijmans et al.) and spatial sampling with R together with Alexandre Wadoux at the #EOSummerSchool2025 at WICC are now available from: https://differ.blog/p/processing-large-rasters-using-terra-package-for-r-combining-tiling-69d47a
Video-recordings are also available: https://youtu.be/q9sQkg7BeAc?si=e0akKCTZWhum9MYD
The specific lecture focuses on using global lights at night images at 500m resolution. The data is available via: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7750174

Our Global Workshop OEMC project in Perugia is starting today. We will share materials and most of talks will be videorecorded, so stay tuned to be able to watch them in the coming weeks: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1JPdWD4-Adx5Mh5Roh4rufUicGqt5jN8ItXpMywfwEac/edit?usp=sharing
The workshop programme is at: https://earthmonitor.org/global-workshop-2025/

Today, thursday Sep 25, Felix Specker (ETH) will host a new episode of the OEMC Science Webinar series on Zoom at 14.00 (CET). He will present about the Use-case World Reforestation Monitor / https://Restor.eco platform: please join us and make lots of question 🛰🌳🌲 https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_jIFMqR_WQw6XY6mxw3Di0Q
Watch the previous talk by Felix at the OEMC Global Workshop 2025: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIwZqDg1z2I&list=PLXUoTpMa_9s01Bgg1ju3Jr3-14eilWHTB&index=2

If you maybe missed the #EOSummerSchool2025 at WICC, video-recordings 📼 are now available: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXUoTpMa_9s1SAWuByfXxzC20lgqUAie6&si=2w8q0Bmv7xXJZ0jY
Lecture materials / computational notebooks are listed at: https://pretalx.earthmonitor.org/opengeohub-summer-school-2025/schedule/
Some video recordings had technical issues. 🚧 We are working on resolving issues of "frozen slides" and poor audio quality.
The event was organized in collaboration with EO Council (https://www.eo-council.nl/), Netherlands Space Office (https://www.spaceoffice.nl/en/) and SURF (https://www.surf.nl/en/).

We had an excellent conference at Perugia: Open-Earth-Monitor Global Workshop 2025. If you missed it, we video-recorded 📼 all talks: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXUoTpMa_9s01Bgg1ju3Jr3-14eilWHTB
Topics covered include: #OpenEO #CDSE #Copernicus monitoring of #deforestation Big vector and gridded data, workshops in #Python data fusion in climate science, hydrology & novel global #soil data sets
🚧 some videos (3-4) unfortunately due to technical problems have poor video/audio quality. 2026 Global Workshop is coming to: Barcelona!

📢 New open EO Landsat data on #CDSE: In the last 2 years we have put an effort to process the global UMD_GLAD Landsat ARD 16-day version 2 (https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12030426) to produce bi-monthly composites for 1997-2024. This data is now available openly and within the Europe's central infrastructure for EO data #CDSE:
https://browser.stac.dataspace.copernicus.eu/collections/opengeohub-landsat-bimonthly-mosaic-v1.0.1
We are already working on the OpenGeoHub Landsat 4C-ARCO V2 which will be monthly, 16-bit and should have less artifacts / be more consistent. Learn more about how can open Earth Observation change how we monitor and manage natural resources and where how can you access this data: https://av.tib.eu/publisher/OpenGeoHub_Foundation
See the data in action, come to the NSO - Netherlands Space Office hosted #EGW2025 event in Den Hague 13-15 October: https://eurogeosec.eu/egw2025/

If you are this week at EuroGEO in Den Haag, you can follow some of our presentations and join discussions:

"Open-Earth-Monitor project" AI for Earth Intelligence session
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vR5KKEMRyLqcINnHMl1Yz0UxS3q7Qm69pD7qFqADp4gRPBAkx7BjsFQSbKbX-i_1u5KWXwUJ8UGzpYP/pub?start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000

"Open-Earth-Monitor project" Infrastructure, Standards & Interoperability
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vTTbHft-oYyVzz41ZW8YOb5CcP3X4Y_eq4G2V8QCZ5zqcX7cpIBqURyX0IyRmWkkwByWkNyxx2XokYp/pub?start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000

"Soil management" Introduction to the session and objectives
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vRcDUYZ0lTyUfrrPEkRFy3sre6CnQAeHzyPdfhhr9R74SAapmityyEMOn5UjhPdYn5GgLmw4m89USUV/pub?start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000

Results of the anonymous poll "14 questions about using EO technology for monitoring soils and soil management" are now available!

Important announcement:
https://climate.ec.europa.eu/eu-action/climate-strategies-targets/2040-climate-target_en

World Soil Day webinar on 5th December 2025 (15:00–16:00 CET): free webinar on a question that is rapidly reshaping environmental work: "How can AI technology, Open Earth Observation data and citizen science help soil conservation and land restoration projects?"
The session features 2 deep dives into openly available resources:
🟤 SoilSuite updates
🟤 The newly updated pan-EU Soil Health Data Cube
Speakers: Uta Heiden (DLR) and Giulio Genova (OpenGeoHub)
To register: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_SRqanI_lRLmxsqQYZge0bg#/registration

Webinar now available for watching from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMmhepWg6Cs

Soil Health Data Cube (#SHDC) has just been updated (to v1.1)! Dynamic soil properties and soil health indicators at 30 m resolution 2000-2024 for pan-EU as #OpenData. Several issues in data and front-end have been systematically improved (thanks to many colleagues from @ai4soilhealth@bird.makeup project and various national agencies). You can access the updated data from https://stac.EcoDataCube.eu and explore via https://EcoDataCube.eu. Technical documentation: https://shdc.ai4soilhealth.eu.
If you are at #EUAgriFoodDays in Brussels (https://agriculture.ec.europa.eu/eu-agri-food-days_en), come to the AI 4 Soil Health stand on Wednesday 17th Dec (Day 3 – Agri-Digital Day) and get a walk through - how can you easily access the SHDC data and how could you use it to help manage land? Which soil agronomy data is still missing and what should we add to SHDC in 2026?

Open Geospatial Carbon Registry (OGCR's) first newsletter is now out! 🙌🏽 Subscribe and stay tuned for next year's updates: https://mailchi.mp/opengeohub/welcome-to-ogcr-newsletter-1-now-available