Autor: Karolína Hájková
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How to Cool Down Urban Heat
Author: David Moravec Cities are getting hotter. As concrete, asphalt, and dense apartment blocks increasingly replace natural areas, urban areas often heat up significantly more than surrounding rural zones in hot weather. This phenomenon — known as the “urban heat island” — isn’t just about discomfort: it can affect public health, energy demand, and overall…
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Invited Lecture by Research Professor Eija Honkavaara: Towards Autonomous Use of Drone Technology for Forestry Applications
Author: Jan Komárek As part of the ongoing seminar series on environmental monitoring and geospatial technologies, we had the pleasure of hosting Research Professor Eija Honkavaara from the Department of Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry at the National Land Survey of Finland. Her invited lecture, entitled “Towards Autonomous Use of Drone Technology for Forestry Applications”, offered…
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Novel Method for Correcting Observer-Specific Bias in Species Distribution Models
Author: Petr Balej The prediction accuracy of Species Distribution Models (SDMs) is often compromised by sampling bias in species occurrence records. This issue is widespread in collaborative databases like the worldwide GBIF, iNaturalist, and the local Czech Species Occurrence Database. These platforms are filled with opportunistic species records of various quality collected by both expert…
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New scientific article highlights data gaps in global biodiversity — featuring EarthBridge
A new article published in Trends in Ecology & Evolution draws attention to a surprising blind spot in global biodiversity research — cultivated lands. Although farmland covers almost half of the world’s habitable land, it remains underrepresented in open biodiversity data. The study, titled “Cultivated lands: blind spots in global biodiversity data,” was co-authored by…
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Building Bridges in Dresden: Advancing Light Pollution Research
Between September 29 and October 31, 2025, researcher Tomáš Klouček spent a productive month at the Technical University of Dresden (TUD), working with the Environmental Remote Sensing Group led by Prof. Dr. Matthias Forkel. His stay was part of the project “Building Bridges between Earth Observation and Environmental Sciences” and aimed to strengthen international collaboration…
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New Paper by Petra Pracná Explores High-Resolution Global Terrain Mapping Using ICESat-2 and GEDI
A new research article led by Petra Pracná from the Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, co-authored by Vítězslav Moudrý, Eliška Šárovcová, Kateřina Gdulová, and international partners, presents an important step toward creating more accurate global terrain models.The study, published in Science of Remote Sensing and funded by the Horizon Europe project EarthBridge, investigates how…
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Towards 90 m Resolution Digital Terrain Models from Spaceborne Lidar: Balancing Accuracy and Sampling Intensity
Author: Petra Pracná Mapping the Earth’s terrain beneath forests and across rugged mountains has always been a challenge. Traditional lidar surveys can achieve high accuracy but are limited in spatial coverage and costly to repeat. With the launch of NASA’s ICESat-2 (Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2) and GEDI (Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation) missions, we…
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Mining palimpsest: Distinguishing between prehistoric and modern mining using remote sensing methods, field survey and MaxEnt
Author: Jan Fišer The history of the use of certain raw materials goes back thousands of years. This is also the case for the quartzite deposits at Písečný vrch near Most, Czech Republic. While in prehistoric times raw material was used to make stone tools, several thousand years later – in the 20th century –…
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EarthBridge Conference 2025 in Kostelec nad Černými lesy
On September 25–26, the EarthBridge Conference took place at the Castle in Kostelec nad Černými lesy, bringing together researchers and experts in remote sensing, biodiversity, and environmental applications. The conference opened with keynote talks by Matthias Forkel (Earth Observation and Environmental Practice: Bridging, Reinventing the Wheel or Ready for Take-off?) and Duccio Rocchini (Reckoning descriptors…
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Vítězslav Moudrý from the EarthBridge team co-authored a new article in Forest Ecology and Management
Authors: Vítězslav Moudrý, Xiao Liu, Bernhard Schuldt, Matthias Forkel Our colleague Vítězslav Moudrý from the EarthBridge project contributed as co-author to a recently published scientific article in the journal Forest Ecology and Management. The study uses data from NASA’s spaceborne lidar mission GEDI (Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation) to uncover important changes in Central European protected…