Nikola Besic
Environmental remote sensing and spatial modeling
(🛰〰️🌳, previously 📡〰️🌧️),
randonnée 🥾, vélo 🚲, et théâtre 🎭 :)
📍 LIF - Géodata Paris / French Mapping Agency (@ignfrance.bsky.social)
+ info ➡️ https://nbesic.github.io
- Very happy to be part of the team lead by P. Ciais behind a paper conveying an important message: investing BOTH in remote sensing developments and large-scale field-based monitoring protocols is essential to monitor, and hopefully preserve, the forest carbon sink in France. ➡️ lnkd.in/eQz4dhmT
- My PhD student Selim and I are looking for a motivated Master student to take on a pretty cool challenge: testing the NASA GEDI L4B biomass product across mainland France using a version of the algorithm Selim has been developing in his PhD -building on IGN’s LiDAR HD and NFI data. Pls share! :)
- Reposted by Nikola BesicLe réchauffement climatique n’est pas une « arnaque ». C’est un fait. Face aux nouvelles déclarations climatosceptiques de Donald Trump, les scientifiques du CNRS réagissent en rappelant les faits. 👉 www.cnrs.fr/fr/actualite...
- Multiple models, one forest: a Bayesian perspective. Led by Nicolas Picard, we combined climate-sensitive forest models to see where they agree - and where they don’t. A better way to predict European beech’s future in a changing climate. Read more 👉 authors.elsevier.com/c/1lrB815DJ-...
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- Happy to be part of the team led by Martin Schwartz (@lsce-ipsl.bsky.social) behind our new publication: “Retrieving yearly forest growth from satellite data: A deep learning based approach.” 📖 Published in Remote Sensing of Environment: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 1/4
- 🔍 Highlights: - Yearly forest height, AGB, and GSV maps (2018–2024) at 10–30 m resolution in France. - Canopy height validated with NFI data (MAE = 3.07 m). 2/4
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- Reposted by Nikola BesicInterested in working with a fun and inspiring team? We are looking for a new PhD (mountain forest management) and PostDoc (forest adaptive capacity, w/ @juditlecinadiaz.bsky.social) Comes along with: 🧗🏻♀️ mountain/ sport buddies 🙃 good + bad jokes ☕️👬amazing social time 💭 great ideas and conversations
- Come work with us! We are looking to fill a PhD (mountain forest management) and PostDoc position (forest adaptive capacity, w/ @juditlecinadiaz.bsky.social). We'd be happy to have you as part of our dynamic team! PhD: www.lss.ls.tum.de/fileadmin/w0... PostDoc: www.lss.ls.tum.de/fileadmin/w0...
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- Reposted by Nikola BesicReplay et diapos du séminaire sont disponibles (lien 🎥) @valmasdel.bsky.social revient sur les principales conclusions du dernier rapport du @hc-climat.bsky.social qui a été présenté puis remis au premier ministre la semaine dernière. www.lsce.ipsl.fr/replay-semin... @cea.fr @ipsl.bsky.social
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- 🌱 New publication 🌱 Excited to share a study led by @gbrldst.bsky.social, now out in AMT: "Turbulent transport extraction in time and frequency and the estimation of eddy fluxes at high resolution" w/ myself, @e-joetzjer.bsky.social & @mcuntz.bsky.social 📄 amt.copernicus.org/articles/18/... (1/5)
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- Reposted by Nikola Besic"La France ne s'adaptera pas à un réchauffement climatique de +4°C" Intervention magistrale de @cassouman40.bsky.social . Chaque phrase prononcée est précise et lourde de sens. Un discours lucide sur le service public qui mériterait d'être entendu de tous les Français.
- Reposted by Nikola BesicSo excited to finally share our new paper charting the global spectrum of tree crown architecture, out today at @natcomms.nature.com 🧪🌐 Paper link 🔗: www.nature.com/articles/s41... A brief thread of what we found 🧵
- Check out our preprint currently under review at Comptes Rendus. Géoscience - Sciences de la Terre (French Academy of Sciences). We examine the current state of the French forest carbon sink and discuss how to enhance carbon sink quantification in the near future. arxiv.org/abs/2505.11512
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- Hi folks! Make sure to have a look at this cool work - it introduces a framework for producing 1.5 m-resolution canopy height maps across metropolitan France, opening the door to numerous exciting applications. @loicland.bsky.social @ciais-philippe.bsky.social
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- Coucou 🎭 Pour celles et ceux qui n’ont pas réussi à nous voir en avril, on revient sur scène en juin : - le 13/6 à Malzéville, - le 14/6 à Toul, - le 25/6 à Laître-sous-Amance, - et le 26/6 de retour à la MJC Bazin (Nancy) :) [1/2]
- Reposted by Nikola Besic🚨 New blog! 🌱🌍 What happens when 18 scientists gather in a medieval hall to rethink Land Surface Models using Eco-Evolutionary Optimality? Find out 👉 research.reading.ac.uk/lemontree/si... #EEO #LandSurfaceModels #LEMONTREE
- Bonjour 🙂 On m’a proposé d’écrire un p'tit édito pour la ✉ biannuelle du labo… et disons que je me suis un peu laissé emporter par la 🖋. 😄 Je voulais donc vous partager cette petite réflexion – pas méga structurée, mais j’espère intéressante – sur les obs forestières à très haute résolution. 1/2
- 🛰️🌳 New Publication :) Huge thanks to Yang, Philippe, and all co-authors for this fantastic collaboration, resulting in high-res canopy height (10 m) and biomass (50 m) maps for Iberian forests (2017–2021), using a DL framework fusing Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2 & LiDAR. ➡️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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[Not loaded yet] - Reposted by Nikola Besic📢 Job Alert! 🌳 Looking for a 2-yr postdoc (ext. up to 3 yrs) to join me at U. of Gothenburg to study links between environmental drivers, tree conditions (e.g., #treedamage), and physiological processes leading to #tropical #treemortality. Apply by: April 17th Details below
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- Reposted by Nikola BesicI'm #hiring: PDRA to join my #ukriflf project to understand how forest structure, function and dynamics are linked in Europe, using high resolution remote sensing data (TLS, UAV-LS). Based in Cambridge. Please share! 🌳⚡🛰️🌲 Full details: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50447/ #pdra #forests #lidar
- In #Nancy too, we mobilized against obscurantism! ✊ A beautiful « ronde des obstiné.e.s » on the sunny Place Stanislas, in solidarity with our American colleagues. #StandUpForScience #ScienceLibre
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- While the AI Summit was happening in Paris, the AI4Forest meeting was in full swing in Berlin! :) An inspiring group of researchers from Berlin, Paris, Münster, Munich, Copenhagen, and Nancy had some fascinating discussions on AI, remote sensing, and forest observations. 🌲🤖
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- La classe 🤩
- 💫 New Paper Out! 🚀 Hi folks, have a look at our paper just published in Geoscientific Model Development (GMD) [open access]: doi.org/10.5194/gmd-... In this study, we explore advanced mapping models for forest attributes, leveraging remote sensing data and machine/deep learning methods. 🧵 (1/5)
- Reposted by Nikola Besic💼Job Alert: I am hiring a PostDoc/PhD (100%, 3yrs) to develop and orchestrate cloud-based workflows within a project that will create a forest information system 🌳 for Germany based on #sentinel2 🛰️ and #als ✈️. tinyurl.com/4hw426vw #RemoteSensing #EarthObservation @unitrier.bsky.social @thuenen.de
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- Reposted by Nikola BesicThe insanity of being a fire ecologist in the epicenter of a major fire event, bags packed and ready to evacuate, watching active fire from my window, while taking media requests and explaining to the public, for the 100,000th time how climate change is largely responsible for this
- Reposted by Nikola BesicPLEASE SHARE: Postdoc Opportunity in Montpellier France. 18 months starting May 2025: Generative AI for Studying the Influence of Habitats on the Diversification of Bird Color Patterns. Applications and information here: tinyurl.com/2368teak @evoldir.bsky.social
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- La belle Maurienne (🇫🇷) 🤍
- Reposted by Nikola BesicNew paper out! 🌳 🌲 (and this one is very special to me) ➡️ Diversity boosts forest productivity also (and especially?) through its effect on the number of trees within forests besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @journalofecology.bsky.social @cnrsoccitanieest.bsky.social More ⬇️ 1/7
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- It’s International Mountain Day! 🏔️ A perfect occasion to share a few photos of the mountains that have shaped my life. 🇫🇷🇲🇪🇨🇭😍
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- Reposted by Nikola BesicMust read out in @science.org "Climate change extinctions" by @MarkCUrban (on X) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Big take home: "extinctions will accelerate rapidly if global temperatures exceed 1.5°C. The highest-emission scenario would threaten approximately one-third of species, globally."
- Hi folks, Exciting master’s internship opportunity for anyone interested in signal processing, fluid mechanics, and ecophysiology, proposed by these two extraordinary gentlemen: @mcuntz.bsky.social and @gbrldst.bsky.social :) eng-silva.nancy.hub.inrae.fr/offer-positi...
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- À mi-chemin entre un colloque exceptionnel du PEPR FairCarboN au Lazaret et une visite-séminaire enrichissante à l’UMR TETIS à Montpellier. De belles rencontres et une semaine de travail ensoleillée et particulièrement stimulante ! :)
- 🌳 Stage M2 - Forêts & Data à l'IGN 🌲 Aidez-nous à combler les mesures manquantes pour mieux observer les forêts françaises ! Intéressé.e ? Envoyez-moi un message ! 🔁 Boost bienvenu ! :)
- Reposted by Nikola BesicCycling is 10 times more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities and 100 times more fun.
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- Salut 🌞 Vous serez par tout hasard aux Journées annuelles @PEPR_FairCarboN à Sète la semaine prochaine ? 🌊 Passez voir notre poster ! On y partage quelques exemples de nos recherches sur la spatialisation des mesures forestières. Une belle occasion d’échanger 🛰️🌲🌳😉
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