Freddie Hunter

Remote Sensing Specialist/Data Scientist. Interested in forest, agriculture and biodiversity mapping/monitoring with remote sensing tech and machine learning.

[Fiona Mathews @MathewsFiona]

Norway's government is authorising the killing of bears, lynx, wolverines, and wolves. All are Endangered or Critically Endangered. The UK imported £15.8 billion of Norwegian goods (mainly oil but also seafood) in 2021, and we only exported £7.1B. #1/2

[Peter Tyrrell @petertyrrell_ke]

New data covering 30,000 km2 of southern Kenya's rangelands are now available: https://t.co/gfWEyGHMc2
Working with 17 organisations and 32 authors, we collated spatial data including 31,000 livestock enclosures, nearly 40,000 km of fencing, and 1,500 km2 of agriculture 🧵

[Tony's Chocolonely UK & IRE @TonysChocoUK_IE]

Happy day 8 Choco Fans! Noticed something different in your calendar today? Yep, it's empty.. And why? 'Cos at Tony’s we use our products to tell the story of the choco industry – an industry unequally divided and choc-full of inequality. Read on..🧵#chocolate #impact

[Dr Emma Bush @er_bush]

Is climate change causing fruit famine in the rainforests of Central Africa?
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Follow this thread to find out more about our new paper @ScienceMagazine - led by myself and @RWhytock with an incredible team of Gabonese, UK and int'l researchers 👇
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https://t.co/iLFHuExRx3 1/

[Peadar Brehony @peadarbrehony]

Please share with anyone who might be interested: Our British Ecological Society blog article providing evidence for, and explaining why in rangelands "what's good for livestock can be good for wildlife," based on our knowledge and experience from E Africa https://t.co/HKgYQYkipm

[Freddie Hunter @HunterF69747443]

@RobKnell1 Nice, looks like Empis livida

[Tom Chivers @TomChivers]

On Simpson’s paradox, and why the R value apparently going up is more a sign of our success than of our failure https://t.co/6ay4RXblJV

[Freddie Hunter @HunterF69747443]

@__EODavis If you can add a scale bar to a ggplot map which doesn’t screw the whole plot up you’ve won.

[Peadar Brehony @peadarbrehony]

New paper out:

[Dr Robbi Bishop-Taylor 🦋 @SatelliteSci]

The relentless spread of the #bushfires down the Australian east coast over the past four months #AustraliaFire #BushfireAustralia

(#DigitalEarthAU Hotspots data from Sep 3 2019 to today; full screen recommended)

[Freddie Hunter @HunterF69747443]

Species level mapping with time series imagery is just as accurate as when using a single hyper-spectral image. See my new paper mapping grazing resources in African savannas with @EdMitchard and @petertyrrell_ke in the journal of remote sensing at https://t.co/9PSmEvSbv4

[Peter Tyrrell @petertyrrell_ke]

If you are interested in species-level mapping of savanna ecosystems. Take a look at @HunterF69747443's new paper https://t.co/kXubTs4qOy, which demonstrates how its done using Sentinel Imagery! Useful for monitoring, research, and management decisions. In @remotesens_mdpi

[Freddie Hunter @HunterF69747443]

@GeorgeMonbiot Are there any papers quantifying the effect of burning in moors (grouse moors or other) on diversity? Burning in grasslands can result in increased heterogeneity and therefor habit/grazing heterogeneity which consequently increases diversity - a concept known as pyrodiversity.

[Ed Mitchard 🛰️ @EdMitchard]

Reading articles like this on permafrost melting, I can't help feel we declared a climate emergency 40 years too late.

Even if we stop CO2 emissions now, the world will stay warm, & permafrost will keep collapsing, releasing more CO2. https://t.co/eb06NKAyOI
(ht @SimonLLewis)

[Freddie Hunter @HunterF69747443]

An excellent piece by Mongabay on the co-existence of pastoralists and wildlife in the area I spent much of last year in. While in this landscape I studied the effects of livestock and wildlife grazing on rangeland vegetation, I hope to publish the work this summer.

[Mongabay @mongabay]

Kenya: Maasai herders work to keep themselves and wildlife roaming free: https://t.co/WSKPaMIV23