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Researcher
Ben Somers
- Disciplines:Physical geography and environmental geoscience, Ecology, Environmental science and management, Other environmental sciences, Landscape architecture, Communications technology, Geomatic engineering, Forestry sciences, Art studies and sciences
Affiliations
- Forest, Nature and Landscape (Division)
Member
From1 Aug 2020 → Today - Division of Forest, Nature and Landscape (Division)
Member
From1 Oct 2013 → 31 Jul 2020
Projects
1 - 10 of 62
- Quantifying spatial exposure to urban green and the link with human healthFrom1 Apr 2022 → TodayFunding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- Assessing critical thresholds of tropical ecosystems integrity using water content estimated from field and microwave remote sensing dataFrom1 Jan 2022 → TodayFunding: Other resources managed by FWO
- Designing a toolset for activating citizens as stewards of climate proof gardeningFrom1 Jan 2022 → TodayFunding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- Unlocking the climate change mitigation and adaptation potential of domestic gardensFrom6 Dec 2021 → TodayFunding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- The role of Nature Based Solutions in Urban climate change adaptation: a multiple stakeholder approachFrom4 Nov 2021 → TodayFunding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- GARLOCK: Unlocking the climate change adaptation and mitigation potential of the garden complexFrom1 Oct 2021 → TodayFunding: BOF - projects
- Neighborhood effects on turning points in dryland ecosystem functioningFrom1 Aug 2021 → 31 Jan 2022Funding: STEREO III (Support to the Exploitation and Research in Earth Observation data)
- Looking through the clouds or fly below? Developing a flexible drone platform for detection, monitoring and mapping at KU LeuvenFrom1 Jan 2021 → TodayFunding: BOF - scientific equipment program
- Deep learning for environmental monitoring by transforming earth observation data into geo-indicatorsFrom7 Dec 2020 → TodayFunding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- Validation Flemish garden mapFrom2 Nov 2020 → 30 Apr 2021Funding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
Publications
1 - 10 of 176
- Pan-European urban green space dynamics: A view from space between 1990 and 2015(2022)
Authors: Fei Xu, Stien Heremans, Ben Somers
Number of pages: 24 - Residential exposure to urban trees and medication sales for mood disorders and cardiovascular disease in Brussels, Belgium: an ecological study(2022)
Authors: Dengkai Chi, Raf Aerts, Ben Somers
Pages: 57003 - Residential green space, gardening, and self-reported stress and depression: a cross-sectional study of garden owners in northern Belgium(2022)
Authors: Raf Aerts, Ben Somers
- Mapping abundance distributions of allergenic tree species in urbanized landscapes: A nation-wide study for Belgium using forest inventory and citizen science data(2022)
Authors: Camille Van Eupen, Raf Aerts, Tim Nawrot, Jean-Marie Aerts, Jos Van Orshoven, Ben Somers
Number of pages: 13 - Global maps of soil temperature(2021)
Authors: Stef Haesen, Koenraad Van Meerbeek, Anne Gobin, Ben Somers
Pages: 3110 - 3144 - Surveying Green Spaces in European Human Settlements at 30m Sub-pixel Level(2021)
Authors: Fei Xu, Ben Somers
Pages: 5405 - 5408 - Thirty years of land cover and fraction cover changes over the Sudano-Sahel using Landsat time series(2021)
Authors: Paulo Negri Bernardino, Ben Somers
- Understanding turning points in dryland ecosystem functioning(2021)
Authors: Paulo Negri Bernardino, Ben Somers, Wanda De Keersmaecker
- Urban Tree Species Classification Using Airborne Lidar and Hyperspectral Imagery(2021)
Authors: Dengkai Chi, Ben Somers
Pages: 4980 - 4983 - Remote Sensing and Deep Learning for Environmental Policy Support: From Theory to Practice(2021)
Authors: Stien Heremans, Margot Verhulst, Matthew Blaschko, Ben Somers
Pages: 5728 - 5731