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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 → 30 Sep 2022 - Division of Forest, Nature and Landscape (Division)
Member
From1 Oct 2013 → 31 Jul 2020
Projects
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- Using individual wearable sensor technology to gain insights into the effects of green and blue space exposure on individual’s physiological and psychological responsesFrom20 Sep 2023 → TodayFunding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- My garden lab 2.0From20 Jun 2023 → TodayFunding: Department of Environment
- Efficient deep learning workflows and novel neural network architecture for transforming remote sensing data into geo-indicatorsFrom12 Jun 2023 → TodayFunding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- Deepfaking ecosystem response to climate extremesFrom1 Dec 2022 → TodayFunding: BELSPO - STEREO IV ( Support to the Exploitation and Research in Earth Observation data)
- Remote sensing based comparison of ecosystem functions of managed versus unmanaged forests in EuropeFrom25 Aug 2022 → TodayFunding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- Science-based INtegrated FORest Mitigation mAnagement made operational for EuropeFrom1 Jul 2022 → TodayFunding: HORIZON.2.6 - Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
- Green space in relation to human health: assessing the impact of improved green exposure indicators on multiple health outcomes in FlandersFrom1 Apr 2022 → TodayFunding: FWO Strategic Basic Research Grant, BOF - doctoral mandates
- Designing a toolset for activating citizens as stewards of climate proof gardeningFrom1 Jan 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: International Cooperation and Mobility
- Unlocking the climate change mitigation and adaptation potential of domestic gardensFrom6 Dec 2021 → TodayFunding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
Publications
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- The impact of vegetated landscape elements on runoff in a small agricultural watershed: A modelling study(2023)
Authors: Ine Rosier, Jan Diels, Ben Somers, Jos Van Orshoven
- Residential green space in association with the methylation status in a CpG site within the promotor region of the placental serotonin receptor HTR2A(2022)
Authors: Raf Aerts, Jean-Marie Aerts, Jos Van Orshoven, Ben Somers, Tim Nawrot
- Ultra-High-Resolution UAV-Based Detection of Alternaria solani Infections in Potato Fields(2022)
Authors: Ben Somers, Wouter Saeys
- Hyperspectral response of agronomic variables to background optical variability: Results of a numerical experiment(2022)
Authors: Ben Somers
- Quality control and correction method for air temperature data from a citizen science weather station network in Leuven, Belgium(2022)
Authors: Eva Beele, Raf Aerts, Ben Somers
Pages: 4681 - 4717 - Urban land cover mapping with Sentinel-2:
a spectro-spatio-temporal analysis(2022)
Authors: Stien Heremans, Ben Somers
- Pan-European urban green space dynamics: A view from space between 1990 and 2015(2022)
Authors: Stien Heremans, Ben Somers
- Pan-European urban green space dynamics: A view from space between 1990 and 2015(2022)
Authors: Fei Xu, Stien Heremans, Ben Somers
- Climatic legacy effects on the drought response of the Amazon rainforest(2022)
Authors: Johanna Van Passel, Koenraad Van Meerbeek, Ben Somers
Pages: 5808 - 5819 - Urban treescape analysis using ground-based and airborne remote sensing to support conservation of tree-provided ecosystem services(2022)
Authors: Dengkai Chi, Ben Somers
Linked dataset
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- Climatic legacy effects on the drought response of the Amazon rainforest (Creator)
- Replication Data for: Quality control and correction method for air temperature data from a citizen science weather station network in Leuven, Belgium (Creator)
- The impact of data quality filtering of opportunistic citizen science data on species distribution model performance: dataset used for Maxent modelling. (Creator)