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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- Improving the efficiency of MESMA through geometric unmixing principles(2013)
Authors: Laurent Tits, Ben Somers, Rob Heylen, Pol Coppin
Pages: 1 - 10 - Alternating Least-Squares unmixing for the extraction of sub-pixel information from agricultural areas(2013)
Authors: Laurent Tits, Ben Somers, Wouter Saeys, Pol Coppin
Number of pages: 10 - Extracting sub-pixel information from agricultural areas through Alternating Least-Squares Unmixing(2013)
Authors: Laurent Tits, Ben Somers, Wouter Saeys, Wanda De Keersmaecker, Jamshid Farifteh, Pol Coppin
Pages: 1 - 9 - Support vector regression and synthetically mixed training data for quantifying urban land cover(2013)
Authors: Laurent Tits, Ben Somers
Pages: 184 - 197 - The potential and limitations of a clustering approach for the improved efficiency of multiple endmember spectral mixture analysis in plant production system monitoring(2012)
Authors: Laurent Tits, Ben Somers, Pol Coppin
Pages: 2273 - 2286 - Erratum to " Assessing post-fire vegetation recovery using red-near infrared vegetation indices: Accounting for background and vegetation variability" [ISPRS J. Photogram. Remote Sensing 68 (2012) 28-39](2012)
Authors: S Veraverbeke, I Gitas, T Katagis, A Polychronaki, Ben Somers, R Goossens
Pages: 191 - First results of quantifying nonlinear mixing effects in heterogeneous forests: a modeling approach(2012)
Authors: Laurent Tits, Ben Somers, Jamshid Farifteh, Pol Coppin
Pages: 7185 - 7188 - Hyperspectral shape-based unmixing to improve intra- and interclass variability for forest and agro-ecosystem monitoring(2012)
Authors: Laurent Tits, Wanda De Keersmaecker, Ben Somers, Jamshid Farifteh, Pol Coppin
Pages: 163 - 174 - Potential and limitations of space-brone high spatial resolution images for detecting water stress in commercial pear orchards(2012)
Authors: Jonathan Van Beek, Hilde Vandendriessche, Ben Somers, Jamshid Farifteh, Pol Coppin
Pages: 1 - 5 - Shape-based unmixing for vegetation mapping(2012)
Authors: Laurent Tits, Ben Somers, Wanda De Keersmaecker, Jamshid Farifteh, Pol Coppin
Pages: 1 - 4
Linked dataset
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- Replication Data for: Quality control and correction method for air temperature data from a citizen science weather station network in Leuven, Belgium (Creator)
- Climatic legacy effects on the drought response of the Amazon rainforest (Creator)
- The impact of data quality filtering of opportunistic citizen science data on species distribution model performance: dataset used for Maxent modelling. (Creator)