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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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- Characterizing Garden Greenspace in a Medieval European City: Added Values of Spatial Resolution and Multi-Temporal Stereo Imagery(2022)
Authors: 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
- Foliar optical traits capture physiological and phenological leaf plasticity in Tilia×euchlora in the urban environment(2022)
Authors: Dengkai Chi, Koenraad Van Meerbeek, Ben Somers
- 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
- Evaluating different methods for retrieving intraspecific leaf trait variation from hyperspectral leaf reflectance(2021)
Authors: Kenny Helsen, Ben Somers, Olivier Honnay
Pages: 1 - 1 - Understanding turning points in dryland ecosystem functioning(2021)
Authors: Paulo Negri Bernardino, Ben Somers, Wanda De Keersmaecker
- 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 - Urban Tree Species Classification Using Airborne Lidar and Hyperspectral Imagery(2021)
Authors: Dengkai Chi, Ben Somers
Pages: 4980 - 4983
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)