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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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- Flood hazard mitigation value of upstream landscape elementsFrom1 Jan 2019 → 18 Sep 2023Funding: FWO Strategic Basic Research Grant
- Remote Sensing for Urban and Rural Development & Resilience (ReSiDeR)From1 Jan 2019 → 31 Aug 2023Funding: VLIR-UOS TEAM
- SoilTemp: to a global database of soil temperatureFrom1 Jan 2019 → 31 Dec 2023Funding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- My Garden Lab, Research in the backyardFrom1 Nov 2018 → 31 Oct 2020Funding: Department Coordination
- Urban treescape analysis using ground-based and airborne remote sensing to support conservation of tree-provided ecosystem servicesFrom25 Sep 2018 → 22 Aug 2022Funding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- Understanding Turning Points in Dryland Ecosystem Functioning (U-TURN 2.0)From1 Jul 2018 → 30 Apr 2021Funding: STEREO III (Support to the Exploitation and Research in Earth Observation data)
- Citizen Science Data for Biodiversity Conservation Policy in Agricultural LandscapesFrom1 Jan 2018 → 9 Jun 2023Funding: FWO Strategic Basic Research Grant
- The Garden Monitor - mapping and charateriizing gardens using remote sensing.From1 Dec 2017 → 30 May 2020Funding: STEREO III (Support to the Exploitation and Research in Earth Observation data)
- Urban land cover mapping based on medium spatial resolution multispectral satellite imageryFrom14 Nov 2017 → 7 Jun 2022Funding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- Multi-temporal, multi-source and multi-scale remote sensing for the monitoring of Conference pear tree phenologyFrom19 Oct 2017 → 24 Sep 2019Funding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
Publications
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- Integrating citizen science and multispectral satellite data for multiscale habitat management(2024)
Authors: Camille Van Eupen, Ben Somers
Pages: 1479 - 1501 - Wetness severity increases abrupt shifts in ecosystem functioning in arid savannas(2024)
Authors: Koenraad Van Meerbeek, Ben Somers, Bruno Verbist, Paulo Negri Bernardino
- Maximising runoff retention by vegetated landscape elements positioned through spatial optimisation(2024)
Authors: Ine Rosier, Jan Diels, Ben Somers, Jos Van Orshoven
- Estimating vegetation water content from Sentinel-1 C-band SAR data over savanna and grassland ecosystems(2024)
Authors: Paulo Negri Bernardino, Koenraad Van Meerbeek, Ben Somers
- Automatic labeling to overcome the limitations of deep learning in applications with insufficient training data: A case study on fruit detection in pear orchards(2023)
Authors: Ben Somers
- Towards a spatial planning approach for vegetated landscape elements – Flood hazard mitigation in agricultural watersheds(2023)
Authors: Ine Rosier, Jos Van Orshoven, Ben Somers, Jan Diels
- Assessment of the impact of local climate zones on fine dust concentrations: A case study from Hanoi, Vietnam(2023)
Authors: Vu Giang Nguyen, Ben Somers, Bruno Verbist
- From BioCities to BioRegions and Back: Transforming Urban–Rural Relationships(2023)
Authors: Bart Muys, Eirini Skrimizea, Pieter Van den Broeck, Constanza Parra Novoa, Ben Somers, Koenraad Van Meerbeek
Pages: 239 - 263 - Integrating opportunistic citizen science data and species distribution models for biodiversity conservation policy and management(2023)
Authors: Camille Van Eupen, Ben Somers
- Supervised Classification of Tree Cover Classes in the Complex Mosaic Landscape of Eastern Rwanda(2023)
Authors: Valens Uwizeyimana, Ben Somers, Bart Muys, Bruno Verbist