Area of research
Ecology · Global and Planetary Change
Research interest
Research focused on Environmental science and Vegetation (pathology), with related work in Remote sensing, Hyperspectral imaging, Ecosystem. Notable publications include 'Satellite remote sensing of ecosystem functions: opportunities, challenges and way forward', 'A model quantifying global vegetation resistance and resilience to short‐term climate anomalies and their relationship with vegetation cover', and 'The fourth phase of the radiative transfer model intercomparison (RAMI) exercise: Actual canopy scenarios and conformity testing'.
Predictability of abrupt shifts in dryland ecosystem functioning
Planting contexts affect urban tree species classification using airborne hyperspectral and LiDAR imagery
Spatial configuration of green space matters: Associations between urban land cover and air temperature
Critical slowing down of the Amazon forest after increased drought occurrence
From gardens to neighbourhoods: Characterizing the climate adaptation contribution of the garden landscape in Flanders
Neural envelope tracking predicts speech intelligibility and hearing aid benefit in children with hearing loss
Residential Exposure to Urban Trees and Medication Sales for Mood Disorders and Cardiovascular Disease in Brussels, Belgium: An Ecological Study
Residential green space, gardening, and subjective well-being: A cross-sectional study of garden owners in northern Belgium
Climatic legacy effects on the drought response of the Amazon rainforest
Urban land cover mapping with Sentinel-2: a spectro-spatio-temporal analysis
Quality control and correction method for air temperature data from a citizen science weather station network in Leuven, Belgium
The impact of data quality filtering of opportunistic citizen science data on species distribution model performance
Exposure to green space and pollen allergy symptom severity: A case-crossover study in Belgium
EEG-based diagnostics of the auditory system using cochlear implant electrodes as sensors
Evaluating different methods for retrieving intraspecific leaf trait variation from hyperspectral leaf reflectance
SoilTemp: A global database of near‐surface temperature
Global‐scale characterization of turning points in arid and semi‐arid ecosystem functioning
Closing the Phenotyping Gap: High Resolution UAV Time Series for Soybean Growth Analysis Provides Objective Data from Field Trials
Tree pollen allergy risks and changes across scenarios in urban green spaces in Brussels, Belgium
Mapping Functional Urban Green Types Using High Resolution Remote Sensing Data
Residential green space and medication sales for childhood asthma: A longitudinal ecological study in Belgium
Unmixing-based Sentinel-2 downscaling for urban land cover mapping
Assessing Vegetation Function with Imaging Spectroscopy
In-field detection of Alternaria solani in potato crops using hyperspectral imaging
Canopy height measurements and non‐destructive biomass estimation of <i>Lolium perenne</i> swards using UAV imagery
Urban tree health assessment using airborne hyperspectral and LiDAR imagery
The functional characterization of grass- and shrubland ecosystems using hyperspectral remote sensing: trends, accuracy and moderating variables
Neural envelope tracking as a measure of speech understanding in cochlear implant users
Enhancing the performance of Multiple Endmember Spectral Mixture Analysis (MESMA) for urban land cover mapping using airborne lidar data and band selection
Generalizing machine learning regression models using multi-site spectral libraries for mapping vegetation-impervious-soil fractions across multiple cities