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Ben Somers

KU Leuven · BE
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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'.
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Recent publications

Predictability of abrupt shifts in dryland ecosystem functioning
Nature Climate Change 2025cited by 23position: lastdoi
Planting contexts affect urban tree species classification using airborne hyperspectral and LiDAR imagery
Landscape and Urban Planning 2025cited by 10position: lastdoi
Spatial configuration of green space matters: Associations between urban land cover and air temperature
Landscape and Urban Planning 2024cited by 76position: lastdoi
Critical slowing down of the Amazon forest after increased drought occurrence
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2024cited by 36position: lastdoi
From gardens to neighbourhoods: Characterizing the climate adaptation contribution of the garden landscape in Flanders
Urban forestry & urban greening 2024cited by 10position: lastdoi
Neural envelope tracking predicts speech intelligibility and hearing aid benefit in children with hearing loss
Hearing Research 2023cited by 42position: middledoi
Residential Exposure to Urban Trees and Medication Sales for Mood Disorders and Cardiovascular Disease in Brussels, Belgium: An Ecological Study
Environmental Health Perspectives 2022cited by 46position: lastdoi
Residential green space, gardening, and subjective well-being: A cross-sectional study of garden owners in northern Belgium
Landscape and Urban Planning 2022cited by 44position: lastdoi
Climatic legacy effects on the drought response of the Amazon rainforest
Global Change Biology 2022cited by 26position: lastdoi
Urban land cover mapping with Sentinel-2: a spectro-spatio-temporal analysis
Urban Informatics 2022cited by 26position: lastdoi
Quality control and correction method for air temperature data from a citizen science weather station network in Leuven, Belgium
Earth system science data 2022cited by 26position: lastdoi
The impact of data quality filtering of opportunistic citizen science data on species distribution model performance
Ecological Modelling 2021cited by 58position: middledoi
Exposure to green space and pollen allergy symptom severity: A case-crossover study in Belgium
The Science of The Total Environment 2021cited by 50position: lastdoi
EEG-based diagnostics of the auditory system using cochlear implant electrodes as sensors
Scientific Reports 2021cited by 39position: firstdoi
Evaluating different methods for retrieving intraspecific leaf trait variation from hyperspectral leaf reflectance
Ecological Indicators 2021cited by 30position: middledoi
SoilTemp: A global database of near‐surface temperature
Global Change Biology 2020cited by 236position: middledoi
Global‐scale characterization of turning points in arid and semi‐arid ecosystem functioning
Global Ecology and Biogeography 2020cited by 82position: middledoi
Closing the Phenotyping Gap: High Resolution UAV Time Series for Soybean Growth Analysis Provides Objective Data from Field Trials
Remote Sensing 2020cited by 69position: middledoi
Tree pollen allergy risks and changes across scenarios in urban green spaces in Brussels, Belgium
Landscape and Urban Planning 2020cited by 55position: middledoi
Mapping Functional Urban Green Types Using High Resolution Remote Sensing Data
Sustainability 2020cited by 53position: lastdoi
Residential green space and medication sales for childhood asthma: A longitudinal ecological study in Belgium
Environmental Research 2020cited by 44position: middledoi
Unmixing-based Sentinel-2 downscaling for urban land cover mapping
ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing 2020cited by 43position: lastdoi
Assessing Vegetation Function with Imaging Spectroscopy
Surveys in Geophysics 2019cited by 147position: middledoi
In-field detection of Alternaria solani in potato crops using hyperspectral imaging
Computers and Electronics in Agriculture 2019cited by 82position: middledoi
Canopy height measurements and non‐destructive biomass estimation of <i>Lolium perenne</i> swards using UAV imagery
Grass and Forage Science 2019cited by 63position: middledoi
Urban tree health assessment using airborne hyperspectral and LiDAR imagery
International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 2018cited by 94position: lastdoi
The functional characterization of grass- and shrubland ecosystems using hyperspectral remote sensing: trends, accuracy and moderating variables
Remote Sensing of Environment 2018cited by 77position: lastdoi
Neural envelope tracking as a measure of speech understanding in cochlear implant users
Hearing Research 2018cited by 68position: middledoi
Enhancing the performance of Multiple Endmember Spectral Mixture Analysis (MESMA) for urban land cover mapping using airborne lidar data and band selection
Remote Sensing of Environment 2018cited by 61position: lastdoi
Generalizing machine learning regression models using multi-site spectral libraries for mapping vegetation-impervious-soil fractions across multiple cities
Remote Sensing of Environment 2018cited by 52position: middledoi

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Frequent collaborators

Raf Aerts · KU Leuven11 papers (2016–2024)Olivier Honnay · KU Leuven10 papers (2013–2021)Wanda De Keersmaecker · KU Leuven9 papers (2013–2025)Laurent Tits · KU Leuven9 papers (2013–2017)Pol Coppin · KU Leuven8 papers (2013–2017)Stef Lhermitte · KU Leuven6 papers (2013–2025)Jeroen Degerickx · KU Leuven6 papers (2017–2020)Sebastian van der Linden · Universitätsmedizin Greifswald5 papers (2013–2018) · 5 papers (2015–2025)Martin Hermy · KU Leuven4 papers (2017–2020)An Van Nieuwenhuyse · Laboratoire National de Santé4 papers (2017–2022)Paulo N. Bernardino · KU Leuven4 papers (2020–2025)Marijke Hendrickx · KU Leuven4 papers (2017–2021)Akpona Okujeni · Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin4 papers (2013–2018)Tim S. Nawrot · University of Abuja4 papers (2020–2022)Sébastien Dujardin · KU Leuven3 papers (2020–2022) · 3 papers (2016–2017)Jos Van Orshoven · KU Leuven3 papers (2017–2021)Tom Francart · KU Leuven3 papers (2018–2023) · 3 papers (2020–2022)
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