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List of works by Ben Somers

A Novel Spectral Library Pruning Technique for Spectral Unmixing of Urban Land Cover

scientific article published on 6 June 2017

A Quantitative Analysis of Virtual Endmembers' Increased Impact on the Collinearity Effect in Spectral Unmixing

A model quantifying global vegetation resistance and resilience to short-term climate anomalies and their relationship with vegetation cover

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A novel procedure for measuring functional traits of herbaceous species through field spectroscopy

scientific article published in 2019

A trait‐based approach across the native and invaded range to understand plant invasiveness and community impact

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A unified framework to model the potential and realized distributions of invasive species within the invaded range

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Analyzing remotely sensed structural and chemical canopy traits of a forest invaded by Prunus serotina over multiple spatial scales

scientific article published on 01 March 2018

Assessing the impact of an invasive bryophyte on plant species richness using high resolution imaging spectroscopy

scientific article published in 2020

Assessment of Regional Vegetation Response to Climate Anomalies: A Case Study for Australia Using GIMMS NDVI Time Series between 1982 and 2006

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Automated Extraction of Image-Based Endmember Bundles for Improved Spectral Unmixing

Climatic legacy effects on the drought response of the Amazon rainforest

scientific article published in 2022

Community assembly on extensive green roofs: Effects of dispersal‐, abiotic‐ and biotic filtering on the spontaneous species‐ and functional diversity

scientific article published on 15 July 2019

Do Looks Matter? A Case Study on Extensive Green Roofs Using Discrete Choice Experiments

Endmember variability in Spectral Mixture Analysis: A review

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Evaluating different methods for retrieving intraspecific leaf trait variation from hyperspectral leaf reflectance

scientific article published on 27 August 2021

Foliar optical traits indicate that sealed planting conditions negatively affect urban tree health

scientific article published in 2018

Global maps of soil temperature

scientific article published on 30 December 2021

Global maps of soil temperature

How to measure ecosystem stability? An evaluation of the reliability of stability metrics based on remote sensing time series across the major global ecosystems

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Hyperspectral Reflectance and Fluorescence Imaging to Detect Scab Induced Stress in Apple Leaves

article by Stephanie Delalieux et al published 6 November 2009 in Remote Sensing

Hyperspectral Time Series Analysis of Native and Invasive Species in Hawaiian Rainforests

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Hyperspectral shape-based unmixing to improve intra- and interclass variability for forest and agro-ecosystem monitoring

scholarly article by Laurent Tits published in November 2012

Inter-Annual Climate Variability Impact on Oil Palm Mapping

scientific article published in 2022

Inter‐ and intraspecific trait variation shape multidimensional trait overlap between two plant invaders and the invaded communities

scientific article published on 21 January 2020

Invasion by the Alien Tree Prunus serotina Alters Ecosystem Functions in a Temperate Deciduous Forest

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Invasive Species Mapping in Hawaiian Rainforests Using Multi-Temporal Hyperion Spaceborne Imaging Spectroscopy

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Is there more than meets the eye? Seed bank analysis of a typical novel ecosystem, the extensive green roof

LiDAR derived forest structure data improves predictions of canopy N and P concentrations from imaging spectroscopy

scholarly article by Michael Ewald et al published June 2018 in Remote Sensing of Environment

Linking NDVI and climate-based ecosystem stability with land cover in Europe

Magnitude- and Shape-Related Feature Integration in Hyperspectral Mixture Analysis to Monitor Weeds in Citrus Orchards

article published in 2009

Mapping abundance distributions of allergenic tree species in urbanized landscapes: A nation-wide study for Belgium using forest inventory and citizen science data

scientific article published in 2022

Mapping an invasive bryophyte species using hyperspectral remote sensing data

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Mapping tropical rainforest canopies using multi-temporal spaceborne imaging spectroscopy

scholarly article published 16 October 2013

Mesoscale assessment of changes in tropical tree species richness across a bioclimatic gradient in Panama using airborne imaging spectroscopy

scientific article published in 2015

Monitoring herbaceous fuel moisture content with SPOT VEGETATION time-series for fire risk prediction in savanna ecosystems

scientific article published in 2007

Multi-temporal hyperspectral mixture analysis and feature selection for invasive species mapping in rainforests

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Optical trait indicators for remote sensing of plant species composition: Predictive power and seasonal variability

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Optical traits perform equally well as directly‐measured functional traits in explaining the impact of an invasive plant on litter decomposition

scientific article published on 14 March 2020

Plant Species Diversity Mediates Ecosystem Stability of Natural Dune Grasslands in Response to Drought

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Plant functional trait data and reflectance spectra for 22 palmiet wetland species

scientific article published on 30 August 2018

Remotely sensed plant traits can provide insights into ecosystem impacts of plant invasions: a case study covering two functionally different invaders

scientific article published on 27 August 2020

Residential Exposure to Urban Trees and Medication Sales for Mood Disorders and Cardiovascular Disease in Brussels, Belgium: An Ecological Study

scientific article published on 11 May 2022

Residential green space and medication sales for childhood asthma: A longitudinal ecological study in Belgium

scientific article published on 17 July 2020

Residential green space and seasonal distress in a cohort of tree pollen allergy patients

scientific article published on 15 October 2019

Resilience and the reliability of spectral entropy to assess ecosystem stability

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Satellite remote sensing of ecosystem functions: opportunities, challenges and way forward

Sentinel-Based Adaptation of the Local Climate Zones Framework to a South African Context

scientific article published in 2022

Shape-based unmixing for vegetation mapping

Silicone Wristband Passive Samplers Yield Highly Individualized Pesticide Residue Exposure Profiles

scientific article published on 29 November 2017

Soil organic matter rather than ectomycorrhizal diversity is related to urban tree health

scientific article published on 22 November 2019

SoilTemp: a global database of near-surface temperature

scientific article published on 20 April 2020

Species profiles support recommendations for quality filtering of opportunistic citizen science data

scientific article published on 02 March 2022

Species-rich semi-natural grasslands have a higher resistance but a lower resilience than intensively managed agricultural grasslands in response to climate anomalies

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Spectral Unmixing of Forest Crown Components at Close Range, Airborne and Simulated Sentinel-2 and EnMAP Spectral Imaging Scale

Spectrally defined plant functional types adequately capture multidimensional trait variation in herbaceous communities

scientific article published on 03 November 2020

Supervised Classification of Tree Cover Classes in the Complex Mosaic Landscape of Eastern Rwanda

scientific article published in 2023

TRY plant trait database - enhanced coverage and open access

scientific article published on 31 December 2019

The DIARS toolbox: a spatially explicit approach to monitor alien plant invasions through remote sensing

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The fourth phase of the radiative transfer model intercomparison (RAMI) exercise: Actual canopy scenarios and conformity testing

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The functional characterization of grass- and shrubland ecosystems using hyperspectral remote sensing: trends, accuracy and moderating variables

scholarly article by Elisa Van Cleemput et al published May 2018 in Remote Sensing of Environment

The impact of data quality filtering of opportunistic citizen science data on species distribution model performance

scientific article published on 05 February 2021

Thirty Years of Land Cover and Fraction Cover Changes over the Sudano-Sahel Using Landsat Time Series

Transferability of species distribution models for the detection of an invasive alien bryophyte using imaging spectroscopy data

scientific article published on 16 February 2018

Tree species mapping in tropical forests using multi-temporal imaging spectroscopy: Wavelength adaptive spectral mixture analysis

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Uncovering Dryland Woody Dynamics Using Optical, Microwave, and Field Data—Prolonged Above-Average Rainfall Paradoxically Contributes to Woody Plant Die-Off in the Western Sahel

scientific article published in 2020

Variation in ectomycorrhizal fungal communities associated with Silver linden (Tilia tomentosa) within and across urban areas

scientific article published on 01 December 2018

Vegetation reflectance spectroscopy for biomonitoring of heavy metal pollution in urban soils

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Weeds and gaps on extensive green roofs: Ecological insights and recommendations for design and maintenance

scientific article published on 14 October 2019