Ben Somers

Publication Activity (10 Years)

Years Active: 2008-2024
Publications (10 Years): 36

Top Topics

Supervised Classification

Sparse Regression

Top Venues

IEEE J. Sel. Top. Appl. Earth Obs. Remote. Sens.

Publications

Margot Verhulst, Stien Heremans, Matthew B. Blaschko, Ben Somers
Temporal Transferability of Tree Species Classification in Temperate Forests with Sentinel-2 Time Series. Remote. Sens. 16 (14) (2024)
Mingshi Li, Dusan Grujicic, Steven De Saeger, Stien Heremans, Ben Somers, Matthew B. Blaschko
Biological Valuation Map of Flanders: A Sentinel-2 Imagery Analysis. CoRR (2024)
Nick Gutkin, Valens Uwizeyimana, Ben Somers, Bart Muys, Bruno Verbist
Supervised Classification of Tree Cover Classes in the Complex Mosaic Landscape of Eastern Rwanda. Remote. Sens. 15 (10) (2023)
Maria Culman, Stephanie Delalieux, Bart Beusen, 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. Comput. Electron. Agric. 213 (2023)
Fernando Troya, Paulo N. Bernardino, Ben Somers
Inter-Annual Climate Variability Impact on Oil Palm Mapping. Remote. Sens. 14 (13) (2022)
Tshilidzi Manyanya, Janne Teerlinck, Ben Somers, Bruno Verbist, Nthaduleni Nethengwe
Sentinel-Based Adaptation of the Local Climate Zones Framework to a South African Context. Remote. Sens. 14 (15) (2022)
Ruben Van de Vijver, Koen C. Mertens, Kurt Heungens, David Nuyttens, Jana Wieme, Wouter H. Maes, Jonathan Van Beek, Ben Somers, Wouter Saeys
Ultra-High-Resolution UAV-Based Detection of Alternaria solani Infections in Potato Fields. Remote. Sens. 14 (24) (2022)
Jingli Yan, Stijn Van der Linden, Yunyu Tian, Jo Van Valckenborgh, Veerle Strosse, Ben Somers
Characterizing Garden Greenspace in a Medieval European City: Added Values of Spatial Resolution and Multi-Temporal Stereo Imagery. Remote. Sens. 14 (5) (2022)
Fei Xu, Stien Heremans, Ben Somers
Urban land cover mapping with Sentinel-2: a spectro-spatio-temporal analysis. Urban Inform. 1 (1) (2022)
Frederik Priem, Ben Somers, Frank Canters
Iterative Spectral Distancing: A Novel Approach for Extracting Endmembers in Complex Urban Image Scenes. IGARSS (2021)
Fei Xu, Ben Somers
Surveying Green Spaces in European Human Settlements at 30 m Sub-Pixel Level. IGARSS (2021)
Dengkai Chi, Kobe Graulus, Jeroen Degerickx, Ben Somers
Urban Tree Species Classification Using Airborne Lidar and Hyperspectral Imagery. IGARSS (2021)
Niels Souverijns, Marcel Buchhorn, Stéphanie Horion, Rasmus Fensholt, Hans Verbeeck, Jan Verbesselt, Martin Herold, Nandin-Erdene Tsendbazar, Paulo N. Bernardino, Ben Somers, Ruben Van De Kerchove
Thirty Years of Land Cover and Fraction Cover Changes Over the Sudano-Sahel Using Landsat Time Series. IGARSS (2021)
Ernesto Marcheggiani, Andrea Galli, Osmany Ceballo Melendres, Ben Somers, Julio P. García-Lahera, Wanda De Keersmaecker, M. D. Abdul Mueed Choudhury
Monitor Mangrove Forest Dynamics from Multi-temporal Landsat 8-OLI Images in the Southern Coast of Sancti Spíritus Province (Cuba). ICCSA (7) (2021)
Stéphanie Horion, Wim Verbruggen, Paulo N. Bernardino, Niels Souverijns, Wanda De Keersmaecker, Rasmus Fensholt, Guy Schurgers, Ruben Van De Kerchove, Hans Verbeeck, Jan Verbesselt, Ben Somers
Abrupt Change in Dryland Ecosystem Functioning: Recent Advances and Lessons Learnt from the U-TURN Project. IGARSS (2021)
Ine Rosier, Jan Diels, Ben Somers, Jos Van Orshoven
A Workflow to Extract the Geometry and Type of Vegetated Landscape Elements from Airborne LiDAR Point Clouds. Remote. Sens. 13 (20) (2021)
Stien Heremans, Francis Turkelboom, Margot Verhulst, Matthew B. Blaschko, Ben Somers
Remote Sensing and Deep Learning for Environmental Policy Support: From Theory to Practice. IGARSS (2021)
Paulo N. Bernardino, Martin Brandt, Wanda De Keersmaecker, Stéphanie Horion, Rasmus Fensholt, Ilié Storms, Jean-Pierre Wigneron, Jan Verbesselt, Ben Somers
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. Remote. Sens. 12 (14) (2020)
Niels Souverijns, Marcel Buchhorn, Stéphanie Horion, Rasmus Fensholt, Hans Verbeeck, Jan Verbesselt, Martin Herold, Nandin-Erdene Tsendbazar, Paulo N. Bernardino, Ben Somers, Ruben Van De Kerchove
Thirty Years of Land Cover and Fraction Cover Changes over the Sudano-Sahel Using Landsat Time Series. Remote. Sens. 12 (22) (2020)
Irene Borra-Serrano, Tom De Swaef, Paul Quataert, Jonas Aper, Aamir Saleem, Wouter Saeys, Ben Somers, Isabel Roldán-Ruiz, Peter Lootens
Closing the Phenotyping Gap: High Resolution UAV Time Series for Soybean Growth Analysis Provides Objective Data from Field Trials. Remote. Sens. 12 (10) (2020)
Johanna Van Passel, Wanda De Keersmaecker, Ben Somers
Monitoring Woody Cover Dynamics in Tropical Dry Forest Ecosystems Using Sentinel-2 Satellite Imagery. Remote. Sens. 12 (8) (2020)
Dengkai Chi, Jeroen Degerickx, Kang Yu, Ben Somers
Urban Tree Health Classification Across Tree Species by Combining Airborne Laser Scanning and Imaging Spectroscopy. Remote. Sens. 12 (15) (2020)
Ruben Van de Vijver, Koen C. Mertens, Kurt Heungens, Ben Somers, David Nuyttens, Irene Borra-Serrano, Peter Lootens, Isabel Roldán-Ruiz, Jürgen Vangeyte, Wouter Saeys
in potato crops using hyperspectral imaging. Comput. Electron. Agric. 168 (2020)
Yasmin Vanbrabant, Laurent Tits, Stephanie Delalieux, Klaas Pauly, Wim Verjans, Ben Somers
Multitemporal Chlorophyll Mapping in Pome Fruit Orchards from Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems. Remote. Sens. 11 (12) (2019)
Stien Heremans, Rob Hillen, Laura Vanierschot, Ben Somers
Assessing the Ecological Value of Grasslands from Sentinel 2: A Case Study in Flanders. IGARSS (2018)
Kang Yu, Jeroen Degerickx, Maarten Van Geel, Olivier Honnay, Ben Somers
Airborne Imaging Spectroscopy for Assessing Soil Sealing Effect on Urban Tree Health. WHISPERS (2018)
Jeroen Degerickx, Dar A. Roberts, Joe P. McFadden, Martin Hermy, Ben Somers
Urban tree health assessment using airborne hyperspectral and LiDAR imagery. Int. J. Appl. Earth Obs. Geoinformation 73 (2018)
Wanda De Keersmaecker, Stefaan Lhermitte, Michael J. Hill, Laurent Tits, Pol Coppin, Ben Somers
Assessment of Regional Vegetation Response to Climate Anomalies: A Case Study for Australia Using GIMMS NDVI Time Series between 1982 and 2006. Remote. Sens. 9 (1) (2017)
Jeroen Degerickx, Akpona Okujeni, Marian-Daniel Iordache, Martin Hermy, Sebastian van der Linden, Ben Somers
A Novel Spectral Library Pruning Technique for Spectral Unmixing of Urban Land Cover. Remote. Sens. 9 (6) (2017)
Jeroen Degerickx, Martin Hermy, Ben Somers
Mapping functional urban green types using hyperspectral remote sensing. JURSE (2017)
Jonathan Van Beek, Laurent Tits, Ben Somers, Tom Deckers, Pieter Janssens, Pol Coppin
Viewing Geometry Sensitivity of Commonly Used Vegetation Indices towards the Estimation of Biophysical Variables in Orchards. J. Imaging 2 (2) (2016)
Jonathan Van Beek, Laurent Tits, Ben Somers, Tom Deckers, Pieter Janssens, Pol Coppin
Reducing background effects in orchards through spectral vegetation index correction. Int. J. Appl. Earth Obs. Geoinformation 34 (2015)
Jonathan Van Beek, Laurent Tits, Ben Somers, Tom Deckers, Wim Verjans, Dany Bylemans, Pieter Janssens, Pol Coppin
Temporal Dependency of Yield and Quality Estimation through Spectral Vegetation Indices in Pear Orchards. Remote. Sens. 7 (8) (2015)
Laurent Tits, Rob Heylen, Ben Somers, Paul Scheunders, Pol Coppin
A Geometric Unmixing Concept for the Selection of Optimal Binary Endmember Combinations. IEEE Geosci. Remote. Sens. Lett. 12 (1) (2015)
Wanda De Keersmaecker, Stefaan Lhermitte, Laurent Tits, Olivier Honnay, Pol Coppin, Ben Somers
Towards the large-scale assessment of vegetation biomass production stability. MultiTemp (2015)
Anne Clasen, Ben Somers, Kyle Pipkins, Laurent Tits, Karl Segl, Maximilian Brell, Birgit Kleinschmit, Daniel Spengler, Angela Lausch, Michael Förster
Spectral Unmixing of Forest Crown Components at Close Range, Airborne and Simulated Sentinel-2 and EnMAP Spectral Imaging Scale. Remote. Sens. 7 (11) (2015)
Ben Somers, Gregory P. Asner
Tree species mapping in tropical forests using multi-temporal imaging spectroscopy: Wavelength adaptive spectral mixture analysis. Int. J. Appl. Earth Obs. Geoinformation 31 (2014)
Marian-Daniel Iordache, Laurent Tits, José M. Bioucas-Dias, Antonio Plaza, Ben Somers
A Dynamic Unmixing Framework for Plant Production System Monitoring. IEEE J. Sel. Top. Appl. Earth Obs. Remote. Sens. 7 (6) (2014)
Stephanie Delalieux, Pablo J. Zarco-Tejada, Laurent Tits, Miguel Ángel Jiménez-Bello, Diego S. Intrigliolo, Ben Somers
Unmixing-Based Fusion of Hyperspatial and Hyperspectral Airborne Imagery for Early Detection of Vegetation Stress. IEEE J. Sel. Top. Appl. Earth Obs. Remote. Sens. 7 (6) (2014)
Ben Somers, Laurent Tits, Pol Coppin
Quantifying Nonlinear Spectral Mixing in Vegetated Areas: Computer Simulation Model Validation and First Results. IEEE J. Sel. Top. Appl. Earth Obs. Remote. Sens. 7 (6) (2014)
Nicolas Dobigeon, Laurent Tits, Ben Somers, Yoann Altmann, Pol Coppin
Nonlinear unmixing of vegetated areas: A model comparison based on simulated and real hyperspectral data. WHISPERS (2014)
Marian-Daniel Iordache, José M. Bioucas-Dias, Antonio Plaza, Ben Somers
MUSIC-CSR: Hyperspectral Unmixing via Multiple Signal Classification and Collaborative Sparse Regression. IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote. Sens. 52 (7) (2014)
Laurent Tits, Ben Somers, Jan Stuckens, Pol Coppin
Validating nonlinear mixing models: Benchmark datasets from vegetated areas. WHISPERS (2014)
Laurent Tits, Ben Somers, Wouter Saeys, Pol Coppin
Site-Specific Plant Condition Monitoring Through Hyperspectral Alternating Least Squares Unmixing. IEEE J. Sel. Top. Appl. Earth Obs. Remote. Sens. 7 (8) (2014)
Jonathan Van Beek, Laurent Tits, Ben Somers, Pieter Janssens, Wendy Odeurs, Hilde Vandendriessche, Tom Deckers, Pol Coppin
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Ben Somers, Gregory P. Asner
Monitoring plant invasions in Hawaiian rainforests through multi-temporal unmixing. IGARSS (2014)
Nicolas Dobigeon, Laurent Tits, Ben Somers, Yoann Altmann, Pol Coppin
A Comparison of Nonlinear Mixing Models for Vegetated Areas Using Simulated and Real Hyperspectral Data. IEEE J. Sel. Top. Appl. Earth Obs. Remote. Sens. 7 (6) (2014)
Marian-Daniel Iordache, Akpona Okujeni, Sebastian van der Linden, José M. Bioucas-Dias, Antonio Plaza, Ben Somers
On the use of collaborative sparse regression in hyperspectral unmixing chains. WHISPERS (2014)
Wanda De Keersmaecker, Stefaan Lhermitte, Laurent Tits, Olivier Honnay, Ben Somers, Pol Coppin
Linking NDVI and climate-based ecosystem stability with land cover in Europe. IGARSS (2014)
Ben Somers, Gregory P. Asner
Invasive Species Mapping in Hawaiian Rainforests Using Multi-Temporal Hyperion Spaceborne Imaging Spectroscopy. IEEE J. Sel. Top. Appl. Earth Obs. Remote. Sens. 6 (2-1) (2013)
Marian-Daniel Iordache, Ben Somers, Laurent Tits, José M. Bioucas-Dias, Antonio Plaza, Pol Coppin
Plant production system monitoring via multiple signal classification and sparse regression. WHISPERS (2013)
Jonathan Van Beek, Laurent Tits, Ben Somers, Pol Coppin
Stem Water Potential Monitoring in Pear Orchards through WorldView-2 Multispectral Imagery. Remote. Sens. 5 (12) (2013)
Marian-Daniel Iordache, Laurent Tits, Ben Somers, Antonio Plaza
Improved signal unmixing of vegetation using sparse group selection. IGARSS (2013)
Laurent Tits, Ward Delabastita, Ben Somers, Jamshid Farifteh, Pol Coppin
First results of quantifying nonlinear mixing effects in heterogeneous forests: A modeling approach. IGARSS (2012)
Laurent Tits, Ben Somers, Pol Coppin
The Potential and Limitations of a Clustering Approach for the Improved Efficiency of Multiple Endmember Spectral Mixture Analysis in Plant Production System Monitoring. IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote. Sens. 50 (6) (2012)
Sander Veraverbeke, Ben Somers, Ioannis Z. Gitas, Thomas Katagis, Anastasia Polychronaki, Rudi Goossens
Spectral mixture analysis to assess post-fire vegetation regeneration using Landsat Thematic Mapper imagery: Accounting for soil brightness variation. Int. J. Appl. Earth Obs. Geoinformation 14 (1) (2012)
Ben Somers, Gregory P. Asner
Hyperspectral Time Series Analysis of Native and Invasive Species in Hawaiian Rainforests. Remote. Sens. 4 (9) (2012)
Ben Somers, Maciel Zortea, Antonio Plaza, Gregory P. Asner
Automated Extraction of Image-Based Endmember Bundles for Improved Spectral Unmixing. IEEE J. Sel. Top. Appl. Earth Obs. Remote. Sens. 5 (2) (2012)
Laurent Tits, Ben Somers, Wanda De Keersmaecker, Gregory P. Asner, Jamshid Farifteh, Pol Coppin
Shape-based unmixing for vegetation mapping. WHISPERS (2012)
Xuehong Chen, Jin Chen, Xiuping Jia, Ben Somers, Jin Wu, Pol Coppin
A Quantitative Analysis of Virtual Endmembers' Increased Impact on the Collinearity Effect in Spectral Unmixing. IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote. Sens. 49 (8) (2011)
Ben Somers, Laurent Tits, Willem W. Verstraeten, Pol Coppin
Soil reflectance modeling & hyperspectral mixture analysis: Towards vegetation spectra minimizing the soil background contamination. WHISPERS (2010)
Ben Somers, Willem W. Verstraeten, Stephanie Delalieux, Pol Coppin
Modeling the hyperspectral reflectance signal of moist sandy soils. WHISPERS (2010)
Stephanie Delalieux, Ben Somers, Birgen Haest, Lammert Kooistra, Caspar A. Mücher, Jeroen Vanden Borre
Monitoring heathland habitat status using hyperspectral image classification and unmixing. WHISPERS (2010)
Ben Somers, Jan Verbesselt, Eva M. Ampe, Neil Sims, Willem W. Verstraeten, Pol Coppin
Spectral mixture analysis to monitor defoliation in mixed-aged Eucalyptus globulus Labill plantations in southern Australia using Landsat 5-TM and EO-1 Hyperion data. Int. J. Appl. Earth Obs. Geoinformation 12 (4) (2010)
Jan Stuckens, Ben Somers, Willem W. Verstraeten, Rony Swennen, Pol Coppin
Evaluation and Normalization of Cloud Obscuration Related BRDF Effects in Field Spectroscopy. Remote. Sens. 1 (3) (2009)
Jan Stuckens, Ben Somers, Willem W. Verstraeten, Rony Swennen, Pol Coppin
Normalization of Illumination Conditions for Ground based Hyperspectral Measurements using Dual Field of View Spectroradiometers and BRDF Corrections. IGARSS (3) (2009)
Stephanie Delalieux, Annemarie Auwerkerken, Willem W. Verstraeten, Ben Somers, Roland Valcke, Stefaan Lhermitte, Johan Keulemans, Pol Coppin
Hyperspectral Reflectance and Fluorescence Imaging to Detect Scab Induced Stress in Apple Leaves. Remote. Sens. 1 (4) (2009)
Ben Somers, Jan Stuckens, Laurent Tits, Stephan Verreynne, Willem W. Verstraeten, Pol Coppin
A Solution for the Mixture Problem in Agricultural Remote Sensing. IGARSS (5) (2009)
Ben Somers, Stephanie Delalieux, Willem W. Verstraeten, Jan Verbesselt, Stefaan Lhermitte, Pol Coppin
Magnitude- and Shape-Related Feature Integration in Hyperspectral Mixture Analysis to Monitor Weeds in Citrus Orchards. IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote. Sens. 47 (11) (2009)
Ben Somers, Stephanie Delalieux, Willem W. Verstraeten, Kenneth Cools, Jan Verbesselt, Stefaan Lhermitte, Pol Coppin
Integration of Magnitude and Shape Related Features in Hyperspectral Mixture Analysis to Monitor Weeds In Citrus Orchards. IGARSS (1) (2008)