Ben Somers

75 papers C 13Journal 47Unranked 15
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2025 J jnl
ChromaFormer: A Scalable and Accurate Transformer Architecture for Land Cover Classification.
CoRR
Mingshi Li, Dusan Grujicic, Ben Somers, Stien Heremans, Steven De Saeger, Matthew B. Blaschko
2025 J jnl
Generic spectral library framework for urban land cover mapping with optical remote sensing imagery.
Environ. Model. Softw.
Frederik Priem, Marianne Jilge, Uta Heiden, Ben Somers, Frank Canters
2024 C conf
Biological Valuation Map of Flanders: A Sentinel-2 Imagery Analysis.
IGARSS
Mingshi Li, Dusan Grujicic, Steven De Saeger, Stien Heremans, Ben Somers, Matthew B. Blaschko
2024 J jnl
Biological Valuation Map of Flanders: A Sentinel-2 Imagery Analysis.
CoRR
Mingshi Li, Dusan Grujicic, Steven De Saeger, Stien Heremans, Ben Somers, Matthew B. Blaschko
2024 J jnl
Field-Level Classification of Winter Catch Crops Using Sentinel-2 Time Series: Model Comparison and Transferability.
Remote. Sens.
Kato Vanpoucke, Stien Heremans, Emily Buls, Ben Somers
2024 C conf
Satellite-Based Mapping of Purple Moor Grass for Wildfire Fuel Load Assessment in Heathlands.
IGARSS
Stien Heremans, Victor Wepener, Ben Somers
2024 J jnl
Temporal Transferability of Tree Species Classification in Temperate Forests with Sentinel-2 Time Series.
Remote. Sens.
Margot Verhulst, Stien Heremans, Matthew B. Blaschko, Ben Somers
2023 J jnl
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.
Maria Culman, Stephanie Delalieux, Bart Beusen, Ben Somers
2023 J jnl
Supervised Classification of Tree Cover Classes in the Complex Mosaic Landscape of Eastern Rwanda.
Remote. Sens.
Nick Gutkin, Valens Uwizeyimana, Ben Somers, Bart Muys, Bruno Verbist
2022 J jnl
Characterizing Garden Greenspace in a Medieval European City: Added Values of Spatial Resolution and Multi-Temporal Stereo Imagery.
Remote. Sens.
Jingli Yan, Stijn Van der Linden, Yunyu Tian, Jo Van Valckenborgh, Veerle Strosse, Ben Somers
2022 J jnl
Inter-Annual Climate Variability Impact on Oil Palm Mapping.
Remote. Sens.
Fernando Troya, Paulo N. Bernardino, Ben Somers
2022 J jnl
Sentinel-Based Adaptation of the Local Climate Zones Framework to a South African Context.
Remote. Sens.
Tshilidzi Manyanya, Janne Teerlinck, Ben Somers, Bruno Verbist, Nthaduleni Nethengwe
2022 J jnl
Ultra-High-Resolution UAV-Based Detection of Alternaria solani Infections in Potato Fields.
Remote. Sens.
Ruben Van de Vijver, Koen C. Mertens, Kurt Heungens, David Nuyttens, Jana Wieme, Wouter H. Maes, Jonathan Van Beek, Ben Somers, Wouter Saeys
2022 J jnl
Urban land cover mapping with Sentinel-2: a spectro-spatio-temporal analysis.
Urban Inform.
Fei Xu, Stien Heremans, Ben Somers
2021 J jnl
A Workflow to Extract the Geometry and Type of Vegetated Landscape Elements from Airborne LiDAR Point Clouds.
Remote. Sens.
Ine Rosier, Jan Diels, Ben Somers, Jos Van Orshoven
2021 C conf
Abrupt Change in Dryland Ecosystem Functioning: Recent Advances and Lessons Learnt from the U-TURN Project.
IGARSS
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
2021 C conf
Iterative Spectral Distancing: A Novel Approach for Extracting Endmembers in Complex Urban Image Scenes.
IGARSS
Frederik Priem, Ben Somers, Frank Canters
2021 — conf
Monitor Mangrove Forest Dynamics from Multi-temporal Landsat 8-OLI Images in the Southern Coast of Sancti Spíritus Province (Cuba).
ICCSA (7)
Ernesto Marcheggiani, Andrea Galli, Osmany Ceballo Melendres, Ben Somers, Julio P. García-Lahera, Wanda De Keersmaecker, M. D. Abdul Mueed Choudhury
2021 C conf
Remote Sensing and Deep Learning for Environmental Policy Support: From Theory to Practice.
IGARSS
Stien Heremans, Francis Turkelboom, Margot Verhulst, Matthew B. Blaschko, Ben Somers
2021 C conf
Surveying Green Spaces in European Human Settlements at 30 m Sub-Pixel Level.
IGARSS
Fei Xu, Ben Somers
2021 C conf
Thirty Years of Land Cover and Fraction Cover Changes Over the Sudano-Sahel Using Landsat Time Series.
IGARSS
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
2021 C conf
Urban Tree Species Classification Using Airborne Lidar and Hyperspectral Imagery.
IGARSS
Dengkai Chi, Kobe Graulus, Jeroen Degerickx, Ben Somers
2020 J jnl
Closing the Phenotyping Gap: High Resolution UAV Time Series for Soybean Growth Analysis Provides Objective Data from Field Trials.
Remote. Sens.
Irene Borra-Serrano, Tom De Swaef, Paul Quataert, Jonas Aper, Aamir Saleem, Wouter Saeys, Ben Somers, Isabel Roldán-Ruiz, Peter Lootens
2020 J jnl
In-field detection of
Comput. Electron. Agric.
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
2020 J jnl
Monitoring Woody Cover Dynamics in Tropical Dry Forest Ecosystems Using Sentinel-2 Satellite Imagery.
Remote. Sens.
Johanna Van Passel, Wanda De Keersmaecker, Ben Somers
2020 J jnl
Thirty Years of Land Cover and Fraction Cover Changes over the Sudano-Sahel Using Landsat Time Series.
Remote. Sens.
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
2020 J jnl
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.
Paulo N. Bernardino, Martin Brandt, Wanda De Keersmaecker, Stéphanie Horion, Rasmus Fensholt, Ilié Storms, Jean-Pierre Wigneron, Jan Verbesselt, Ben Somers
2020 J jnl
Urban Tree Health Classification Across Tree Species by Combining Airborne Laser Scanning and Imaging Spectroscopy.
Remote. Sens.
Dengkai Chi, Jeroen Degerickx, Kang Yu, Ben Somers
2019 J jnl
Multitemporal Chlorophyll Mapping in Pome Fruit Orchards from Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems.
Remote. Sens.
Yasmin Vanbrabant, Laurent Tits, Stephanie Delalieux, Klaas Pauly, Wim Verjans, Ben Somers
2018 — conf
Airborne Imaging Spectroscopy for Assessing Soil Sealing Effect on Urban Tree Health.
WHISPERS
Kang Yu, Jeroen Degerickx, Maarten Van Geel, Olivier Honnay, Ben Somers
2018 C conf
Assessing the Ecological Value of Grasslands from Sentinel 2: A Case Study in Flanders.
IGARSS
Stien Heremans, Rob Hillen, Laura Vanierschot, Ben Somers
2018 J jnl
Urban tree health assessment using airborne hyperspectral and LiDAR imagery.
Int. J. Appl. Earth Obs. Geoinformation
Jeroen Degerickx, Dar A. Roberts, Joseph P. McFadden, Martin Hermy, Ben Somers
2017 J jnl
A Novel Spectral Library Pruning Technique for Spectral Unmixing of Urban Land Cover.
Remote. Sens.
Jeroen Degerickx, Akpona Okujeni, Marian-Daniel Iordache, Martin Hermy, Sebastian van der Linden, Ben Somers
2017 J jnl
Assessment of Regional Vegetation Response to Climate Anomalies: A Case Study for Australia Using GIMMS NDVI Time Series between 1982 and 2006.
Remote. Sens.
Wanda De Keersmaecker, Stefaan Lhermitte, Michael J. Hill, Laurent Tits, Pol Coppin, Ben Somers
2017 — conf
Mapping functional urban green types using hyperspectral remote sensing.
JURSE
Jeroen Degerickx, Martin Hermy, Ben Somers
2016 J jnl
Viewing Geometry Sensitivity of Commonly Used Vegetation Indices towards the Estimation of Biophysical Variables in Orchards.
J. Imaging
Jonathan Van Beek, Laurent Tits, Ben Somers, Tom Deckers, Pieter Janssens, Pol Coppin
2015 J jnl
A Geometric Unmixing Concept for the Selection of Optimal Binary Endmember Combinations.
IEEE Geosci. Remote. Sens. Lett.
Laurent Tits, Rob Heylen, Ben Somers, Paul Scheunders, Pol Coppin
2015 J jnl
Reducing background effects in orchards through spectral vegetation index correction.
Int. J. Appl. Earth Obs. Geoinformation
Jonathan Van Beek, Laurent Tits, Ben Somers, Tom Deckers, Pieter Janssens, Pol Coppin
2015 J jnl
Spectral Unmixing of Forest Crown Components at Close Range, Airborne and Simulated Sentinel-2 and EnMAP Spectral Imaging Scale.
Remote. Sens.
Anne Clasen, Ben Somers, Kyle Pipkins, Laurent Tits, Karl Segl, Maximilian Brell, Birgit Kleinschmit, Daniel Spengler, Angela Lausch, Michael Förster
2015 J jnl
Temporal Dependency of Yield and Quality Estimation through Spectral Vegetation Indices in Pear Orchards.
Remote. Sens.
Jonathan Van Beek, Laurent Tits, Ben Somers, Tom Deckers, Wim Verjans, Dany Bylemans, Pieter Janssens, Pol Coppin
2015 — conf
Towards the large-scale assessment of vegetation biomass production stability.
MultiTemp
Wanda De Keersmaecker, Stefaan Lhermitte, Laurent Tits, Olivier Honnay, Pol Coppin, Ben Somers
2014 J jnl
A Comparison of Nonlinear Mixing Models for Vegetated Areas Using Simulated and Real Hyperspectral Data.
IEEE J. Sel. Top. Appl. Earth Obs. Remote. Sens.
Nicolas Dobigeon, Laurent Tits, Ben Somers, Yoann Altmann, Pol Coppin
2014 J jnl
A Dynamic Unmixing Framework for Plant Production System Monitoring.
IEEE J. Sel. Top. Appl. Earth Obs. Remote. Sens.
Marian-Daniel Iordache, Laurent Tits, José M. Bioucas-Dias, Antonio Plaza, Ben Somers
2014 J jnl
Correction: Van Beek, J.
Remote. Sens.
Jonathan Van Beek, Laurent Tits, Ben Somers, Pieter Janssens, Wendy Odeurs, Hilde Vandendriessche, Tom Deckers, Pol Coppin
2014 C conf
Linking NDVI and climate-based ecosystem stability with land cover in Europe.
IGARSS
Wanda De Keersmaecker, Stefaan Lhermitte, Laurent Tits, Olivier Honnay, Ben Somers, Pol Coppin
2014 J jnl
MUSIC-CSR: Hyperspectral Unmixing via Multiple Signal Classification and Collaborative Sparse Regression.
IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote. Sens.
Marian-Daniel Iordache, José M. Bioucas-Dias, Antonio Plaza, Ben Somers
2014 C conf
Monitoring plant invasions in Hawaiian rainforests through multi-temporal unmixing.
IGARSS
Ben Somers, Gregory P. Asner
2014 — conf
Nonlinear unmixing of vegetated areas: A model comparison based on simulated and real hyperspectral data.
WHISPERS
Nicolas Dobigeon, Laurent Tits, Ben Somers, Yoann Altmann, Pol Coppin
2014 — conf
On the use of collaborative sparse regression in hyperspectral unmixing chains.
WHISPERS
Marian-Daniel Iordache, Akpona Okujeni, Sebastian van der Linden, José M. Bioucas-Dias, Antonio Plaza, Ben Somers
2014 J jnl
Quantifying Nonlinear Spectral Mixing in Vegetated Areas: Computer Simulation Model Validation and First Results.
IEEE J. Sel. Top. Appl. Earth Obs. Remote. Sens.
Ben Somers, Laurent Tits, Pol Coppin
2014 J jnl
Site-Specific Plant Condition Monitoring Through Hyperspectral Alternating Least Squares Unmixing.
IEEE J. Sel. Top. Appl. Earth Obs. Remote. Sens.
Laurent Tits, Ben Somers, Wouter Saeys, Pol Coppin
2014 J jnl
Tree species mapping in tropical forests using multi-temporal imaging spectroscopy: Wavelength adaptive spectral mixture analysis.
Int. J. Appl. Earth Obs. Geoinformation
Ben Somers, Gregory P. Asner
2014 J jnl
Unmixing-Based Fusion of Hyperspatial and Hyperspectral Airborne Imagery for Early Detection of Vegetation Stress.
IEEE J. Sel. Top. Appl. Earth Obs. Remote. Sens.
Stephanie Delalieux, Pablo J. Zarco-Tejada, Laurent Tits, Miguel Ángel Jiménez-Bello, Diego S. Intrigliolo, Ben Somers
2014 — conf
Validating nonlinear mixing models: Benchmark datasets from vegetated areas.
WHISPERS
Laurent Tits, Ben Somers, Jan Stuckens, Pol Coppin
2013 C conf
Improved signal unmixing of vegetation using sparse group selection.
IGARSS
Marian-Daniel Iordache, Laurent Tits, Ben Somers, Antonio Plaza
2013 J jnl
Invasive Species Mapping in Hawaiian Rainforests Using Multi-Temporal Hyperion Spaceborne Imaging Spectroscopy.
IEEE J. Sel. Top. Appl. Earth Obs. Remote. Sens.
Ben Somers, Gregory P. Asner
2013 — conf
Plant production system monitoring via multiple signal classification and sparse regression.
WHISPERS
Marian-Daniel Iordache, Ben Somers, Laurent Tits, José M. Bioucas-Dias, Antonio Plaza, Pol Coppin
2013 J jnl
Stem Water Potential Monitoring in Pear Orchards through WorldView-2 Multispectral Imagery.
Remote. Sens.
Jonathan Van Beek, Laurent Tits, Ben Somers, Pol Coppin
2012 J jnl
Automated Extraction of Image-Based Endmember Bundles for Improved Spectral Unmixing.
IEEE J. Sel. Top. Appl. Earth Obs. Remote. Sens.
Ben Somers, Maciel Zortea, Antonio Plaza, Gregory P. Asner
2012 C conf
First results of quantifying nonlinear mixing effects in heterogeneous forests: A modeling approach.
IGARSS
Laurent Tits, Ward Delabastita, Ben Somers, Jamshid Farifteh, Pol Coppin
2012 J jnl
Hyperspectral Time Series Analysis of Native and Invasive Species in Hawaiian Rainforests.
Remote. Sens.
Ben Somers, Gregory P. Asner
2012 — conf
Shape-based unmixing for vegetation mapping.
WHISPERS
Laurent Tits, Ben Somers, Wanda De Keersmaecker, Gregory P. Asner, Jamshid Farifteh, Pol Coppin
2012 J jnl
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
Sander Veraverbeke, Ben Somers, Ioannis Z. Gitas, Thomas Katagis, Anastasia Polychronaki, Rudi Goossens
2012 J jnl
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.
Laurent Tits, Ben Somers, Pol Coppin
2011 J jnl
A Quantitative Analysis of Virtual Endmembers' Increased Impact on the Collinearity Effect in Spectral Unmixing.
IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote. Sens.
Xuehong Chen, Jin Chen, Xiuping Jia, Ben Somers, Jin Wu, Pol Coppin
2010 — conf
Modeling the hyperspectral reflectance signal of moist sandy soils.
WHISPERS
Ben Somers, Willem W. Verstraeten, Stephanie Delalieux, Pol Coppin
2010 — conf
Monitoring heathland habitat status using hyperspectral image classification and unmixing.
WHISPERS
Stephanie Delalieux, Ben Somers, Birgen Haest, Lammert Kooistra, Caspar A. Mücher, Jeroen Vanden Borre
2010 — conf
Soil reflectance modeling & hyperspectral mixture analysis: Towards vegetation spectra minimizing the soil background contamination.
WHISPERS
Ben Somers, Laurent Tits, Willem W. Verstraeten, Pol Coppin
2010 J jnl
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
Ben Somers, Jan Verbesselt, Eva M. Ampe, Neil Sims, Willem W. Verstraeten, Pol Coppin
2009 — conf
A Solution for the Mixture Problem in Agricultural Remote Sensing.
IGARSS (5)
Ben Somers, Jan Stuckens, Laurent Tits, Stephan Verreynne, Willem W. Verstraeten, Pol Coppin
2009 J jnl
Evaluation and Normalization of Cloud Obscuration Related BRDF Effects in Field Spectroscopy.
Remote. Sens.
Jan Stuckens, Ben Somers, Willem W. Verstraeten, Rony Swennen, Pol Coppin
2009 J jnl
Hyperspectral Reflectance and Fluorescence Imaging to Detect Scab Induced Stress in Apple Leaves.
Remote. Sens.
Stephanie Delalieux, Annemarie Auwerkerken, Willem W. Verstraeten, Ben Somers, Roland Valcke, Stefaan Lhermitte, Johan Keulemans, Pol Coppin
2009 J jnl
Magnitude- and Shape-Related Feature Integration in Hyperspectral Mixture Analysis to Monitor Weeds in Citrus Orchards.
IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote. Sens.
Ben Somers, Stephanie Delalieux, Willem W. Verstraeten, Jan Verbesselt, Stefaan Lhermitte, Pol Coppin
2009 — conf
Normalization of Illumination Conditions for Ground based Hyperspectral Measurements using Dual Field of View Spectroradiometers and BRDF Corrections.
IGARSS (3)
Jan Stuckens, Ben Somers, Willem W. Verstraeten, Rony Swennen, Pol Coppin
2008 — conf
Integration of Magnitude and Shape Related Features in Hyperspectral Mixture Analysis to Monitor Weeds In Citrus Orchards.
IGARSS (1)
Ben Somers, Stephanie Delalieux, Willem W. Verstraeten, Kenneth Cools, Jan Verbesselt, Stefaan Lhermitte, Pol Coppin