Defourny Pierre

Radoux, Julien ; Dominique, Margot ; Hartley, Andrew ; Lamarche, Céline ; Bos, Audric ; Defourny, Pierre. Land Cover Types Drive the Surface Temperature for Upscaling Surface Urban Heat Islands with Daylight Images. In: Remote Sensing, Vol. 17, no.16, p. 2815 (2025). doi:10.3390/rs17162815 (Soumis).

De Vroey, Mathilde ; Radoux, Julien ; Farinelle, Arnaud ; Defourny, Pierre. Linking grassland yield and nitrogen nutrition status to management practices: Towards large-scale grassland use intensity assessment. In: Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment, Vol. 40, no.101754, p. 101754 (2025). doi:10.1016/j.rsase.2025.101754.

Bouchat, Jean ; Deffense, Quentin (co-first author) ; De Maet, Thomas ; Defourny, Pierre. Synergistic Use of Optical and SAR Imagery for Near Real-Time Green Area Index Retrieval in Maize. In: IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, Vol. 18, p. 28515-28530 (2025). doi:10.1109/jstars.2025.3622750.

De Visscher, Jean-Philippe ; Defourny, Pierre ; Hanin, Yves ; Poullain, Cécile ; Rosa, Elisabetta cinzia ; Vanneste, Guillaume. Un nouveau master pour apprendre à concevoir des éco-territoires. In: Lieux dits, no. 27, p. 48 (2025).

Boland Basile ; Kenda, Tom ; Bouchat, Jean ; Defourny, Pierre. Multi-frequency SAR time series for the detection of sowing events and early-season crop classification. Living Planet Symposium 2025 (Austria Center Vienna, du 22/06/2025 au 27/06/2025).

Delhez, Baptiste. Near-Real-Time African Tropical Forest Loss Monitoring with Sentinel-1 data: From Threshold-Based to Deep Learning Detection. Linving Planet Symposium (LPS2025) (Vienne, du 23/06/2025 au 27/06/2025).

Kenda, Tom ; McAneny, Rhianna ; Lopez-Lozano, Raul ; Quesney, Arnaud ; Weiss, Marie ; Draye, Xavier ; Defourny, Pierre. Phenotyping From Space: Evaluating Very High-Resolution Satellite-Based Trait Estimation in Winter Wheat Microplot Trials. European Plant Phenotyping Symposium (Bonn, du 17/09/2025 au 18/09/2025).

De Bièvre, Dries ; Defourny, Pierre ; van Wesemael, Bas. Soil organic carbon (SOC) monitoring or mapping? Sentinel-2 bare soil (BS) composites to estimate SOC content in Wallonia (Belgium). Living Planet Symposium (Vienna, Austria, du 23/06/2025 au 27/06/2025).

Bouchat, Jean ; Deffense, Quentin ; De Maet, Thomas ; Defourny, Pierre. Synergistic use of optical and SAR imagery for near real-time green area index retrieval in maize. Living Planet Symposium 2025 (Vienna, Austria, du 23/06/2025 au 27/06/2025).

Bouchat, Jean ; Tronquo, Emma (co-first author) ; Orban, Anne ; de Macedo, Karlus A.C. ; Davidson, Malcolm ; Verhoest, Niko E.C. ; Defourny, Pierre. The BELSAR dataset: Mono- and bistatic full-pol L-band SAR for agriculture and hydrology. In: Scientific Data, Vol. 11, no.1, p. 513 (2024). doi:10.1038/s41597-024-03320-1.

Bouchat, Jean ; Deffense, Quentin ; Defourny, Pierre. AI-based SAR-to-optical GAI regression for crop monitoring. EO for Agriculture under Pressure 2024 Workshop (Frascati, Italy, du 13/05/2024 au 16/05/2024).

Delhez, Baptiste. Computing the Best Sentinel-1 SAR-Based Annual Index to Provide Robust Forest Loss Assessment in Tropical Region. International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium - IGARSS 2024 (Athens, du 07/07/2024 au 12/07/2024).

Buron, Maxime ; Foguenne, Emile ; Blondel, Alodie ; Defourny, Pierre ; Jacquemart, Anne-Laure ; Radoux, Julien ; Jeannerod, Léna ; Agnan, Yannick. Environmental persistence and fate of neonicotinoids insecticides in Belgian agricultural soils. Centennial IUSS (Florence, du 19/05/2024 au 21/05/2024).

Delhez, Baptiste. Introducing Sentinel-1 SAR-Based Annual Index to Provide Robust Forest Loss Assessment in Tropical Region. European Geosciences Union General Assembly - EGU2024 (Vienna, du 15/04/2024 au 19/04/2024).

Saelens, Sébastien ; Bouchat, Jean ; Su, Qiaomei ; Fan, Jinlong ; Defourny, Pierre. Monitoring the plant water content in senescent maize using multifrequency SAR data in Shanxi province, China. 2024 Dragon Symposium (Lisbon, Portugal, du 24/06/2024 au 28/06/2024).

Buron, Maxime ; Radoux, Julien ; Jeannerod, Léna ; Agnan, Yannick ; Defourny, Pierre ; Jacquemart, Anne-Laure. Quantifying floral resources and habitat quality of pollinators in agricultural landscapes using field data and UAV tele-detection. Eurobee10 (Tallinn, Estonia, du 16/09/2024 au 19/09/2024).

De Bièvre, Dries ; van Wesemael, Bas ; Defourny, Pierre. Sentinel-2 based mapping of SOC content in Wallonia. ESA SYMPOSIUM ON EARTH OBSERVATION FOR SOIL PROTECTION AND RESTORATION (Frascati, Italy, du 06/03/2024 au 07/03/2024).

Bouchat, Jean ; Deffense, Quentin ; Su, Qiaomei ; Fan, Jinlong ; Defourny, Pierre. Using a transformer encoder for SAR-to-optical GAI regression with Sentinel-1 and -2 data. 2024 Dragon Symposium (Lisbon, Portugal, du 24/06/2024 au 28/06/2024).

Kenda, Tom ; Champagne, Céline ; Draye, Xavier ; Defourny, Pierre. Within-field Spatial Heterogeneity of Crop Growth from Multi-year Green Area Index Time Series Analysis. EO FOR AGRICULTURE UNDER PRESSURE (ESA-ESRIN FRASCATI, ITALY, du 20/05/2024 au 23/05/2024).

Harper, Kandice L. ; Lamarche, Céline ; Hartley, Andrew ; Peylin, Philippe ; Ottlé, Catherine ; Bastrikov, Vladislav ; San Martín, Rodrigo ; Bohnenstengel, Sylvia I. ; Kirches, Grit ; Boettcher, Martin ; Shevchuk, Roman ; Brockmann, Carsten ; Defourny, Pierre. A 29-year time series of annual 300 m resolution plant-functional-type maps for climate models. In: Earth System Science Data, Vol. 15, no.3, p. 1465-1499 (2023). doi:10.5194/essd-15-1465-2023. doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-15-1465-2023.

Gobin, Anne ; Sallah, Abdoul-Hamid Mohamed ; Curnel, Yannick ; Delvoye, Cindy ; Weiss, Marie ; Wellens, Joost ; Piccard, Isabelle ; Planchon, Viviane ; Tychon, Bernard ; Goffart, Jean-Pierre ; Defourny, Pierre. Crop Phenology Modelling Using Proximal and Satellite Sensor Data. In: Remote Sensing, Vol. 15, no.8, p. 2090 (2023). doi:10.3390/rs15082090. doi:https://doi.org/10.3390/rs15082090.

Schulthess, Urs ; Rodrigues, Francelino ; Taymans, Matthieu ; Bellemans, Nicolas ; Bontemps, Sophie ; Ortiz-Monasterio, Ivan ; Gérard, Bruno ; Defourny, Pierre. Optimal Sample Size and Composition for Crop Classification with Sen2-Agri’s Random Forest Classifier. In: Remote Sensing, Vol. 15, no.3, p. 608 (2023). doi:10.3390/rs15030608.

Culot, Alexis ; Ramnauth, Nylan ; Bouchat, Jean ; Dobbelaere, Thomas ; Defourny, Pierre ; Heggy, Essam ; Hanert, Emmanuel. An Integrated Oil Spill Planning, Monitoring and Forecasting System for the Arabian Gulf. 2023 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS 2023) (Pasadena, California, USA, du 16/07/2023 au 21/07/2023). In: IGARSS 2023 - 2023 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2023. 9798350320091.

Buron, Maxime ; Defourny, Pierre ; Jeannerod, Léna ; Jacquemart, Anne-Laure ; Radoux, Julien ; Agnan, Yannick. Combined influences of floral resources, soil environment, and land use on plant-bee interactions at the landscape scale. ELI-Day (Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium, 25/05/2023).

Bouchat, Jean ; Deffense, Quentin ; Liao, Yuejiao ; Song, Ying ; Saelens, Sébastien ; Su, Qiaomei ; Fan, Jinlong ; Defourny, Pierre. Leaf area index retrieval in Shanxi province of China using Sentinel-1 data. 2023 Dragon 5 Symposium (Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, P.R. China, du 11/09/2023 au 15/12/2023).

Troiani, Maxime ; Bouchat, Jean ; Leclère, Louise ; Curnel, Yannick ; Vermeulen, Philippe ; Stevens, François ; Scaut, Benoit ; Malice, Damien ; Baeten, Vincent ; Chamberland, Nicolas ; Planchon, Viviane ; Defourny, Pierre. PRISMA and EnMAP comparison in the context of wheat nitrogen status assessment. 14th Workshop on Hyperspectral Image and Signal Processing: Evolution in Remote Sensing (WHISPERS 2023) (Athens, Greece, du 31/10/2023 au 02/11/2023).

Radoux, Julien ; Bourdouxhe, Axel ; Coppée, Thomas ; De Vroey, Mathilde ; Dufrêne, Marc ; Defourny, Pierre. A Consistent Land Cover Map Time Series at 2 m Spatial Resolution—The LifeWatch 2006-2015-2018-2019 Dataset for Wallonia. In: Data, Vol. 8, no.1, p. 13 (2022). doi:10.3390/data8010013.

Bouchat, Jean ; Tronquo, Emma ; Orban, Anne ; Verhoest, Niko E.C. ; Defourny, Pierre. Assessing the Potential of Fully Polarimetric Mono- and Bistatic SAR Acquisitions in L-band for Crop and Soil Monitoring. In: IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, (2022). doi:10.1109/jstars.2022.3162911.

De Vroey, Mathilde ; Radoux, Julien ; Defourny, Pierre. Classifying Sub-Parcel Grassland Management Practices by Optical and Microwave Remote Sensing. In: Remote Sensing, Vol. 15, no.1, p. 181 (2022). doi:10.3390/rs15010181.

Bouchat, Jean ; Tronquo, Emma ; Orban, Anne ; Neyt, Xavier ; Verhoest, Niko E.C. ; Defourny, Pierre. Green Area Index and Soil Moisture Retrieval in Maize Fields Using Multi-Polarized C- and L-Band SAR Data and the Water Cloud Model. In: Remote Sensing, Vol. 14, no. 10, p. 2496 (2022). doi:10.3390/rs14102496.

Lamarche, Céline ; Bogaert, Patrick ; Defourny, Pierre. Hidden Markov Models for Annual Land Cover Mapping — Increasing Temporal Consistency and Completeness. In: IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 60, p. 1-14 (2022). doi:10.1109/TGRS.2021.3123738.

Goffart, D. ; Abdallah, F. Ben ; Curnel, Y. ; Planchon, V. ; Defourny, Pierre ; Goffart, J.-P.. In-Season Potato Crop Nitrogen Status Assessment from Satellite and Meteorological Data. In: Potato Research, Vol. Online (2022), no. 65, p. 729–755 (2022). doi:10.1007/s11540-022-09545-0.

De Vroey, Mathilde ; de Vendictis, Laura ; Zavagli, Massimo ; Bontemps, Sophie ; Heymans, Diane ; Radoux, Julien ; Koetz, Benjamin ; Defourny, Pierre. Mowing detection using Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 time series for large scale grassland monitoring. In: Remote Sensing of Environment, Vol. 280, p. 113145 (2022). doi:10.1016/j.rse.2022.113145.

Kayad, Ahmed ; Rodrigues, Francelino A. ; Naranjo, Sergio ; Sozzi, Marco ; Pirotti, Francesco ; Marinello, Francesco ; Schulthess, Urs ; Defourny, Pierre ; Gerard, Bruno ; Weiss, Marie. Radiative transfer model inversion using high-resolution hyperspectral airborne imagery – Retrieving maize LAI to access biomass and grain yield. In: Field Crops Research, Vol. 282, p. 108449 (2022). doi:10.1016/j.fcr.2022.108449.

De Canniere, Simon ; Vereecken, Harry ; Defourny, Pierre ; Jonard, François. Remote Sensing of Instantaneous Drought Stress at Canopy Level Using Sun-Induced Chlorophyll Fluorescence and Canopy Reflectance. In: Remote Sensing, Vol. 14, no.11, p. 2642 (2022). doi:10.3390/rs14112642. doi:https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14112642.

Tronquo, Emma ; Lievens, Hans ; Bouchat, Jean ; Defourny, Pierre ; Baghdadi, Nicolas ; Verhoest, Niko E.C.. Soil Moisture Retrieval Using Multistatic L-Band SAR and Effective Roughness Modeling. In: Remote Sensing, Vol. 14, no. 7, p. 1650 (2022). doi:10.3390/rs14071650.

Dalimier, Juliette ; Frédéric Achard ; Delhez, Baptiste ; Baudouin Desclée ; Clément Bourgoin ; Hugh Eva ; Sylvie Gourlet-Fleury ; Hansen, Matthew Christian ; Jean- Paul Kibambe ; Frédéric Mortier ; Pierre Ploton ; Maxime Réjou-Méchain ; Christelle Vancutsem ; Jungers, Quentin ; Defourny, Pierre. Répartition des types de forêts et évolution selon leur affectation.. In: Juliette Dalimier, Frédéric Achard, Baptiste Delhez, et al., Répartition des types de forêts et évolution selon leur affectation, CIFOR, 2022, p. 32. 978-602-1504-93-2.

Bouchat, Jean ; Tronquo, Emma ; Orban, Anne ; Neyt, Xavier ; Verhoest, Niko E.C. ; Defourny, Pierre. A Machine Learning Approach for Maize Green Area Index Retrieval from Multi-Polarization C- and L-band Synthetic Aperture Radar Data. 2022 Living Planet Symposium (Bonn, Germany, du 23/05/2022 au 27/05/2022).

Radoux, Julien ; Jeannerod, Léna ; Buron, Maxime ; Agnan, Yannick ; Defourny, Pierre ; Jacquemart, Anne-Laure. ARC Project NUTRIBEE, pollen nutritional quality as a critical link between landscape, biodiversity, and bee health. CONFERENCE ON INTERIDISCIPLINARY AND TRANSDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT (Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium, du 24/11/22 au 25/11/22).

Castin, Thibault ; Bouchat, Jean ; Defourny, Pierre. Monitoring of maize dry matter content using Sentinel-1 time series for harvest decision. 2022 Living Planet Symposium (Bonn, Germany, du 23/05/2022 au 27/05/2022).

Delhez, Baptiste. Monthly Monitoring of Forest Loss in the African Tropical Forest Using C-Band SAR Sentinel-1 Data. Living Plant Symposium - LPS2022 (Bonn, du 23/05/2022 au 27/05/2022).

R., Eba'a Atyi ; F., Hiol Hiol ; G., Lescuyer ; Defourny, Pierre. Les forêts du bassin du Congo : État des Forêts 2021 (), 2022. 474 p.

De Cannière, Simon ; Herbst, Michael ; Vereecken, Harry ; Defourny, Pierre ; Jonard, François. Constraining water limitation of photosynthesis in a crop growth model with sun-induced chlorophyll fluorescence. In: Remote Sensing of Environment, Vol. 267, p. 112722 (2021). doi:10.1016/j.rse.2021.112722.

Fan, Jinlong ; Zhang, Xiaoyu ; Zhao, Chunliang ; Qin, Zhihao ; De Vroey, Mathilde ; Defourny, Pierre. Evaluation of Crop Type Classification with Different High Resolution Satellite Data Sources. In: Remote Sensing, Vol. 13, no.5, p. 911 (2021). doi:10.3390/rs13050911.

Goffart, Dimitri ; Curnel, Yannick ; Planchon, Viviane ; Goffart, Jean-Pierre ; Defourny, Pierre. Field-scale assessment of Belgian winter cover crops biomass based on Sentinel-2 data. In: European Journal of Agronomy, Vol. 126, p. 126278 (2021). doi:10.1016/j.eja.2021.126278.

De Vroey, Mathilde ; Radoux, Julien ; Defourny, Pierre. Grassland Mowing Detection Using Sentinel-1 Time Series: Potential and Limitations. In: Remote Sensing, Vol. 13, no. 3 (2021) (2021). doi:10.3390/rs13030348 (Soumis).

Jolivot, Audrey ; Lebourgeois, Valentine ; Leroux, Louise ; Ameline, Mael ; Andriamanga, Valérie ; Bellón, Beatriz ; Castets, Mathieu ; Crespin-Boucaud, Arthur ; Defourny, Pierre ; Diaz, Santiana ; Dieye, Mohamadou ; Dupuy, Stéphane ; Ferraz, Rodrigo ; Gaetano, Raffaele ; Gely, Marie ; Jahel, Camille ; Kabore, Bertin ; Lelong, Camille ; le Maire​​​​​​​, Guerric ; Lo Seen, Danny ; Muthoni, Martha ; Ndao, Babacar ; Newby, Terry ; de Oliveira Santos, Cecília Lira Melo ; Rasoamalala, Eloise ; Simoes, Margareth ; Thiaw, Ibrahima ; timmermans, Alice ; Tran, Annelise ; Bégué, Agnès. Harmonized in situ datasets for agricultural land use mapping and monitoring in tropical countries. In: Earth System Science Data, Vol. 13, no.12, p. 5951-5967 (2021). doi:10.18167/DVN1/P7OLAP.

Beriaux, Emilie ; Jago, Alban ; Lucau-Danila, Cozmin ; Planchon, Viviane ; Defourny, Pierre. Sentinel-1 Time Series for Crop Identification in the Framework of the Future CAP Monitoring. In: Remote sensing, Vol. 13, no. 14 (2021) (2021). doi:10.3390/rs13142785.

Bouchat, Jean ; Tronquo, Emma ; Lievens, Hans ; Verhoest, Niko E.C. ; Defourny, Pierre. Assessing the potential of fully-polarimetric simultaneous mono- and bistatic airborne SAR acquisitions in L-band for applications in agriculture and hydrology. IEEE 2021 International Geoscience & Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS 2021) (Brussels, Belgium, du 12/07/2021 au 16/07/2021). In: 2021 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium IGARSS. doi:10.1109/IGARSS47720.2021.9554673.

Bouchat, Jean ; Defourny, Pierre. Effect of row orientation on maize green area index retrieval from L-band synthetic aperture radar imagery. IEEE 2021 International Geoscience & Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS 2021) (Brussels, Belgium, du 12/07/2021 au 16/07/2021). In: 2021 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium IGARSS. doi:10.1109/IGARSS47720.2021.9554513.

De Canniere, Simon ; Jonard, François ; Defourny, Pierre. Tracking water limitation in photosynthesis with sun-induced chlorophyll fluorescence. ELI-Day 2021 (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, du 26/05/2021 au 28/05/2021).