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STEF LHERMITTE CV REMOTE SENSING SCIENTIST
Stef LhermitteREMOTE SENSING SCIENTIST
ProfileRemote sensing scientist with specific interest in the use of multi-source remote sensing andland surface modelling to assess cryosphere atmosphere and ecosystem dynamics
Stef Lhermitte is assistant professor Geoscience amp Remote Sensing at TUDelft after obtaininga PhD in bioscience engineering at KULeuven Belgium and several international post-docspositions (CEAZAKNMI KULeuven)whereheworkedonbroad rangeof remote sensing tech-nologies in a variety of applications ranging from cryospheric and atmospheric sciences toecology and hydrology Now he focuses on the development of innovative remote sensingmethods for assessing land-atmosphere interactions in order to assess the effect of climate(change) on the cryosphere ecosystem dynamics the hydrological cycle sea level rise etcand their feedbacks on (future) climate
Stef Lhermitte (co-)authored 56 publications in international and peer-reviewed scientificjournals included in Web of Science and has an H-index of 2427 He is firstsecond authoron 20 publications
ScopusGoogle April 30 2019
Current positionAssistant professor Geoscience amp Remote SensingDelft University of Technology (TUDelft)Department of Geoscience amp Remote Sensing (GRS)
Education2016 Big data management analysis visualization and legal aspects
GHENT UNIVERSITY BELGIUM
2012 Ice sheets and glaciers in the climate system Karthaus summer schoolINSTITUTE FOR MARINE AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH (IMAU) NETHERLANDS
2004-2008 PhD in bioscience engineeringKULEUVEN BELGIUMDissertation Vegetation regrowthmonitoring after wildfires based on satellite time seriessimilarity
1999ndash2002 MSc in engineering of forest and landmanagement [with highdistinction]KULEUVEN BELGIUMDissertation Improving soil salinity management in sugarcane using earth observation
1997ndash1999 BSc (candidate) in bio-engineering [with distinction]UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP BELGIUM
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(+32) 498 569351
Room 222
Stevinweg 12600GA DelftNetherlands
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STEF LHERMITTE CV REMOTE SENSING SCIENTIST
Experience
2016-now Assistant professorDEPT OF GEOSCIENCE amp REMOTE SENSING TUDELFT NETHERLANDSAssistant professor focusing on the combined use of multi-source remote sensing and land surfacemodelling to assesscryosphere atmosphere and ecosystem dynamics
2013-2016 FWO post-doctoral research fellowDEPT OF EARTH amp ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE KULEUVEN BELGIUMPostdoctoral research fellow combining multi-source remote sensing data and land surface models to assesscryosphere atmosphere and ecosystem dynamics
2011-2013 Post-doctoral researcherROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE (KNMI) NETHERLANDSPostdoctoral researcher focusing on the improvement of the albedo parametrisation in the regional climate modelRACMO using optical satellite remote sensing data (in cooperation with IMAU Netherlands)
2008-2010 Remote sensing scientist amp head of the Remote sensing and GIS laboratoryCEAZA CENTRO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS EN ZONAS AacuteRIDAS CHILEHead of the Remote Sensing and GIS laboratory and remote sensing scientist working on use of multi-source satelliteimagery to study hydrological snowice and ecological processes in the arid zones of north-central Chile
2008 Post-doctoral researcherM3-BIORES KULEUVEN BELGIUMPostdoc researcher focusing on the development of a hierarchical multi-scale spatio-temporal segmentation softwaretool (in cooperation with CSIRO Australia)
2002-2008 Research associate and PhD studentM3-BIORES KULEUVEN BELGIUMResearch associate focusing on the development of new methodologies to assess ecosystem dynamics after wild firesbased on satellite remote sensing time series data
Publications
Articles in peer reviewed journals
55 Datta R T Tedesco M Fettweis X Agosta C Lhermitte S Lenaerts J T M Wever N (2019) ldquoThe Effect of FoehnInducedSurface Melt on Firn Evolution Over the Northeast Antarctic Peninsulardquo Geophysical Research Letters 46 (7) 3822ndash3831 doi 10 1029 2018GL080845
54 Gossart A Palm S P Souverijns N Lenaerts J T M Gorodetskaya I V Lhermitte S Lipzig N P M (2019) ldquoBlowing snowin East Antarctica comparison of ground-based and space-borne retrievalsrdquo The Cryosphere Discussions doi 105194tc-2019-25
53 Reacuteveillet M MacDonell S Gascoin S Kinnard C Lhermitte S Schaffer N (2019) ldquoUncertainties in the spatial distributionof snow sublimation in the semi-arid Andes of Chilerdquo The Cryosphere Discussions doi 105194tc-2019-31
52 Souverijns N Gossart A Lhermitte S Gorodetskaya I V Grazioli J Berne A Duran-Alarcon C Boudevillain B GenthonC Scarchilli C Van Lipzig N P (2018) ldquoEvaluation of the CloudSat surface snowfall product over Antarctica using ground-basedprecipitation radarsrdquo The CryosphereCryosphere 12 3775ndash3789 doi 105194tc-12-3775-2018
51 SouverijnsN Gossart A Gorodetskaya I V Lhermitte SMangold A LaffineurQ Delcloo A vanLipzigNPM (2018) ldquoHowdoes the ice sheet surfacemass balance relate to snowfall Insights froma ground-based precipitation radar in East Antarcticardquo TheCryosphere 12 (6) 1987ndash2003 doi 105194tc-12-1987-2018
50 Noeumll B van de Berg W J Lhermitte S Wouters B Schaffer N van den Broeke M R (2018) ldquoSix decades of glacial massloss in the Canadian Arctic Archipelagordquo Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface 123 (6) 1430ndash1449 doi 1010292017JF004304
49 van Wessem J M van de Berg W J Noeumll B P Y van Meijgaard E Amory C Birnbaum G Jakobs C L Kruumlger K LenaertsJ TM Lhermitte S Ligtenberg S RM Medley B Reijmer C H vanTricht K Trusel L D vanUlft L HWouters BWuite JvandenBroekeM R (2018) ldquoModelling the climateand surfacemass balanceof polar ice sheets usingRACMO2ndashPart 2 Antarctica(1979ndash2016)rdquo The Cryosphere 12 (4) 1479ndash1498 doi 105194tc-12-1479-2018
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48 Noeumll B van de Berg W J van Wessem J M van Meijgaard E van As D Lenaerts J T M Lhermitte S Kuipers MunnekeP Smeets C J P P van Ulft L H van de Wal R S W van den Broeke M R (2018) ldquoModelling the climate and surface massbalance of polar ice sheets using RACMO2 ndash Part 1 Greenland (1958ndash2016)rdquo The Cryosphere 12 (3) 811ndash831 doi 105194tc-12-811-2018
47 Gossart A Souverijns N Gorodetskaya I V Lhermitte S Lenaerts J T Schween J H Mangold A Laffineur Q Van LipzigN P (2017) ldquoBlowing snow detection from ground-based ceilometers Application to East Antarcticardquo Cryosphere 11 (6) 2755ndash2772doi 105194tc-11-2755-2017
46 Thiery W Gudmundsson L Bedka K Semazzi F Lhermitte S Willems P Van Lipzig N Seneviratne S (2017) ldquoEarlywarnings of hazardous thunderstorms over Lake VictoriardquoEnvironmental Research Letters 12 (7) 12 074012 doi 1010881748-9326aa7521
45 Souverijns N Gossart A Lhermitte S Gorodetskaya I Kneifel S Maahn M Bliven F Van Lipzig N P M (2017) ldquoEsti-mating radar reflectivity - snowfall rate relationships and their uncertainties over Antarctica by combining disdrometer and radarobservationsrdquo Atmospheric research 196 211ndash223 doi 101016jatmosres201706001
44 Lenaerts J Van Tricht K Lhermitte S LrsquoEcuyer T (2017) ldquoPolar clouds and radiation in satellite observations reanalysesand climate modelsrdquo Geophysical Research Letters 44 doi 1010022016GL072242
43 Noeumll B van de Berg W J Lhermitte S Wouters B Machguth H Howat I Citterio M Moholdt G Lenaerts J T M van denBroekeMR (2017) ldquoA tippingpoint in refreezingacceleratesmass lossofGreenlandrsquosglaciersand ice capsrdquoNatureCommunicationsdoi 101038ncomms14730
42 Lenaerts J T M Lhermitte S Drews R Ligtenberg S R M Berger S Helm V Smeets C J P P van den Broeke M Rvan de Berg W J Eijkelboom M Eisen O Pattyn F (2017) ldquoMeltwater produced by wind-albedo interaction stored in an EastAntarctic ice shelfrdquoNature Climate Change 7 58-62 Joint first author doi 101038NCLIMATE3180
41 Steger C R Reijmer C H van den Broeke M R Wever N Forster R R Koenig L S Kuipers-Munneke P Lehning M Lher-mitte S Ligtenberg S R M Miegravege C Noeumll B P Y (2017) ldquoFirn meltwater retention on the Greenland Ice Sheet a modelcomparisonrdquo Frontiers in Earth Science 5 (3) doi 103389feart201700003
40 DeKeersmaecker W Lhermitte S Hill M J Tits L Coppin P Somers B (2017) ldquoAssessment of regional vegetation responseto climate anomalies a case study for Australia using GIMMS NDVI time series between 1982 and 2006rdquo Remote Sensing 9 (1) 34 doi103390rs9010034
39 De Keersmaecker W Rooijen N Lhermitte S Tits L Schamineacutee J Coppin P Honnay O Somers B (2016) ldquoSpecies-rich semi-natural grasslands have a higher resistance but a lower resilience than intensively managed agricultural grasslands inresponse to climate anomaliesrdquo Journal of Applied Ecology 53 (2) 430ndash439 doi 1011111365-266412595
38 Docquier D Thiery W Lhermitte S Lipzig N (2016) ldquoMulti-year wind dynamics around Lake Tanganyikardquo Climate Dynamics47 (9) 3191ndash3202 doi 101007s00382-016-3020-z
37 Noeumll B Berg W J Machguth H Lhermitte S Howat I Fettweis X Van Den Broeke M R (2016) ldquoA daily 1-km resolutiondataset of downscaled Greenland ice sheet surface mass balance (1958-2015)rdquo Cryosphere 10 2361ndash2377 doi 105194tc-10-2361-2016
36 Van Tricht K Lhermitte S Gorodetskaya I V Van Lipzig N P M (2016) ldquoImproving satellite-retrieved surface radiative fluxesin polar regions using a smart sampling approachrdquo Cryosphere 10 2379ndash2397 doi 105194tc-10-2379-2016
35 Hawinkel P Thiery W Lhermitte S Swinnen E Verbist B Van Orshoven J Muys B (2016) ldquoVegetation response to pre-cipitation variability in East Africa controlled by biogeographical factorsrdquo Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences 121 (9) 2422ndash2444 doi 1010022016JG003436
34 Thiery W Davin E L Seneviratne S I Bedka K Lhermitte S Van Lipzig N P M (2016) ldquoHazardous thunderstorm intensi-fication over Lake VictoriardquoNature Communications 7 12786 doi 101038ncomms12786
33 Hublart P Ruelland D Garcıa de Cortaacutezar-Atauri I Gascoin S Lhermitte S Ibacache A (2016) ldquoReliability of lumpedhydrological modeling in a semi-arid mountainous catchment facing water-use changesrdquo Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 20(9) 3691ndash3717 doi 105194hess-20-3691-2016
32 Van Tricht K Lhermitte S Lenaerts J Gorodetskaya I LrsquoEcuyer T Noeumll B Van Den Broeke M Turner D Van Lipzig N(2016) ldquoClouds enhance Greenland ice sheet meltwater runoffrdquoNature Communications 7 10266 doi 101038ncomms10266
31 Thiery W Davin E L Panitz H-J Demuzere M Lhermitte S Van Lipzig N (2015) ldquoThe Impact of the African Great Lakes onthe Regional Climaterdquo Journal of Climate 28 (10) 4061ndash4085 doi 101175JCLI-D-14-005651
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30 Hawinkel P Swinnen E Lhermitte S Verbist B Van Orshoven J Muys B (2015) ldquoA time series processing tool to extractclimate-driven interannual vegetation dynamics using Ensemble Empirical Mode Decomposition (EEMD)rdquo Remote Sensing of Environ-ment 169 375ndash389 doi 101016jrse201508024
29 Vanonckelen S Lhermitte S Van Rompaey A (2015) ldquoThe effect of atmospheric and topographic correction on pixel-basedimage composites Improved forest cover detection in mountainenvironmentsrdquo International Journal of Applied Earth Observation andGeoinformation 35 (PB) 320ndash328 doi 101016jjag201410006
28 De Keersmaecker W Lhermitte S Tits L Honnay O Somers B Coppin P (2015) ldquoA model quantifying global vegetationresistance and resilience to short-term climate anomalies and their relationship with vegetation coverrdquo Global Ecology and Biogeog-raphy 24 (5) 539ndash548 doi 101111geb12279
27 De Keersmaecker W Lhermitte S Tits L Honnay O Somers B Coppin P (2015) ldquoResilience and the reliability of spectralentropy to assess ecosystem stabilityrdquo Global Change Biology doi 101111gcb12799
26 Bertin A Alvarez E Gouin N Gianoli E Montecinos S Lek S Gascoin S Lhermitte S (2015) ldquoEffects ofwind-driven spatialstructure and environmental heterogeneity on high-altitude wetland macroinvertebrate assemblages with contrasting dispersalmodesrdquo Freshwater Biology 60 (2) 297ndash310 doi 101111fwb12488
25 Maahn M Burgard C Crewell S Gorodetskaya I Kneifel S Lhermitte S Van Tricht K Van Lipzig N (2014) ldquoHowdoes thespaceborne radar blind zone affect derived surface snowfall statistics in polar regionsrdquo Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres119 (24) 13604ndash13620 doi 1010022014JD022079
24 Lhermitte S Abermann J Kinnard C (2014) ldquoAlbedo over rough snow and ice surfacesrdquo Cryosphere 8 (3) 1069ndash1086 doi 105194tc-8-1069-2014
23 Van Tricht K Gorodetskaya I Lhermitte S Turner D Schween J Van Lipzig N (2014) ldquoAn improved algorithm for polarcloud-base detection by ceilometer over the ice sheetsrdquo Atmospheric Measurement Techniques 7 (5) 1153ndash1167 doi 105194amt-7-1153-2014
22 Vanonckelen S Lhermitte S Balthazar V Van Rompaey A (2014) ldquoPerformance of atmospheric and topographic correctionmethods on Landsat imagery in mountain areasrdquo International Journal of Remote Sensing 35 (13) 4952ndash4972 doi 101080014311612014933280
21 De Keersmaecker W Lhermitte S Honnay O Farifteh J Somers B Coppin P (2014) ldquoHow tomeasure ecosystem stabilityAn evaluation of the reliability of stability metrics based on remote sensing time series across the major global ecosystemsrdquo GlobalChange Biology 20 (7) 2149ndash2161 doi 101111gcb12495
20 Vanonckelen S Lhermitte S Van Rompaey A (2013) ldquoThe effect of atmospheric and topographic correctionmethods on landcover classification accuracyrdquo International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 24 (1) 9ndash21 doi 101016jjag201302003
19 Gascoin S Lhermitte S Kinnard C Bortels K Liston G (2013) ldquoWind effects on snow cover in Pascua-Lama Dry Andes ofChilerdquo Advances in Water Resources 55 25ndash39 doi 101016jadvwatres201211013
18 Van Angelen J Lenaerts J Lhermitte S Fettweis X KuipersMunneke P Van Den Broeke M VanMeijgaard E P Smeets C(2012) ldquoSensitivity of Greenland Ice Sheet surfacemass balance to surface albedo parameterization A studywith a regional climatemodelrdquo Cryosphere 6 (5) 1175ndash1186 doi 105194tc-6-1175-2012
17 Veraverbeke S VerstraetenW Lhermitte S VanDeKerchove R Goossens R (2012) ldquoAssessment of post-fire changes in landsurface temperature and surface albedo and their relation with fireburn severity usingmultitemporal MODIS imageryrdquo InternationalJournal of Wildland Fire 21 (3) 243ndash256 doi 101071WF10075
16 Van De Kerchove R Lhermitte S Veraverbeke S Goossens R (2012) ldquoSpatio-temporal variability in remotely sensed landsurface temperature and its relationshipwith physiographic variables in the Russian AltayMountainsrdquo International Journal of AppliedEarth Observation and Geoinformation 20 (1) 4ndash19 doi 101016jjag201109007
15 Lhermitte S Verbesselt J Verstraeten W Coppin P (2011) ldquoA comparison of time series similarity measures for classificationand change detection of ecosystem dynamicsrdquo Remote Sensing of Environment 115 (12) 3129ndash3152 doi 101016jrse201106020
14 Gascoin S Kinnard C Ponce R Lhermitte S MacDonell S Rabatel A (2011) ldquoGlacier contribution to streamflow in twoheadwaters of the Huasco River Dry Andes of Chilerdquo Cryosphere 5 (4) 1099ndash1113 doi 105194tc-5-1099-2011
13 Veraverbeke S Lhermitte S Verstraeten W Goossens R (2011) ldquoEvaluation of prepost-fire differenced spectral indices forassessing burn severity in a mediterranean environment with landsat thematic mapperrdquo International Journal of Remote Sensing 32(12) 3521ndash3537 doi 10108001431161003752430
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STEF LHERMITTE CV REMOTE SENSING SCIENTIST
12 Veraverbeke S Lhermitte S VerstraetenW Goossens R (2011) ldquoA time-integratedMODIS burn severity assessment using themulti-temporal differenced normalized burn ratio (dNBRMT)rdquo International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 13(1) 52ndash58 doi 101016jjag201006006
11 Lhermitte S Verbesselt J VerstraetenW Veraverbeke S Coppin P (2011) ldquoAssessing intra-annual vegetation regrowth afterfire using the pixel based regeneration indexrdquo ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing 66 (1) 17ndash27 doi 101016jisprsjprs201008004
10 Veraverbeke S Lhermitte S Verstraeten W Goossens R (2010) ldquoThe temporal dimension of differenced Normalized BurnRatio (dNBR) fireburn severity studies The case of the large 2007 Peloponnese wildfires in Greecerdquo Remote Sensing of Environment114 (11) 2548ndash2563 doi 101016jrse201005029
9 Veraverbeke S Verstraeten W Lhermitte S Goossens R (2010) ldquoEvaluating Landsat Thematic Mapper spectral indices forestimating burn severity of the 2007 Peloponnese wildfires in Greecerdquo International Journal of Wildland Fire 19 (5) 558ndash569 doi 101071WF09069
8 Lhermitte S Verbesselt J Verstraeten W Coppin P (2010) ldquoA pixel based regeneration index using time series similarity andspatial contextrdquo Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing 76 (6) 673ndash682
7 Verstraeten W Vermeulen B Stuckens J Lhermitte S Zande D Ranst M Coppin P (2010) ldquoWebcams for bird detectionandmonitoring A demonstration studyrdquo Sensors 10 (4) 3480ndash3503 doi 103390s100403480
6 Veraverbeke S Verstraeten W Lhermitte S Goossens R (2010) ldquoIllumination effects on the differenced Normalized BurnRatiorsquos optimality for assessing fire severityrdquo International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 12 (1) 60ndash70 doi 101016jjag200910004
5 Delalieux S Auwerkerken A Verstraeten W Somers B Valcke R Lhermitte S Keulemans J Coppin P (2009) ldquoHy-perspectral reflectance and fluorescence imaging to detect scab induced stress in apple leavesrdquo Remote Sensing 1 (4) 858ndash874 doi103390rs1040858
4 Somers B Delalieux S Verstraeten W Verbesselt J Lhermitte S Coppin P (2009) ldquoMagnitude- and shape-related featureintegration in hyperspectralmixture analysis tomonitorweeds in citrus orchardsrdquo IEEE Transactions onGeoscience and Remote Sensing47 (11) 3630ndash3642 doi 101109TGRS20092024207
3 Lhermitte S Verbesselt J Jonckheere I Nackaerts K Aardt J Verstraeten W Coppin P (2008) ldquoHierarchical image seg-mentation based on similarity of NDVI time seriesrdquo Remote Sensing of Environment 112 (2) 506ndash521 doi 101016jrse200705018
2 Verbesselt J Somers B Lhermitte S Jonckheere I Aardt J Coppin P (2007) ldquoMonitoringherbaceous fuelmoisture contentwith SPOT VEGETATION time-series for fire risk prediction in savanna ecosystemsrdquo Remote Sensing of Environment 108 (4) 357ndash368 doi101016jrse200611019
1 Verbesselt J Joumlnsson P Lhermitte S Van Aardt J Coppin P (2006) ldquoEvaluating satellite and climate data-derived indicesas fire risk indicators in savanna ecosystemsrdquo IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 44 (6) 1622ndash1632 doi 101109TGRS2005862262
Book chapters
2 Veraverbeke S Lhermitte S Verstraeten W Goossens R (2010)rdquoAssessing burn severity using satellite time seriesrdquo In ldquoMod-elling Monitoring and Management of Forest Fires IIrdquo pp 107ndash118 by Perona G and CA Brebbia eds WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Envi-ronment doi 102495FIVA100101
1 Verbesselt J Joumlnsson P Lhermitte S Jonckheere I Aardt J Coppin P (2006)rdquoRelating time-series of meteorological andremote sensing indices to monitor vegetation moisture dynamicsrdquo In ldquoSignal and image processing for remote sensingrdquo pp 153ndash173 byChen C ed CRC Press University of Massachusetts North Darthmouth USA
Conference proceedings
15 De Keersmaecker W Lhermitte S Tits L Honnay O Coppin P Somers B (2015) ldquoTowards the large-scale assessmentof vegetation biomass production stabilityrdquoMultiTemp 2015 - 8th International Workshop on the Analysis of Multitemporal Remote SensingImages doi 101109Multi-Temp20157245764
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14 De Keersmaecker W Lhermitte S Tits L Honnay O Somers B Coppin P (2014) ldquoLinking NDVI and climate-based ecosys-tem stability with land cover in Europerdquo IGARSS 2014 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium 3938ndash3940 doi 101109IGARSS20146947346
13 De Keersmaecker W Lhermitte S Somers B Van Rooijen N Honnay O Schamineacutee J Farifteh J Coppin P (2013) ldquoThesensitivity of ecosystem stability measures derived from remote sensing time seriesrdquo ASPRS 2013 American Society for Photogrammetryand Remote Sensing Annual Conference 166ndash175
12 Vanonckelen S Lhermitte S Van Rompaey A Griffiths P (2013) ldquoIntegration of topographic correction in a pixel-basedcompositing algorithm in the Romanian Carpathiansrdquo MultiTemp 2013 - 7th International Workshop on the Analysis of Multi-TemporalRemote Sensing Images rdquoOur Dynamic Environmentrdquo doi 101109Multi-Temp20136866012
11 Veraverbeke S Goossens R VerstraetenW Lhermitte S (2009) ldquoCorrection of topographic effects influencing the differencedNormalized Burn Ratiorsquos optimality for estimating fire severityrdquo Proceedings of the VII International EARSeLWorkshop Advances in remoteSensing and GIS Applications in Forest Fire Managment Towards an operational use of remote sensing in forest fire management 271ndash276
10 Lhermitte S VerstraetenW Coppin P Verbesselt J (2008) ldquoSpatio-temporal segmentationbasedonsubsequencesof satelliteimage time seriesrdquo IGARSS 2008 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium vol 2 (1) doi 101109IGARSS20084779153
9 Somers B Delalieux S VerstraetenW Cools K Verbesselt J Lhermitte S Coppin P (2008) ldquoIntegration ofmagnitude andshape related features in hyperspectral mixture analysis to monitor weeds in citrus orchardsrdquo IGARSS 2008 International Geoscienceand Remote Sensing Symposium vol 1 (1) doi 101109IGARSS20084778857
8 Lhermitte S Verbesselt J Verstraeten W Coppin P (2007) ldquoAssessing vegetation regrowth after fire based on time series ofSPOT-vegetation datardquoMultiTemp 2007 - 4th International Workshop on the Analysis of Multi-Temporal Remote Sensing Images doi 101109MULTITEMP20074293050
7 Lhermitte S Van Aardt J Coppin P (2005) ldquoDevelopment of indicators of burning efficiency based on time series of SPOTVEGETATION datardquoMultiTemp 2005 - 3rd International Workshop on the Analysis of Multi-Temporal Remote Sensing Images vol 2005 125 doi101109AMTRSI20051469854
6 Lhermitte S Tips M Verbesselt J Jonckheere I Van Aardt J Coppin P (2005) ldquoDevelopment of indicators of vegetationrecovery based on time series analysis of SPOT VEGETATION datardquo Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineeringvol 5976 doi 10111712627625
5 Verbesselt J Somers B Lhermitte S Van Aardt J Jonckheere I Coppin P (2005) ldquoEstimating vegetation dryness to opti-mize fire risk assessment with SPOT VEGETATION satellite data in savanna ecosystemsrdquo Proceedings of SPIE - The International Societyfor Optical Engineering vol 5976 doi 10111712627682
4 Lhermitte S Verbesselt J Jonckheere I Van Aardt J Coppin P (2005) ldquoEco-climatic image segmentation based on timeseriesrdquo Communications in agricultural and applied biological sciences vol 70 (2) 165ndash168
3 Verbesselt J Somers B Lhermitte S Aardt J Jonckheere I Coppin P (2005) ldquoFire risk assessment in savanna ecosystemswith multi-temporal satellite datardquo Communications in agricultural and applied biological sciences vol 70 (2) 23ndash26
2 Lhermitte S Verbesselt J Nackaerts K Coppin P (2004) ldquoEco-climatic image segmentationbasedon time seriesrdquoASPRS 2013American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Annual Conference (0128)
1 Verbesselt J Lhermitte S Coppin P Eklundh L Joumlnsoon P (2004) ldquoBiophysical drought metrics extraction by time seriesanalysis of SPOT Vegetation datardquo IGARSS 2004 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium vol 3 2062ndash2065
Student support amp teachingPhD supervision amp support
2018-now Weiran LiTUDELFT NETHERLANDSRemote sensing of firn properties
2018-now Thore KauschTUDELFT NETHERLANDSModelling amp Remote Sensing of Antarctic SMB variability
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STEF LHERMITTE CV REMOTE SENSING SCIENTIST
2015-now Niels SouverijnsKULEUVEN BELGIUMThe role of cloud-aerosol interactions in East Antarcticarsquos surface mass balance
2015-now Alexandra GossartKULEUVEN BELGIUMThe role of snowdrift on local mass redistribution in East Antarctica
2012-2016 Kristof Van TrichtKULEUVEN BELGIUMUnderstanding the role of clouds in the climate of Greenland
2011-2015 Wanda De KeersmaeckerKULEUVEN BELGIUMQuantification of vegetation response to climate anomalies through remote sensing
2010-2014 Steven VanonckelenKULEUVEN BELGIUMDetection and analysis of forest cover dynamics with Landsat satellite imagery application in the Romanian CarpathianEcoregion
2008-2010 Sander VeraverbekeGHENT UNIVERSITY BELGIUMAssessing fire burn severity using spaceborne spectral indices
PhD committee memberDefended Robin Lombaert (KULeuven 2013) Roberto Chavez (WUR 2014) Junchao Shi (TUDelft 2017) EliakimHamunyela (WageningenUniversity 2017) SeyedHosseini Aria (TUDelft 2018) JonathanVanBeek (KULeuven 2012-2018)In progress VincentSmets (KULeuven 2015-now) BjoumlrnRombouts (KULeuven 2016-now) RaymondSellevold (TUDelft2017-now) Laura Muntjewerf (TUDelft 2017-now) Paulo Negri Bernardino (KULeuvenWageningen University 2017-now)
MScBSc supervision32 MScBSc students as supervisor co-promotor promotor Ruben Rommens (MSc KULeuven 2003-2004) Miet BoonenMatthias Tipps (MSc KULeuven 2004-2005) Sofie Vanzegbroek (MSc KULeuven 2005-2006) Kim Calders (MSc KULeu-ven 2007-2008) Mattias Vanderoost Gil Gram (MSc KULeuvenCEAZA 2008-2009) Kirsten Bortels (MSc KULeuvenCEAZA2010-2011) Joost Neujens (BSc KULeuven 2013-2014) Niels Tooth Camille Christiansen Joni Ceuppens KatrienWouters(MSc KULeuven 2014-2015) Lander Van Tricht (BSc KULeuven 2015-2016) Tobias Nauwelaers Thomas Antheunis (MScKULeuven 2015-2016) Merve Guumlnes (BSc TU Delft 2016-2017) Egli Michailidou (MSc TU Delft 2017) Eva van der KooijNajoua Essaf Tristan Keulemans (BSc TUDelft 2017) Maaike Izeboud (MSc TUDelft 2018) Annelies Voordendag (MScTUDelft 2018) Ruben Egbers (MSc TUDelft 2018) Job Rosier (MSc TUDelft 2018) Weiran Li (MSc TUDelft 2018) DanieumllKersbergen (MSc TUDelft 2018) Daan Ris (BSc TUDelft 2018) Max Felius (BSc TUDelft 2018) Brendan Scherpenisse(MSc TUDelft 2018) Coco Antonissen (MSc TUDelft 2018) Dirk Van der Valk (MSc TUDelft 2018-2018) Kevin Groot (MScTUDelft 2018-2019) Renske Free (BSc TUDelft 2018) Joseph Heywood (MSc TUDelft 2018-2019) Manish Kharagjitsing(MSc TUDelft 2019) Geerten van der Zalm (MSc TUDelft 2019) Oana Garbasevschi (MSc TUDelft 2019) Thijs van Esch(MSc TUDelft 2019) Huub Ackermans (BSc TUDelft 2019)
Teaching
2018-2019 Cryosphere remote sensing amp modellingMSC GEOSCIENCE amp REMOTE SENSING TUDELFT NETHERLANDSLecturer
2018-2019 Cryosphere remote sensing amp modellingBSC APPLIED TUDELFT NETHERLANDSLecturer
2018-2019 Big geo-data amp machine learning [CIE5603 Advanced project on GRS]MSC GEOSCIENCE amp REMOTE SENSING TUDELFT NETHERLANDSCoordinator + responsible lecturer
2017-2018 Simulation amp visualisation [CIE4604]MSC GEOSCIENCE amp REMOTE SENSING TUDELFT NETHERLANDSLecturer on Remote sensing data processing on big geo-data platforms
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2017-2018 Geodesy amp Remote Sensing [CIE4606]MSC GEOSCIENCE amp REMOTE SENSING TUDELFT NETHERLANDSLecturer on radiative transfer modelling
2016-2018 Ice snow amp climate change [CIE4602]MSC GEOSCIENCE amp REMOTE SENSING TUDELFT NETHERLANDSLecturer of remote sensing topics
2016-2018 Introduction to geophysics amp remote sensing [AESB1440]BSC APPLIED EARTH SCIENCES TUDELFT NETHERLANDSLecturer of hyperspectral remote sensing topic
2016-2018 Spaceflight assignment [AE3536]BSC MINOR SPACEFLIGHT TUDELFT NETHERLANDSResponsible for 3 assignments for 9 students
2016-2018 Earth observation [CT3532]BSC MINOR SPACEFLIGHT TUDELFT NETHERLANDSCoordinator + responsible lecturer
2014-2016 Remote sensing of the atmosphereMSC IN GEOGRAPHY MSC IN EARTH OBSERVATION KULEUVEN BELGIUMCoordinator + responsible lecturer
2014-2016 Remote sensing climatological applicationsMSC IN BIOSCIENCE ENGINEERING KULEUVEN BELGIUMGuest lecture in Land Cover amp Land Use monitoring (coordinator Prof Somers B)
2014-2015 Remote sensing of the cryopshereMSC UTRECHT UNIVERSITY NETHERLANDSGuest lecture in Physics of Remote Sensing (coordinator Prof Houweling S)
2011-2014 Temporal image analysis techniquesMSC IN EARTH OBSERVATION KULEUVEN BELGIUMGuest lecture in Remote sensing of vegetative systems (coordinator Prof Coppin P)
2005-2007 Trend analysisADVANCED MSC IN EARTH OBSERVATION KULEUVEN BELGIUMGuest lecture in Vegetative canopy monitoring (coordinator Prof Coppin P)
2002-2005 Geographical information systems [Practical sessions]MSC IN ENGINEERING OF FOREST amp LAND MANAGEMENT KULEUVEN BELGIUMPractical sessions of Geographical Information Systems (coordinator Prof Coppin P(2002-2004) Prof Van Orshoven J(2005))
Grants amp fellowships
NWO GO Firn Assessing firn processes from multi-source satellite dataFUNDED BY NWO USER SUPPORT FOR SPACE RESEARCHPI
Mass2Ant East Antarctic surface mass balance in the Anthropocene observations and multi-scale modellingFUNDED BY BELSPO BRAIN NWOCo-PI and principal NWO-funded collaborator (4 years of PhD funding) on project of PI Goosse H (UCL)
PV-MEP TPS Snow monitoring using the Proba-V Mission Exploitation Platform (PV-MEP) ThirdParty ServicesFUNDED BY ESACo-PI and responsible for snowmonitoring work package
U-Turn Understanding turning points in dryland ecosystem functioningFUNDED BY BELSPO STEREO IIIInternational partner
Black amp bloom Microbial processes darken and accelerate the melting of the Greenland Ice SheetFUNDED BY NERCInternational collaborator on project of PIrsquos Tranter M and Bamber J (University Bristol)
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Benemelt Melting of Dronning Maud Land ice shelves a combined modelling and observa-tional approachFUNDED BY INBEV-LATOURCollaborator on project of PI Lenaerts J (Utrecht University)
Aerocloud How do aerosols and clouds affect the East Antarctic climateFUNDED BY BELSPO BRAINCollaborator on project of PI Van Lipzig N (KULeuven)
Aerocloud Antarctic precipitation clouds and their interplay with aerosols Combining ground-based remote sensing and regional climate modelingFUNDED BY FWOCollaborator on project of PI Van Lipzig N (KULeuven)
FWO post-doc fellowship Changes in surface properties of the Greenland ice sheet and their impact on climatemodelingFUNDED BY FWOPrincipal investigator
Fondecyt Regular 2011 Modelling the current and future hydrological contribution of glaciers and seasonalsnow in semi arid mountain catchmentsFUNDED BY FONDECYT (CHILE)International collaborator on project of PI Kinnard C (CEAZA)
Fondecyt Iniciacion 2009 The introduction of fusion techniques to improve the determination of snow coverproperties based on remote sensing imageryFUNDED BY FONDECYT (CHILE)Principal investigator
Planet Action Spatio-temporal changes in glacier surface facies and ablation morphology in theNorte Chico region ChileFUNDED BY SPOT IMAGEPrincipal investigator
Ecoseg-SR01108 Development of a spatio-temporal segmentation algorithm for satellite time seriesto monitor forest conditionFUNDED BY BELSPO STEREO IIInvestigator on project of PI Prof Coppin P (KULeuven)
Glovex-SR1681 Assessment of vegetation regrowth by satellite remote sensingFUNDED BY BELSPO STEREO IIInvestigator on project of PI Prof Coppin P (KULeuven)
Scientific committees amp reviewsCo-convernorship
EGU 2018 Remote sensing of the cryosphere [CR21]EGU GENERAL ASSEMBLY 2018 VIENNA AUSTRIACo-convenor
EGU 2017 Remote sensing of the cryosphere [CR21]EGU GENERAL ASSEMBLY 2017 VIENNA AUSTRIAConvenor
EGU 2016 Remote sensing of the cryosphere [CR21]EGU GENERAL ASSEMBLY 2016 VIENNA AUSTRIAConvenor
EGU 2015 Remote sensing of polar snow and ice [CR21]EGU GENERAL ASSEMBLY 2015 VIENNA AUSTRIA 12 APRIL ndash 17 APRILCo-convenor
EGU 2014 Remote sensing of the cryosphere [CR21]EGU GENERAL ASSEMBLY 2014 VIENNA AUSTRIA 28 APRIL ndash 2 MAYCo-convenor
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Multitemp 2007 Fourth International Workshop on the Analysis of Multitemporal Remote Sensing ImagesMULTITEMP 2007 LEUVEN BELGIUM 18-20 JULYMember of the organisation committee
Reviews forNatureGeoscience TheCryosphere RemoteSensingof Environment Journal of Glaciology Scientific Reports IEEETrans-actions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Global Ecology andBiogeography Photogrammetric Engineering amp Remote Sensing Journal of Selected Topics in Applied EarthObservationsand Remote Sensing Remote Sensing International Journal of Remote Sensing Biogeosciences Atmospheric ScienceLetters Journal of Arid Environments Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics Geocarto International International Journalof Geographical Information Science Biosystems Engineering EARSeL eProceedings Sensors Scientia Agricola Ecologi-cal Modeling Annals of Forest Science NSF Fondecyt NWO EUFAR
Editorial work
2018-now The CryosphereEDITOR Editorial Board
2018-2019 Remote Sensing Special IssueRemote Sensing of Glaciers at Global and Regional ScalesGUEST EDITOR Special issue website
Press amp outreachPress
2019 Brunt ice shelfONLINE PRESSBBC Fortune Earther Business Insider Het LaatsteNieuws HetNieuwsblad DeLimburger Ingr Stuttgarter
2019 Climate changeWRITTEN PRESS Volkskrant
2019 Pine Island GlacierONLINE PRESS Atlas Obscura
2018 Larsen C square icebergONLINE PRESSMashable VRT NWS iNews
2018 Pine Island Glacier calvingONLINE PRESS The Weather Channel Mashable Quartz Scientific American Live Science Science Alert DailyBeast The Daily Mail etc
2018 Vavilov Ice Cap surgeONLINE PRESS Earther
2018 Helheim calvingONLINE PRESS Earther
2018 Wat weten we van de ZuidpoolPODCAST NOS Podcast DeDag
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2018 Fifteen Years of Change in the ArcticONLINE PRESS Nasa Earth Observatory Earth Sky Washington Post
2018 Antarctic grounding linesONLINE PRESS VRT NWS
2018 Penguin colonies on AntarcticaRADIO De wereld vandaag VRT Radio 1 VRT Radio 2
2018 Mass2Ant fieldworkRADIO NPO Radio 1
2017 Pine Island Glacier calvingRADIO WRITTEN amp ONLINE PRESSWashington Post Nasa hyperwall NY Times The Verge Live Science Quartz USA Today Giz-modo Daily Mail Inverse Euronews Science Alert The Weather Channel Scientias CBS News AOL International Business Times
2017 Greenland wildfireRADIO WRITTEN amp ONLINE PRESS BBC New Scientist The Guardian The Independent Eos NBC News Nasa Earth Nasa EarthBlog Climate Central Wildfire Today Newsweek HLN Clean Technica Euronews Forbes GristMother Jones NPR DW Huffington Post VRTNieuws IFLS Gizmodo Popsci SD Scientias
2017 Asian glaciersWRITTEN PRESS De Volkskrant De Morgen
2017 Larsen-C iceberg A68TV RADIO WRITTEN amp ONLINE PRESS AD De Morgen Climate Central VTM Nieuws BNR Mashable International Business Times Independent HLN RT
2017 Peterman riftTV RADIO WRITTEN amp ONLINE PRESSNOS op 3 Van Gils amp Gasten Washington Post Washington Post follow-up CNN Volkskrant TechTimes Live Science IFL Science ABSNews Daily Mail Mashable Inhabitat Business Insider TheWeather Network NASA Earth Observatory International Business Times Physorg Paris Match ScienceTimes Eathcom PBS Newshour Scientias
2016 Antarctic melt-albedo feedbackTV RADIO WRITTEN amp ONLINE PRESSFor complete coverage check Altmetric with higlights in VRT nieuws VTM journaal Karrewiet Ketnet RTL journaal De wereld vandaag VRT Radio VRTRadio nieuws National Geographic New Scientist De Volkskrant Washington Post Le Soir Eos El Mundo The International Business Times Kennis van Nu NTR Telegraaf De Morgen JapanTimes Der Spiegel Focusde Algemeen Dagblad NOS Physorg IFL science Business insider Science alert Life science CBS News Climate Central Fox news Huffington Post
2016 Lake Victoria ThunderstormsONLINE PRESSFor complete coverage check Altmetric with higlights in Delta Nasa Earth Observatory
2016 Benemelt Antarctic field campaign in the newsRADIO amp WRITTEN PRESS ROBTV DeOchtendVRT Radio 1 Nieuwe FeitenVRT Radio 1 DeWereld vandaagVRTRadio 1HetNieuwsblad De Standaard Rondom Leuven
2012 Interview for Science magazine on exceptional Greenland meltWRITTEN amp ONLINE PRESS Science
Lectures amp Outreach
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7 Nov 2018 Assessing ice sheet changes from Copernicus satellitesCOPERNICUS amp POLAR REGIONS INDUSTRY WORKSHOPPolar applications of Copernicus
16 Oct 2018 De fysica van AntarcticaNATUURKUNDE SYMPOSIUM PHYSICS OF NATUREKeynote lecture [httpssymposiumvvtptudelftnl]
12 Oct 2018 What happens in Antarctica does not stay in AntarcticaVIB BRAIN amp DISEASE PHD SYMPOSIUMKeynote lecture
4 Oct 2018 Remote Sensing of anomalies and feedbacks using time series modelsSATEX WORKSHOP ON DATA GUIDED APPRAISAL OF BIOSPHERE-CLIMATE INTERACTIONS
4 Jul 2018 Antarctica Report science no-fictionCIMEMA LUMEN SIZZLING SUMMER OF SPACEIntroduction of Antarctic science by the movie rsquoEuropa Reportrsquo
13 May 2018 Hoe koud is het echt op AntarcticaTUDELFT JEUGD UNIVERSITEITPresentation for 8-12 year old students
21 Mar 2018 La Belgique et lAntarctique Impressions de ChercheursEVENING CONFERENCE ON ANTARCTIC RESEARCHPresentation for ice shelf research amp experiences
Feb 2018 Antarctica voor beginnersBASIS- amp KLEUTERSCHOOL URSULINENIntroductie voor kleuter- amp lagere school
21 Feb 2017 Ijsplaten van Antarctica in een veranderend klimaatCAUSERIE OXACOPresentation for wider audience
31 Jan 2017 Ijsplaten van Antarctica in een veranderend klimaatSLO NATUURWETENSCHAPPEN (GEOGRAPHY) KULEUVENPresentation for geografie leerkrachten
18 Dec 2016 Ice shelves on AntarcticaONDERNEMERSHUIS MECHELENPresentation on rsquoIce shelves on Antarcticarsquo
Dec 2015 Antarctica voor beginnersKLEUTERSCHOOL URSULINENIntroductie voor kleuterschool
SkillsSoftware
Office applications Office (Word Excel Powerpoint Access) LaTeX Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop Illustrator Flash)Open-source Office Libreoffice suite Inkscape imagemagickProgram languages python R C++ fortran bash IDL matlab javascript php html+css sqlRemote sensing QGis Google Earth Engine gdalogr ArcGIS Envi Idrisi PCIOperating systems Linux Mac Windows
Languages
Dutch Mother tongueEnglish Proficient understanding speaking and writing [ C2 level]French Very good understanding good speaking and intermediate writingSpanish Very good understanding and speaking good writing
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STEF LHERMITTE CV REMOTE SENSING SCIENTIST
Field work managementOrganisation of field campaigns in the Chilean Andes (2010 2014) and coordinator and assistance in a scientific field campaign on theRoi Baudoin ice shelf (East-Antarctica Jan 2016 amp Dec 2017)
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Experience
2016-now Assistant professorDEPT OF GEOSCIENCE amp REMOTE SENSING TUDELFT NETHERLANDSAssistant professor focusing on the combined use of multi-source remote sensing and land surfacemodelling to assesscryosphere atmosphere and ecosystem dynamics
2013-2016 FWO post-doctoral research fellowDEPT OF EARTH amp ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE KULEUVEN BELGIUMPostdoctoral research fellow combining multi-source remote sensing data and land surface models to assesscryosphere atmosphere and ecosystem dynamics
2011-2013 Post-doctoral researcherROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE (KNMI) NETHERLANDSPostdoctoral researcher focusing on the improvement of the albedo parametrisation in the regional climate modelRACMO using optical satellite remote sensing data (in cooperation with IMAU Netherlands)
2008-2010 Remote sensing scientist amp head of the Remote sensing and GIS laboratoryCEAZA CENTRO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS EN ZONAS AacuteRIDAS CHILEHead of the Remote Sensing and GIS laboratory and remote sensing scientist working on use of multi-source satelliteimagery to study hydrological snowice and ecological processes in the arid zones of north-central Chile
2008 Post-doctoral researcherM3-BIORES KULEUVEN BELGIUMPostdoc researcher focusing on the development of a hierarchical multi-scale spatio-temporal segmentation softwaretool (in cooperation with CSIRO Australia)
2002-2008 Research associate and PhD studentM3-BIORES KULEUVEN BELGIUMResearch associate focusing on the development of new methodologies to assess ecosystem dynamics after wild firesbased on satellite remote sensing time series data
Publications
Articles in peer reviewed journals
55 Datta R T Tedesco M Fettweis X Agosta C Lhermitte S Lenaerts J T M Wever N (2019) ldquoThe Effect of FoehnInducedSurface Melt on Firn Evolution Over the Northeast Antarctic Peninsulardquo Geophysical Research Letters 46 (7) 3822ndash3831 doi 10 1029 2018GL080845
54 Gossart A Palm S P Souverijns N Lenaerts J T M Gorodetskaya I V Lhermitte S Lipzig N P M (2019) ldquoBlowing snowin East Antarctica comparison of ground-based and space-borne retrievalsrdquo The Cryosphere Discussions doi 105194tc-2019-25
53 Reacuteveillet M MacDonell S Gascoin S Kinnard C Lhermitte S Schaffer N (2019) ldquoUncertainties in the spatial distributionof snow sublimation in the semi-arid Andes of Chilerdquo The Cryosphere Discussions doi 105194tc-2019-31
52 Souverijns N Gossart A Lhermitte S Gorodetskaya I V Grazioli J Berne A Duran-Alarcon C Boudevillain B GenthonC Scarchilli C Van Lipzig N P (2018) ldquoEvaluation of the CloudSat surface snowfall product over Antarctica using ground-basedprecipitation radarsrdquo The CryosphereCryosphere 12 3775ndash3789 doi 105194tc-12-3775-2018
51 SouverijnsN Gossart A Gorodetskaya I V Lhermitte SMangold A LaffineurQ Delcloo A vanLipzigNPM (2018) ldquoHowdoes the ice sheet surfacemass balance relate to snowfall Insights froma ground-based precipitation radar in East Antarcticardquo TheCryosphere 12 (6) 1987ndash2003 doi 105194tc-12-1987-2018
50 Noeumll B van de Berg W J Lhermitte S Wouters B Schaffer N van den Broeke M R (2018) ldquoSix decades of glacial massloss in the Canadian Arctic Archipelagordquo Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface 123 (6) 1430ndash1449 doi 1010292017JF004304
49 van Wessem J M van de Berg W J Noeumll B P Y van Meijgaard E Amory C Birnbaum G Jakobs C L Kruumlger K LenaertsJ TM Lhermitte S Ligtenberg S RM Medley B Reijmer C H vanTricht K Trusel L D vanUlft L HWouters BWuite JvandenBroekeM R (2018) ldquoModelling the climateand surfacemass balanceof polar ice sheets usingRACMO2ndashPart 2 Antarctica(1979ndash2016)rdquo The Cryosphere 12 (4) 1479ndash1498 doi 105194tc-12-1479-2018
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48 Noeumll B van de Berg W J van Wessem J M van Meijgaard E van As D Lenaerts J T M Lhermitte S Kuipers MunnekeP Smeets C J P P van Ulft L H van de Wal R S W van den Broeke M R (2018) ldquoModelling the climate and surface massbalance of polar ice sheets using RACMO2 ndash Part 1 Greenland (1958ndash2016)rdquo The Cryosphere 12 (3) 811ndash831 doi 105194tc-12-811-2018
47 Gossart A Souverijns N Gorodetskaya I V Lhermitte S Lenaerts J T Schween J H Mangold A Laffineur Q Van LipzigN P (2017) ldquoBlowing snow detection from ground-based ceilometers Application to East Antarcticardquo Cryosphere 11 (6) 2755ndash2772doi 105194tc-11-2755-2017
46 Thiery W Gudmundsson L Bedka K Semazzi F Lhermitte S Willems P Van Lipzig N Seneviratne S (2017) ldquoEarlywarnings of hazardous thunderstorms over Lake VictoriardquoEnvironmental Research Letters 12 (7) 12 074012 doi 1010881748-9326aa7521
45 Souverijns N Gossart A Lhermitte S Gorodetskaya I Kneifel S Maahn M Bliven F Van Lipzig N P M (2017) ldquoEsti-mating radar reflectivity - snowfall rate relationships and their uncertainties over Antarctica by combining disdrometer and radarobservationsrdquo Atmospheric research 196 211ndash223 doi 101016jatmosres201706001
44 Lenaerts J Van Tricht K Lhermitte S LrsquoEcuyer T (2017) ldquoPolar clouds and radiation in satellite observations reanalysesand climate modelsrdquo Geophysical Research Letters 44 doi 1010022016GL072242
43 Noeumll B van de Berg W J Lhermitte S Wouters B Machguth H Howat I Citterio M Moholdt G Lenaerts J T M van denBroekeMR (2017) ldquoA tippingpoint in refreezingacceleratesmass lossofGreenlandrsquosglaciersand ice capsrdquoNatureCommunicationsdoi 101038ncomms14730
42 Lenaerts J T M Lhermitte S Drews R Ligtenberg S R M Berger S Helm V Smeets C J P P van den Broeke M Rvan de Berg W J Eijkelboom M Eisen O Pattyn F (2017) ldquoMeltwater produced by wind-albedo interaction stored in an EastAntarctic ice shelfrdquoNature Climate Change 7 58-62 Joint first author doi 101038NCLIMATE3180
41 Steger C R Reijmer C H van den Broeke M R Wever N Forster R R Koenig L S Kuipers-Munneke P Lehning M Lher-mitte S Ligtenberg S R M Miegravege C Noeumll B P Y (2017) ldquoFirn meltwater retention on the Greenland Ice Sheet a modelcomparisonrdquo Frontiers in Earth Science 5 (3) doi 103389feart201700003
40 DeKeersmaecker W Lhermitte S Hill M J Tits L Coppin P Somers B (2017) ldquoAssessment of regional vegetation responseto climate anomalies a case study for Australia using GIMMS NDVI time series between 1982 and 2006rdquo Remote Sensing 9 (1) 34 doi103390rs9010034
39 De Keersmaecker W Rooijen N Lhermitte S Tits L Schamineacutee J Coppin P Honnay O Somers B (2016) ldquoSpecies-rich semi-natural grasslands have a higher resistance but a lower resilience than intensively managed agricultural grasslands inresponse to climate anomaliesrdquo Journal of Applied Ecology 53 (2) 430ndash439 doi 1011111365-266412595
38 Docquier D Thiery W Lhermitte S Lipzig N (2016) ldquoMulti-year wind dynamics around Lake Tanganyikardquo Climate Dynamics47 (9) 3191ndash3202 doi 101007s00382-016-3020-z
37 Noeumll B Berg W J Machguth H Lhermitte S Howat I Fettweis X Van Den Broeke M R (2016) ldquoA daily 1-km resolutiondataset of downscaled Greenland ice sheet surface mass balance (1958-2015)rdquo Cryosphere 10 2361ndash2377 doi 105194tc-10-2361-2016
36 Van Tricht K Lhermitte S Gorodetskaya I V Van Lipzig N P M (2016) ldquoImproving satellite-retrieved surface radiative fluxesin polar regions using a smart sampling approachrdquo Cryosphere 10 2379ndash2397 doi 105194tc-10-2379-2016
35 Hawinkel P Thiery W Lhermitte S Swinnen E Verbist B Van Orshoven J Muys B (2016) ldquoVegetation response to pre-cipitation variability in East Africa controlled by biogeographical factorsrdquo Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences 121 (9) 2422ndash2444 doi 1010022016JG003436
34 Thiery W Davin E L Seneviratne S I Bedka K Lhermitte S Van Lipzig N P M (2016) ldquoHazardous thunderstorm intensi-fication over Lake VictoriardquoNature Communications 7 12786 doi 101038ncomms12786
33 Hublart P Ruelland D Garcıa de Cortaacutezar-Atauri I Gascoin S Lhermitte S Ibacache A (2016) ldquoReliability of lumpedhydrological modeling in a semi-arid mountainous catchment facing water-use changesrdquo Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 20(9) 3691ndash3717 doi 105194hess-20-3691-2016
32 Van Tricht K Lhermitte S Lenaerts J Gorodetskaya I LrsquoEcuyer T Noeumll B Van Den Broeke M Turner D Van Lipzig N(2016) ldquoClouds enhance Greenland ice sheet meltwater runoffrdquoNature Communications 7 10266 doi 101038ncomms10266
31 Thiery W Davin E L Panitz H-J Demuzere M Lhermitte S Van Lipzig N (2015) ldquoThe Impact of the African Great Lakes onthe Regional Climaterdquo Journal of Climate 28 (10) 4061ndash4085 doi 101175JCLI-D-14-005651
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STEF LHERMITTE CV REMOTE SENSING SCIENTIST
30 Hawinkel P Swinnen E Lhermitte S Verbist B Van Orshoven J Muys B (2015) ldquoA time series processing tool to extractclimate-driven interannual vegetation dynamics using Ensemble Empirical Mode Decomposition (EEMD)rdquo Remote Sensing of Environ-ment 169 375ndash389 doi 101016jrse201508024
29 Vanonckelen S Lhermitte S Van Rompaey A (2015) ldquoThe effect of atmospheric and topographic correction on pixel-basedimage composites Improved forest cover detection in mountainenvironmentsrdquo International Journal of Applied Earth Observation andGeoinformation 35 (PB) 320ndash328 doi 101016jjag201410006
28 De Keersmaecker W Lhermitte S Tits L Honnay O Somers B Coppin P (2015) ldquoA model quantifying global vegetationresistance and resilience to short-term climate anomalies and their relationship with vegetation coverrdquo Global Ecology and Biogeog-raphy 24 (5) 539ndash548 doi 101111geb12279
27 De Keersmaecker W Lhermitte S Tits L Honnay O Somers B Coppin P (2015) ldquoResilience and the reliability of spectralentropy to assess ecosystem stabilityrdquo Global Change Biology doi 101111gcb12799
26 Bertin A Alvarez E Gouin N Gianoli E Montecinos S Lek S Gascoin S Lhermitte S (2015) ldquoEffects ofwind-driven spatialstructure and environmental heterogeneity on high-altitude wetland macroinvertebrate assemblages with contrasting dispersalmodesrdquo Freshwater Biology 60 (2) 297ndash310 doi 101111fwb12488
25 Maahn M Burgard C Crewell S Gorodetskaya I Kneifel S Lhermitte S Van Tricht K Van Lipzig N (2014) ldquoHowdoes thespaceborne radar blind zone affect derived surface snowfall statistics in polar regionsrdquo Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres119 (24) 13604ndash13620 doi 1010022014JD022079
24 Lhermitte S Abermann J Kinnard C (2014) ldquoAlbedo over rough snow and ice surfacesrdquo Cryosphere 8 (3) 1069ndash1086 doi 105194tc-8-1069-2014
23 Van Tricht K Gorodetskaya I Lhermitte S Turner D Schween J Van Lipzig N (2014) ldquoAn improved algorithm for polarcloud-base detection by ceilometer over the ice sheetsrdquo Atmospheric Measurement Techniques 7 (5) 1153ndash1167 doi 105194amt-7-1153-2014
22 Vanonckelen S Lhermitte S Balthazar V Van Rompaey A (2014) ldquoPerformance of atmospheric and topographic correctionmethods on Landsat imagery in mountain areasrdquo International Journal of Remote Sensing 35 (13) 4952ndash4972 doi 101080014311612014933280
21 De Keersmaecker W Lhermitte S Honnay O Farifteh J Somers B Coppin P (2014) ldquoHow tomeasure ecosystem stabilityAn evaluation of the reliability of stability metrics based on remote sensing time series across the major global ecosystemsrdquo GlobalChange Biology 20 (7) 2149ndash2161 doi 101111gcb12495
20 Vanonckelen S Lhermitte S Van Rompaey A (2013) ldquoThe effect of atmospheric and topographic correctionmethods on landcover classification accuracyrdquo International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 24 (1) 9ndash21 doi 101016jjag201302003
19 Gascoin S Lhermitte S Kinnard C Bortels K Liston G (2013) ldquoWind effects on snow cover in Pascua-Lama Dry Andes ofChilerdquo Advances in Water Resources 55 25ndash39 doi 101016jadvwatres201211013
18 Van Angelen J Lenaerts J Lhermitte S Fettweis X KuipersMunneke P Van Den Broeke M VanMeijgaard E P Smeets C(2012) ldquoSensitivity of Greenland Ice Sheet surfacemass balance to surface albedo parameterization A studywith a regional climatemodelrdquo Cryosphere 6 (5) 1175ndash1186 doi 105194tc-6-1175-2012
17 Veraverbeke S VerstraetenW Lhermitte S VanDeKerchove R Goossens R (2012) ldquoAssessment of post-fire changes in landsurface temperature and surface albedo and their relation with fireburn severity usingmultitemporal MODIS imageryrdquo InternationalJournal of Wildland Fire 21 (3) 243ndash256 doi 101071WF10075
16 Van De Kerchove R Lhermitte S Veraverbeke S Goossens R (2012) ldquoSpatio-temporal variability in remotely sensed landsurface temperature and its relationshipwith physiographic variables in the Russian AltayMountainsrdquo International Journal of AppliedEarth Observation and Geoinformation 20 (1) 4ndash19 doi 101016jjag201109007
15 Lhermitte S Verbesselt J Verstraeten W Coppin P (2011) ldquoA comparison of time series similarity measures for classificationand change detection of ecosystem dynamicsrdquo Remote Sensing of Environment 115 (12) 3129ndash3152 doi 101016jrse201106020
14 Gascoin S Kinnard C Ponce R Lhermitte S MacDonell S Rabatel A (2011) ldquoGlacier contribution to streamflow in twoheadwaters of the Huasco River Dry Andes of Chilerdquo Cryosphere 5 (4) 1099ndash1113 doi 105194tc-5-1099-2011
13 Veraverbeke S Lhermitte S Verstraeten W Goossens R (2011) ldquoEvaluation of prepost-fire differenced spectral indices forassessing burn severity in a mediterranean environment with landsat thematic mapperrdquo International Journal of Remote Sensing 32(12) 3521ndash3537 doi 10108001431161003752430
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12 Veraverbeke S Lhermitte S VerstraetenW Goossens R (2011) ldquoA time-integratedMODIS burn severity assessment using themulti-temporal differenced normalized burn ratio (dNBRMT)rdquo International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 13(1) 52ndash58 doi 101016jjag201006006
11 Lhermitte S Verbesselt J VerstraetenW Veraverbeke S Coppin P (2011) ldquoAssessing intra-annual vegetation regrowth afterfire using the pixel based regeneration indexrdquo ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing 66 (1) 17ndash27 doi 101016jisprsjprs201008004
10 Veraverbeke S Lhermitte S Verstraeten W Goossens R (2010) ldquoThe temporal dimension of differenced Normalized BurnRatio (dNBR) fireburn severity studies The case of the large 2007 Peloponnese wildfires in Greecerdquo Remote Sensing of Environment114 (11) 2548ndash2563 doi 101016jrse201005029
9 Veraverbeke S Verstraeten W Lhermitte S Goossens R (2010) ldquoEvaluating Landsat Thematic Mapper spectral indices forestimating burn severity of the 2007 Peloponnese wildfires in Greecerdquo International Journal of Wildland Fire 19 (5) 558ndash569 doi 101071WF09069
8 Lhermitte S Verbesselt J Verstraeten W Coppin P (2010) ldquoA pixel based regeneration index using time series similarity andspatial contextrdquo Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing 76 (6) 673ndash682
7 Verstraeten W Vermeulen B Stuckens J Lhermitte S Zande D Ranst M Coppin P (2010) ldquoWebcams for bird detectionandmonitoring A demonstration studyrdquo Sensors 10 (4) 3480ndash3503 doi 103390s100403480
6 Veraverbeke S Verstraeten W Lhermitte S Goossens R (2010) ldquoIllumination effects on the differenced Normalized BurnRatiorsquos optimality for assessing fire severityrdquo International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 12 (1) 60ndash70 doi 101016jjag200910004
5 Delalieux S Auwerkerken A Verstraeten W Somers B Valcke R Lhermitte S Keulemans J Coppin P (2009) ldquoHy-perspectral reflectance and fluorescence imaging to detect scab induced stress in apple leavesrdquo Remote Sensing 1 (4) 858ndash874 doi103390rs1040858
4 Somers B Delalieux S Verstraeten W Verbesselt J Lhermitte S Coppin P (2009) ldquoMagnitude- and shape-related featureintegration in hyperspectralmixture analysis tomonitorweeds in citrus orchardsrdquo IEEE Transactions onGeoscience and Remote Sensing47 (11) 3630ndash3642 doi 101109TGRS20092024207
3 Lhermitte S Verbesselt J Jonckheere I Nackaerts K Aardt J Verstraeten W Coppin P (2008) ldquoHierarchical image seg-mentation based on similarity of NDVI time seriesrdquo Remote Sensing of Environment 112 (2) 506ndash521 doi 101016jrse200705018
2 Verbesselt J Somers B Lhermitte S Jonckheere I Aardt J Coppin P (2007) ldquoMonitoringherbaceous fuelmoisture contentwith SPOT VEGETATION time-series for fire risk prediction in savanna ecosystemsrdquo Remote Sensing of Environment 108 (4) 357ndash368 doi101016jrse200611019
1 Verbesselt J Joumlnsson P Lhermitte S Van Aardt J Coppin P (2006) ldquoEvaluating satellite and climate data-derived indicesas fire risk indicators in savanna ecosystemsrdquo IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 44 (6) 1622ndash1632 doi 101109TGRS2005862262
Book chapters
2 Veraverbeke S Lhermitte S Verstraeten W Goossens R (2010)rdquoAssessing burn severity using satellite time seriesrdquo In ldquoMod-elling Monitoring and Management of Forest Fires IIrdquo pp 107ndash118 by Perona G and CA Brebbia eds WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Envi-ronment doi 102495FIVA100101
1 Verbesselt J Joumlnsson P Lhermitte S Jonckheere I Aardt J Coppin P (2006)rdquoRelating time-series of meteorological andremote sensing indices to monitor vegetation moisture dynamicsrdquo In ldquoSignal and image processing for remote sensingrdquo pp 153ndash173 byChen C ed CRC Press University of Massachusetts North Darthmouth USA
Conference proceedings
15 De Keersmaecker W Lhermitte S Tits L Honnay O Coppin P Somers B (2015) ldquoTowards the large-scale assessmentof vegetation biomass production stabilityrdquoMultiTemp 2015 - 8th International Workshop on the Analysis of Multitemporal Remote SensingImages doi 101109Multi-Temp20157245764
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STEF LHERMITTE CV REMOTE SENSING SCIENTIST
14 De Keersmaecker W Lhermitte S Tits L Honnay O Somers B Coppin P (2014) ldquoLinking NDVI and climate-based ecosys-tem stability with land cover in Europerdquo IGARSS 2014 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium 3938ndash3940 doi 101109IGARSS20146947346
13 De Keersmaecker W Lhermitte S Somers B Van Rooijen N Honnay O Schamineacutee J Farifteh J Coppin P (2013) ldquoThesensitivity of ecosystem stability measures derived from remote sensing time seriesrdquo ASPRS 2013 American Society for Photogrammetryand Remote Sensing Annual Conference 166ndash175
12 Vanonckelen S Lhermitte S Van Rompaey A Griffiths P (2013) ldquoIntegration of topographic correction in a pixel-basedcompositing algorithm in the Romanian Carpathiansrdquo MultiTemp 2013 - 7th International Workshop on the Analysis of Multi-TemporalRemote Sensing Images rdquoOur Dynamic Environmentrdquo doi 101109Multi-Temp20136866012
11 Veraverbeke S Goossens R VerstraetenW Lhermitte S (2009) ldquoCorrection of topographic effects influencing the differencedNormalized Burn Ratiorsquos optimality for estimating fire severityrdquo Proceedings of the VII International EARSeLWorkshop Advances in remoteSensing and GIS Applications in Forest Fire Managment Towards an operational use of remote sensing in forest fire management 271ndash276
10 Lhermitte S VerstraetenW Coppin P Verbesselt J (2008) ldquoSpatio-temporal segmentationbasedonsubsequencesof satelliteimage time seriesrdquo IGARSS 2008 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium vol 2 (1) doi 101109IGARSS20084779153
9 Somers B Delalieux S VerstraetenW Cools K Verbesselt J Lhermitte S Coppin P (2008) ldquoIntegration ofmagnitude andshape related features in hyperspectral mixture analysis to monitor weeds in citrus orchardsrdquo IGARSS 2008 International Geoscienceand Remote Sensing Symposium vol 1 (1) doi 101109IGARSS20084778857
8 Lhermitte S Verbesselt J Verstraeten W Coppin P (2007) ldquoAssessing vegetation regrowth after fire based on time series ofSPOT-vegetation datardquoMultiTemp 2007 - 4th International Workshop on the Analysis of Multi-Temporal Remote Sensing Images doi 101109MULTITEMP20074293050
7 Lhermitte S Van Aardt J Coppin P (2005) ldquoDevelopment of indicators of burning efficiency based on time series of SPOTVEGETATION datardquoMultiTemp 2005 - 3rd International Workshop on the Analysis of Multi-Temporal Remote Sensing Images vol 2005 125 doi101109AMTRSI20051469854
6 Lhermitte S Tips M Verbesselt J Jonckheere I Van Aardt J Coppin P (2005) ldquoDevelopment of indicators of vegetationrecovery based on time series analysis of SPOT VEGETATION datardquo Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineeringvol 5976 doi 10111712627625
5 Verbesselt J Somers B Lhermitte S Van Aardt J Jonckheere I Coppin P (2005) ldquoEstimating vegetation dryness to opti-mize fire risk assessment with SPOT VEGETATION satellite data in savanna ecosystemsrdquo Proceedings of SPIE - The International Societyfor Optical Engineering vol 5976 doi 10111712627682
4 Lhermitte S Verbesselt J Jonckheere I Van Aardt J Coppin P (2005) ldquoEco-climatic image segmentation based on timeseriesrdquo Communications in agricultural and applied biological sciences vol 70 (2) 165ndash168
3 Verbesselt J Somers B Lhermitte S Aardt J Jonckheere I Coppin P (2005) ldquoFire risk assessment in savanna ecosystemswith multi-temporal satellite datardquo Communications in agricultural and applied biological sciences vol 70 (2) 23ndash26
2 Lhermitte S Verbesselt J Nackaerts K Coppin P (2004) ldquoEco-climatic image segmentationbasedon time seriesrdquoASPRS 2013American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Annual Conference (0128)
1 Verbesselt J Lhermitte S Coppin P Eklundh L Joumlnsoon P (2004) ldquoBiophysical drought metrics extraction by time seriesanalysis of SPOT Vegetation datardquo IGARSS 2004 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium vol 3 2062ndash2065
Student support amp teachingPhD supervision amp support
2018-now Weiran LiTUDELFT NETHERLANDSRemote sensing of firn properties
2018-now Thore KauschTUDELFT NETHERLANDSModelling amp Remote Sensing of Antarctic SMB variability
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STEF LHERMITTE CV REMOTE SENSING SCIENTIST
2015-now Niels SouverijnsKULEUVEN BELGIUMThe role of cloud-aerosol interactions in East Antarcticarsquos surface mass balance
2015-now Alexandra GossartKULEUVEN BELGIUMThe role of snowdrift on local mass redistribution in East Antarctica
2012-2016 Kristof Van TrichtKULEUVEN BELGIUMUnderstanding the role of clouds in the climate of Greenland
2011-2015 Wanda De KeersmaeckerKULEUVEN BELGIUMQuantification of vegetation response to climate anomalies through remote sensing
2010-2014 Steven VanonckelenKULEUVEN BELGIUMDetection and analysis of forest cover dynamics with Landsat satellite imagery application in the Romanian CarpathianEcoregion
2008-2010 Sander VeraverbekeGHENT UNIVERSITY BELGIUMAssessing fire burn severity using spaceborne spectral indices
PhD committee memberDefended Robin Lombaert (KULeuven 2013) Roberto Chavez (WUR 2014) Junchao Shi (TUDelft 2017) EliakimHamunyela (WageningenUniversity 2017) SeyedHosseini Aria (TUDelft 2018) JonathanVanBeek (KULeuven 2012-2018)In progress VincentSmets (KULeuven 2015-now) BjoumlrnRombouts (KULeuven 2016-now) RaymondSellevold (TUDelft2017-now) Laura Muntjewerf (TUDelft 2017-now) Paulo Negri Bernardino (KULeuvenWageningen University 2017-now)
MScBSc supervision32 MScBSc students as supervisor co-promotor promotor Ruben Rommens (MSc KULeuven 2003-2004) Miet BoonenMatthias Tipps (MSc KULeuven 2004-2005) Sofie Vanzegbroek (MSc KULeuven 2005-2006) Kim Calders (MSc KULeu-ven 2007-2008) Mattias Vanderoost Gil Gram (MSc KULeuvenCEAZA 2008-2009) Kirsten Bortels (MSc KULeuvenCEAZA2010-2011) Joost Neujens (BSc KULeuven 2013-2014) Niels Tooth Camille Christiansen Joni Ceuppens KatrienWouters(MSc KULeuven 2014-2015) Lander Van Tricht (BSc KULeuven 2015-2016) Tobias Nauwelaers Thomas Antheunis (MScKULeuven 2015-2016) Merve Guumlnes (BSc TU Delft 2016-2017) Egli Michailidou (MSc TU Delft 2017) Eva van der KooijNajoua Essaf Tristan Keulemans (BSc TUDelft 2017) Maaike Izeboud (MSc TUDelft 2018) Annelies Voordendag (MScTUDelft 2018) Ruben Egbers (MSc TUDelft 2018) Job Rosier (MSc TUDelft 2018) Weiran Li (MSc TUDelft 2018) DanieumllKersbergen (MSc TUDelft 2018) Daan Ris (BSc TUDelft 2018) Max Felius (BSc TUDelft 2018) Brendan Scherpenisse(MSc TUDelft 2018) Coco Antonissen (MSc TUDelft 2018) Dirk Van der Valk (MSc TUDelft 2018-2018) Kevin Groot (MScTUDelft 2018-2019) Renske Free (BSc TUDelft 2018) Joseph Heywood (MSc TUDelft 2018-2019) Manish Kharagjitsing(MSc TUDelft 2019) Geerten van der Zalm (MSc TUDelft 2019) Oana Garbasevschi (MSc TUDelft 2019) Thijs van Esch(MSc TUDelft 2019) Huub Ackermans (BSc TUDelft 2019)
Teaching
2018-2019 Cryosphere remote sensing amp modellingMSC GEOSCIENCE amp REMOTE SENSING TUDELFT NETHERLANDSLecturer
2018-2019 Cryosphere remote sensing amp modellingBSC APPLIED TUDELFT NETHERLANDSLecturer
2018-2019 Big geo-data amp machine learning [CIE5603 Advanced project on GRS]MSC GEOSCIENCE amp REMOTE SENSING TUDELFT NETHERLANDSCoordinator + responsible lecturer
2017-2018 Simulation amp visualisation [CIE4604]MSC GEOSCIENCE amp REMOTE SENSING TUDELFT NETHERLANDSLecturer on Remote sensing data processing on big geo-data platforms
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STEF LHERMITTE CV REMOTE SENSING SCIENTIST
2017-2018 Geodesy amp Remote Sensing [CIE4606]MSC GEOSCIENCE amp REMOTE SENSING TUDELFT NETHERLANDSLecturer on radiative transfer modelling
2016-2018 Ice snow amp climate change [CIE4602]MSC GEOSCIENCE amp REMOTE SENSING TUDELFT NETHERLANDSLecturer of remote sensing topics
2016-2018 Introduction to geophysics amp remote sensing [AESB1440]BSC APPLIED EARTH SCIENCES TUDELFT NETHERLANDSLecturer of hyperspectral remote sensing topic
2016-2018 Spaceflight assignment [AE3536]BSC MINOR SPACEFLIGHT TUDELFT NETHERLANDSResponsible for 3 assignments for 9 students
2016-2018 Earth observation [CT3532]BSC MINOR SPACEFLIGHT TUDELFT NETHERLANDSCoordinator + responsible lecturer
2014-2016 Remote sensing of the atmosphereMSC IN GEOGRAPHY MSC IN EARTH OBSERVATION KULEUVEN BELGIUMCoordinator + responsible lecturer
2014-2016 Remote sensing climatological applicationsMSC IN BIOSCIENCE ENGINEERING KULEUVEN BELGIUMGuest lecture in Land Cover amp Land Use monitoring (coordinator Prof Somers B)
2014-2015 Remote sensing of the cryopshereMSC UTRECHT UNIVERSITY NETHERLANDSGuest lecture in Physics of Remote Sensing (coordinator Prof Houweling S)
2011-2014 Temporal image analysis techniquesMSC IN EARTH OBSERVATION KULEUVEN BELGIUMGuest lecture in Remote sensing of vegetative systems (coordinator Prof Coppin P)
2005-2007 Trend analysisADVANCED MSC IN EARTH OBSERVATION KULEUVEN BELGIUMGuest lecture in Vegetative canopy monitoring (coordinator Prof Coppin P)
2002-2005 Geographical information systems [Practical sessions]MSC IN ENGINEERING OF FOREST amp LAND MANAGEMENT KULEUVEN BELGIUMPractical sessions of Geographical Information Systems (coordinator Prof Coppin P(2002-2004) Prof Van Orshoven J(2005))
Grants amp fellowships
NWO GO Firn Assessing firn processes from multi-source satellite dataFUNDED BY NWO USER SUPPORT FOR SPACE RESEARCHPI
Mass2Ant East Antarctic surface mass balance in the Anthropocene observations and multi-scale modellingFUNDED BY BELSPO BRAIN NWOCo-PI and principal NWO-funded collaborator (4 years of PhD funding) on project of PI Goosse H (UCL)
PV-MEP TPS Snow monitoring using the Proba-V Mission Exploitation Platform (PV-MEP) ThirdParty ServicesFUNDED BY ESACo-PI and responsible for snowmonitoring work package
U-Turn Understanding turning points in dryland ecosystem functioningFUNDED BY BELSPO STEREO IIIInternational partner
Black amp bloom Microbial processes darken and accelerate the melting of the Greenland Ice SheetFUNDED BY NERCInternational collaborator on project of PIrsquos Tranter M and Bamber J (University Bristol)
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STEF LHERMITTE CV REMOTE SENSING SCIENTIST
Benemelt Melting of Dronning Maud Land ice shelves a combined modelling and observa-tional approachFUNDED BY INBEV-LATOURCollaborator on project of PI Lenaerts J (Utrecht University)
Aerocloud How do aerosols and clouds affect the East Antarctic climateFUNDED BY BELSPO BRAINCollaborator on project of PI Van Lipzig N (KULeuven)
Aerocloud Antarctic precipitation clouds and their interplay with aerosols Combining ground-based remote sensing and regional climate modelingFUNDED BY FWOCollaborator on project of PI Van Lipzig N (KULeuven)
FWO post-doc fellowship Changes in surface properties of the Greenland ice sheet and their impact on climatemodelingFUNDED BY FWOPrincipal investigator
Fondecyt Regular 2011 Modelling the current and future hydrological contribution of glaciers and seasonalsnow in semi arid mountain catchmentsFUNDED BY FONDECYT (CHILE)International collaborator on project of PI Kinnard C (CEAZA)
Fondecyt Iniciacion 2009 The introduction of fusion techniques to improve the determination of snow coverproperties based on remote sensing imageryFUNDED BY FONDECYT (CHILE)Principal investigator
Planet Action Spatio-temporal changes in glacier surface facies and ablation morphology in theNorte Chico region ChileFUNDED BY SPOT IMAGEPrincipal investigator
Ecoseg-SR01108 Development of a spatio-temporal segmentation algorithm for satellite time seriesto monitor forest conditionFUNDED BY BELSPO STEREO IIInvestigator on project of PI Prof Coppin P (KULeuven)
Glovex-SR1681 Assessment of vegetation regrowth by satellite remote sensingFUNDED BY BELSPO STEREO IIInvestigator on project of PI Prof Coppin P (KULeuven)
Scientific committees amp reviewsCo-convernorship
EGU 2018 Remote sensing of the cryosphere [CR21]EGU GENERAL ASSEMBLY 2018 VIENNA AUSTRIACo-convenor
EGU 2017 Remote sensing of the cryosphere [CR21]EGU GENERAL ASSEMBLY 2017 VIENNA AUSTRIAConvenor
EGU 2016 Remote sensing of the cryosphere [CR21]EGU GENERAL ASSEMBLY 2016 VIENNA AUSTRIAConvenor
EGU 2015 Remote sensing of polar snow and ice [CR21]EGU GENERAL ASSEMBLY 2015 VIENNA AUSTRIA 12 APRIL ndash 17 APRILCo-convenor
EGU 2014 Remote sensing of the cryosphere [CR21]EGU GENERAL ASSEMBLY 2014 VIENNA AUSTRIA 28 APRIL ndash 2 MAYCo-convenor
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STEF LHERMITTE CV REMOTE SENSING SCIENTIST
Multitemp 2007 Fourth International Workshop on the Analysis of Multitemporal Remote Sensing ImagesMULTITEMP 2007 LEUVEN BELGIUM 18-20 JULYMember of the organisation committee
Reviews forNatureGeoscience TheCryosphere RemoteSensingof Environment Journal of Glaciology Scientific Reports IEEETrans-actions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Global Ecology andBiogeography Photogrammetric Engineering amp Remote Sensing Journal of Selected Topics in Applied EarthObservationsand Remote Sensing Remote Sensing International Journal of Remote Sensing Biogeosciences Atmospheric ScienceLetters Journal of Arid Environments Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics Geocarto International International Journalof Geographical Information Science Biosystems Engineering EARSeL eProceedings Sensors Scientia Agricola Ecologi-cal Modeling Annals of Forest Science NSF Fondecyt NWO EUFAR
Editorial work
2018-now The CryosphereEDITOR Editorial Board
2018-2019 Remote Sensing Special IssueRemote Sensing of Glaciers at Global and Regional ScalesGUEST EDITOR Special issue website
Press amp outreachPress
2019 Brunt ice shelfONLINE PRESSBBC Fortune Earther Business Insider Het LaatsteNieuws HetNieuwsblad DeLimburger Ingr Stuttgarter
2019 Climate changeWRITTEN PRESS Volkskrant
2019 Pine Island GlacierONLINE PRESS Atlas Obscura
2018 Larsen C square icebergONLINE PRESSMashable VRT NWS iNews
2018 Pine Island Glacier calvingONLINE PRESS The Weather Channel Mashable Quartz Scientific American Live Science Science Alert DailyBeast The Daily Mail etc
2018 Vavilov Ice Cap surgeONLINE PRESS Earther
2018 Helheim calvingONLINE PRESS Earther
2018 Wat weten we van de ZuidpoolPODCAST NOS Podcast DeDag
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STEF LHERMITTE CV REMOTE SENSING SCIENTIST
2018 Fifteen Years of Change in the ArcticONLINE PRESS Nasa Earth Observatory Earth Sky Washington Post
2018 Antarctic grounding linesONLINE PRESS VRT NWS
2018 Penguin colonies on AntarcticaRADIO De wereld vandaag VRT Radio 1 VRT Radio 2
2018 Mass2Ant fieldworkRADIO NPO Radio 1
2017 Pine Island Glacier calvingRADIO WRITTEN amp ONLINE PRESSWashington Post Nasa hyperwall NY Times The Verge Live Science Quartz USA Today Giz-modo Daily Mail Inverse Euronews Science Alert The Weather Channel Scientias CBS News AOL International Business Times
2017 Greenland wildfireRADIO WRITTEN amp ONLINE PRESS BBC New Scientist The Guardian The Independent Eos NBC News Nasa Earth Nasa EarthBlog Climate Central Wildfire Today Newsweek HLN Clean Technica Euronews Forbes GristMother Jones NPR DW Huffington Post VRTNieuws IFLS Gizmodo Popsci SD Scientias
2017 Asian glaciersWRITTEN PRESS De Volkskrant De Morgen
2017 Larsen-C iceberg A68TV RADIO WRITTEN amp ONLINE PRESS AD De Morgen Climate Central VTM Nieuws BNR Mashable International Business Times Independent HLN RT
2017 Peterman riftTV RADIO WRITTEN amp ONLINE PRESSNOS op 3 Van Gils amp Gasten Washington Post Washington Post follow-up CNN Volkskrant TechTimes Live Science IFL Science ABSNews Daily Mail Mashable Inhabitat Business Insider TheWeather Network NASA Earth Observatory International Business Times Physorg Paris Match ScienceTimes Eathcom PBS Newshour Scientias
2016 Antarctic melt-albedo feedbackTV RADIO WRITTEN amp ONLINE PRESSFor complete coverage check Altmetric with higlights in VRT nieuws VTM journaal Karrewiet Ketnet RTL journaal De wereld vandaag VRT Radio VRTRadio nieuws National Geographic New Scientist De Volkskrant Washington Post Le Soir Eos El Mundo The International Business Times Kennis van Nu NTR Telegraaf De Morgen JapanTimes Der Spiegel Focusde Algemeen Dagblad NOS Physorg IFL science Business insider Science alert Life science CBS News Climate Central Fox news Huffington Post
2016 Lake Victoria ThunderstormsONLINE PRESSFor complete coverage check Altmetric with higlights in Delta Nasa Earth Observatory
2016 Benemelt Antarctic field campaign in the newsRADIO amp WRITTEN PRESS ROBTV DeOchtendVRT Radio 1 Nieuwe FeitenVRT Radio 1 DeWereld vandaagVRTRadio 1HetNieuwsblad De Standaard Rondom Leuven
2012 Interview for Science magazine on exceptional Greenland meltWRITTEN amp ONLINE PRESS Science
Lectures amp Outreach
April 30 2019 11
STEF LHERMITTE CV REMOTE SENSING SCIENTIST
7 Nov 2018 Assessing ice sheet changes from Copernicus satellitesCOPERNICUS amp POLAR REGIONS INDUSTRY WORKSHOPPolar applications of Copernicus
16 Oct 2018 De fysica van AntarcticaNATUURKUNDE SYMPOSIUM PHYSICS OF NATUREKeynote lecture [httpssymposiumvvtptudelftnl]
12 Oct 2018 What happens in Antarctica does not stay in AntarcticaVIB BRAIN amp DISEASE PHD SYMPOSIUMKeynote lecture
4 Oct 2018 Remote Sensing of anomalies and feedbacks using time series modelsSATEX WORKSHOP ON DATA GUIDED APPRAISAL OF BIOSPHERE-CLIMATE INTERACTIONS
4 Jul 2018 Antarctica Report science no-fictionCIMEMA LUMEN SIZZLING SUMMER OF SPACEIntroduction of Antarctic science by the movie rsquoEuropa Reportrsquo
13 May 2018 Hoe koud is het echt op AntarcticaTUDELFT JEUGD UNIVERSITEITPresentation for 8-12 year old students
21 Mar 2018 La Belgique et lAntarctique Impressions de ChercheursEVENING CONFERENCE ON ANTARCTIC RESEARCHPresentation for ice shelf research amp experiences
Feb 2018 Antarctica voor beginnersBASIS- amp KLEUTERSCHOOL URSULINENIntroductie voor kleuter- amp lagere school
21 Feb 2017 Ijsplaten van Antarctica in een veranderend klimaatCAUSERIE OXACOPresentation for wider audience
31 Jan 2017 Ijsplaten van Antarctica in een veranderend klimaatSLO NATUURWETENSCHAPPEN (GEOGRAPHY) KULEUVENPresentation for geografie leerkrachten
18 Dec 2016 Ice shelves on AntarcticaONDERNEMERSHUIS MECHELENPresentation on rsquoIce shelves on Antarcticarsquo
Dec 2015 Antarctica voor beginnersKLEUTERSCHOOL URSULINENIntroductie voor kleuterschool
SkillsSoftware
Office applications Office (Word Excel Powerpoint Access) LaTeX Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop Illustrator Flash)Open-source Office Libreoffice suite Inkscape imagemagickProgram languages python R C++ fortran bash IDL matlab javascript php html+css sqlRemote sensing QGis Google Earth Engine gdalogr ArcGIS Envi Idrisi PCIOperating systems Linux Mac Windows
Languages
Dutch Mother tongueEnglish Proficient understanding speaking and writing [ C2 level]French Very good understanding good speaking and intermediate writingSpanish Very good understanding and speaking good writing
April 30 2019 12
STEF LHERMITTE CV REMOTE SENSING SCIENTIST
Field work managementOrganisation of field campaigns in the Chilean Andes (2010 2014) and coordinator and assistance in a scientific field campaign on theRoi Baudoin ice shelf (East-Antarctica Jan 2016 amp Dec 2017)
April 30 2019 13
STEF LHERMITTE CV REMOTE SENSING SCIENTIST
48 Noeumll B van de Berg W J van Wessem J M van Meijgaard E van As D Lenaerts J T M Lhermitte S Kuipers MunnekeP Smeets C J P P van Ulft L H van de Wal R S W van den Broeke M R (2018) ldquoModelling the climate and surface massbalance of polar ice sheets using RACMO2 ndash Part 1 Greenland (1958ndash2016)rdquo The Cryosphere 12 (3) 811ndash831 doi 105194tc-12-811-2018
47 Gossart A Souverijns N Gorodetskaya I V Lhermitte S Lenaerts J T Schween J H Mangold A Laffineur Q Van LipzigN P (2017) ldquoBlowing snow detection from ground-based ceilometers Application to East Antarcticardquo Cryosphere 11 (6) 2755ndash2772doi 105194tc-11-2755-2017
46 Thiery W Gudmundsson L Bedka K Semazzi F Lhermitte S Willems P Van Lipzig N Seneviratne S (2017) ldquoEarlywarnings of hazardous thunderstorms over Lake VictoriardquoEnvironmental Research Letters 12 (7) 12 074012 doi 1010881748-9326aa7521
45 Souverijns N Gossart A Lhermitte S Gorodetskaya I Kneifel S Maahn M Bliven F Van Lipzig N P M (2017) ldquoEsti-mating radar reflectivity - snowfall rate relationships and their uncertainties over Antarctica by combining disdrometer and radarobservationsrdquo Atmospheric research 196 211ndash223 doi 101016jatmosres201706001
44 Lenaerts J Van Tricht K Lhermitte S LrsquoEcuyer T (2017) ldquoPolar clouds and radiation in satellite observations reanalysesand climate modelsrdquo Geophysical Research Letters 44 doi 1010022016GL072242
43 Noeumll B van de Berg W J Lhermitte S Wouters B Machguth H Howat I Citterio M Moholdt G Lenaerts J T M van denBroekeMR (2017) ldquoA tippingpoint in refreezingacceleratesmass lossofGreenlandrsquosglaciersand ice capsrdquoNatureCommunicationsdoi 101038ncomms14730
42 Lenaerts J T M Lhermitte S Drews R Ligtenberg S R M Berger S Helm V Smeets C J P P van den Broeke M Rvan de Berg W J Eijkelboom M Eisen O Pattyn F (2017) ldquoMeltwater produced by wind-albedo interaction stored in an EastAntarctic ice shelfrdquoNature Climate Change 7 58-62 Joint first author doi 101038NCLIMATE3180
41 Steger C R Reijmer C H van den Broeke M R Wever N Forster R R Koenig L S Kuipers-Munneke P Lehning M Lher-mitte S Ligtenberg S R M Miegravege C Noeumll B P Y (2017) ldquoFirn meltwater retention on the Greenland Ice Sheet a modelcomparisonrdquo Frontiers in Earth Science 5 (3) doi 103389feart201700003
40 DeKeersmaecker W Lhermitte S Hill M J Tits L Coppin P Somers B (2017) ldquoAssessment of regional vegetation responseto climate anomalies a case study for Australia using GIMMS NDVI time series between 1982 and 2006rdquo Remote Sensing 9 (1) 34 doi103390rs9010034
39 De Keersmaecker W Rooijen N Lhermitte S Tits L Schamineacutee J Coppin P Honnay O Somers B (2016) ldquoSpecies-rich semi-natural grasslands have a higher resistance but a lower resilience than intensively managed agricultural grasslands inresponse to climate anomaliesrdquo Journal of Applied Ecology 53 (2) 430ndash439 doi 1011111365-266412595
38 Docquier D Thiery W Lhermitte S Lipzig N (2016) ldquoMulti-year wind dynamics around Lake Tanganyikardquo Climate Dynamics47 (9) 3191ndash3202 doi 101007s00382-016-3020-z
37 Noeumll B Berg W J Machguth H Lhermitte S Howat I Fettweis X Van Den Broeke M R (2016) ldquoA daily 1-km resolutiondataset of downscaled Greenland ice sheet surface mass balance (1958-2015)rdquo Cryosphere 10 2361ndash2377 doi 105194tc-10-2361-2016
36 Van Tricht K Lhermitte S Gorodetskaya I V Van Lipzig N P M (2016) ldquoImproving satellite-retrieved surface radiative fluxesin polar regions using a smart sampling approachrdquo Cryosphere 10 2379ndash2397 doi 105194tc-10-2379-2016
35 Hawinkel P Thiery W Lhermitte S Swinnen E Verbist B Van Orshoven J Muys B (2016) ldquoVegetation response to pre-cipitation variability in East Africa controlled by biogeographical factorsrdquo Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences 121 (9) 2422ndash2444 doi 1010022016JG003436
34 Thiery W Davin E L Seneviratne S I Bedka K Lhermitte S Van Lipzig N P M (2016) ldquoHazardous thunderstorm intensi-fication over Lake VictoriardquoNature Communications 7 12786 doi 101038ncomms12786
33 Hublart P Ruelland D Garcıa de Cortaacutezar-Atauri I Gascoin S Lhermitte S Ibacache A (2016) ldquoReliability of lumpedhydrological modeling in a semi-arid mountainous catchment facing water-use changesrdquo Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 20(9) 3691ndash3717 doi 105194hess-20-3691-2016
32 Van Tricht K Lhermitte S Lenaerts J Gorodetskaya I LrsquoEcuyer T Noeumll B Van Den Broeke M Turner D Van Lipzig N(2016) ldquoClouds enhance Greenland ice sheet meltwater runoffrdquoNature Communications 7 10266 doi 101038ncomms10266
31 Thiery W Davin E L Panitz H-J Demuzere M Lhermitte S Van Lipzig N (2015) ldquoThe Impact of the African Great Lakes onthe Regional Climaterdquo Journal of Climate 28 (10) 4061ndash4085 doi 101175JCLI-D-14-005651
April 30 2019 3
STEF LHERMITTE CV REMOTE SENSING SCIENTIST
30 Hawinkel P Swinnen E Lhermitte S Verbist B Van Orshoven J Muys B (2015) ldquoA time series processing tool to extractclimate-driven interannual vegetation dynamics using Ensemble Empirical Mode Decomposition (EEMD)rdquo Remote Sensing of Environ-ment 169 375ndash389 doi 101016jrse201508024
29 Vanonckelen S Lhermitte S Van Rompaey A (2015) ldquoThe effect of atmospheric and topographic correction on pixel-basedimage composites Improved forest cover detection in mountainenvironmentsrdquo International Journal of Applied Earth Observation andGeoinformation 35 (PB) 320ndash328 doi 101016jjag201410006
28 De Keersmaecker W Lhermitte S Tits L Honnay O Somers B Coppin P (2015) ldquoA model quantifying global vegetationresistance and resilience to short-term climate anomalies and their relationship with vegetation coverrdquo Global Ecology and Biogeog-raphy 24 (5) 539ndash548 doi 101111geb12279
27 De Keersmaecker W Lhermitte S Tits L Honnay O Somers B Coppin P (2015) ldquoResilience and the reliability of spectralentropy to assess ecosystem stabilityrdquo Global Change Biology doi 101111gcb12799
26 Bertin A Alvarez E Gouin N Gianoli E Montecinos S Lek S Gascoin S Lhermitte S (2015) ldquoEffects ofwind-driven spatialstructure and environmental heterogeneity on high-altitude wetland macroinvertebrate assemblages with contrasting dispersalmodesrdquo Freshwater Biology 60 (2) 297ndash310 doi 101111fwb12488
25 Maahn M Burgard C Crewell S Gorodetskaya I Kneifel S Lhermitte S Van Tricht K Van Lipzig N (2014) ldquoHowdoes thespaceborne radar blind zone affect derived surface snowfall statistics in polar regionsrdquo Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres119 (24) 13604ndash13620 doi 1010022014JD022079
24 Lhermitte S Abermann J Kinnard C (2014) ldquoAlbedo over rough snow and ice surfacesrdquo Cryosphere 8 (3) 1069ndash1086 doi 105194tc-8-1069-2014
23 Van Tricht K Gorodetskaya I Lhermitte S Turner D Schween J Van Lipzig N (2014) ldquoAn improved algorithm for polarcloud-base detection by ceilometer over the ice sheetsrdquo Atmospheric Measurement Techniques 7 (5) 1153ndash1167 doi 105194amt-7-1153-2014
22 Vanonckelen S Lhermitte S Balthazar V Van Rompaey A (2014) ldquoPerformance of atmospheric and topographic correctionmethods on Landsat imagery in mountain areasrdquo International Journal of Remote Sensing 35 (13) 4952ndash4972 doi 101080014311612014933280
21 De Keersmaecker W Lhermitte S Honnay O Farifteh J Somers B Coppin P (2014) ldquoHow tomeasure ecosystem stabilityAn evaluation of the reliability of stability metrics based on remote sensing time series across the major global ecosystemsrdquo GlobalChange Biology 20 (7) 2149ndash2161 doi 101111gcb12495
20 Vanonckelen S Lhermitte S Van Rompaey A (2013) ldquoThe effect of atmospheric and topographic correctionmethods on landcover classification accuracyrdquo International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 24 (1) 9ndash21 doi 101016jjag201302003
19 Gascoin S Lhermitte S Kinnard C Bortels K Liston G (2013) ldquoWind effects on snow cover in Pascua-Lama Dry Andes ofChilerdquo Advances in Water Resources 55 25ndash39 doi 101016jadvwatres201211013
18 Van Angelen J Lenaerts J Lhermitte S Fettweis X KuipersMunneke P Van Den Broeke M VanMeijgaard E P Smeets C(2012) ldquoSensitivity of Greenland Ice Sheet surfacemass balance to surface albedo parameterization A studywith a regional climatemodelrdquo Cryosphere 6 (5) 1175ndash1186 doi 105194tc-6-1175-2012
17 Veraverbeke S VerstraetenW Lhermitte S VanDeKerchove R Goossens R (2012) ldquoAssessment of post-fire changes in landsurface temperature and surface albedo and their relation with fireburn severity usingmultitemporal MODIS imageryrdquo InternationalJournal of Wildland Fire 21 (3) 243ndash256 doi 101071WF10075
16 Van De Kerchove R Lhermitte S Veraverbeke S Goossens R (2012) ldquoSpatio-temporal variability in remotely sensed landsurface temperature and its relationshipwith physiographic variables in the Russian AltayMountainsrdquo International Journal of AppliedEarth Observation and Geoinformation 20 (1) 4ndash19 doi 101016jjag201109007
15 Lhermitte S Verbesselt J Verstraeten W Coppin P (2011) ldquoA comparison of time series similarity measures for classificationand change detection of ecosystem dynamicsrdquo Remote Sensing of Environment 115 (12) 3129ndash3152 doi 101016jrse201106020
14 Gascoin S Kinnard C Ponce R Lhermitte S MacDonell S Rabatel A (2011) ldquoGlacier contribution to streamflow in twoheadwaters of the Huasco River Dry Andes of Chilerdquo Cryosphere 5 (4) 1099ndash1113 doi 105194tc-5-1099-2011
13 Veraverbeke S Lhermitte S Verstraeten W Goossens R (2011) ldquoEvaluation of prepost-fire differenced spectral indices forassessing burn severity in a mediterranean environment with landsat thematic mapperrdquo International Journal of Remote Sensing 32(12) 3521ndash3537 doi 10108001431161003752430
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STEF LHERMITTE CV REMOTE SENSING SCIENTIST
12 Veraverbeke S Lhermitte S VerstraetenW Goossens R (2011) ldquoA time-integratedMODIS burn severity assessment using themulti-temporal differenced normalized burn ratio (dNBRMT)rdquo International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 13(1) 52ndash58 doi 101016jjag201006006
11 Lhermitte S Verbesselt J VerstraetenW Veraverbeke S Coppin P (2011) ldquoAssessing intra-annual vegetation regrowth afterfire using the pixel based regeneration indexrdquo ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing 66 (1) 17ndash27 doi 101016jisprsjprs201008004
10 Veraverbeke S Lhermitte S Verstraeten W Goossens R (2010) ldquoThe temporal dimension of differenced Normalized BurnRatio (dNBR) fireburn severity studies The case of the large 2007 Peloponnese wildfires in Greecerdquo Remote Sensing of Environment114 (11) 2548ndash2563 doi 101016jrse201005029
9 Veraverbeke S Verstraeten W Lhermitte S Goossens R (2010) ldquoEvaluating Landsat Thematic Mapper spectral indices forestimating burn severity of the 2007 Peloponnese wildfires in Greecerdquo International Journal of Wildland Fire 19 (5) 558ndash569 doi 101071WF09069
8 Lhermitte S Verbesselt J Verstraeten W Coppin P (2010) ldquoA pixel based regeneration index using time series similarity andspatial contextrdquo Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing 76 (6) 673ndash682
7 Verstraeten W Vermeulen B Stuckens J Lhermitte S Zande D Ranst M Coppin P (2010) ldquoWebcams for bird detectionandmonitoring A demonstration studyrdquo Sensors 10 (4) 3480ndash3503 doi 103390s100403480
6 Veraverbeke S Verstraeten W Lhermitte S Goossens R (2010) ldquoIllumination effects on the differenced Normalized BurnRatiorsquos optimality for assessing fire severityrdquo International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 12 (1) 60ndash70 doi 101016jjag200910004
5 Delalieux S Auwerkerken A Verstraeten W Somers B Valcke R Lhermitte S Keulemans J Coppin P (2009) ldquoHy-perspectral reflectance and fluorescence imaging to detect scab induced stress in apple leavesrdquo Remote Sensing 1 (4) 858ndash874 doi103390rs1040858
4 Somers B Delalieux S Verstraeten W Verbesselt J Lhermitte S Coppin P (2009) ldquoMagnitude- and shape-related featureintegration in hyperspectralmixture analysis tomonitorweeds in citrus orchardsrdquo IEEE Transactions onGeoscience and Remote Sensing47 (11) 3630ndash3642 doi 101109TGRS20092024207
3 Lhermitte S Verbesselt J Jonckheere I Nackaerts K Aardt J Verstraeten W Coppin P (2008) ldquoHierarchical image seg-mentation based on similarity of NDVI time seriesrdquo Remote Sensing of Environment 112 (2) 506ndash521 doi 101016jrse200705018
2 Verbesselt J Somers B Lhermitte S Jonckheere I Aardt J Coppin P (2007) ldquoMonitoringherbaceous fuelmoisture contentwith SPOT VEGETATION time-series for fire risk prediction in savanna ecosystemsrdquo Remote Sensing of Environment 108 (4) 357ndash368 doi101016jrse200611019
1 Verbesselt J Joumlnsson P Lhermitte S Van Aardt J Coppin P (2006) ldquoEvaluating satellite and climate data-derived indicesas fire risk indicators in savanna ecosystemsrdquo IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 44 (6) 1622ndash1632 doi 101109TGRS2005862262
Book chapters
2 Veraverbeke S Lhermitte S Verstraeten W Goossens R (2010)rdquoAssessing burn severity using satellite time seriesrdquo In ldquoMod-elling Monitoring and Management of Forest Fires IIrdquo pp 107ndash118 by Perona G and CA Brebbia eds WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Envi-ronment doi 102495FIVA100101
1 Verbesselt J Joumlnsson P Lhermitte S Jonckheere I Aardt J Coppin P (2006)rdquoRelating time-series of meteorological andremote sensing indices to monitor vegetation moisture dynamicsrdquo In ldquoSignal and image processing for remote sensingrdquo pp 153ndash173 byChen C ed CRC Press University of Massachusetts North Darthmouth USA
Conference proceedings
15 De Keersmaecker W Lhermitte S Tits L Honnay O Coppin P Somers B (2015) ldquoTowards the large-scale assessmentof vegetation biomass production stabilityrdquoMultiTemp 2015 - 8th International Workshop on the Analysis of Multitemporal Remote SensingImages doi 101109Multi-Temp20157245764
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STEF LHERMITTE CV REMOTE SENSING SCIENTIST
14 De Keersmaecker W Lhermitte S Tits L Honnay O Somers B Coppin P (2014) ldquoLinking NDVI and climate-based ecosys-tem stability with land cover in Europerdquo IGARSS 2014 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium 3938ndash3940 doi 101109IGARSS20146947346
13 De Keersmaecker W Lhermitte S Somers B Van Rooijen N Honnay O Schamineacutee J Farifteh J Coppin P (2013) ldquoThesensitivity of ecosystem stability measures derived from remote sensing time seriesrdquo ASPRS 2013 American Society for Photogrammetryand Remote Sensing Annual Conference 166ndash175
12 Vanonckelen S Lhermitte S Van Rompaey A Griffiths P (2013) ldquoIntegration of topographic correction in a pixel-basedcompositing algorithm in the Romanian Carpathiansrdquo MultiTemp 2013 - 7th International Workshop on the Analysis of Multi-TemporalRemote Sensing Images rdquoOur Dynamic Environmentrdquo doi 101109Multi-Temp20136866012
11 Veraverbeke S Goossens R VerstraetenW Lhermitte S (2009) ldquoCorrection of topographic effects influencing the differencedNormalized Burn Ratiorsquos optimality for estimating fire severityrdquo Proceedings of the VII International EARSeLWorkshop Advances in remoteSensing and GIS Applications in Forest Fire Managment Towards an operational use of remote sensing in forest fire management 271ndash276
10 Lhermitte S VerstraetenW Coppin P Verbesselt J (2008) ldquoSpatio-temporal segmentationbasedonsubsequencesof satelliteimage time seriesrdquo IGARSS 2008 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium vol 2 (1) doi 101109IGARSS20084779153
9 Somers B Delalieux S VerstraetenW Cools K Verbesselt J Lhermitte S Coppin P (2008) ldquoIntegration ofmagnitude andshape related features in hyperspectral mixture analysis to monitor weeds in citrus orchardsrdquo IGARSS 2008 International Geoscienceand Remote Sensing Symposium vol 1 (1) doi 101109IGARSS20084778857
8 Lhermitte S Verbesselt J Verstraeten W Coppin P (2007) ldquoAssessing vegetation regrowth after fire based on time series ofSPOT-vegetation datardquoMultiTemp 2007 - 4th International Workshop on the Analysis of Multi-Temporal Remote Sensing Images doi 101109MULTITEMP20074293050
7 Lhermitte S Van Aardt J Coppin P (2005) ldquoDevelopment of indicators of burning efficiency based on time series of SPOTVEGETATION datardquoMultiTemp 2005 - 3rd International Workshop on the Analysis of Multi-Temporal Remote Sensing Images vol 2005 125 doi101109AMTRSI20051469854
6 Lhermitte S Tips M Verbesselt J Jonckheere I Van Aardt J Coppin P (2005) ldquoDevelopment of indicators of vegetationrecovery based on time series analysis of SPOT VEGETATION datardquo Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineeringvol 5976 doi 10111712627625
5 Verbesselt J Somers B Lhermitte S Van Aardt J Jonckheere I Coppin P (2005) ldquoEstimating vegetation dryness to opti-mize fire risk assessment with SPOT VEGETATION satellite data in savanna ecosystemsrdquo Proceedings of SPIE - The International Societyfor Optical Engineering vol 5976 doi 10111712627682
4 Lhermitte S Verbesselt J Jonckheere I Van Aardt J Coppin P (2005) ldquoEco-climatic image segmentation based on timeseriesrdquo Communications in agricultural and applied biological sciences vol 70 (2) 165ndash168
3 Verbesselt J Somers B Lhermitte S Aardt J Jonckheere I Coppin P (2005) ldquoFire risk assessment in savanna ecosystemswith multi-temporal satellite datardquo Communications in agricultural and applied biological sciences vol 70 (2) 23ndash26
2 Lhermitte S Verbesselt J Nackaerts K Coppin P (2004) ldquoEco-climatic image segmentationbasedon time seriesrdquoASPRS 2013American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Annual Conference (0128)
1 Verbesselt J Lhermitte S Coppin P Eklundh L Joumlnsoon P (2004) ldquoBiophysical drought metrics extraction by time seriesanalysis of SPOT Vegetation datardquo IGARSS 2004 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium vol 3 2062ndash2065
Student support amp teachingPhD supervision amp support
2018-now Weiran LiTUDELFT NETHERLANDSRemote sensing of firn properties
2018-now Thore KauschTUDELFT NETHERLANDSModelling amp Remote Sensing of Antarctic SMB variability
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STEF LHERMITTE CV REMOTE SENSING SCIENTIST
2015-now Niels SouverijnsKULEUVEN BELGIUMThe role of cloud-aerosol interactions in East Antarcticarsquos surface mass balance
2015-now Alexandra GossartKULEUVEN BELGIUMThe role of snowdrift on local mass redistribution in East Antarctica
2012-2016 Kristof Van TrichtKULEUVEN BELGIUMUnderstanding the role of clouds in the climate of Greenland
2011-2015 Wanda De KeersmaeckerKULEUVEN BELGIUMQuantification of vegetation response to climate anomalies through remote sensing
2010-2014 Steven VanonckelenKULEUVEN BELGIUMDetection and analysis of forest cover dynamics with Landsat satellite imagery application in the Romanian CarpathianEcoregion
2008-2010 Sander VeraverbekeGHENT UNIVERSITY BELGIUMAssessing fire burn severity using spaceborne spectral indices
PhD committee memberDefended Robin Lombaert (KULeuven 2013) Roberto Chavez (WUR 2014) Junchao Shi (TUDelft 2017) EliakimHamunyela (WageningenUniversity 2017) SeyedHosseini Aria (TUDelft 2018) JonathanVanBeek (KULeuven 2012-2018)In progress VincentSmets (KULeuven 2015-now) BjoumlrnRombouts (KULeuven 2016-now) RaymondSellevold (TUDelft2017-now) Laura Muntjewerf (TUDelft 2017-now) Paulo Negri Bernardino (KULeuvenWageningen University 2017-now)
MScBSc supervision32 MScBSc students as supervisor co-promotor promotor Ruben Rommens (MSc KULeuven 2003-2004) Miet BoonenMatthias Tipps (MSc KULeuven 2004-2005) Sofie Vanzegbroek (MSc KULeuven 2005-2006) Kim Calders (MSc KULeu-ven 2007-2008) Mattias Vanderoost Gil Gram (MSc KULeuvenCEAZA 2008-2009) Kirsten Bortels (MSc KULeuvenCEAZA2010-2011) Joost Neujens (BSc KULeuven 2013-2014) Niels Tooth Camille Christiansen Joni Ceuppens KatrienWouters(MSc KULeuven 2014-2015) Lander Van Tricht (BSc KULeuven 2015-2016) Tobias Nauwelaers Thomas Antheunis (MScKULeuven 2015-2016) Merve Guumlnes (BSc TU Delft 2016-2017) Egli Michailidou (MSc TU Delft 2017) Eva van der KooijNajoua Essaf Tristan Keulemans (BSc TUDelft 2017) Maaike Izeboud (MSc TUDelft 2018) Annelies Voordendag (MScTUDelft 2018) Ruben Egbers (MSc TUDelft 2018) Job Rosier (MSc TUDelft 2018) Weiran Li (MSc TUDelft 2018) DanieumllKersbergen (MSc TUDelft 2018) Daan Ris (BSc TUDelft 2018) Max Felius (BSc TUDelft 2018) Brendan Scherpenisse(MSc TUDelft 2018) Coco Antonissen (MSc TUDelft 2018) Dirk Van der Valk (MSc TUDelft 2018-2018) Kevin Groot (MScTUDelft 2018-2019) Renske Free (BSc TUDelft 2018) Joseph Heywood (MSc TUDelft 2018-2019) Manish Kharagjitsing(MSc TUDelft 2019) Geerten van der Zalm (MSc TUDelft 2019) Oana Garbasevschi (MSc TUDelft 2019) Thijs van Esch(MSc TUDelft 2019) Huub Ackermans (BSc TUDelft 2019)
Teaching
2018-2019 Cryosphere remote sensing amp modellingMSC GEOSCIENCE amp REMOTE SENSING TUDELFT NETHERLANDSLecturer
2018-2019 Cryosphere remote sensing amp modellingBSC APPLIED TUDELFT NETHERLANDSLecturer
2018-2019 Big geo-data amp machine learning [CIE5603 Advanced project on GRS]MSC GEOSCIENCE amp REMOTE SENSING TUDELFT NETHERLANDSCoordinator + responsible lecturer
2017-2018 Simulation amp visualisation [CIE4604]MSC GEOSCIENCE amp REMOTE SENSING TUDELFT NETHERLANDSLecturer on Remote sensing data processing on big geo-data platforms
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STEF LHERMITTE CV REMOTE SENSING SCIENTIST
2017-2018 Geodesy amp Remote Sensing [CIE4606]MSC GEOSCIENCE amp REMOTE SENSING TUDELFT NETHERLANDSLecturer on radiative transfer modelling
2016-2018 Ice snow amp climate change [CIE4602]MSC GEOSCIENCE amp REMOTE SENSING TUDELFT NETHERLANDSLecturer of remote sensing topics
2016-2018 Introduction to geophysics amp remote sensing [AESB1440]BSC APPLIED EARTH SCIENCES TUDELFT NETHERLANDSLecturer of hyperspectral remote sensing topic
2016-2018 Spaceflight assignment [AE3536]BSC MINOR SPACEFLIGHT TUDELFT NETHERLANDSResponsible for 3 assignments for 9 students
2016-2018 Earth observation [CT3532]BSC MINOR SPACEFLIGHT TUDELFT NETHERLANDSCoordinator + responsible lecturer
2014-2016 Remote sensing of the atmosphereMSC IN GEOGRAPHY MSC IN EARTH OBSERVATION KULEUVEN BELGIUMCoordinator + responsible lecturer
2014-2016 Remote sensing climatological applicationsMSC IN BIOSCIENCE ENGINEERING KULEUVEN BELGIUMGuest lecture in Land Cover amp Land Use monitoring (coordinator Prof Somers B)
2014-2015 Remote sensing of the cryopshereMSC UTRECHT UNIVERSITY NETHERLANDSGuest lecture in Physics of Remote Sensing (coordinator Prof Houweling S)
2011-2014 Temporal image analysis techniquesMSC IN EARTH OBSERVATION KULEUVEN BELGIUMGuest lecture in Remote sensing of vegetative systems (coordinator Prof Coppin P)
2005-2007 Trend analysisADVANCED MSC IN EARTH OBSERVATION KULEUVEN BELGIUMGuest lecture in Vegetative canopy monitoring (coordinator Prof Coppin P)
2002-2005 Geographical information systems [Practical sessions]MSC IN ENGINEERING OF FOREST amp LAND MANAGEMENT KULEUVEN BELGIUMPractical sessions of Geographical Information Systems (coordinator Prof Coppin P(2002-2004) Prof Van Orshoven J(2005))
Grants amp fellowships
NWO GO Firn Assessing firn processes from multi-source satellite dataFUNDED BY NWO USER SUPPORT FOR SPACE RESEARCHPI
Mass2Ant East Antarctic surface mass balance in the Anthropocene observations and multi-scale modellingFUNDED BY BELSPO BRAIN NWOCo-PI and principal NWO-funded collaborator (4 years of PhD funding) on project of PI Goosse H (UCL)
PV-MEP TPS Snow monitoring using the Proba-V Mission Exploitation Platform (PV-MEP) ThirdParty ServicesFUNDED BY ESACo-PI and responsible for snowmonitoring work package
U-Turn Understanding turning points in dryland ecosystem functioningFUNDED BY BELSPO STEREO IIIInternational partner
Black amp bloom Microbial processes darken and accelerate the melting of the Greenland Ice SheetFUNDED BY NERCInternational collaborator on project of PIrsquos Tranter M and Bamber J (University Bristol)
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STEF LHERMITTE CV REMOTE SENSING SCIENTIST
Benemelt Melting of Dronning Maud Land ice shelves a combined modelling and observa-tional approachFUNDED BY INBEV-LATOURCollaborator on project of PI Lenaerts J (Utrecht University)
Aerocloud How do aerosols and clouds affect the East Antarctic climateFUNDED BY BELSPO BRAINCollaborator on project of PI Van Lipzig N (KULeuven)
Aerocloud Antarctic precipitation clouds and their interplay with aerosols Combining ground-based remote sensing and regional climate modelingFUNDED BY FWOCollaborator on project of PI Van Lipzig N (KULeuven)
FWO post-doc fellowship Changes in surface properties of the Greenland ice sheet and their impact on climatemodelingFUNDED BY FWOPrincipal investigator
Fondecyt Regular 2011 Modelling the current and future hydrological contribution of glaciers and seasonalsnow in semi arid mountain catchmentsFUNDED BY FONDECYT (CHILE)International collaborator on project of PI Kinnard C (CEAZA)
Fondecyt Iniciacion 2009 The introduction of fusion techniques to improve the determination of snow coverproperties based on remote sensing imageryFUNDED BY FONDECYT (CHILE)Principal investigator
Planet Action Spatio-temporal changes in glacier surface facies and ablation morphology in theNorte Chico region ChileFUNDED BY SPOT IMAGEPrincipal investigator
Ecoseg-SR01108 Development of a spatio-temporal segmentation algorithm for satellite time seriesto monitor forest conditionFUNDED BY BELSPO STEREO IIInvestigator on project of PI Prof Coppin P (KULeuven)
Glovex-SR1681 Assessment of vegetation regrowth by satellite remote sensingFUNDED BY BELSPO STEREO IIInvestigator on project of PI Prof Coppin P (KULeuven)
Scientific committees amp reviewsCo-convernorship
EGU 2018 Remote sensing of the cryosphere [CR21]EGU GENERAL ASSEMBLY 2018 VIENNA AUSTRIACo-convenor
EGU 2017 Remote sensing of the cryosphere [CR21]EGU GENERAL ASSEMBLY 2017 VIENNA AUSTRIAConvenor
EGU 2016 Remote sensing of the cryosphere [CR21]EGU GENERAL ASSEMBLY 2016 VIENNA AUSTRIAConvenor
EGU 2015 Remote sensing of polar snow and ice [CR21]EGU GENERAL ASSEMBLY 2015 VIENNA AUSTRIA 12 APRIL ndash 17 APRILCo-convenor
EGU 2014 Remote sensing of the cryosphere [CR21]EGU GENERAL ASSEMBLY 2014 VIENNA AUSTRIA 28 APRIL ndash 2 MAYCo-convenor
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STEF LHERMITTE CV REMOTE SENSING SCIENTIST
Multitemp 2007 Fourth International Workshop on the Analysis of Multitemporal Remote Sensing ImagesMULTITEMP 2007 LEUVEN BELGIUM 18-20 JULYMember of the organisation committee
Reviews forNatureGeoscience TheCryosphere RemoteSensingof Environment Journal of Glaciology Scientific Reports IEEETrans-actions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Global Ecology andBiogeography Photogrammetric Engineering amp Remote Sensing Journal of Selected Topics in Applied EarthObservationsand Remote Sensing Remote Sensing International Journal of Remote Sensing Biogeosciences Atmospheric ScienceLetters Journal of Arid Environments Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics Geocarto International International Journalof Geographical Information Science Biosystems Engineering EARSeL eProceedings Sensors Scientia Agricola Ecologi-cal Modeling Annals of Forest Science NSF Fondecyt NWO EUFAR
Editorial work
2018-now The CryosphereEDITOR Editorial Board
2018-2019 Remote Sensing Special IssueRemote Sensing of Glaciers at Global and Regional ScalesGUEST EDITOR Special issue website
Press amp outreachPress
2019 Brunt ice shelfONLINE PRESSBBC Fortune Earther Business Insider Het LaatsteNieuws HetNieuwsblad DeLimburger Ingr Stuttgarter
2019 Climate changeWRITTEN PRESS Volkskrant
2019 Pine Island GlacierONLINE PRESS Atlas Obscura
2018 Larsen C square icebergONLINE PRESSMashable VRT NWS iNews
2018 Pine Island Glacier calvingONLINE PRESS The Weather Channel Mashable Quartz Scientific American Live Science Science Alert DailyBeast The Daily Mail etc
2018 Vavilov Ice Cap surgeONLINE PRESS Earther
2018 Helheim calvingONLINE PRESS Earther
2018 Wat weten we van de ZuidpoolPODCAST NOS Podcast DeDag
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STEF LHERMITTE CV REMOTE SENSING SCIENTIST
2018 Fifteen Years of Change in the ArcticONLINE PRESS Nasa Earth Observatory Earth Sky Washington Post
2018 Antarctic grounding linesONLINE PRESS VRT NWS
2018 Penguin colonies on AntarcticaRADIO De wereld vandaag VRT Radio 1 VRT Radio 2
2018 Mass2Ant fieldworkRADIO NPO Radio 1
2017 Pine Island Glacier calvingRADIO WRITTEN amp ONLINE PRESSWashington Post Nasa hyperwall NY Times The Verge Live Science Quartz USA Today Giz-modo Daily Mail Inverse Euronews Science Alert The Weather Channel Scientias CBS News AOL International Business Times
2017 Greenland wildfireRADIO WRITTEN amp ONLINE PRESS BBC New Scientist The Guardian The Independent Eos NBC News Nasa Earth Nasa EarthBlog Climate Central Wildfire Today Newsweek HLN Clean Technica Euronews Forbes GristMother Jones NPR DW Huffington Post VRTNieuws IFLS Gizmodo Popsci SD Scientias
2017 Asian glaciersWRITTEN PRESS De Volkskrant De Morgen
2017 Larsen-C iceberg A68TV RADIO WRITTEN amp ONLINE PRESS AD De Morgen Climate Central VTM Nieuws BNR Mashable International Business Times Independent HLN RT
2017 Peterman riftTV RADIO WRITTEN amp ONLINE PRESSNOS op 3 Van Gils amp Gasten Washington Post Washington Post follow-up CNN Volkskrant TechTimes Live Science IFL Science ABSNews Daily Mail Mashable Inhabitat Business Insider TheWeather Network NASA Earth Observatory International Business Times Physorg Paris Match ScienceTimes Eathcom PBS Newshour Scientias
2016 Antarctic melt-albedo feedbackTV RADIO WRITTEN amp ONLINE PRESSFor complete coverage check Altmetric with higlights in VRT nieuws VTM journaal Karrewiet Ketnet RTL journaal De wereld vandaag VRT Radio VRTRadio nieuws National Geographic New Scientist De Volkskrant Washington Post Le Soir Eos El Mundo The International Business Times Kennis van Nu NTR Telegraaf De Morgen JapanTimes Der Spiegel Focusde Algemeen Dagblad NOS Physorg IFL science Business insider Science alert Life science CBS News Climate Central Fox news Huffington Post
2016 Lake Victoria ThunderstormsONLINE PRESSFor complete coverage check Altmetric with higlights in Delta Nasa Earth Observatory
2016 Benemelt Antarctic field campaign in the newsRADIO amp WRITTEN PRESS ROBTV DeOchtendVRT Radio 1 Nieuwe FeitenVRT Radio 1 DeWereld vandaagVRTRadio 1HetNieuwsblad De Standaard Rondom Leuven
2012 Interview for Science magazine on exceptional Greenland meltWRITTEN amp ONLINE PRESS Science
Lectures amp Outreach
April 30 2019 11
STEF LHERMITTE CV REMOTE SENSING SCIENTIST
7 Nov 2018 Assessing ice sheet changes from Copernicus satellitesCOPERNICUS amp POLAR REGIONS INDUSTRY WORKSHOPPolar applications of Copernicus
16 Oct 2018 De fysica van AntarcticaNATUURKUNDE SYMPOSIUM PHYSICS OF NATUREKeynote lecture [httpssymposiumvvtptudelftnl]
12 Oct 2018 What happens in Antarctica does not stay in AntarcticaVIB BRAIN amp DISEASE PHD SYMPOSIUMKeynote lecture
4 Oct 2018 Remote Sensing of anomalies and feedbacks using time series modelsSATEX WORKSHOP ON DATA GUIDED APPRAISAL OF BIOSPHERE-CLIMATE INTERACTIONS
4 Jul 2018 Antarctica Report science no-fictionCIMEMA LUMEN SIZZLING SUMMER OF SPACEIntroduction of Antarctic science by the movie rsquoEuropa Reportrsquo
13 May 2018 Hoe koud is het echt op AntarcticaTUDELFT JEUGD UNIVERSITEITPresentation for 8-12 year old students
21 Mar 2018 La Belgique et lAntarctique Impressions de ChercheursEVENING CONFERENCE ON ANTARCTIC RESEARCHPresentation for ice shelf research amp experiences
Feb 2018 Antarctica voor beginnersBASIS- amp KLEUTERSCHOOL URSULINENIntroductie voor kleuter- amp lagere school
21 Feb 2017 Ijsplaten van Antarctica in een veranderend klimaatCAUSERIE OXACOPresentation for wider audience
31 Jan 2017 Ijsplaten van Antarctica in een veranderend klimaatSLO NATUURWETENSCHAPPEN (GEOGRAPHY) KULEUVENPresentation for geografie leerkrachten
18 Dec 2016 Ice shelves on AntarcticaONDERNEMERSHUIS MECHELENPresentation on rsquoIce shelves on Antarcticarsquo
Dec 2015 Antarctica voor beginnersKLEUTERSCHOOL URSULINENIntroductie voor kleuterschool
SkillsSoftware
Office applications Office (Word Excel Powerpoint Access) LaTeX Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop Illustrator Flash)Open-source Office Libreoffice suite Inkscape imagemagickProgram languages python R C++ fortran bash IDL matlab javascript php html+css sqlRemote sensing QGis Google Earth Engine gdalogr ArcGIS Envi Idrisi PCIOperating systems Linux Mac Windows
Languages
Dutch Mother tongueEnglish Proficient understanding speaking and writing [ C2 level]French Very good understanding good speaking and intermediate writingSpanish Very good understanding and speaking good writing
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STEF LHERMITTE CV REMOTE SENSING SCIENTIST
Field work managementOrganisation of field campaigns in the Chilean Andes (2010 2014) and coordinator and assistance in a scientific field campaign on theRoi Baudoin ice shelf (East-Antarctica Jan 2016 amp Dec 2017)
April 30 2019 13
STEF LHERMITTE CV REMOTE SENSING SCIENTIST
30 Hawinkel P Swinnen E Lhermitte S Verbist B Van Orshoven J Muys B (2015) ldquoA time series processing tool to extractclimate-driven interannual vegetation dynamics using Ensemble Empirical Mode Decomposition (EEMD)rdquo Remote Sensing of Environ-ment 169 375ndash389 doi 101016jrse201508024
29 Vanonckelen S Lhermitte S Van Rompaey A (2015) ldquoThe effect of atmospheric and topographic correction on pixel-basedimage composites Improved forest cover detection in mountainenvironmentsrdquo International Journal of Applied Earth Observation andGeoinformation 35 (PB) 320ndash328 doi 101016jjag201410006
28 De Keersmaecker W Lhermitte S Tits L Honnay O Somers B Coppin P (2015) ldquoA model quantifying global vegetationresistance and resilience to short-term climate anomalies and their relationship with vegetation coverrdquo Global Ecology and Biogeog-raphy 24 (5) 539ndash548 doi 101111geb12279
27 De Keersmaecker W Lhermitte S Tits L Honnay O Somers B Coppin P (2015) ldquoResilience and the reliability of spectralentropy to assess ecosystem stabilityrdquo Global Change Biology doi 101111gcb12799
26 Bertin A Alvarez E Gouin N Gianoli E Montecinos S Lek S Gascoin S Lhermitte S (2015) ldquoEffects ofwind-driven spatialstructure and environmental heterogeneity on high-altitude wetland macroinvertebrate assemblages with contrasting dispersalmodesrdquo Freshwater Biology 60 (2) 297ndash310 doi 101111fwb12488
25 Maahn M Burgard C Crewell S Gorodetskaya I Kneifel S Lhermitte S Van Tricht K Van Lipzig N (2014) ldquoHowdoes thespaceborne radar blind zone affect derived surface snowfall statistics in polar regionsrdquo Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres119 (24) 13604ndash13620 doi 1010022014JD022079
24 Lhermitte S Abermann J Kinnard C (2014) ldquoAlbedo over rough snow and ice surfacesrdquo Cryosphere 8 (3) 1069ndash1086 doi 105194tc-8-1069-2014
23 Van Tricht K Gorodetskaya I Lhermitte S Turner D Schween J Van Lipzig N (2014) ldquoAn improved algorithm for polarcloud-base detection by ceilometer over the ice sheetsrdquo Atmospheric Measurement Techniques 7 (5) 1153ndash1167 doi 105194amt-7-1153-2014
22 Vanonckelen S Lhermitte S Balthazar V Van Rompaey A (2014) ldquoPerformance of atmospheric and topographic correctionmethods on Landsat imagery in mountain areasrdquo International Journal of Remote Sensing 35 (13) 4952ndash4972 doi 101080014311612014933280
21 De Keersmaecker W Lhermitte S Honnay O Farifteh J Somers B Coppin P (2014) ldquoHow tomeasure ecosystem stabilityAn evaluation of the reliability of stability metrics based on remote sensing time series across the major global ecosystemsrdquo GlobalChange Biology 20 (7) 2149ndash2161 doi 101111gcb12495
20 Vanonckelen S Lhermitte S Van Rompaey A (2013) ldquoThe effect of atmospheric and topographic correctionmethods on landcover classification accuracyrdquo International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 24 (1) 9ndash21 doi 101016jjag201302003
19 Gascoin S Lhermitte S Kinnard C Bortels K Liston G (2013) ldquoWind effects on snow cover in Pascua-Lama Dry Andes ofChilerdquo Advances in Water Resources 55 25ndash39 doi 101016jadvwatres201211013
18 Van Angelen J Lenaerts J Lhermitte S Fettweis X KuipersMunneke P Van Den Broeke M VanMeijgaard E P Smeets C(2012) ldquoSensitivity of Greenland Ice Sheet surfacemass balance to surface albedo parameterization A studywith a regional climatemodelrdquo Cryosphere 6 (5) 1175ndash1186 doi 105194tc-6-1175-2012
17 Veraverbeke S VerstraetenW Lhermitte S VanDeKerchove R Goossens R (2012) ldquoAssessment of post-fire changes in landsurface temperature and surface albedo and their relation with fireburn severity usingmultitemporal MODIS imageryrdquo InternationalJournal of Wildland Fire 21 (3) 243ndash256 doi 101071WF10075
16 Van De Kerchove R Lhermitte S Veraverbeke S Goossens R (2012) ldquoSpatio-temporal variability in remotely sensed landsurface temperature and its relationshipwith physiographic variables in the Russian AltayMountainsrdquo International Journal of AppliedEarth Observation and Geoinformation 20 (1) 4ndash19 doi 101016jjag201109007
15 Lhermitte S Verbesselt J Verstraeten W Coppin P (2011) ldquoA comparison of time series similarity measures for classificationand change detection of ecosystem dynamicsrdquo Remote Sensing of Environment 115 (12) 3129ndash3152 doi 101016jrse201106020
14 Gascoin S Kinnard C Ponce R Lhermitte S MacDonell S Rabatel A (2011) ldquoGlacier contribution to streamflow in twoheadwaters of the Huasco River Dry Andes of Chilerdquo Cryosphere 5 (4) 1099ndash1113 doi 105194tc-5-1099-2011
13 Veraverbeke S Lhermitte S Verstraeten W Goossens R (2011) ldquoEvaluation of prepost-fire differenced spectral indices forassessing burn severity in a mediterranean environment with landsat thematic mapperrdquo International Journal of Remote Sensing 32(12) 3521ndash3537 doi 10108001431161003752430
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STEF LHERMITTE CV REMOTE SENSING SCIENTIST
12 Veraverbeke S Lhermitte S VerstraetenW Goossens R (2011) ldquoA time-integratedMODIS burn severity assessment using themulti-temporal differenced normalized burn ratio (dNBRMT)rdquo International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 13(1) 52ndash58 doi 101016jjag201006006
11 Lhermitte S Verbesselt J VerstraetenW Veraverbeke S Coppin P (2011) ldquoAssessing intra-annual vegetation regrowth afterfire using the pixel based regeneration indexrdquo ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing 66 (1) 17ndash27 doi 101016jisprsjprs201008004
10 Veraverbeke S Lhermitte S Verstraeten W Goossens R (2010) ldquoThe temporal dimension of differenced Normalized BurnRatio (dNBR) fireburn severity studies The case of the large 2007 Peloponnese wildfires in Greecerdquo Remote Sensing of Environment114 (11) 2548ndash2563 doi 101016jrse201005029
9 Veraverbeke S Verstraeten W Lhermitte S Goossens R (2010) ldquoEvaluating Landsat Thematic Mapper spectral indices forestimating burn severity of the 2007 Peloponnese wildfires in Greecerdquo International Journal of Wildland Fire 19 (5) 558ndash569 doi 101071WF09069
8 Lhermitte S Verbesselt J Verstraeten W Coppin P (2010) ldquoA pixel based regeneration index using time series similarity andspatial contextrdquo Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing 76 (6) 673ndash682
7 Verstraeten W Vermeulen B Stuckens J Lhermitte S Zande D Ranst M Coppin P (2010) ldquoWebcams for bird detectionandmonitoring A demonstration studyrdquo Sensors 10 (4) 3480ndash3503 doi 103390s100403480
6 Veraverbeke S Verstraeten W Lhermitte S Goossens R (2010) ldquoIllumination effects on the differenced Normalized BurnRatiorsquos optimality for assessing fire severityrdquo International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 12 (1) 60ndash70 doi 101016jjag200910004
5 Delalieux S Auwerkerken A Verstraeten W Somers B Valcke R Lhermitte S Keulemans J Coppin P (2009) ldquoHy-perspectral reflectance and fluorescence imaging to detect scab induced stress in apple leavesrdquo Remote Sensing 1 (4) 858ndash874 doi103390rs1040858
4 Somers B Delalieux S Verstraeten W Verbesselt J Lhermitte S Coppin P (2009) ldquoMagnitude- and shape-related featureintegration in hyperspectralmixture analysis tomonitorweeds in citrus orchardsrdquo IEEE Transactions onGeoscience and Remote Sensing47 (11) 3630ndash3642 doi 101109TGRS20092024207
3 Lhermitte S Verbesselt J Jonckheere I Nackaerts K Aardt J Verstraeten W Coppin P (2008) ldquoHierarchical image seg-mentation based on similarity of NDVI time seriesrdquo Remote Sensing of Environment 112 (2) 506ndash521 doi 101016jrse200705018
2 Verbesselt J Somers B Lhermitte S Jonckheere I Aardt J Coppin P (2007) ldquoMonitoringherbaceous fuelmoisture contentwith SPOT VEGETATION time-series for fire risk prediction in savanna ecosystemsrdquo Remote Sensing of Environment 108 (4) 357ndash368 doi101016jrse200611019
1 Verbesselt J Joumlnsson P Lhermitte S Van Aardt J Coppin P (2006) ldquoEvaluating satellite and climate data-derived indicesas fire risk indicators in savanna ecosystemsrdquo IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 44 (6) 1622ndash1632 doi 101109TGRS2005862262
Book chapters
2 Veraverbeke S Lhermitte S Verstraeten W Goossens R (2010)rdquoAssessing burn severity using satellite time seriesrdquo In ldquoMod-elling Monitoring and Management of Forest Fires IIrdquo pp 107ndash118 by Perona G and CA Brebbia eds WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Envi-ronment doi 102495FIVA100101
1 Verbesselt J Joumlnsson P Lhermitte S Jonckheere I Aardt J Coppin P (2006)rdquoRelating time-series of meteorological andremote sensing indices to monitor vegetation moisture dynamicsrdquo In ldquoSignal and image processing for remote sensingrdquo pp 153ndash173 byChen C ed CRC Press University of Massachusetts North Darthmouth USA
Conference proceedings
15 De Keersmaecker W Lhermitte S Tits L Honnay O Coppin P Somers B (2015) ldquoTowards the large-scale assessmentof vegetation biomass production stabilityrdquoMultiTemp 2015 - 8th International Workshop on the Analysis of Multitemporal Remote SensingImages doi 101109Multi-Temp20157245764
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STEF LHERMITTE CV REMOTE SENSING SCIENTIST
14 De Keersmaecker W Lhermitte S Tits L Honnay O Somers B Coppin P (2014) ldquoLinking NDVI and climate-based ecosys-tem stability with land cover in Europerdquo IGARSS 2014 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium 3938ndash3940 doi 101109IGARSS20146947346
13 De Keersmaecker W Lhermitte S Somers B Van Rooijen N Honnay O Schamineacutee J Farifteh J Coppin P (2013) ldquoThesensitivity of ecosystem stability measures derived from remote sensing time seriesrdquo ASPRS 2013 American Society for Photogrammetryand Remote Sensing Annual Conference 166ndash175
12 Vanonckelen S Lhermitte S Van Rompaey A Griffiths P (2013) ldquoIntegration of topographic correction in a pixel-basedcompositing algorithm in the Romanian Carpathiansrdquo MultiTemp 2013 - 7th International Workshop on the Analysis of Multi-TemporalRemote Sensing Images rdquoOur Dynamic Environmentrdquo doi 101109Multi-Temp20136866012
11 Veraverbeke S Goossens R VerstraetenW Lhermitte S (2009) ldquoCorrection of topographic effects influencing the differencedNormalized Burn Ratiorsquos optimality for estimating fire severityrdquo Proceedings of the VII International EARSeLWorkshop Advances in remoteSensing and GIS Applications in Forest Fire Managment Towards an operational use of remote sensing in forest fire management 271ndash276
10 Lhermitte S VerstraetenW Coppin P Verbesselt J (2008) ldquoSpatio-temporal segmentationbasedonsubsequencesof satelliteimage time seriesrdquo IGARSS 2008 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium vol 2 (1) doi 101109IGARSS20084779153
9 Somers B Delalieux S VerstraetenW Cools K Verbesselt J Lhermitte S Coppin P (2008) ldquoIntegration ofmagnitude andshape related features in hyperspectral mixture analysis to monitor weeds in citrus orchardsrdquo IGARSS 2008 International Geoscienceand Remote Sensing Symposium vol 1 (1) doi 101109IGARSS20084778857
8 Lhermitte S Verbesselt J Verstraeten W Coppin P (2007) ldquoAssessing vegetation regrowth after fire based on time series ofSPOT-vegetation datardquoMultiTemp 2007 - 4th International Workshop on the Analysis of Multi-Temporal Remote Sensing Images doi 101109MULTITEMP20074293050
7 Lhermitte S Van Aardt J Coppin P (2005) ldquoDevelopment of indicators of burning efficiency based on time series of SPOTVEGETATION datardquoMultiTemp 2005 - 3rd International Workshop on the Analysis of Multi-Temporal Remote Sensing Images vol 2005 125 doi101109AMTRSI20051469854
6 Lhermitte S Tips M Verbesselt J Jonckheere I Van Aardt J Coppin P (2005) ldquoDevelopment of indicators of vegetationrecovery based on time series analysis of SPOT VEGETATION datardquo Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineeringvol 5976 doi 10111712627625
5 Verbesselt J Somers B Lhermitte S Van Aardt J Jonckheere I Coppin P (2005) ldquoEstimating vegetation dryness to opti-mize fire risk assessment with SPOT VEGETATION satellite data in savanna ecosystemsrdquo Proceedings of SPIE - The International Societyfor Optical Engineering vol 5976 doi 10111712627682
4 Lhermitte S Verbesselt J Jonckheere I Van Aardt J Coppin P (2005) ldquoEco-climatic image segmentation based on timeseriesrdquo Communications in agricultural and applied biological sciences vol 70 (2) 165ndash168
3 Verbesselt J Somers B Lhermitte S Aardt J Jonckheere I Coppin P (2005) ldquoFire risk assessment in savanna ecosystemswith multi-temporal satellite datardquo Communications in agricultural and applied biological sciences vol 70 (2) 23ndash26
2 Lhermitte S Verbesselt J Nackaerts K Coppin P (2004) ldquoEco-climatic image segmentationbasedon time seriesrdquoASPRS 2013American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Annual Conference (0128)
1 Verbesselt J Lhermitte S Coppin P Eklundh L Joumlnsoon P (2004) ldquoBiophysical drought metrics extraction by time seriesanalysis of SPOT Vegetation datardquo IGARSS 2004 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium vol 3 2062ndash2065
Student support amp teachingPhD supervision amp support
2018-now Weiran LiTUDELFT NETHERLANDSRemote sensing of firn properties
2018-now Thore KauschTUDELFT NETHERLANDSModelling amp Remote Sensing of Antarctic SMB variability
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STEF LHERMITTE CV REMOTE SENSING SCIENTIST
2015-now Niels SouverijnsKULEUVEN BELGIUMThe role of cloud-aerosol interactions in East Antarcticarsquos surface mass balance
2015-now Alexandra GossartKULEUVEN BELGIUMThe role of snowdrift on local mass redistribution in East Antarctica
2012-2016 Kristof Van TrichtKULEUVEN BELGIUMUnderstanding the role of clouds in the climate of Greenland
2011-2015 Wanda De KeersmaeckerKULEUVEN BELGIUMQuantification of vegetation response to climate anomalies through remote sensing
2010-2014 Steven VanonckelenKULEUVEN BELGIUMDetection and analysis of forest cover dynamics with Landsat satellite imagery application in the Romanian CarpathianEcoregion
2008-2010 Sander VeraverbekeGHENT UNIVERSITY BELGIUMAssessing fire burn severity using spaceborne spectral indices
PhD committee memberDefended Robin Lombaert (KULeuven 2013) Roberto Chavez (WUR 2014) Junchao Shi (TUDelft 2017) EliakimHamunyela (WageningenUniversity 2017) SeyedHosseini Aria (TUDelft 2018) JonathanVanBeek (KULeuven 2012-2018)In progress VincentSmets (KULeuven 2015-now) BjoumlrnRombouts (KULeuven 2016-now) RaymondSellevold (TUDelft2017-now) Laura Muntjewerf (TUDelft 2017-now) Paulo Negri Bernardino (KULeuvenWageningen University 2017-now)
MScBSc supervision32 MScBSc students as supervisor co-promotor promotor Ruben Rommens (MSc KULeuven 2003-2004) Miet BoonenMatthias Tipps (MSc KULeuven 2004-2005) Sofie Vanzegbroek (MSc KULeuven 2005-2006) Kim Calders (MSc KULeu-ven 2007-2008) Mattias Vanderoost Gil Gram (MSc KULeuvenCEAZA 2008-2009) Kirsten Bortels (MSc KULeuvenCEAZA2010-2011) Joost Neujens (BSc KULeuven 2013-2014) Niels Tooth Camille Christiansen Joni Ceuppens KatrienWouters(MSc KULeuven 2014-2015) Lander Van Tricht (BSc KULeuven 2015-2016) Tobias Nauwelaers Thomas Antheunis (MScKULeuven 2015-2016) Merve Guumlnes (BSc TU Delft 2016-2017) Egli Michailidou (MSc TU Delft 2017) Eva van der KooijNajoua Essaf Tristan Keulemans (BSc TUDelft 2017) Maaike Izeboud (MSc TUDelft 2018) Annelies Voordendag (MScTUDelft 2018) Ruben Egbers (MSc TUDelft 2018) Job Rosier (MSc TUDelft 2018) Weiran Li (MSc TUDelft 2018) DanieumllKersbergen (MSc TUDelft 2018) Daan Ris (BSc TUDelft 2018) Max Felius (BSc TUDelft 2018) Brendan Scherpenisse(MSc TUDelft 2018) Coco Antonissen (MSc TUDelft 2018) Dirk Van der Valk (MSc TUDelft 2018-2018) Kevin Groot (MScTUDelft 2018-2019) Renske Free (BSc TUDelft 2018) Joseph Heywood (MSc TUDelft 2018-2019) Manish Kharagjitsing(MSc TUDelft 2019) Geerten van der Zalm (MSc TUDelft 2019) Oana Garbasevschi (MSc TUDelft 2019) Thijs van Esch(MSc TUDelft 2019) Huub Ackermans (BSc TUDelft 2019)
Teaching
2018-2019 Cryosphere remote sensing amp modellingMSC GEOSCIENCE amp REMOTE SENSING TUDELFT NETHERLANDSLecturer
2018-2019 Cryosphere remote sensing amp modellingBSC APPLIED TUDELFT NETHERLANDSLecturer
2018-2019 Big geo-data amp machine learning [CIE5603 Advanced project on GRS]MSC GEOSCIENCE amp REMOTE SENSING TUDELFT NETHERLANDSCoordinator + responsible lecturer
2017-2018 Simulation amp visualisation [CIE4604]MSC GEOSCIENCE amp REMOTE SENSING TUDELFT NETHERLANDSLecturer on Remote sensing data processing on big geo-data platforms
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STEF LHERMITTE CV REMOTE SENSING SCIENTIST
2017-2018 Geodesy amp Remote Sensing [CIE4606]MSC GEOSCIENCE amp REMOTE SENSING TUDELFT NETHERLANDSLecturer on radiative transfer modelling
2016-2018 Ice snow amp climate change [CIE4602]MSC GEOSCIENCE amp REMOTE SENSING TUDELFT NETHERLANDSLecturer of remote sensing topics
2016-2018 Introduction to geophysics amp remote sensing [AESB1440]BSC APPLIED EARTH SCIENCES TUDELFT NETHERLANDSLecturer of hyperspectral remote sensing topic
2016-2018 Spaceflight assignment [AE3536]BSC MINOR SPACEFLIGHT TUDELFT NETHERLANDSResponsible for 3 assignments for 9 students
2016-2018 Earth observation [CT3532]BSC MINOR SPACEFLIGHT TUDELFT NETHERLANDSCoordinator + responsible lecturer
2014-2016 Remote sensing of the atmosphereMSC IN GEOGRAPHY MSC IN EARTH OBSERVATION KULEUVEN BELGIUMCoordinator + responsible lecturer
2014-2016 Remote sensing climatological applicationsMSC IN BIOSCIENCE ENGINEERING KULEUVEN BELGIUMGuest lecture in Land Cover amp Land Use monitoring (coordinator Prof Somers B)
2014-2015 Remote sensing of the cryopshereMSC UTRECHT UNIVERSITY NETHERLANDSGuest lecture in Physics of Remote Sensing (coordinator Prof Houweling S)
2011-2014 Temporal image analysis techniquesMSC IN EARTH OBSERVATION KULEUVEN BELGIUMGuest lecture in Remote sensing of vegetative systems (coordinator Prof Coppin P)
2005-2007 Trend analysisADVANCED MSC IN EARTH OBSERVATION KULEUVEN BELGIUMGuest lecture in Vegetative canopy monitoring (coordinator Prof Coppin P)
2002-2005 Geographical information systems [Practical sessions]MSC IN ENGINEERING OF FOREST amp LAND MANAGEMENT KULEUVEN BELGIUMPractical sessions of Geographical Information Systems (coordinator Prof Coppin P(2002-2004) Prof Van Orshoven J(2005))
Grants amp fellowships
NWO GO Firn Assessing firn processes from multi-source satellite dataFUNDED BY NWO USER SUPPORT FOR SPACE RESEARCHPI
Mass2Ant East Antarctic surface mass balance in the Anthropocene observations and multi-scale modellingFUNDED BY BELSPO BRAIN NWOCo-PI and principal NWO-funded collaborator (4 years of PhD funding) on project of PI Goosse H (UCL)
PV-MEP TPS Snow monitoring using the Proba-V Mission Exploitation Platform (PV-MEP) ThirdParty ServicesFUNDED BY ESACo-PI and responsible for snowmonitoring work package
U-Turn Understanding turning points in dryland ecosystem functioningFUNDED BY BELSPO STEREO IIIInternational partner
Black amp bloom Microbial processes darken and accelerate the melting of the Greenland Ice SheetFUNDED BY NERCInternational collaborator on project of PIrsquos Tranter M and Bamber J (University Bristol)
April 30 2019 8
STEF LHERMITTE CV REMOTE SENSING SCIENTIST
Benemelt Melting of Dronning Maud Land ice shelves a combined modelling and observa-tional approachFUNDED BY INBEV-LATOURCollaborator on project of PI Lenaerts J (Utrecht University)
Aerocloud How do aerosols and clouds affect the East Antarctic climateFUNDED BY BELSPO BRAINCollaborator on project of PI Van Lipzig N (KULeuven)
Aerocloud Antarctic precipitation clouds and their interplay with aerosols Combining ground-based remote sensing and regional climate modelingFUNDED BY FWOCollaborator on project of PI Van Lipzig N (KULeuven)
FWO post-doc fellowship Changes in surface properties of the Greenland ice sheet and their impact on climatemodelingFUNDED BY FWOPrincipal investigator
Fondecyt Regular 2011 Modelling the current and future hydrological contribution of glaciers and seasonalsnow in semi arid mountain catchmentsFUNDED BY FONDECYT (CHILE)International collaborator on project of PI Kinnard C (CEAZA)
Fondecyt Iniciacion 2009 The introduction of fusion techniques to improve the determination of snow coverproperties based on remote sensing imageryFUNDED BY FONDECYT (CHILE)Principal investigator
Planet Action Spatio-temporal changes in glacier surface facies and ablation morphology in theNorte Chico region ChileFUNDED BY SPOT IMAGEPrincipal investigator
Ecoseg-SR01108 Development of a spatio-temporal segmentation algorithm for satellite time seriesto monitor forest conditionFUNDED BY BELSPO STEREO IIInvestigator on project of PI Prof Coppin P (KULeuven)
Glovex-SR1681 Assessment of vegetation regrowth by satellite remote sensingFUNDED BY BELSPO STEREO IIInvestigator on project of PI Prof Coppin P (KULeuven)
Scientific committees amp reviewsCo-convernorship
EGU 2018 Remote sensing of the cryosphere [CR21]EGU GENERAL ASSEMBLY 2018 VIENNA AUSTRIACo-convenor
EGU 2017 Remote sensing of the cryosphere [CR21]EGU GENERAL ASSEMBLY 2017 VIENNA AUSTRIAConvenor
EGU 2016 Remote sensing of the cryosphere [CR21]EGU GENERAL ASSEMBLY 2016 VIENNA AUSTRIAConvenor
EGU 2015 Remote sensing of polar snow and ice [CR21]EGU GENERAL ASSEMBLY 2015 VIENNA AUSTRIA 12 APRIL ndash 17 APRILCo-convenor
EGU 2014 Remote sensing of the cryosphere [CR21]EGU GENERAL ASSEMBLY 2014 VIENNA AUSTRIA 28 APRIL ndash 2 MAYCo-convenor
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STEF LHERMITTE CV REMOTE SENSING SCIENTIST
Multitemp 2007 Fourth International Workshop on the Analysis of Multitemporal Remote Sensing ImagesMULTITEMP 2007 LEUVEN BELGIUM 18-20 JULYMember of the organisation committee
Reviews forNatureGeoscience TheCryosphere RemoteSensingof Environment Journal of Glaciology Scientific Reports IEEETrans-actions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Global Ecology andBiogeography Photogrammetric Engineering amp Remote Sensing Journal of Selected Topics in Applied EarthObservationsand Remote Sensing Remote Sensing International Journal of Remote Sensing Biogeosciences Atmospheric ScienceLetters Journal of Arid Environments Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics Geocarto International International Journalof Geographical Information Science Biosystems Engineering EARSeL eProceedings Sensors Scientia Agricola Ecologi-cal Modeling Annals of Forest Science NSF Fondecyt NWO EUFAR
Editorial work
2018-now The CryosphereEDITOR Editorial Board
2018-2019 Remote Sensing Special IssueRemote Sensing of Glaciers at Global and Regional ScalesGUEST EDITOR Special issue website
Press amp outreachPress
2019 Brunt ice shelfONLINE PRESSBBC Fortune Earther Business Insider Het LaatsteNieuws HetNieuwsblad DeLimburger Ingr Stuttgarter
2019 Climate changeWRITTEN PRESS Volkskrant
2019 Pine Island GlacierONLINE PRESS Atlas Obscura
2018 Larsen C square icebergONLINE PRESSMashable VRT NWS iNews
2018 Pine Island Glacier calvingONLINE PRESS The Weather Channel Mashable Quartz Scientific American Live Science Science Alert DailyBeast The Daily Mail etc
2018 Vavilov Ice Cap surgeONLINE PRESS Earther
2018 Helheim calvingONLINE PRESS Earther
2018 Wat weten we van de ZuidpoolPODCAST NOS Podcast DeDag
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STEF LHERMITTE CV REMOTE SENSING SCIENTIST
2018 Fifteen Years of Change in the ArcticONLINE PRESS Nasa Earth Observatory Earth Sky Washington Post
2018 Antarctic grounding linesONLINE PRESS VRT NWS
2018 Penguin colonies on AntarcticaRADIO De wereld vandaag VRT Radio 1 VRT Radio 2
2018 Mass2Ant fieldworkRADIO NPO Radio 1
2017 Pine Island Glacier calvingRADIO WRITTEN amp ONLINE PRESSWashington Post Nasa hyperwall NY Times The Verge Live Science Quartz USA Today Giz-modo Daily Mail Inverse Euronews Science Alert The Weather Channel Scientias CBS News AOL International Business Times
2017 Greenland wildfireRADIO WRITTEN amp ONLINE PRESS BBC New Scientist The Guardian The Independent Eos NBC News Nasa Earth Nasa EarthBlog Climate Central Wildfire Today Newsweek HLN Clean Technica Euronews Forbes GristMother Jones NPR DW Huffington Post VRTNieuws IFLS Gizmodo Popsci SD Scientias
2017 Asian glaciersWRITTEN PRESS De Volkskrant De Morgen
2017 Larsen-C iceberg A68TV RADIO WRITTEN amp ONLINE PRESS AD De Morgen Climate Central VTM Nieuws BNR Mashable International Business Times Independent HLN RT
2017 Peterman riftTV RADIO WRITTEN amp ONLINE PRESSNOS op 3 Van Gils amp Gasten Washington Post Washington Post follow-up CNN Volkskrant TechTimes Live Science IFL Science ABSNews Daily Mail Mashable Inhabitat Business Insider TheWeather Network NASA Earth Observatory International Business Times Physorg Paris Match ScienceTimes Eathcom PBS Newshour Scientias
2016 Antarctic melt-albedo feedbackTV RADIO WRITTEN amp ONLINE PRESSFor complete coverage check Altmetric with higlights in VRT nieuws VTM journaal Karrewiet Ketnet RTL journaal De wereld vandaag VRT Radio VRTRadio nieuws National Geographic New Scientist De Volkskrant Washington Post Le Soir Eos El Mundo The International Business Times Kennis van Nu NTR Telegraaf De Morgen JapanTimes Der Spiegel Focusde Algemeen Dagblad NOS Physorg IFL science Business insider Science alert Life science CBS News Climate Central Fox news Huffington Post
2016 Lake Victoria ThunderstormsONLINE PRESSFor complete coverage check Altmetric with higlights in Delta Nasa Earth Observatory
2016 Benemelt Antarctic field campaign in the newsRADIO amp WRITTEN PRESS ROBTV DeOchtendVRT Radio 1 Nieuwe FeitenVRT Radio 1 DeWereld vandaagVRTRadio 1HetNieuwsblad De Standaard Rondom Leuven
2012 Interview for Science magazine on exceptional Greenland meltWRITTEN amp ONLINE PRESS Science
Lectures amp Outreach
April 30 2019 11
STEF LHERMITTE CV REMOTE SENSING SCIENTIST
7 Nov 2018 Assessing ice sheet changes from Copernicus satellitesCOPERNICUS amp POLAR REGIONS INDUSTRY WORKSHOPPolar applications of Copernicus
16 Oct 2018 De fysica van AntarcticaNATUURKUNDE SYMPOSIUM PHYSICS OF NATUREKeynote lecture [httpssymposiumvvtptudelftnl]
12 Oct 2018 What happens in Antarctica does not stay in AntarcticaVIB BRAIN amp DISEASE PHD SYMPOSIUMKeynote lecture
4 Oct 2018 Remote Sensing of anomalies and feedbacks using time series modelsSATEX WORKSHOP ON DATA GUIDED APPRAISAL OF BIOSPHERE-CLIMATE INTERACTIONS
4 Jul 2018 Antarctica Report science no-fictionCIMEMA LUMEN SIZZLING SUMMER OF SPACEIntroduction of Antarctic science by the movie rsquoEuropa Reportrsquo
13 May 2018 Hoe koud is het echt op AntarcticaTUDELFT JEUGD UNIVERSITEITPresentation for 8-12 year old students
21 Mar 2018 La Belgique et lAntarctique Impressions de ChercheursEVENING CONFERENCE ON ANTARCTIC RESEARCHPresentation for ice shelf research amp experiences
Feb 2018 Antarctica voor beginnersBASIS- amp KLEUTERSCHOOL URSULINENIntroductie voor kleuter- amp lagere school
21 Feb 2017 Ijsplaten van Antarctica in een veranderend klimaatCAUSERIE OXACOPresentation for wider audience
31 Jan 2017 Ijsplaten van Antarctica in een veranderend klimaatSLO NATUURWETENSCHAPPEN (GEOGRAPHY) KULEUVENPresentation for geografie leerkrachten
18 Dec 2016 Ice shelves on AntarcticaONDERNEMERSHUIS MECHELENPresentation on rsquoIce shelves on Antarcticarsquo
Dec 2015 Antarctica voor beginnersKLEUTERSCHOOL URSULINENIntroductie voor kleuterschool
SkillsSoftware
Office applications Office (Word Excel Powerpoint Access) LaTeX Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop Illustrator Flash)Open-source Office Libreoffice suite Inkscape imagemagickProgram languages python R C++ fortran bash IDL matlab javascript php html+css sqlRemote sensing QGis Google Earth Engine gdalogr ArcGIS Envi Idrisi PCIOperating systems Linux Mac Windows
Languages
Dutch Mother tongueEnglish Proficient understanding speaking and writing [ C2 level]French Very good understanding good speaking and intermediate writingSpanish Very good understanding and speaking good writing
April 30 2019 12
STEF LHERMITTE CV REMOTE SENSING SCIENTIST
Field work managementOrganisation of field campaigns in the Chilean Andes (2010 2014) and coordinator and assistance in a scientific field campaign on theRoi Baudoin ice shelf (East-Antarctica Jan 2016 amp Dec 2017)
April 30 2019 13
STEF LHERMITTE CV REMOTE SENSING SCIENTIST
12 Veraverbeke S Lhermitte S VerstraetenW Goossens R (2011) ldquoA time-integratedMODIS burn severity assessment using themulti-temporal differenced normalized burn ratio (dNBRMT)rdquo International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 13(1) 52ndash58 doi 101016jjag201006006
11 Lhermitte S Verbesselt J VerstraetenW Veraverbeke S Coppin P (2011) ldquoAssessing intra-annual vegetation regrowth afterfire using the pixel based regeneration indexrdquo ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing 66 (1) 17ndash27 doi 101016jisprsjprs201008004
10 Veraverbeke S Lhermitte S Verstraeten W Goossens R (2010) ldquoThe temporal dimension of differenced Normalized BurnRatio (dNBR) fireburn severity studies The case of the large 2007 Peloponnese wildfires in Greecerdquo Remote Sensing of Environment114 (11) 2548ndash2563 doi 101016jrse201005029
9 Veraverbeke S Verstraeten W Lhermitte S Goossens R (2010) ldquoEvaluating Landsat Thematic Mapper spectral indices forestimating burn severity of the 2007 Peloponnese wildfires in Greecerdquo International Journal of Wildland Fire 19 (5) 558ndash569 doi 101071WF09069
8 Lhermitte S Verbesselt J Verstraeten W Coppin P (2010) ldquoA pixel based regeneration index using time series similarity andspatial contextrdquo Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing 76 (6) 673ndash682
7 Verstraeten W Vermeulen B Stuckens J Lhermitte S Zande D Ranst M Coppin P (2010) ldquoWebcams for bird detectionandmonitoring A demonstration studyrdquo Sensors 10 (4) 3480ndash3503 doi 103390s100403480
6 Veraverbeke S Verstraeten W Lhermitte S Goossens R (2010) ldquoIllumination effects on the differenced Normalized BurnRatiorsquos optimality for assessing fire severityrdquo International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 12 (1) 60ndash70 doi 101016jjag200910004
5 Delalieux S Auwerkerken A Verstraeten W Somers B Valcke R Lhermitte S Keulemans J Coppin P (2009) ldquoHy-perspectral reflectance and fluorescence imaging to detect scab induced stress in apple leavesrdquo Remote Sensing 1 (4) 858ndash874 doi103390rs1040858
4 Somers B Delalieux S Verstraeten W Verbesselt J Lhermitte S Coppin P (2009) ldquoMagnitude- and shape-related featureintegration in hyperspectralmixture analysis tomonitorweeds in citrus orchardsrdquo IEEE Transactions onGeoscience and Remote Sensing47 (11) 3630ndash3642 doi 101109TGRS20092024207
3 Lhermitte S Verbesselt J Jonckheere I Nackaerts K Aardt J Verstraeten W Coppin P (2008) ldquoHierarchical image seg-mentation based on similarity of NDVI time seriesrdquo Remote Sensing of Environment 112 (2) 506ndash521 doi 101016jrse200705018
2 Verbesselt J Somers B Lhermitte S Jonckheere I Aardt J Coppin P (2007) ldquoMonitoringherbaceous fuelmoisture contentwith SPOT VEGETATION time-series for fire risk prediction in savanna ecosystemsrdquo Remote Sensing of Environment 108 (4) 357ndash368 doi101016jrse200611019
1 Verbesselt J Joumlnsson P Lhermitte S Van Aardt J Coppin P (2006) ldquoEvaluating satellite and climate data-derived indicesas fire risk indicators in savanna ecosystemsrdquo IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 44 (6) 1622ndash1632 doi 101109TGRS2005862262
Book chapters
2 Veraverbeke S Lhermitte S Verstraeten W Goossens R (2010)rdquoAssessing burn severity using satellite time seriesrdquo In ldquoMod-elling Monitoring and Management of Forest Fires IIrdquo pp 107ndash118 by Perona G and CA Brebbia eds WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Envi-ronment doi 102495FIVA100101
1 Verbesselt J Joumlnsson P Lhermitte S Jonckheere I Aardt J Coppin P (2006)rdquoRelating time-series of meteorological andremote sensing indices to monitor vegetation moisture dynamicsrdquo In ldquoSignal and image processing for remote sensingrdquo pp 153ndash173 byChen C ed CRC Press University of Massachusetts North Darthmouth USA
Conference proceedings
15 De Keersmaecker W Lhermitte S Tits L Honnay O Coppin P Somers B (2015) ldquoTowards the large-scale assessmentof vegetation biomass production stabilityrdquoMultiTemp 2015 - 8th International Workshop on the Analysis of Multitemporal Remote SensingImages doi 101109Multi-Temp20157245764
April 30 2019 5
STEF LHERMITTE CV REMOTE SENSING SCIENTIST
14 De Keersmaecker W Lhermitte S Tits L Honnay O Somers B Coppin P (2014) ldquoLinking NDVI and climate-based ecosys-tem stability with land cover in Europerdquo IGARSS 2014 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium 3938ndash3940 doi 101109IGARSS20146947346
13 De Keersmaecker W Lhermitte S Somers B Van Rooijen N Honnay O Schamineacutee J Farifteh J Coppin P (2013) ldquoThesensitivity of ecosystem stability measures derived from remote sensing time seriesrdquo ASPRS 2013 American Society for Photogrammetryand Remote Sensing Annual Conference 166ndash175
12 Vanonckelen S Lhermitte S Van Rompaey A Griffiths P (2013) ldquoIntegration of topographic correction in a pixel-basedcompositing algorithm in the Romanian Carpathiansrdquo MultiTemp 2013 - 7th International Workshop on the Analysis of Multi-TemporalRemote Sensing Images rdquoOur Dynamic Environmentrdquo doi 101109Multi-Temp20136866012
11 Veraverbeke S Goossens R VerstraetenW Lhermitte S (2009) ldquoCorrection of topographic effects influencing the differencedNormalized Burn Ratiorsquos optimality for estimating fire severityrdquo Proceedings of the VII International EARSeLWorkshop Advances in remoteSensing and GIS Applications in Forest Fire Managment Towards an operational use of remote sensing in forest fire management 271ndash276
10 Lhermitte S VerstraetenW Coppin P Verbesselt J (2008) ldquoSpatio-temporal segmentationbasedonsubsequencesof satelliteimage time seriesrdquo IGARSS 2008 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium vol 2 (1) doi 101109IGARSS20084779153
9 Somers B Delalieux S VerstraetenW Cools K Verbesselt J Lhermitte S Coppin P (2008) ldquoIntegration ofmagnitude andshape related features in hyperspectral mixture analysis to monitor weeds in citrus orchardsrdquo IGARSS 2008 International Geoscienceand Remote Sensing Symposium vol 1 (1) doi 101109IGARSS20084778857
8 Lhermitte S Verbesselt J Verstraeten W Coppin P (2007) ldquoAssessing vegetation regrowth after fire based on time series ofSPOT-vegetation datardquoMultiTemp 2007 - 4th International Workshop on the Analysis of Multi-Temporal Remote Sensing Images doi 101109MULTITEMP20074293050
7 Lhermitte S Van Aardt J Coppin P (2005) ldquoDevelopment of indicators of burning efficiency based on time series of SPOTVEGETATION datardquoMultiTemp 2005 - 3rd International Workshop on the Analysis of Multi-Temporal Remote Sensing Images vol 2005 125 doi101109AMTRSI20051469854
6 Lhermitte S Tips M Verbesselt J Jonckheere I Van Aardt J Coppin P (2005) ldquoDevelopment of indicators of vegetationrecovery based on time series analysis of SPOT VEGETATION datardquo Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineeringvol 5976 doi 10111712627625
5 Verbesselt J Somers B Lhermitte S Van Aardt J Jonckheere I Coppin P (2005) ldquoEstimating vegetation dryness to opti-mize fire risk assessment with SPOT VEGETATION satellite data in savanna ecosystemsrdquo Proceedings of SPIE - The International Societyfor Optical Engineering vol 5976 doi 10111712627682
4 Lhermitte S Verbesselt J Jonckheere I Van Aardt J Coppin P (2005) ldquoEco-climatic image segmentation based on timeseriesrdquo Communications in agricultural and applied biological sciences vol 70 (2) 165ndash168
3 Verbesselt J Somers B Lhermitte S Aardt J Jonckheere I Coppin P (2005) ldquoFire risk assessment in savanna ecosystemswith multi-temporal satellite datardquo Communications in agricultural and applied biological sciences vol 70 (2) 23ndash26
2 Lhermitte S Verbesselt J Nackaerts K Coppin P (2004) ldquoEco-climatic image segmentationbasedon time seriesrdquoASPRS 2013American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Annual Conference (0128)
1 Verbesselt J Lhermitte S Coppin P Eklundh L Joumlnsoon P (2004) ldquoBiophysical drought metrics extraction by time seriesanalysis of SPOT Vegetation datardquo IGARSS 2004 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium vol 3 2062ndash2065
Student support amp teachingPhD supervision amp support
2018-now Weiran LiTUDELFT NETHERLANDSRemote sensing of firn properties
2018-now Thore KauschTUDELFT NETHERLANDSModelling amp Remote Sensing of Antarctic SMB variability
April 30 2019 6
STEF LHERMITTE CV REMOTE SENSING SCIENTIST
2015-now Niels SouverijnsKULEUVEN BELGIUMThe role of cloud-aerosol interactions in East Antarcticarsquos surface mass balance
2015-now Alexandra GossartKULEUVEN BELGIUMThe role of snowdrift on local mass redistribution in East Antarctica
2012-2016 Kristof Van TrichtKULEUVEN BELGIUMUnderstanding the role of clouds in the climate of Greenland
2011-2015 Wanda De KeersmaeckerKULEUVEN BELGIUMQuantification of vegetation response to climate anomalies through remote sensing
2010-2014 Steven VanonckelenKULEUVEN BELGIUMDetection and analysis of forest cover dynamics with Landsat satellite imagery application in the Romanian CarpathianEcoregion
2008-2010 Sander VeraverbekeGHENT UNIVERSITY BELGIUMAssessing fire burn severity using spaceborne spectral indices
PhD committee memberDefended Robin Lombaert (KULeuven 2013) Roberto Chavez (WUR 2014) Junchao Shi (TUDelft 2017) EliakimHamunyela (WageningenUniversity 2017) SeyedHosseini Aria (TUDelft 2018) JonathanVanBeek (KULeuven 2012-2018)In progress VincentSmets (KULeuven 2015-now) BjoumlrnRombouts (KULeuven 2016-now) RaymondSellevold (TUDelft2017-now) Laura Muntjewerf (TUDelft 2017-now) Paulo Negri Bernardino (KULeuvenWageningen University 2017-now)
MScBSc supervision32 MScBSc students as supervisor co-promotor promotor Ruben Rommens (MSc KULeuven 2003-2004) Miet BoonenMatthias Tipps (MSc KULeuven 2004-2005) Sofie Vanzegbroek (MSc KULeuven 2005-2006) Kim Calders (MSc KULeu-ven 2007-2008) Mattias Vanderoost Gil Gram (MSc KULeuvenCEAZA 2008-2009) Kirsten Bortels (MSc KULeuvenCEAZA2010-2011) Joost Neujens (BSc KULeuven 2013-2014) Niels Tooth Camille Christiansen Joni Ceuppens KatrienWouters(MSc KULeuven 2014-2015) Lander Van Tricht (BSc KULeuven 2015-2016) Tobias Nauwelaers Thomas Antheunis (MScKULeuven 2015-2016) Merve Guumlnes (BSc TU Delft 2016-2017) Egli Michailidou (MSc TU Delft 2017) Eva van der KooijNajoua Essaf Tristan Keulemans (BSc TUDelft 2017) Maaike Izeboud (MSc TUDelft 2018) Annelies Voordendag (MScTUDelft 2018) Ruben Egbers (MSc TUDelft 2018) Job Rosier (MSc TUDelft 2018) Weiran Li (MSc TUDelft 2018) DanieumllKersbergen (MSc TUDelft 2018) Daan Ris (BSc TUDelft 2018) Max Felius (BSc TUDelft 2018) Brendan Scherpenisse(MSc TUDelft 2018) Coco Antonissen (MSc TUDelft 2018) Dirk Van der Valk (MSc TUDelft 2018-2018) Kevin Groot (MScTUDelft 2018-2019) Renske Free (BSc TUDelft 2018) Joseph Heywood (MSc TUDelft 2018-2019) Manish Kharagjitsing(MSc TUDelft 2019) Geerten van der Zalm (MSc TUDelft 2019) Oana Garbasevschi (MSc TUDelft 2019) Thijs van Esch(MSc TUDelft 2019) Huub Ackermans (BSc TUDelft 2019)
Teaching
2018-2019 Cryosphere remote sensing amp modellingMSC GEOSCIENCE amp REMOTE SENSING TUDELFT NETHERLANDSLecturer
2018-2019 Cryosphere remote sensing amp modellingBSC APPLIED TUDELFT NETHERLANDSLecturer
2018-2019 Big geo-data amp machine learning [CIE5603 Advanced project on GRS]MSC GEOSCIENCE amp REMOTE SENSING TUDELFT NETHERLANDSCoordinator + responsible lecturer
2017-2018 Simulation amp visualisation [CIE4604]MSC GEOSCIENCE amp REMOTE SENSING TUDELFT NETHERLANDSLecturer on Remote sensing data processing on big geo-data platforms
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STEF LHERMITTE CV REMOTE SENSING SCIENTIST
2017-2018 Geodesy amp Remote Sensing [CIE4606]MSC GEOSCIENCE amp REMOTE SENSING TUDELFT NETHERLANDSLecturer on radiative transfer modelling
2016-2018 Ice snow amp climate change [CIE4602]MSC GEOSCIENCE amp REMOTE SENSING TUDELFT NETHERLANDSLecturer of remote sensing topics
2016-2018 Introduction to geophysics amp remote sensing [AESB1440]BSC APPLIED EARTH SCIENCES TUDELFT NETHERLANDSLecturer of hyperspectral remote sensing topic
2016-2018 Spaceflight assignment [AE3536]BSC MINOR SPACEFLIGHT TUDELFT NETHERLANDSResponsible for 3 assignments for 9 students
2016-2018 Earth observation [CT3532]BSC MINOR SPACEFLIGHT TUDELFT NETHERLANDSCoordinator + responsible lecturer
2014-2016 Remote sensing of the atmosphereMSC IN GEOGRAPHY MSC IN EARTH OBSERVATION KULEUVEN BELGIUMCoordinator + responsible lecturer
2014-2016 Remote sensing climatological applicationsMSC IN BIOSCIENCE ENGINEERING KULEUVEN BELGIUMGuest lecture in Land Cover amp Land Use monitoring (coordinator Prof Somers B)
2014-2015 Remote sensing of the cryopshereMSC UTRECHT UNIVERSITY NETHERLANDSGuest lecture in Physics of Remote Sensing (coordinator Prof Houweling S)
2011-2014 Temporal image analysis techniquesMSC IN EARTH OBSERVATION KULEUVEN BELGIUMGuest lecture in Remote sensing of vegetative systems (coordinator Prof Coppin P)
2005-2007 Trend analysisADVANCED MSC IN EARTH OBSERVATION KULEUVEN BELGIUMGuest lecture in Vegetative canopy monitoring (coordinator Prof Coppin P)
2002-2005 Geographical information systems [Practical sessions]MSC IN ENGINEERING OF FOREST amp LAND MANAGEMENT KULEUVEN BELGIUMPractical sessions of Geographical Information Systems (coordinator Prof Coppin P(2002-2004) Prof Van Orshoven J(2005))
Grants amp fellowships
NWO GO Firn Assessing firn processes from multi-source satellite dataFUNDED BY NWO USER SUPPORT FOR SPACE RESEARCHPI
Mass2Ant East Antarctic surface mass balance in the Anthropocene observations and multi-scale modellingFUNDED BY BELSPO BRAIN NWOCo-PI and principal NWO-funded collaborator (4 years of PhD funding) on project of PI Goosse H (UCL)
PV-MEP TPS Snow monitoring using the Proba-V Mission Exploitation Platform (PV-MEP) ThirdParty ServicesFUNDED BY ESACo-PI and responsible for snowmonitoring work package
U-Turn Understanding turning points in dryland ecosystem functioningFUNDED BY BELSPO STEREO IIIInternational partner
Black amp bloom Microbial processes darken and accelerate the melting of the Greenland Ice SheetFUNDED BY NERCInternational collaborator on project of PIrsquos Tranter M and Bamber J (University Bristol)
April 30 2019 8
STEF LHERMITTE CV REMOTE SENSING SCIENTIST
Benemelt Melting of Dronning Maud Land ice shelves a combined modelling and observa-tional approachFUNDED BY INBEV-LATOURCollaborator on project of PI Lenaerts J (Utrecht University)
Aerocloud How do aerosols and clouds affect the East Antarctic climateFUNDED BY BELSPO BRAINCollaborator on project of PI Van Lipzig N (KULeuven)
Aerocloud Antarctic precipitation clouds and their interplay with aerosols Combining ground-based remote sensing and regional climate modelingFUNDED BY FWOCollaborator on project of PI Van Lipzig N (KULeuven)
FWO post-doc fellowship Changes in surface properties of the Greenland ice sheet and their impact on climatemodelingFUNDED BY FWOPrincipal investigator
Fondecyt Regular 2011 Modelling the current and future hydrological contribution of glaciers and seasonalsnow in semi arid mountain catchmentsFUNDED BY FONDECYT (CHILE)International collaborator on project of PI Kinnard C (CEAZA)
Fondecyt Iniciacion 2009 The introduction of fusion techniques to improve the determination of snow coverproperties based on remote sensing imageryFUNDED BY FONDECYT (CHILE)Principal investigator
Planet Action Spatio-temporal changes in glacier surface facies and ablation morphology in theNorte Chico region ChileFUNDED BY SPOT IMAGEPrincipal investigator
Ecoseg-SR01108 Development of a spatio-temporal segmentation algorithm for satellite time seriesto monitor forest conditionFUNDED BY BELSPO STEREO IIInvestigator on project of PI Prof Coppin P (KULeuven)
Glovex-SR1681 Assessment of vegetation regrowth by satellite remote sensingFUNDED BY BELSPO STEREO IIInvestigator on project of PI Prof Coppin P (KULeuven)
Scientific committees amp reviewsCo-convernorship
EGU 2018 Remote sensing of the cryosphere [CR21]EGU GENERAL ASSEMBLY 2018 VIENNA AUSTRIACo-convenor
EGU 2017 Remote sensing of the cryosphere [CR21]EGU GENERAL ASSEMBLY 2017 VIENNA AUSTRIAConvenor
EGU 2016 Remote sensing of the cryosphere [CR21]EGU GENERAL ASSEMBLY 2016 VIENNA AUSTRIAConvenor
EGU 2015 Remote sensing of polar snow and ice [CR21]EGU GENERAL ASSEMBLY 2015 VIENNA AUSTRIA 12 APRIL ndash 17 APRILCo-convenor
EGU 2014 Remote sensing of the cryosphere [CR21]EGU GENERAL ASSEMBLY 2014 VIENNA AUSTRIA 28 APRIL ndash 2 MAYCo-convenor
April 30 2019 9
STEF LHERMITTE CV REMOTE SENSING SCIENTIST
Multitemp 2007 Fourth International Workshop on the Analysis of Multitemporal Remote Sensing ImagesMULTITEMP 2007 LEUVEN BELGIUM 18-20 JULYMember of the organisation committee
Reviews forNatureGeoscience TheCryosphere RemoteSensingof Environment Journal of Glaciology Scientific Reports IEEETrans-actions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Global Ecology andBiogeography Photogrammetric Engineering amp Remote Sensing Journal of Selected Topics in Applied EarthObservationsand Remote Sensing Remote Sensing International Journal of Remote Sensing Biogeosciences Atmospheric ScienceLetters Journal of Arid Environments Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics Geocarto International International Journalof Geographical Information Science Biosystems Engineering EARSeL eProceedings Sensors Scientia Agricola Ecologi-cal Modeling Annals of Forest Science NSF Fondecyt NWO EUFAR
Editorial work
2018-now The CryosphereEDITOR Editorial Board
2018-2019 Remote Sensing Special IssueRemote Sensing of Glaciers at Global and Regional ScalesGUEST EDITOR Special issue website
Press amp outreachPress
2019 Brunt ice shelfONLINE PRESSBBC Fortune Earther Business Insider Het LaatsteNieuws HetNieuwsblad DeLimburger Ingr Stuttgarter
2019 Climate changeWRITTEN PRESS Volkskrant
2019 Pine Island GlacierONLINE PRESS Atlas Obscura
2018 Larsen C square icebergONLINE PRESSMashable VRT NWS iNews
2018 Pine Island Glacier calvingONLINE PRESS The Weather Channel Mashable Quartz Scientific American Live Science Science Alert DailyBeast The Daily Mail etc
2018 Vavilov Ice Cap surgeONLINE PRESS Earther
2018 Helheim calvingONLINE PRESS Earther
2018 Wat weten we van de ZuidpoolPODCAST NOS Podcast DeDag
April 30 2019 10
STEF LHERMITTE CV REMOTE SENSING SCIENTIST
2018 Fifteen Years of Change in the ArcticONLINE PRESS Nasa Earth Observatory Earth Sky Washington Post
2018 Antarctic grounding linesONLINE PRESS VRT NWS
2018 Penguin colonies on AntarcticaRADIO De wereld vandaag VRT Radio 1 VRT Radio 2
2018 Mass2Ant fieldworkRADIO NPO Radio 1
2017 Pine Island Glacier calvingRADIO WRITTEN amp ONLINE PRESSWashington Post Nasa hyperwall NY Times The Verge Live Science Quartz USA Today Giz-modo Daily Mail Inverse Euronews Science Alert The Weather Channel Scientias CBS News AOL International Business Times
2017 Greenland wildfireRADIO WRITTEN amp ONLINE PRESS BBC New Scientist The Guardian The Independent Eos NBC News Nasa Earth Nasa EarthBlog Climate Central Wildfire Today Newsweek HLN Clean Technica Euronews Forbes GristMother Jones NPR DW Huffington Post VRTNieuws IFLS Gizmodo Popsci SD Scientias
2017 Asian glaciersWRITTEN PRESS De Volkskrant De Morgen
2017 Larsen-C iceberg A68TV RADIO WRITTEN amp ONLINE PRESS AD De Morgen Climate Central VTM Nieuws BNR Mashable International Business Times Independent HLN RT
2017 Peterman riftTV RADIO WRITTEN amp ONLINE PRESSNOS op 3 Van Gils amp Gasten Washington Post Washington Post follow-up CNN Volkskrant TechTimes Live Science IFL Science ABSNews Daily Mail Mashable Inhabitat Business Insider TheWeather Network NASA Earth Observatory International Business Times Physorg Paris Match ScienceTimes Eathcom PBS Newshour Scientias
2016 Antarctic melt-albedo feedbackTV RADIO WRITTEN amp ONLINE PRESSFor complete coverage check Altmetric with higlights in VRT nieuws VTM journaal Karrewiet Ketnet RTL journaal De wereld vandaag VRT Radio VRTRadio nieuws National Geographic New Scientist De Volkskrant Washington Post Le Soir Eos El Mundo The International Business Times Kennis van Nu NTR Telegraaf De Morgen JapanTimes Der Spiegel Focusde Algemeen Dagblad NOS Physorg IFL science Business insider Science alert Life science CBS News Climate Central Fox news Huffington Post
2016 Lake Victoria ThunderstormsONLINE PRESSFor complete coverage check Altmetric with higlights in Delta Nasa Earth Observatory
2016 Benemelt Antarctic field campaign in the newsRADIO amp WRITTEN PRESS ROBTV DeOchtendVRT Radio 1 Nieuwe FeitenVRT Radio 1 DeWereld vandaagVRTRadio 1HetNieuwsblad De Standaard Rondom Leuven
2012 Interview for Science magazine on exceptional Greenland meltWRITTEN amp ONLINE PRESS Science
Lectures amp Outreach
April 30 2019 11
STEF LHERMITTE CV REMOTE SENSING SCIENTIST
7 Nov 2018 Assessing ice sheet changes from Copernicus satellitesCOPERNICUS amp POLAR REGIONS INDUSTRY WORKSHOPPolar applications of Copernicus
16 Oct 2018 De fysica van AntarcticaNATUURKUNDE SYMPOSIUM PHYSICS OF NATUREKeynote lecture [httpssymposiumvvtptudelftnl]
12 Oct 2018 What happens in Antarctica does not stay in AntarcticaVIB BRAIN amp DISEASE PHD SYMPOSIUMKeynote lecture
4 Oct 2018 Remote Sensing of anomalies and feedbacks using time series modelsSATEX WORKSHOP ON DATA GUIDED APPRAISAL OF BIOSPHERE-CLIMATE INTERACTIONS
4 Jul 2018 Antarctica Report science no-fictionCIMEMA LUMEN SIZZLING SUMMER OF SPACEIntroduction of Antarctic science by the movie rsquoEuropa Reportrsquo
13 May 2018 Hoe koud is het echt op AntarcticaTUDELFT JEUGD UNIVERSITEITPresentation for 8-12 year old students
21 Mar 2018 La Belgique et lAntarctique Impressions de ChercheursEVENING CONFERENCE ON ANTARCTIC RESEARCHPresentation for ice shelf research amp experiences
Feb 2018 Antarctica voor beginnersBASIS- amp KLEUTERSCHOOL URSULINENIntroductie voor kleuter- amp lagere school
21 Feb 2017 Ijsplaten van Antarctica in een veranderend klimaatCAUSERIE OXACOPresentation for wider audience
31 Jan 2017 Ijsplaten van Antarctica in een veranderend klimaatSLO NATUURWETENSCHAPPEN (GEOGRAPHY) KULEUVENPresentation for geografie leerkrachten
18 Dec 2016 Ice shelves on AntarcticaONDERNEMERSHUIS MECHELENPresentation on rsquoIce shelves on Antarcticarsquo
Dec 2015 Antarctica voor beginnersKLEUTERSCHOOL URSULINENIntroductie voor kleuterschool
SkillsSoftware
Office applications Office (Word Excel Powerpoint Access) LaTeX Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop Illustrator Flash)Open-source Office Libreoffice suite Inkscape imagemagickProgram languages python R C++ fortran bash IDL matlab javascript php html+css sqlRemote sensing QGis Google Earth Engine gdalogr ArcGIS Envi Idrisi PCIOperating systems Linux Mac Windows
Languages
Dutch Mother tongueEnglish Proficient understanding speaking and writing [ C2 level]French Very good understanding good speaking and intermediate writingSpanish Very good understanding and speaking good writing
April 30 2019 12
STEF LHERMITTE CV REMOTE SENSING SCIENTIST
Field work managementOrganisation of field campaigns in the Chilean Andes (2010 2014) and coordinator and assistance in a scientific field campaign on theRoi Baudoin ice shelf (East-Antarctica Jan 2016 amp Dec 2017)
April 30 2019 13
STEF LHERMITTE CV REMOTE SENSING SCIENTIST
14 De Keersmaecker W Lhermitte S Tits L Honnay O Somers B Coppin P (2014) ldquoLinking NDVI and climate-based ecosys-tem stability with land cover in Europerdquo IGARSS 2014 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium 3938ndash3940 doi 101109IGARSS20146947346
13 De Keersmaecker W Lhermitte S Somers B Van Rooijen N Honnay O Schamineacutee J Farifteh J Coppin P (2013) ldquoThesensitivity of ecosystem stability measures derived from remote sensing time seriesrdquo ASPRS 2013 American Society for Photogrammetryand Remote Sensing Annual Conference 166ndash175
12 Vanonckelen S Lhermitte S Van Rompaey A Griffiths P (2013) ldquoIntegration of topographic correction in a pixel-basedcompositing algorithm in the Romanian Carpathiansrdquo MultiTemp 2013 - 7th International Workshop on the Analysis of Multi-TemporalRemote Sensing Images rdquoOur Dynamic Environmentrdquo doi 101109Multi-Temp20136866012
11 Veraverbeke S Goossens R VerstraetenW Lhermitte S (2009) ldquoCorrection of topographic effects influencing the differencedNormalized Burn Ratiorsquos optimality for estimating fire severityrdquo Proceedings of the VII International EARSeLWorkshop Advances in remoteSensing and GIS Applications in Forest Fire Managment Towards an operational use of remote sensing in forest fire management 271ndash276
10 Lhermitte S VerstraetenW Coppin P Verbesselt J (2008) ldquoSpatio-temporal segmentationbasedonsubsequencesof satelliteimage time seriesrdquo IGARSS 2008 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium vol 2 (1) doi 101109IGARSS20084779153
9 Somers B Delalieux S VerstraetenW Cools K Verbesselt J Lhermitte S Coppin P (2008) ldquoIntegration ofmagnitude andshape related features in hyperspectral mixture analysis to monitor weeds in citrus orchardsrdquo IGARSS 2008 International Geoscienceand Remote Sensing Symposium vol 1 (1) doi 101109IGARSS20084778857
8 Lhermitte S Verbesselt J Verstraeten W Coppin P (2007) ldquoAssessing vegetation regrowth after fire based on time series ofSPOT-vegetation datardquoMultiTemp 2007 - 4th International Workshop on the Analysis of Multi-Temporal Remote Sensing Images doi 101109MULTITEMP20074293050
7 Lhermitte S Van Aardt J Coppin P (2005) ldquoDevelopment of indicators of burning efficiency based on time series of SPOTVEGETATION datardquoMultiTemp 2005 - 3rd International Workshop on the Analysis of Multi-Temporal Remote Sensing Images vol 2005 125 doi101109AMTRSI20051469854
6 Lhermitte S Tips M Verbesselt J Jonckheere I Van Aardt J Coppin P (2005) ldquoDevelopment of indicators of vegetationrecovery based on time series analysis of SPOT VEGETATION datardquo Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineeringvol 5976 doi 10111712627625
5 Verbesselt J Somers B Lhermitte S Van Aardt J Jonckheere I Coppin P (2005) ldquoEstimating vegetation dryness to opti-mize fire risk assessment with SPOT VEGETATION satellite data in savanna ecosystemsrdquo Proceedings of SPIE - The International Societyfor Optical Engineering vol 5976 doi 10111712627682
4 Lhermitte S Verbesselt J Jonckheere I Van Aardt J Coppin P (2005) ldquoEco-climatic image segmentation based on timeseriesrdquo Communications in agricultural and applied biological sciences vol 70 (2) 165ndash168
3 Verbesselt J Somers B Lhermitte S Aardt J Jonckheere I Coppin P (2005) ldquoFire risk assessment in savanna ecosystemswith multi-temporal satellite datardquo Communications in agricultural and applied biological sciences vol 70 (2) 23ndash26
2 Lhermitte S Verbesselt J Nackaerts K Coppin P (2004) ldquoEco-climatic image segmentationbasedon time seriesrdquoASPRS 2013American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Annual Conference (0128)
1 Verbesselt J Lhermitte S Coppin P Eklundh L Joumlnsoon P (2004) ldquoBiophysical drought metrics extraction by time seriesanalysis of SPOT Vegetation datardquo IGARSS 2004 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium vol 3 2062ndash2065
Student support amp teachingPhD supervision amp support
2018-now Weiran LiTUDELFT NETHERLANDSRemote sensing of firn properties
2018-now Thore KauschTUDELFT NETHERLANDSModelling amp Remote Sensing of Antarctic SMB variability
April 30 2019 6
STEF LHERMITTE CV REMOTE SENSING SCIENTIST
2015-now Niels SouverijnsKULEUVEN BELGIUMThe role of cloud-aerosol interactions in East Antarcticarsquos surface mass balance
2015-now Alexandra GossartKULEUVEN BELGIUMThe role of snowdrift on local mass redistribution in East Antarctica
2012-2016 Kristof Van TrichtKULEUVEN BELGIUMUnderstanding the role of clouds in the climate of Greenland
2011-2015 Wanda De KeersmaeckerKULEUVEN BELGIUMQuantification of vegetation response to climate anomalies through remote sensing
2010-2014 Steven VanonckelenKULEUVEN BELGIUMDetection and analysis of forest cover dynamics with Landsat satellite imagery application in the Romanian CarpathianEcoregion
2008-2010 Sander VeraverbekeGHENT UNIVERSITY BELGIUMAssessing fire burn severity using spaceborne spectral indices
PhD committee memberDefended Robin Lombaert (KULeuven 2013) Roberto Chavez (WUR 2014) Junchao Shi (TUDelft 2017) EliakimHamunyela (WageningenUniversity 2017) SeyedHosseini Aria (TUDelft 2018) JonathanVanBeek (KULeuven 2012-2018)In progress VincentSmets (KULeuven 2015-now) BjoumlrnRombouts (KULeuven 2016-now) RaymondSellevold (TUDelft2017-now) Laura Muntjewerf (TUDelft 2017-now) Paulo Negri Bernardino (KULeuvenWageningen University 2017-now)
MScBSc supervision32 MScBSc students as supervisor co-promotor promotor Ruben Rommens (MSc KULeuven 2003-2004) Miet BoonenMatthias Tipps (MSc KULeuven 2004-2005) Sofie Vanzegbroek (MSc KULeuven 2005-2006) Kim Calders (MSc KULeu-ven 2007-2008) Mattias Vanderoost Gil Gram (MSc KULeuvenCEAZA 2008-2009) Kirsten Bortels (MSc KULeuvenCEAZA2010-2011) Joost Neujens (BSc KULeuven 2013-2014) Niels Tooth Camille Christiansen Joni Ceuppens KatrienWouters(MSc KULeuven 2014-2015) Lander Van Tricht (BSc KULeuven 2015-2016) Tobias Nauwelaers Thomas Antheunis (MScKULeuven 2015-2016) Merve Guumlnes (BSc TU Delft 2016-2017) Egli Michailidou (MSc TU Delft 2017) Eva van der KooijNajoua Essaf Tristan Keulemans (BSc TUDelft 2017) Maaike Izeboud (MSc TUDelft 2018) Annelies Voordendag (MScTUDelft 2018) Ruben Egbers (MSc TUDelft 2018) Job Rosier (MSc TUDelft 2018) Weiran Li (MSc TUDelft 2018) DanieumllKersbergen (MSc TUDelft 2018) Daan Ris (BSc TUDelft 2018) Max Felius (BSc TUDelft 2018) Brendan Scherpenisse(MSc TUDelft 2018) Coco Antonissen (MSc TUDelft 2018) Dirk Van der Valk (MSc TUDelft 2018-2018) Kevin Groot (MScTUDelft 2018-2019) Renske Free (BSc TUDelft 2018) Joseph Heywood (MSc TUDelft 2018-2019) Manish Kharagjitsing(MSc TUDelft 2019) Geerten van der Zalm (MSc TUDelft 2019) Oana Garbasevschi (MSc TUDelft 2019) Thijs van Esch(MSc TUDelft 2019) Huub Ackermans (BSc TUDelft 2019)
Teaching
2018-2019 Cryosphere remote sensing amp modellingMSC GEOSCIENCE amp REMOTE SENSING TUDELFT NETHERLANDSLecturer
2018-2019 Cryosphere remote sensing amp modellingBSC APPLIED TUDELFT NETHERLANDSLecturer
2018-2019 Big geo-data amp machine learning [CIE5603 Advanced project on GRS]MSC GEOSCIENCE amp REMOTE SENSING TUDELFT NETHERLANDSCoordinator + responsible lecturer
2017-2018 Simulation amp visualisation [CIE4604]MSC GEOSCIENCE amp REMOTE SENSING TUDELFT NETHERLANDSLecturer on Remote sensing data processing on big geo-data platforms
April 30 2019 7
STEF LHERMITTE CV REMOTE SENSING SCIENTIST
2017-2018 Geodesy amp Remote Sensing [CIE4606]MSC GEOSCIENCE amp REMOTE SENSING TUDELFT NETHERLANDSLecturer on radiative transfer modelling
2016-2018 Ice snow amp climate change [CIE4602]MSC GEOSCIENCE amp REMOTE SENSING TUDELFT NETHERLANDSLecturer of remote sensing topics
2016-2018 Introduction to geophysics amp remote sensing [AESB1440]BSC APPLIED EARTH SCIENCES TUDELFT NETHERLANDSLecturer of hyperspectral remote sensing topic
2016-2018 Spaceflight assignment [AE3536]BSC MINOR SPACEFLIGHT TUDELFT NETHERLANDSResponsible for 3 assignments for 9 students
2016-2018 Earth observation [CT3532]BSC MINOR SPACEFLIGHT TUDELFT NETHERLANDSCoordinator + responsible lecturer
2014-2016 Remote sensing of the atmosphereMSC IN GEOGRAPHY MSC IN EARTH OBSERVATION KULEUVEN BELGIUMCoordinator + responsible lecturer
2014-2016 Remote sensing climatological applicationsMSC IN BIOSCIENCE ENGINEERING KULEUVEN BELGIUMGuest lecture in Land Cover amp Land Use monitoring (coordinator Prof Somers B)
2014-2015 Remote sensing of the cryopshereMSC UTRECHT UNIVERSITY NETHERLANDSGuest lecture in Physics of Remote Sensing (coordinator Prof Houweling S)
2011-2014 Temporal image analysis techniquesMSC IN EARTH OBSERVATION KULEUVEN BELGIUMGuest lecture in Remote sensing of vegetative systems (coordinator Prof Coppin P)
2005-2007 Trend analysisADVANCED MSC IN EARTH OBSERVATION KULEUVEN BELGIUMGuest lecture in Vegetative canopy monitoring (coordinator Prof Coppin P)
2002-2005 Geographical information systems [Practical sessions]MSC IN ENGINEERING OF FOREST amp LAND MANAGEMENT KULEUVEN BELGIUMPractical sessions of Geographical Information Systems (coordinator Prof Coppin P(2002-2004) Prof Van Orshoven J(2005))
Grants amp fellowships
NWO GO Firn Assessing firn processes from multi-source satellite dataFUNDED BY NWO USER SUPPORT FOR SPACE RESEARCHPI
Mass2Ant East Antarctic surface mass balance in the Anthropocene observations and multi-scale modellingFUNDED BY BELSPO BRAIN NWOCo-PI and principal NWO-funded collaborator (4 years of PhD funding) on project of PI Goosse H (UCL)
PV-MEP TPS Snow monitoring using the Proba-V Mission Exploitation Platform (PV-MEP) ThirdParty ServicesFUNDED BY ESACo-PI and responsible for snowmonitoring work package
U-Turn Understanding turning points in dryland ecosystem functioningFUNDED BY BELSPO STEREO IIIInternational partner
Black amp bloom Microbial processes darken and accelerate the melting of the Greenland Ice SheetFUNDED BY NERCInternational collaborator on project of PIrsquos Tranter M and Bamber J (University Bristol)
April 30 2019 8
STEF LHERMITTE CV REMOTE SENSING SCIENTIST
Benemelt Melting of Dronning Maud Land ice shelves a combined modelling and observa-tional approachFUNDED BY INBEV-LATOURCollaborator on project of PI Lenaerts J (Utrecht University)
Aerocloud How do aerosols and clouds affect the East Antarctic climateFUNDED BY BELSPO BRAINCollaborator on project of PI Van Lipzig N (KULeuven)
Aerocloud Antarctic precipitation clouds and their interplay with aerosols Combining ground-based remote sensing and regional climate modelingFUNDED BY FWOCollaborator on project of PI Van Lipzig N (KULeuven)
FWO post-doc fellowship Changes in surface properties of the Greenland ice sheet and their impact on climatemodelingFUNDED BY FWOPrincipal investigator
Fondecyt Regular 2011 Modelling the current and future hydrological contribution of glaciers and seasonalsnow in semi arid mountain catchmentsFUNDED BY FONDECYT (CHILE)International collaborator on project of PI Kinnard C (CEAZA)
Fondecyt Iniciacion 2009 The introduction of fusion techniques to improve the determination of snow coverproperties based on remote sensing imageryFUNDED BY FONDECYT (CHILE)Principal investigator
Planet Action Spatio-temporal changes in glacier surface facies and ablation morphology in theNorte Chico region ChileFUNDED BY SPOT IMAGEPrincipal investigator
Ecoseg-SR01108 Development of a spatio-temporal segmentation algorithm for satellite time seriesto monitor forest conditionFUNDED BY BELSPO STEREO IIInvestigator on project of PI Prof Coppin P (KULeuven)
Glovex-SR1681 Assessment of vegetation regrowth by satellite remote sensingFUNDED BY BELSPO STEREO IIInvestigator on project of PI Prof Coppin P (KULeuven)
Scientific committees amp reviewsCo-convernorship
EGU 2018 Remote sensing of the cryosphere [CR21]EGU GENERAL ASSEMBLY 2018 VIENNA AUSTRIACo-convenor
EGU 2017 Remote sensing of the cryosphere [CR21]EGU GENERAL ASSEMBLY 2017 VIENNA AUSTRIAConvenor
EGU 2016 Remote sensing of the cryosphere [CR21]EGU GENERAL ASSEMBLY 2016 VIENNA AUSTRIAConvenor
EGU 2015 Remote sensing of polar snow and ice [CR21]EGU GENERAL ASSEMBLY 2015 VIENNA AUSTRIA 12 APRIL ndash 17 APRILCo-convenor
EGU 2014 Remote sensing of the cryosphere [CR21]EGU GENERAL ASSEMBLY 2014 VIENNA AUSTRIA 28 APRIL ndash 2 MAYCo-convenor
April 30 2019 9
STEF LHERMITTE CV REMOTE SENSING SCIENTIST
Multitemp 2007 Fourth International Workshop on the Analysis of Multitemporal Remote Sensing ImagesMULTITEMP 2007 LEUVEN BELGIUM 18-20 JULYMember of the organisation committee
Reviews forNatureGeoscience TheCryosphere RemoteSensingof Environment Journal of Glaciology Scientific Reports IEEETrans-actions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Global Ecology andBiogeography Photogrammetric Engineering amp Remote Sensing Journal of Selected Topics in Applied EarthObservationsand Remote Sensing Remote Sensing International Journal of Remote Sensing Biogeosciences Atmospheric ScienceLetters Journal of Arid Environments Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics Geocarto International International Journalof Geographical Information Science Biosystems Engineering EARSeL eProceedings Sensors Scientia Agricola Ecologi-cal Modeling Annals of Forest Science NSF Fondecyt NWO EUFAR
Editorial work
2018-now The CryosphereEDITOR Editorial Board
2018-2019 Remote Sensing Special IssueRemote Sensing of Glaciers at Global and Regional ScalesGUEST EDITOR Special issue website
Press amp outreachPress
2019 Brunt ice shelfONLINE PRESSBBC Fortune Earther Business Insider Het LaatsteNieuws HetNieuwsblad DeLimburger Ingr Stuttgarter
2019 Climate changeWRITTEN PRESS Volkskrant
2019 Pine Island GlacierONLINE PRESS Atlas Obscura
2018 Larsen C square icebergONLINE PRESSMashable VRT NWS iNews
2018 Pine Island Glacier calvingONLINE PRESS The Weather Channel Mashable Quartz Scientific American Live Science Science Alert DailyBeast The Daily Mail etc
2018 Vavilov Ice Cap surgeONLINE PRESS Earther
2018 Helheim calvingONLINE PRESS Earther
2018 Wat weten we van de ZuidpoolPODCAST NOS Podcast DeDag
April 30 2019 10
STEF LHERMITTE CV REMOTE SENSING SCIENTIST
2018 Fifteen Years of Change in the ArcticONLINE PRESS Nasa Earth Observatory Earth Sky Washington Post
2018 Antarctic grounding linesONLINE PRESS VRT NWS
2018 Penguin colonies on AntarcticaRADIO De wereld vandaag VRT Radio 1 VRT Radio 2
2018 Mass2Ant fieldworkRADIO NPO Radio 1
2017 Pine Island Glacier calvingRADIO WRITTEN amp ONLINE PRESSWashington Post Nasa hyperwall NY Times The Verge Live Science Quartz USA Today Giz-modo Daily Mail Inverse Euronews Science Alert The Weather Channel Scientias CBS News AOL International Business Times
2017 Greenland wildfireRADIO WRITTEN amp ONLINE PRESS BBC New Scientist The Guardian The Independent Eos NBC News Nasa Earth Nasa EarthBlog Climate Central Wildfire Today Newsweek HLN Clean Technica Euronews Forbes GristMother Jones NPR DW Huffington Post VRTNieuws IFLS Gizmodo Popsci SD Scientias
2017 Asian glaciersWRITTEN PRESS De Volkskrant De Morgen
2017 Larsen-C iceberg A68TV RADIO WRITTEN amp ONLINE PRESS AD De Morgen Climate Central VTM Nieuws BNR Mashable International Business Times Independent HLN RT
2017 Peterman riftTV RADIO WRITTEN amp ONLINE PRESSNOS op 3 Van Gils amp Gasten Washington Post Washington Post follow-up CNN Volkskrant TechTimes Live Science IFL Science ABSNews Daily Mail Mashable Inhabitat Business Insider TheWeather Network NASA Earth Observatory International Business Times Physorg Paris Match ScienceTimes Eathcom PBS Newshour Scientias
2016 Antarctic melt-albedo feedbackTV RADIO WRITTEN amp ONLINE PRESSFor complete coverage check Altmetric with higlights in VRT nieuws VTM journaal Karrewiet Ketnet RTL journaal De wereld vandaag VRT Radio VRTRadio nieuws National Geographic New Scientist De Volkskrant Washington Post Le Soir Eos El Mundo The International Business Times Kennis van Nu NTR Telegraaf De Morgen JapanTimes Der Spiegel Focusde Algemeen Dagblad NOS Physorg IFL science Business insider Science alert Life science CBS News Climate Central Fox news Huffington Post
2016 Lake Victoria ThunderstormsONLINE PRESSFor complete coverage check Altmetric with higlights in Delta Nasa Earth Observatory
2016 Benemelt Antarctic field campaign in the newsRADIO amp WRITTEN PRESS ROBTV DeOchtendVRT Radio 1 Nieuwe FeitenVRT Radio 1 DeWereld vandaagVRTRadio 1HetNieuwsblad De Standaard Rondom Leuven
2012 Interview for Science magazine on exceptional Greenland meltWRITTEN amp ONLINE PRESS Science
Lectures amp Outreach
April 30 2019 11
STEF LHERMITTE CV REMOTE SENSING SCIENTIST
7 Nov 2018 Assessing ice sheet changes from Copernicus satellitesCOPERNICUS amp POLAR REGIONS INDUSTRY WORKSHOPPolar applications of Copernicus
16 Oct 2018 De fysica van AntarcticaNATUURKUNDE SYMPOSIUM PHYSICS OF NATUREKeynote lecture [httpssymposiumvvtptudelftnl]
12 Oct 2018 What happens in Antarctica does not stay in AntarcticaVIB BRAIN amp DISEASE PHD SYMPOSIUMKeynote lecture
4 Oct 2018 Remote Sensing of anomalies and feedbacks using time series modelsSATEX WORKSHOP ON DATA GUIDED APPRAISAL OF BIOSPHERE-CLIMATE INTERACTIONS
4 Jul 2018 Antarctica Report science no-fictionCIMEMA LUMEN SIZZLING SUMMER OF SPACEIntroduction of Antarctic science by the movie rsquoEuropa Reportrsquo
13 May 2018 Hoe koud is het echt op AntarcticaTUDELFT JEUGD UNIVERSITEITPresentation for 8-12 year old students
21 Mar 2018 La Belgique et lAntarctique Impressions de ChercheursEVENING CONFERENCE ON ANTARCTIC RESEARCHPresentation for ice shelf research amp experiences
Feb 2018 Antarctica voor beginnersBASIS- amp KLEUTERSCHOOL URSULINENIntroductie voor kleuter- amp lagere school
21 Feb 2017 Ijsplaten van Antarctica in een veranderend klimaatCAUSERIE OXACOPresentation for wider audience
31 Jan 2017 Ijsplaten van Antarctica in een veranderend klimaatSLO NATUURWETENSCHAPPEN (GEOGRAPHY) KULEUVENPresentation for geografie leerkrachten
18 Dec 2016 Ice shelves on AntarcticaONDERNEMERSHUIS MECHELENPresentation on rsquoIce shelves on Antarcticarsquo
Dec 2015 Antarctica voor beginnersKLEUTERSCHOOL URSULINENIntroductie voor kleuterschool
SkillsSoftware
Office applications Office (Word Excel Powerpoint Access) LaTeX Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop Illustrator Flash)Open-source Office Libreoffice suite Inkscape imagemagickProgram languages python R C++ fortran bash IDL matlab javascript php html+css sqlRemote sensing QGis Google Earth Engine gdalogr ArcGIS Envi Idrisi PCIOperating systems Linux Mac Windows
Languages
Dutch Mother tongueEnglish Proficient understanding speaking and writing [ C2 level]French Very good understanding good speaking and intermediate writingSpanish Very good understanding and speaking good writing
April 30 2019 12
STEF LHERMITTE CV REMOTE SENSING SCIENTIST
Field work managementOrganisation of field campaigns in the Chilean Andes (2010 2014) and coordinator and assistance in a scientific field campaign on theRoi Baudoin ice shelf (East-Antarctica Jan 2016 amp Dec 2017)
April 30 2019 13
STEF LHERMITTE CV REMOTE SENSING SCIENTIST
2015-now Niels SouverijnsKULEUVEN BELGIUMThe role of cloud-aerosol interactions in East Antarcticarsquos surface mass balance
2015-now Alexandra GossartKULEUVEN BELGIUMThe role of snowdrift on local mass redistribution in East Antarctica
2012-2016 Kristof Van TrichtKULEUVEN BELGIUMUnderstanding the role of clouds in the climate of Greenland
2011-2015 Wanda De KeersmaeckerKULEUVEN BELGIUMQuantification of vegetation response to climate anomalies through remote sensing
2010-2014 Steven VanonckelenKULEUVEN BELGIUMDetection and analysis of forest cover dynamics with Landsat satellite imagery application in the Romanian CarpathianEcoregion
2008-2010 Sander VeraverbekeGHENT UNIVERSITY BELGIUMAssessing fire burn severity using spaceborne spectral indices
PhD committee memberDefended Robin Lombaert (KULeuven 2013) Roberto Chavez (WUR 2014) Junchao Shi (TUDelft 2017) EliakimHamunyela (WageningenUniversity 2017) SeyedHosseini Aria (TUDelft 2018) JonathanVanBeek (KULeuven 2012-2018)In progress VincentSmets (KULeuven 2015-now) BjoumlrnRombouts (KULeuven 2016-now) RaymondSellevold (TUDelft2017-now) Laura Muntjewerf (TUDelft 2017-now) Paulo Negri Bernardino (KULeuvenWageningen University 2017-now)
MScBSc supervision32 MScBSc students as supervisor co-promotor promotor Ruben Rommens (MSc KULeuven 2003-2004) Miet BoonenMatthias Tipps (MSc KULeuven 2004-2005) Sofie Vanzegbroek (MSc KULeuven 2005-2006) Kim Calders (MSc KULeu-ven 2007-2008) Mattias Vanderoost Gil Gram (MSc KULeuvenCEAZA 2008-2009) Kirsten Bortels (MSc KULeuvenCEAZA2010-2011) Joost Neujens (BSc KULeuven 2013-2014) Niels Tooth Camille Christiansen Joni Ceuppens KatrienWouters(MSc KULeuven 2014-2015) Lander Van Tricht (BSc KULeuven 2015-2016) Tobias Nauwelaers Thomas Antheunis (MScKULeuven 2015-2016) Merve Guumlnes (BSc TU Delft 2016-2017) Egli Michailidou (MSc TU Delft 2017) Eva van der KooijNajoua Essaf Tristan Keulemans (BSc TUDelft 2017) Maaike Izeboud (MSc TUDelft 2018) Annelies Voordendag (MScTUDelft 2018) Ruben Egbers (MSc TUDelft 2018) Job Rosier (MSc TUDelft 2018) Weiran Li (MSc TUDelft 2018) DanieumllKersbergen (MSc TUDelft 2018) Daan Ris (BSc TUDelft 2018) Max Felius (BSc TUDelft 2018) Brendan Scherpenisse(MSc TUDelft 2018) Coco Antonissen (MSc TUDelft 2018) Dirk Van der Valk (MSc TUDelft 2018-2018) Kevin Groot (MScTUDelft 2018-2019) Renske Free (BSc TUDelft 2018) Joseph Heywood (MSc TUDelft 2018-2019) Manish Kharagjitsing(MSc TUDelft 2019) Geerten van der Zalm (MSc TUDelft 2019) Oana Garbasevschi (MSc TUDelft 2019) Thijs van Esch(MSc TUDelft 2019) Huub Ackermans (BSc TUDelft 2019)
Teaching
2018-2019 Cryosphere remote sensing amp modellingMSC GEOSCIENCE amp REMOTE SENSING TUDELFT NETHERLANDSLecturer
2018-2019 Cryosphere remote sensing amp modellingBSC APPLIED TUDELFT NETHERLANDSLecturer
2018-2019 Big geo-data amp machine learning [CIE5603 Advanced project on GRS]MSC GEOSCIENCE amp REMOTE SENSING TUDELFT NETHERLANDSCoordinator + responsible lecturer
2017-2018 Simulation amp visualisation [CIE4604]MSC GEOSCIENCE amp REMOTE SENSING TUDELFT NETHERLANDSLecturer on Remote sensing data processing on big geo-data platforms
April 30 2019 7
STEF LHERMITTE CV REMOTE SENSING SCIENTIST
2017-2018 Geodesy amp Remote Sensing [CIE4606]MSC GEOSCIENCE amp REMOTE SENSING TUDELFT NETHERLANDSLecturer on radiative transfer modelling
2016-2018 Ice snow amp climate change [CIE4602]MSC GEOSCIENCE amp REMOTE SENSING TUDELFT NETHERLANDSLecturer of remote sensing topics
2016-2018 Introduction to geophysics amp remote sensing [AESB1440]BSC APPLIED EARTH SCIENCES TUDELFT NETHERLANDSLecturer of hyperspectral remote sensing topic
2016-2018 Spaceflight assignment [AE3536]BSC MINOR SPACEFLIGHT TUDELFT NETHERLANDSResponsible for 3 assignments for 9 students
2016-2018 Earth observation [CT3532]BSC MINOR SPACEFLIGHT TUDELFT NETHERLANDSCoordinator + responsible lecturer
2014-2016 Remote sensing of the atmosphereMSC IN GEOGRAPHY MSC IN EARTH OBSERVATION KULEUVEN BELGIUMCoordinator + responsible lecturer
2014-2016 Remote sensing climatological applicationsMSC IN BIOSCIENCE ENGINEERING KULEUVEN BELGIUMGuest lecture in Land Cover amp Land Use monitoring (coordinator Prof Somers B)
2014-2015 Remote sensing of the cryopshereMSC UTRECHT UNIVERSITY NETHERLANDSGuest lecture in Physics of Remote Sensing (coordinator Prof Houweling S)
2011-2014 Temporal image analysis techniquesMSC IN EARTH OBSERVATION KULEUVEN BELGIUMGuest lecture in Remote sensing of vegetative systems (coordinator Prof Coppin P)
2005-2007 Trend analysisADVANCED MSC IN EARTH OBSERVATION KULEUVEN BELGIUMGuest lecture in Vegetative canopy monitoring (coordinator Prof Coppin P)
2002-2005 Geographical information systems [Practical sessions]MSC IN ENGINEERING OF FOREST amp LAND MANAGEMENT KULEUVEN BELGIUMPractical sessions of Geographical Information Systems (coordinator Prof Coppin P(2002-2004) Prof Van Orshoven J(2005))
Grants amp fellowships
NWO GO Firn Assessing firn processes from multi-source satellite dataFUNDED BY NWO USER SUPPORT FOR SPACE RESEARCHPI
Mass2Ant East Antarctic surface mass balance in the Anthropocene observations and multi-scale modellingFUNDED BY BELSPO BRAIN NWOCo-PI and principal NWO-funded collaborator (4 years of PhD funding) on project of PI Goosse H (UCL)
PV-MEP TPS Snow monitoring using the Proba-V Mission Exploitation Platform (PV-MEP) ThirdParty ServicesFUNDED BY ESACo-PI and responsible for snowmonitoring work package
U-Turn Understanding turning points in dryland ecosystem functioningFUNDED BY BELSPO STEREO IIIInternational partner
Black amp bloom Microbial processes darken and accelerate the melting of the Greenland Ice SheetFUNDED BY NERCInternational collaborator on project of PIrsquos Tranter M and Bamber J (University Bristol)
April 30 2019 8
STEF LHERMITTE CV REMOTE SENSING SCIENTIST
Benemelt Melting of Dronning Maud Land ice shelves a combined modelling and observa-tional approachFUNDED BY INBEV-LATOURCollaborator on project of PI Lenaerts J (Utrecht University)
Aerocloud How do aerosols and clouds affect the East Antarctic climateFUNDED BY BELSPO BRAINCollaborator on project of PI Van Lipzig N (KULeuven)
Aerocloud Antarctic precipitation clouds and their interplay with aerosols Combining ground-based remote sensing and regional climate modelingFUNDED BY FWOCollaborator on project of PI Van Lipzig N (KULeuven)
FWO post-doc fellowship Changes in surface properties of the Greenland ice sheet and their impact on climatemodelingFUNDED BY FWOPrincipal investigator
Fondecyt Regular 2011 Modelling the current and future hydrological contribution of glaciers and seasonalsnow in semi arid mountain catchmentsFUNDED BY FONDECYT (CHILE)International collaborator on project of PI Kinnard C (CEAZA)
Fondecyt Iniciacion 2009 The introduction of fusion techniques to improve the determination of snow coverproperties based on remote sensing imageryFUNDED BY FONDECYT (CHILE)Principal investigator
Planet Action Spatio-temporal changes in glacier surface facies and ablation morphology in theNorte Chico region ChileFUNDED BY SPOT IMAGEPrincipal investigator
Ecoseg-SR01108 Development of a spatio-temporal segmentation algorithm for satellite time seriesto monitor forest conditionFUNDED BY BELSPO STEREO IIInvestigator on project of PI Prof Coppin P (KULeuven)
Glovex-SR1681 Assessment of vegetation regrowth by satellite remote sensingFUNDED BY BELSPO STEREO IIInvestigator on project of PI Prof Coppin P (KULeuven)
Scientific committees amp reviewsCo-convernorship
EGU 2018 Remote sensing of the cryosphere [CR21]EGU GENERAL ASSEMBLY 2018 VIENNA AUSTRIACo-convenor
EGU 2017 Remote sensing of the cryosphere [CR21]EGU GENERAL ASSEMBLY 2017 VIENNA AUSTRIAConvenor
EGU 2016 Remote sensing of the cryosphere [CR21]EGU GENERAL ASSEMBLY 2016 VIENNA AUSTRIAConvenor
EGU 2015 Remote sensing of polar snow and ice [CR21]EGU GENERAL ASSEMBLY 2015 VIENNA AUSTRIA 12 APRIL ndash 17 APRILCo-convenor
EGU 2014 Remote sensing of the cryosphere [CR21]EGU GENERAL ASSEMBLY 2014 VIENNA AUSTRIA 28 APRIL ndash 2 MAYCo-convenor
April 30 2019 9
STEF LHERMITTE CV REMOTE SENSING SCIENTIST
Multitemp 2007 Fourth International Workshop on the Analysis of Multitemporal Remote Sensing ImagesMULTITEMP 2007 LEUVEN BELGIUM 18-20 JULYMember of the organisation committee
Reviews forNatureGeoscience TheCryosphere RemoteSensingof Environment Journal of Glaciology Scientific Reports IEEETrans-actions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Global Ecology andBiogeography Photogrammetric Engineering amp Remote Sensing Journal of Selected Topics in Applied EarthObservationsand Remote Sensing Remote Sensing International Journal of Remote Sensing Biogeosciences Atmospheric ScienceLetters Journal of Arid Environments Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics Geocarto International International Journalof Geographical Information Science Biosystems Engineering EARSeL eProceedings Sensors Scientia Agricola Ecologi-cal Modeling Annals of Forest Science NSF Fondecyt NWO EUFAR
Editorial work
2018-now The CryosphereEDITOR Editorial Board
2018-2019 Remote Sensing Special IssueRemote Sensing of Glaciers at Global and Regional ScalesGUEST EDITOR Special issue website
Press amp outreachPress
2019 Brunt ice shelfONLINE PRESSBBC Fortune Earther Business Insider Het LaatsteNieuws HetNieuwsblad DeLimburger Ingr Stuttgarter
2019 Climate changeWRITTEN PRESS Volkskrant
2019 Pine Island GlacierONLINE PRESS Atlas Obscura
2018 Larsen C square icebergONLINE PRESSMashable VRT NWS iNews
2018 Pine Island Glacier calvingONLINE PRESS The Weather Channel Mashable Quartz Scientific American Live Science Science Alert DailyBeast The Daily Mail etc
2018 Vavilov Ice Cap surgeONLINE PRESS Earther
2018 Helheim calvingONLINE PRESS Earther
2018 Wat weten we van de ZuidpoolPODCAST NOS Podcast DeDag
April 30 2019 10
STEF LHERMITTE CV REMOTE SENSING SCIENTIST
2018 Fifteen Years of Change in the ArcticONLINE PRESS Nasa Earth Observatory Earth Sky Washington Post
2018 Antarctic grounding linesONLINE PRESS VRT NWS
2018 Penguin colonies on AntarcticaRADIO De wereld vandaag VRT Radio 1 VRT Radio 2
2018 Mass2Ant fieldworkRADIO NPO Radio 1
2017 Pine Island Glacier calvingRADIO WRITTEN amp ONLINE PRESSWashington Post Nasa hyperwall NY Times The Verge Live Science Quartz USA Today Giz-modo Daily Mail Inverse Euronews Science Alert The Weather Channel Scientias CBS News AOL International Business Times
2017 Greenland wildfireRADIO WRITTEN amp ONLINE PRESS BBC New Scientist The Guardian The Independent Eos NBC News Nasa Earth Nasa EarthBlog Climate Central Wildfire Today Newsweek HLN Clean Technica Euronews Forbes GristMother Jones NPR DW Huffington Post VRTNieuws IFLS Gizmodo Popsci SD Scientias
2017 Asian glaciersWRITTEN PRESS De Volkskrant De Morgen
2017 Larsen-C iceberg A68TV RADIO WRITTEN amp ONLINE PRESS AD De Morgen Climate Central VTM Nieuws BNR Mashable International Business Times Independent HLN RT
2017 Peterman riftTV RADIO WRITTEN amp ONLINE PRESSNOS op 3 Van Gils amp Gasten Washington Post Washington Post follow-up CNN Volkskrant TechTimes Live Science IFL Science ABSNews Daily Mail Mashable Inhabitat Business Insider TheWeather Network NASA Earth Observatory International Business Times Physorg Paris Match ScienceTimes Eathcom PBS Newshour Scientias
2016 Antarctic melt-albedo feedbackTV RADIO WRITTEN amp ONLINE PRESSFor complete coverage check Altmetric with higlights in VRT nieuws VTM journaal Karrewiet Ketnet RTL journaal De wereld vandaag VRT Radio VRTRadio nieuws National Geographic New Scientist De Volkskrant Washington Post Le Soir Eos El Mundo The International Business Times Kennis van Nu NTR Telegraaf De Morgen JapanTimes Der Spiegel Focusde Algemeen Dagblad NOS Physorg IFL science Business insider Science alert Life science CBS News Climate Central Fox news Huffington Post
2016 Lake Victoria ThunderstormsONLINE PRESSFor complete coverage check Altmetric with higlights in Delta Nasa Earth Observatory
2016 Benemelt Antarctic field campaign in the newsRADIO amp WRITTEN PRESS ROBTV DeOchtendVRT Radio 1 Nieuwe FeitenVRT Radio 1 DeWereld vandaagVRTRadio 1HetNieuwsblad De Standaard Rondom Leuven
2012 Interview for Science magazine on exceptional Greenland meltWRITTEN amp ONLINE PRESS Science
Lectures amp Outreach
April 30 2019 11
STEF LHERMITTE CV REMOTE SENSING SCIENTIST
7 Nov 2018 Assessing ice sheet changes from Copernicus satellitesCOPERNICUS amp POLAR REGIONS INDUSTRY WORKSHOPPolar applications of Copernicus
16 Oct 2018 De fysica van AntarcticaNATUURKUNDE SYMPOSIUM PHYSICS OF NATUREKeynote lecture [httpssymposiumvvtptudelftnl]
12 Oct 2018 What happens in Antarctica does not stay in AntarcticaVIB BRAIN amp DISEASE PHD SYMPOSIUMKeynote lecture
4 Oct 2018 Remote Sensing of anomalies and feedbacks using time series modelsSATEX WORKSHOP ON DATA GUIDED APPRAISAL OF BIOSPHERE-CLIMATE INTERACTIONS
4 Jul 2018 Antarctica Report science no-fictionCIMEMA LUMEN SIZZLING SUMMER OF SPACEIntroduction of Antarctic science by the movie rsquoEuropa Reportrsquo
13 May 2018 Hoe koud is het echt op AntarcticaTUDELFT JEUGD UNIVERSITEITPresentation for 8-12 year old students
21 Mar 2018 La Belgique et lAntarctique Impressions de ChercheursEVENING CONFERENCE ON ANTARCTIC RESEARCHPresentation for ice shelf research amp experiences
Feb 2018 Antarctica voor beginnersBASIS- amp KLEUTERSCHOOL URSULINENIntroductie voor kleuter- amp lagere school
21 Feb 2017 Ijsplaten van Antarctica in een veranderend klimaatCAUSERIE OXACOPresentation for wider audience
31 Jan 2017 Ijsplaten van Antarctica in een veranderend klimaatSLO NATUURWETENSCHAPPEN (GEOGRAPHY) KULEUVENPresentation for geografie leerkrachten
18 Dec 2016 Ice shelves on AntarcticaONDERNEMERSHUIS MECHELENPresentation on rsquoIce shelves on Antarcticarsquo
Dec 2015 Antarctica voor beginnersKLEUTERSCHOOL URSULINENIntroductie voor kleuterschool
SkillsSoftware
Office applications Office (Word Excel Powerpoint Access) LaTeX Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop Illustrator Flash)Open-source Office Libreoffice suite Inkscape imagemagickProgram languages python R C++ fortran bash IDL matlab javascript php html+css sqlRemote sensing QGis Google Earth Engine gdalogr ArcGIS Envi Idrisi PCIOperating systems Linux Mac Windows
Languages
Dutch Mother tongueEnglish Proficient understanding speaking and writing [ C2 level]French Very good understanding good speaking and intermediate writingSpanish Very good understanding and speaking good writing
April 30 2019 12
STEF LHERMITTE CV REMOTE SENSING SCIENTIST
Field work managementOrganisation of field campaigns in the Chilean Andes (2010 2014) and coordinator and assistance in a scientific field campaign on theRoi Baudoin ice shelf (East-Antarctica Jan 2016 amp Dec 2017)
April 30 2019 13
STEF LHERMITTE CV REMOTE SENSING SCIENTIST
2017-2018 Geodesy amp Remote Sensing [CIE4606]MSC GEOSCIENCE amp REMOTE SENSING TUDELFT NETHERLANDSLecturer on radiative transfer modelling
2016-2018 Ice snow amp climate change [CIE4602]MSC GEOSCIENCE amp REMOTE SENSING TUDELFT NETHERLANDSLecturer of remote sensing topics
2016-2018 Introduction to geophysics amp remote sensing [AESB1440]BSC APPLIED EARTH SCIENCES TUDELFT NETHERLANDSLecturer of hyperspectral remote sensing topic
2016-2018 Spaceflight assignment [AE3536]BSC MINOR SPACEFLIGHT TUDELFT NETHERLANDSResponsible for 3 assignments for 9 students
2016-2018 Earth observation [CT3532]BSC MINOR SPACEFLIGHT TUDELFT NETHERLANDSCoordinator + responsible lecturer
2014-2016 Remote sensing of the atmosphereMSC IN GEOGRAPHY MSC IN EARTH OBSERVATION KULEUVEN BELGIUMCoordinator + responsible lecturer
2014-2016 Remote sensing climatological applicationsMSC IN BIOSCIENCE ENGINEERING KULEUVEN BELGIUMGuest lecture in Land Cover amp Land Use monitoring (coordinator Prof Somers B)
2014-2015 Remote sensing of the cryopshereMSC UTRECHT UNIVERSITY NETHERLANDSGuest lecture in Physics of Remote Sensing (coordinator Prof Houweling S)
2011-2014 Temporal image analysis techniquesMSC IN EARTH OBSERVATION KULEUVEN BELGIUMGuest lecture in Remote sensing of vegetative systems (coordinator Prof Coppin P)
2005-2007 Trend analysisADVANCED MSC IN EARTH OBSERVATION KULEUVEN BELGIUMGuest lecture in Vegetative canopy monitoring (coordinator Prof Coppin P)
2002-2005 Geographical information systems [Practical sessions]MSC IN ENGINEERING OF FOREST amp LAND MANAGEMENT KULEUVEN BELGIUMPractical sessions of Geographical Information Systems (coordinator Prof Coppin P(2002-2004) Prof Van Orshoven J(2005))
Grants amp fellowships
NWO GO Firn Assessing firn processes from multi-source satellite dataFUNDED BY NWO USER SUPPORT FOR SPACE RESEARCHPI
Mass2Ant East Antarctic surface mass balance in the Anthropocene observations and multi-scale modellingFUNDED BY BELSPO BRAIN NWOCo-PI and principal NWO-funded collaborator (4 years of PhD funding) on project of PI Goosse H (UCL)
PV-MEP TPS Snow monitoring using the Proba-V Mission Exploitation Platform (PV-MEP) ThirdParty ServicesFUNDED BY ESACo-PI and responsible for snowmonitoring work package
U-Turn Understanding turning points in dryland ecosystem functioningFUNDED BY BELSPO STEREO IIIInternational partner
Black amp bloom Microbial processes darken and accelerate the melting of the Greenland Ice SheetFUNDED BY NERCInternational collaborator on project of PIrsquos Tranter M and Bamber J (University Bristol)
April 30 2019 8
STEF LHERMITTE CV REMOTE SENSING SCIENTIST
Benemelt Melting of Dronning Maud Land ice shelves a combined modelling and observa-tional approachFUNDED BY INBEV-LATOURCollaborator on project of PI Lenaerts J (Utrecht University)
Aerocloud How do aerosols and clouds affect the East Antarctic climateFUNDED BY BELSPO BRAINCollaborator on project of PI Van Lipzig N (KULeuven)
Aerocloud Antarctic precipitation clouds and their interplay with aerosols Combining ground-based remote sensing and regional climate modelingFUNDED BY FWOCollaborator on project of PI Van Lipzig N (KULeuven)
FWO post-doc fellowship Changes in surface properties of the Greenland ice sheet and their impact on climatemodelingFUNDED BY FWOPrincipal investigator
Fondecyt Regular 2011 Modelling the current and future hydrological contribution of glaciers and seasonalsnow in semi arid mountain catchmentsFUNDED BY FONDECYT (CHILE)International collaborator on project of PI Kinnard C (CEAZA)
Fondecyt Iniciacion 2009 The introduction of fusion techniques to improve the determination of snow coverproperties based on remote sensing imageryFUNDED BY FONDECYT (CHILE)Principal investigator
Planet Action Spatio-temporal changes in glacier surface facies and ablation morphology in theNorte Chico region ChileFUNDED BY SPOT IMAGEPrincipal investigator
Ecoseg-SR01108 Development of a spatio-temporal segmentation algorithm for satellite time seriesto monitor forest conditionFUNDED BY BELSPO STEREO IIInvestigator on project of PI Prof Coppin P (KULeuven)
Glovex-SR1681 Assessment of vegetation regrowth by satellite remote sensingFUNDED BY BELSPO STEREO IIInvestigator on project of PI Prof Coppin P (KULeuven)
Scientific committees amp reviewsCo-convernorship
EGU 2018 Remote sensing of the cryosphere [CR21]EGU GENERAL ASSEMBLY 2018 VIENNA AUSTRIACo-convenor
EGU 2017 Remote sensing of the cryosphere [CR21]EGU GENERAL ASSEMBLY 2017 VIENNA AUSTRIAConvenor
EGU 2016 Remote sensing of the cryosphere [CR21]EGU GENERAL ASSEMBLY 2016 VIENNA AUSTRIAConvenor
EGU 2015 Remote sensing of polar snow and ice [CR21]EGU GENERAL ASSEMBLY 2015 VIENNA AUSTRIA 12 APRIL ndash 17 APRILCo-convenor
EGU 2014 Remote sensing of the cryosphere [CR21]EGU GENERAL ASSEMBLY 2014 VIENNA AUSTRIA 28 APRIL ndash 2 MAYCo-convenor
April 30 2019 9
STEF LHERMITTE CV REMOTE SENSING SCIENTIST
Multitemp 2007 Fourth International Workshop on the Analysis of Multitemporal Remote Sensing ImagesMULTITEMP 2007 LEUVEN BELGIUM 18-20 JULYMember of the organisation committee
Reviews forNatureGeoscience TheCryosphere RemoteSensingof Environment Journal of Glaciology Scientific Reports IEEETrans-actions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Global Ecology andBiogeography Photogrammetric Engineering amp Remote Sensing Journal of Selected Topics in Applied EarthObservationsand Remote Sensing Remote Sensing International Journal of Remote Sensing Biogeosciences Atmospheric ScienceLetters Journal of Arid Environments Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics Geocarto International International Journalof Geographical Information Science Biosystems Engineering EARSeL eProceedings Sensors Scientia Agricola Ecologi-cal Modeling Annals of Forest Science NSF Fondecyt NWO EUFAR
Editorial work
2018-now The CryosphereEDITOR Editorial Board
2018-2019 Remote Sensing Special IssueRemote Sensing of Glaciers at Global and Regional ScalesGUEST EDITOR Special issue website
Press amp outreachPress
2019 Brunt ice shelfONLINE PRESSBBC Fortune Earther Business Insider Het LaatsteNieuws HetNieuwsblad DeLimburger Ingr Stuttgarter
2019 Climate changeWRITTEN PRESS Volkskrant
2019 Pine Island GlacierONLINE PRESS Atlas Obscura
2018 Larsen C square icebergONLINE PRESSMashable VRT NWS iNews
2018 Pine Island Glacier calvingONLINE PRESS The Weather Channel Mashable Quartz Scientific American Live Science Science Alert DailyBeast The Daily Mail etc
2018 Vavilov Ice Cap surgeONLINE PRESS Earther
2018 Helheim calvingONLINE PRESS Earther
2018 Wat weten we van de ZuidpoolPODCAST NOS Podcast DeDag
April 30 2019 10
STEF LHERMITTE CV REMOTE SENSING SCIENTIST
2018 Fifteen Years of Change in the ArcticONLINE PRESS Nasa Earth Observatory Earth Sky Washington Post
2018 Antarctic grounding linesONLINE PRESS VRT NWS
2018 Penguin colonies on AntarcticaRADIO De wereld vandaag VRT Radio 1 VRT Radio 2
2018 Mass2Ant fieldworkRADIO NPO Radio 1
2017 Pine Island Glacier calvingRADIO WRITTEN amp ONLINE PRESSWashington Post Nasa hyperwall NY Times The Verge Live Science Quartz USA Today Giz-modo Daily Mail Inverse Euronews Science Alert The Weather Channel Scientias CBS News AOL International Business Times
2017 Greenland wildfireRADIO WRITTEN amp ONLINE PRESS BBC New Scientist The Guardian The Independent Eos NBC News Nasa Earth Nasa EarthBlog Climate Central Wildfire Today Newsweek HLN Clean Technica Euronews Forbes GristMother Jones NPR DW Huffington Post VRTNieuws IFLS Gizmodo Popsci SD Scientias
2017 Asian glaciersWRITTEN PRESS De Volkskrant De Morgen
2017 Larsen-C iceberg A68TV RADIO WRITTEN amp ONLINE PRESS AD De Morgen Climate Central VTM Nieuws BNR Mashable International Business Times Independent HLN RT
2017 Peterman riftTV RADIO WRITTEN amp ONLINE PRESSNOS op 3 Van Gils amp Gasten Washington Post Washington Post follow-up CNN Volkskrant TechTimes Live Science IFL Science ABSNews Daily Mail Mashable Inhabitat Business Insider TheWeather Network NASA Earth Observatory International Business Times Physorg Paris Match ScienceTimes Eathcom PBS Newshour Scientias
2016 Antarctic melt-albedo feedbackTV RADIO WRITTEN amp ONLINE PRESSFor complete coverage check Altmetric with higlights in VRT nieuws VTM journaal Karrewiet Ketnet RTL journaal De wereld vandaag VRT Radio VRTRadio nieuws National Geographic New Scientist De Volkskrant Washington Post Le Soir Eos El Mundo The International Business Times Kennis van Nu NTR Telegraaf De Morgen JapanTimes Der Spiegel Focusde Algemeen Dagblad NOS Physorg IFL science Business insider Science alert Life science CBS News Climate Central Fox news Huffington Post
2016 Lake Victoria ThunderstormsONLINE PRESSFor complete coverage check Altmetric with higlights in Delta Nasa Earth Observatory
2016 Benemelt Antarctic field campaign in the newsRADIO amp WRITTEN PRESS ROBTV DeOchtendVRT Radio 1 Nieuwe FeitenVRT Radio 1 DeWereld vandaagVRTRadio 1HetNieuwsblad De Standaard Rondom Leuven
2012 Interview for Science magazine on exceptional Greenland meltWRITTEN amp ONLINE PRESS Science
Lectures amp Outreach
April 30 2019 11
STEF LHERMITTE CV REMOTE SENSING SCIENTIST
7 Nov 2018 Assessing ice sheet changes from Copernicus satellitesCOPERNICUS amp POLAR REGIONS INDUSTRY WORKSHOPPolar applications of Copernicus
16 Oct 2018 De fysica van AntarcticaNATUURKUNDE SYMPOSIUM PHYSICS OF NATUREKeynote lecture [httpssymposiumvvtptudelftnl]
12 Oct 2018 What happens in Antarctica does not stay in AntarcticaVIB BRAIN amp DISEASE PHD SYMPOSIUMKeynote lecture
4 Oct 2018 Remote Sensing of anomalies and feedbacks using time series modelsSATEX WORKSHOP ON DATA GUIDED APPRAISAL OF BIOSPHERE-CLIMATE INTERACTIONS
4 Jul 2018 Antarctica Report science no-fictionCIMEMA LUMEN SIZZLING SUMMER OF SPACEIntroduction of Antarctic science by the movie rsquoEuropa Reportrsquo
13 May 2018 Hoe koud is het echt op AntarcticaTUDELFT JEUGD UNIVERSITEITPresentation for 8-12 year old students
21 Mar 2018 La Belgique et lAntarctique Impressions de ChercheursEVENING CONFERENCE ON ANTARCTIC RESEARCHPresentation for ice shelf research amp experiences
Feb 2018 Antarctica voor beginnersBASIS- amp KLEUTERSCHOOL URSULINENIntroductie voor kleuter- amp lagere school
21 Feb 2017 Ijsplaten van Antarctica in een veranderend klimaatCAUSERIE OXACOPresentation for wider audience
31 Jan 2017 Ijsplaten van Antarctica in een veranderend klimaatSLO NATUURWETENSCHAPPEN (GEOGRAPHY) KULEUVENPresentation for geografie leerkrachten
18 Dec 2016 Ice shelves on AntarcticaONDERNEMERSHUIS MECHELENPresentation on rsquoIce shelves on Antarcticarsquo
Dec 2015 Antarctica voor beginnersKLEUTERSCHOOL URSULINENIntroductie voor kleuterschool
SkillsSoftware
Office applications Office (Word Excel Powerpoint Access) LaTeX Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop Illustrator Flash)Open-source Office Libreoffice suite Inkscape imagemagickProgram languages python R C++ fortran bash IDL matlab javascript php html+css sqlRemote sensing QGis Google Earth Engine gdalogr ArcGIS Envi Idrisi PCIOperating systems Linux Mac Windows
Languages
Dutch Mother tongueEnglish Proficient understanding speaking and writing [ C2 level]French Very good understanding good speaking and intermediate writingSpanish Very good understanding and speaking good writing
April 30 2019 12
STEF LHERMITTE CV REMOTE SENSING SCIENTIST
Field work managementOrganisation of field campaigns in the Chilean Andes (2010 2014) and coordinator and assistance in a scientific field campaign on theRoi Baudoin ice shelf (East-Antarctica Jan 2016 amp Dec 2017)
April 30 2019 13
STEF LHERMITTE CV REMOTE SENSING SCIENTIST
Benemelt Melting of Dronning Maud Land ice shelves a combined modelling and observa-tional approachFUNDED BY INBEV-LATOURCollaborator on project of PI Lenaerts J (Utrecht University)
Aerocloud How do aerosols and clouds affect the East Antarctic climateFUNDED BY BELSPO BRAINCollaborator on project of PI Van Lipzig N (KULeuven)
Aerocloud Antarctic precipitation clouds and their interplay with aerosols Combining ground-based remote sensing and regional climate modelingFUNDED BY FWOCollaborator on project of PI Van Lipzig N (KULeuven)
FWO post-doc fellowship Changes in surface properties of the Greenland ice sheet and their impact on climatemodelingFUNDED BY FWOPrincipal investigator
Fondecyt Regular 2011 Modelling the current and future hydrological contribution of glaciers and seasonalsnow in semi arid mountain catchmentsFUNDED BY FONDECYT (CHILE)International collaborator on project of PI Kinnard C (CEAZA)
Fondecyt Iniciacion 2009 The introduction of fusion techniques to improve the determination of snow coverproperties based on remote sensing imageryFUNDED BY FONDECYT (CHILE)Principal investigator
Planet Action Spatio-temporal changes in glacier surface facies and ablation morphology in theNorte Chico region ChileFUNDED BY SPOT IMAGEPrincipal investigator
Ecoseg-SR01108 Development of a spatio-temporal segmentation algorithm for satellite time seriesto monitor forest conditionFUNDED BY BELSPO STEREO IIInvestigator on project of PI Prof Coppin P (KULeuven)
Glovex-SR1681 Assessment of vegetation regrowth by satellite remote sensingFUNDED BY BELSPO STEREO IIInvestigator on project of PI Prof Coppin P (KULeuven)
Scientific committees amp reviewsCo-convernorship
EGU 2018 Remote sensing of the cryosphere [CR21]EGU GENERAL ASSEMBLY 2018 VIENNA AUSTRIACo-convenor
EGU 2017 Remote sensing of the cryosphere [CR21]EGU GENERAL ASSEMBLY 2017 VIENNA AUSTRIAConvenor
EGU 2016 Remote sensing of the cryosphere [CR21]EGU GENERAL ASSEMBLY 2016 VIENNA AUSTRIAConvenor
EGU 2015 Remote sensing of polar snow and ice [CR21]EGU GENERAL ASSEMBLY 2015 VIENNA AUSTRIA 12 APRIL ndash 17 APRILCo-convenor
EGU 2014 Remote sensing of the cryosphere [CR21]EGU GENERAL ASSEMBLY 2014 VIENNA AUSTRIA 28 APRIL ndash 2 MAYCo-convenor
April 30 2019 9
STEF LHERMITTE CV REMOTE SENSING SCIENTIST
Multitemp 2007 Fourth International Workshop on the Analysis of Multitemporal Remote Sensing ImagesMULTITEMP 2007 LEUVEN BELGIUM 18-20 JULYMember of the organisation committee
Reviews forNatureGeoscience TheCryosphere RemoteSensingof Environment Journal of Glaciology Scientific Reports IEEETrans-actions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Global Ecology andBiogeography Photogrammetric Engineering amp Remote Sensing Journal of Selected Topics in Applied EarthObservationsand Remote Sensing Remote Sensing International Journal of Remote Sensing Biogeosciences Atmospheric ScienceLetters Journal of Arid Environments Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics Geocarto International International Journalof Geographical Information Science Biosystems Engineering EARSeL eProceedings Sensors Scientia Agricola Ecologi-cal Modeling Annals of Forest Science NSF Fondecyt NWO EUFAR
Editorial work
2018-now The CryosphereEDITOR Editorial Board
2018-2019 Remote Sensing Special IssueRemote Sensing of Glaciers at Global and Regional ScalesGUEST EDITOR Special issue website
Press amp outreachPress
2019 Brunt ice shelfONLINE PRESSBBC Fortune Earther Business Insider Het LaatsteNieuws HetNieuwsblad DeLimburger Ingr Stuttgarter
2019 Climate changeWRITTEN PRESS Volkskrant
2019 Pine Island GlacierONLINE PRESS Atlas Obscura
2018 Larsen C square icebergONLINE PRESSMashable VRT NWS iNews
2018 Pine Island Glacier calvingONLINE PRESS The Weather Channel Mashable Quartz Scientific American Live Science Science Alert DailyBeast The Daily Mail etc
2018 Vavilov Ice Cap surgeONLINE PRESS Earther
2018 Helheim calvingONLINE PRESS Earther
2018 Wat weten we van de ZuidpoolPODCAST NOS Podcast DeDag
April 30 2019 10
STEF LHERMITTE CV REMOTE SENSING SCIENTIST
2018 Fifteen Years of Change in the ArcticONLINE PRESS Nasa Earth Observatory Earth Sky Washington Post
2018 Antarctic grounding linesONLINE PRESS VRT NWS
2018 Penguin colonies on AntarcticaRADIO De wereld vandaag VRT Radio 1 VRT Radio 2
2018 Mass2Ant fieldworkRADIO NPO Radio 1
2017 Pine Island Glacier calvingRADIO WRITTEN amp ONLINE PRESSWashington Post Nasa hyperwall NY Times The Verge Live Science Quartz USA Today Giz-modo Daily Mail Inverse Euronews Science Alert The Weather Channel Scientias CBS News AOL International Business Times
2017 Greenland wildfireRADIO WRITTEN amp ONLINE PRESS BBC New Scientist The Guardian The Independent Eos NBC News Nasa Earth Nasa EarthBlog Climate Central Wildfire Today Newsweek HLN Clean Technica Euronews Forbes GristMother Jones NPR DW Huffington Post VRTNieuws IFLS Gizmodo Popsci SD Scientias
2017 Asian glaciersWRITTEN PRESS De Volkskrant De Morgen
2017 Larsen-C iceberg A68TV RADIO WRITTEN amp ONLINE PRESS AD De Morgen Climate Central VTM Nieuws BNR Mashable International Business Times Independent HLN RT
2017 Peterman riftTV RADIO WRITTEN amp ONLINE PRESSNOS op 3 Van Gils amp Gasten Washington Post Washington Post follow-up CNN Volkskrant TechTimes Live Science IFL Science ABSNews Daily Mail Mashable Inhabitat Business Insider TheWeather Network NASA Earth Observatory International Business Times Physorg Paris Match ScienceTimes Eathcom PBS Newshour Scientias
2016 Antarctic melt-albedo feedbackTV RADIO WRITTEN amp ONLINE PRESSFor complete coverage check Altmetric with higlights in VRT nieuws VTM journaal Karrewiet Ketnet RTL journaal De wereld vandaag VRT Radio VRTRadio nieuws National Geographic New Scientist De Volkskrant Washington Post Le Soir Eos El Mundo The International Business Times Kennis van Nu NTR Telegraaf De Morgen JapanTimes Der Spiegel Focusde Algemeen Dagblad NOS Physorg IFL science Business insider Science alert Life science CBS News Climate Central Fox news Huffington Post
2016 Lake Victoria ThunderstormsONLINE PRESSFor complete coverage check Altmetric with higlights in Delta Nasa Earth Observatory
2016 Benemelt Antarctic field campaign in the newsRADIO amp WRITTEN PRESS ROBTV DeOchtendVRT Radio 1 Nieuwe FeitenVRT Radio 1 DeWereld vandaagVRTRadio 1HetNieuwsblad De Standaard Rondom Leuven
2012 Interview for Science magazine on exceptional Greenland meltWRITTEN amp ONLINE PRESS Science
Lectures amp Outreach
April 30 2019 11
STEF LHERMITTE CV REMOTE SENSING SCIENTIST
7 Nov 2018 Assessing ice sheet changes from Copernicus satellitesCOPERNICUS amp POLAR REGIONS INDUSTRY WORKSHOPPolar applications of Copernicus
16 Oct 2018 De fysica van AntarcticaNATUURKUNDE SYMPOSIUM PHYSICS OF NATUREKeynote lecture [httpssymposiumvvtptudelftnl]
12 Oct 2018 What happens in Antarctica does not stay in AntarcticaVIB BRAIN amp DISEASE PHD SYMPOSIUMKeynote lecture
4 Oct 2018 Remote Sensing of anomalies and feedbacks using time series modelsSATEX WORKSHOP ON DATA GUIDED APPRAISAL OF BIOSPHERE-CLIMATE INTERACTIONS
4 Jul 2018 Antarctica Report science no-fictionCIMEMA LUMEN SIZZLING SUMMER OF SPACEIntroduction of Antarctic science by the movie rsquoEuropa Reportrsquo
13 May 2018 Hoe koud is het echt op AntarcticaTUDELFT JEUGD UNIVERSITEITPresentation for 8-12 year old students
21 Mar 2018 La Belgique et lAntarctique Impressions de ChercheursEVENING CONFERENCE ON ANTARCTIC RESEARCHPresentation for ice shelf research amp experiences
Feb 2018 Antarctica voor beginnersBASIS- amp KLEUTERSCHOOL URSULINENIntroductie voor kleuter- amp lagere school
21 Feb 2017 Ijsplaten van Antarctica in een veranderend klimaatCAUSERIE OXACOPresentation for wider audience
31 Jan 2017 Ijsplaten van Antarctica in een veranderend klimaatSLO NATUURWETENSCHAPPEN (GEOGRAPHY) KULEUVENPresentation for geografie leerkrachten
18 Dec 2016 Ice shelves on AntarcticaONDERNEMERSHUIS MECHELENPresentation on rsquoIce shelves on Antarcticarsquo
Dec 2015 Antarctica voor beginnersKLEUTERSCHOOL URSULINENIntroductie voor kleuterschool
SkillsSoftware
Office applications Office (Word Excel Powerpoint Access) LaTeX Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop Illustrator Flash)Open-source Office Libreoffice suite Inkscape imagemagickProgram languages python R C++ fortran bash IDL matlab javascript php html+css sqlRemote sensing QGis Google Earth Engine gdalogr ArcGIS Envi Idrisi PCIOperating systems Linux Mac Windows
Languages
Dutch Mother tongueEnglish Proficient understanding speaking and writing [ C2 level]French Very good understanding good speaking and intermediate writingSpanish Very good understanding and speaking good writing
April 30 2019 12
STEF LHERMITTE CV REMOTE SENSING SCIENTIST
Field work managementOrganisation of field campaigns in the Chilean Andes (2010 2014) and coordinator and assistance in a scientific field campaign on theRoi Baudoin ice shelf (East-Antarctica Jan 2016 amp Dec 2017)
April 30 2019 13
STEF LHERMITTE CV REMOTE SENSING SCIENTIST
Multitemp 2007 Fourth International Workshop on the Analysis of Multitemporal Remote Sensing ImagesMULTITEMP 2007 LEUVEN BELGIUM 18-20 JULYMember of the organisation committee
Reviews forNatureGeoscience TheCryosphere RemoteSensingof Environment Journal of Glaciology Scientific Reports IEEETrans-actions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Global Ecology andBiogeography Photogrammetric Engineering amp Remote Sensing Journal of Selected Topics in Applied EarthObservationsand Remote Sensing Remote Sensing International Journal of Remote Sensing Biogeosciences Atmospheric ScienceLetters Journal of Arid Environments Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics Geocarto International International Journalof Geographical Information Science Biosystems Engineering EARSeL eProceedings Sensors Scientia Agricola Ecologi-cal Modeling Annals of Forest Science NSF Fondecyt NWO EUFAR
Editorial work
2018-now The CryosphereEDITOR Editorial Board
2018-2019 Remote Sensing Special IssueRemote Sensing of Glaciers at Global and Regional ScalesGUEST EDITOR Special issue website
Press amp outreachPress
2019 Brunt ice shelfONLINE PRESSBBC Fortune Earther Business Insider Het LaatsteNieuws HetNieuwsblad DeLimburger Ingr Stuttgarter
2019 Climate changeWRITTEN PRESS Volkskrant
2019 Pine Island GlacierONLINE PRESS Atlas Obscura
2018 Larsen C square icebergONLINE PRESSMashable VRT NWS iNews
2018 Pine Island Glacier calvingONLINE PRESS The Weather Channel Mashable Quartz Scientific American Live Science Science Alert DailyBeast The Daily Mail etc
2018 Vavilov Ice Cap surgeONLINE PRESS Earther
2018 Helheim calvingONLINE PRESS Earther
2018 Wat weten we van de ZuidpoolPODCAST NOS Podcast DeDag
April 30 2019 10
STEF LHERMITTE CV REMOTE SENSING SCIENTIST
2018 Fifteen Years of Change in the ArcticONLINE PRESS Nasa Earth Observatory Earth Sky Washington Post
2018 Antarctic grounding linesONLINE PRESS VRT NWS
2018 Penguin colonies on AntarcticaRADIO De wereld vandaag VRT Radio 1 VRT Radio 2
2018 Mass2Ant fieldworkRADIO NPO Radio 1
2017 Pine Island Glacier calvingRADIO WRITTEN amp ONLINE PRESSWashington Post Nasa hyperwall NY Times The Verge Live Science Quartz USA Today Giz-modo Daily Mail Inverse Euronews Science Alert The Weather Channel Scientias CBS News AOL International Business Times
2017 Greenland wildfireRADIO WRITTEN amp ONLINE PRESS BBC New Scientist The Guardian The Independent Eos NBC News Nasa Earth Nasa EarthBlog Climate Central Wildfire Today Newsweek HLN Clean Technica Euronews Forbes GristMother Jones NPR DW Huffington Post VRTNieuws IFLS Gizmodo Popsci SD Scientias
2017 Asian glaciersWRITTEN PRESS De Volkskrant De Morgen
2017 Larsen-C iceberg A68TV RADIO WRITTEN amp ONLINE PRESS AD De Morgen Climate Central VTM Nieuws BNR Mashable International Business Times Independent HLN RT
2017 Peterman riftTV RADIO WRITTEN amp ONLINE PRESSNOS op 3 Van Gils amp Gasten Washington Post Washington Post follow-up CNN Volkskrant TechTimes Live Science IFL Science ABSNews Daily Mail Mashable Inhabitat Business Insider TheWeather Network NASA Earth Observatory International Business Times Physorg Paris Match ScienceTimes Eathcom PBS Newshour Scientias
2016 Antarctic melt-albedo feedbackTV RADIO WRITTEN amp ONLINE PRESSFor complete coverage check Altmetric with higlights in VRT nieuws VTM journaal Karrewiet Ketnet RTL journaal De wereld vandaag VRT Radio VRTRadio nieuws National Geographic New Scientist De Volkskrant Washington Post Le Soir Eos El Mundo The International Business Times Kennis van Nu NTR Telegraaf De Morgen JapanTimes Der Spiegel Focusde Algemeen Dagblad NOS Physorg IFL science Business insider Science alert Life science CBS News Climate Central Fox news Huffington Post
2016 Lake Victoria ThunderstormsONLINE PRESSFor complete coverage check Altmetric with higlights in Delta Nasa Earth Observatory
2016 Benemelt Antarctic field campaign in the newsRADIO amp WRITTEN PRESS ROBTV DeOchtendVRT Radio 1 Nieuwe FeitenVRT Radio 1 DeWereld vandaagVRTRadio 1HetNieuwsblad De Standaard Rondom Leuven
2012 Interview for Science magazine on exceptional Greenland meltWRITTEN amp ONLINE PRESS Science
Lectures amp Outreach
April 30 2019 11
STEF LHERMITTE CV REMOTE SENSING SCIENTIST
7 Nov 2018 Assessing ice sheet changes from Copernicus satellitesCOPERNICUS amp POLAR REGIONS INDUSTRY WORKSHOPPolar applications of Copernicus
16 Oct 2018 De fysica van AntarcticaNATUURKUNDE SYMPOSIUM PHYSICS OF NATUREKeynote lecture [httpssymposiumvvtptudelftnl]
12 Oct 2018 What happens in Antarctica does not stay in AntarcticaVIB BRAIN amp DISEASE PHD SYMPOSIUMKeynote lecture
4 Oct 2018 Remote Sensing of anomalies and feedbacks using time series modelsSATEX WORKSHOP ON DATA GUIDED APPRAISAL OF BIOSPHERE-CLIMATE INTERACTIONS
4 Jul 2018 Antarctica Report science no-fictionCIMEMA LUMEN SIZZLING SUMMER OF SPACEIntroduction of Antarctic science by the movie rsquoEuropa Reportrsquo
13 May 2018 Hoe koud is het echt op AntarcticaTUDELFT JEUGD UNIVERSITEITPresentation for 8-12 year old students
21 Mar 2018 La Belgique et lAntarctique Impressions de ChercheursEVENING CONFERENCE ON ANTARCTIC RESEARCHPresentation for ice shelf research amp experiences
Feb 2018 Antarctica voor beginnersBASIS- amp KLEUTERSCHOOL URSULINENIntroductie voor kleuter- amp lagere school
21 Feb 2017 Ijsplaten van Antarctica in een veranderend klimaatCAUSERIE OXACOPresentation for wider audience
31 Jan 2017 Ijsplaten van Antarctica in een veranderend klimaatSLO NATUURWETENSCHAPPEN (GEOGRAPHY) KULEUVENPresentation for geografie leerkrachten
18 Dec 2016 Ice shelves on AntarcticaONDERNEMERSHUIS MECHELENPresentation on rsquoIce shelves on Antarcticarsquo
Dec 2015 Antarctica voor beginnersKLEUTERSCHOOL URSULINENIntroductie voor kleuterschool
SkillsSoftware
Office applications Office (Word Excel Powerpoint Access) LaTeX Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop Illustrator Flash)Open-source Office Libreoffice suite Inkscape imagemagickProgram languages python R C++ fortran bash IDL matlab javascript php html+css sqlRemote sensing QGis Google Earth Engine gdalogr ArcGIS Envi Idrisi PCIOperating systems Linux Mac Windows
Languages
Dutch Mother tongueEnglish Proficient understanding speaking and writing [ C2 level]French Very good understanding good speaking and intermediate writingSpanish Very good understanding and speaking good writing
April 30 2019 12
STEF LHERMITTE CV REMOTE SENSING SCIENTIST
Field work managementOrganisation of field campaigns in the Chilean Andes (2010 2014) and coordinator and assistance in a scientific field campaign on theRoi Baudoin ice shelf (East-Antarctica Jan 2016 amp Dec 2017)
April 30 2019 13
STEF LHERMITTE CV REMOTE SENSING SCIENTIST
2018 Fifteen Years of Change in the ArcticONLINE PRESS Nasa Earth Observatory Earth Sky Washington Post
2018 Antarctic grounding linesONLINE PRESS VRT NWS
2018 Penguin colonies on AntarcticaRADIO De wereld vandaag VRT Radio 1 VRT Radio 2
2018 Mass2Ant fieldworkRADIO NPO Radio 1
2017 Pine Island Glacier calvingRADIO WRITTEN amp ONLINE PRESSWashington Post Nasa hyperwall NY Times The Verge Live Science Quartz USA Today Giz-modo Daily Mail Inverse Euronews Science Alert The Weather Channel Scientias CBS News AOL International Business Times
2017 Greenland wildfireRADIO WRITTEN amp ONLINE PRESS BBC New Scientist The Guardian The Independent Eos NBC News Nasa Earth Nasa EarthBlog Climate Central Wildfire Today Newsweek HLN Clean Technica Euronews Forbes GristMother Jones NPR DW Huffington Post VRTNieuws IFLS Gizmodo Popsci SD Scientias
2017 Asian glaciersWRITTEN PRESS De Volkskrant De Morgen
2017 Larsen-C iceberg A68TV RADIO WRITTEN amp ONLINE PRESS AD De Morgen Climate Central VTM Nieuws BNR Mashable International Business Times Independent HLN RT
2017 Peterman riftTV RADIO WRITTEN amp ONLINE PRESSNOS op 3 Van Gils amp Gasten Washington Post Washington Post follow-up CNN Volkskrant TechTimes Live Science IFL Science ABSNews Daily Mail Mashable Inhabitat Business Insider TheWeather Network NASA Earth Observatory International Business Times Physorg Paris Match ScienceTimes Eathcom PBS Newshour Scientias
2016 Antarctic melt-albedo feedbackTV RADIO WRITTEN amp ONLINE PRESSFor complete coverage check Altmetric with higlights in VRT nieuws VTM journaal Karrewiet Ketnet RTL journaal De wereld vandaag VRT Radio VRTRadio nieuws National Geographic New Scientist De Volkskrant Washington Post Le Soir Eos El Mundo The International Business Times Kennis van Nu NTR Telegraaf De Morgen JapanTimes Der Spiegel Focusde Algemeen Dagblad NOS Physorg IFL science Business insider Science alert Life science CBS News Climate Central Fox news Huffington Post
2016 Lake Victoria ThunderstormsONLINE PRESSFor complete coverage check Altmetric with higlights in Delta Nasa Earth Observatory
2016 Benemelt Antarctic field campaign in the newsRADIO amp WRITTEN PRESS ROBTV DeOchtendVRT Radio 1 Nieuwe FeitenVRT Radio 1 DeWereld vandaagVRTRadio 1HetNieuwsblad De Standaard Rondom Leuven
2012 Interview for Science magazine on exceptional Greenland meltWRITTEN amp ONLINE PRESS Science
Lectures amp Outreach
April 30 2019 11
STEF LHERMITTE CV REMOTE SENSING SCIENTIST
7 Nov 2018 Assessing ice sheet changes from Copernicus satellitesCOPERNICUS amp POLAR REGIONS INDUSTRY WORKSHOPPolar applications of Copernicus
16 Oct 2018 De fysica van AntarcticaNATUURKUNDE SYMPOSIUM PHYSICS OF NATUREKeynote lecture [httpssymposiumvvtptudelftnl]
12 Oct 2018 What happens in Antarctica does not stay in AntarcticaVIB BRAIN amp DISEASE PHD SYMPOSIUMKeynote lecture
4 Oct 2018 Remote Sensing of anomalies and feedbacks using time series modelsSATEX WORKSHOP ON DATA GUIDED APPRAISAL OF BIOSPHERE-CLIMATE INTERACTIONS
4 Jul 2018 Antarctica Report science no-fictionCIMEMA LUMEN SIZZLING SUMMER OF SPACEIntroduction of Antarctic science by the movie rsquoEuropa Reportrsquo
13 May 2018 Hoe koud is het echt op AntarcticaTUDELFT JEUGD UNIVERSITEITPresentation for 8-12 year old students
21 Mar 2018 La Belgique et lAntarctique Impressions de ChercheursEVENING CONFERENCE ON ANTARCTIC RESEARCHPresentation for ice shelf research amp experiences
Feb 2018 Antarctica voor beginnersBASIS- amp KLEUTERSCHOOL URSULINENIntroductie voor kleuter- amp lagere school
21 Feb 2017 Ijsplaten van Antarctica in een veranderend klimaatCAUSERIE OXACOPresentation for wider audience
31 Jan 2017 Ijsplaten van Antarctica in een veranderend klimaatSLO NATUURWETENSCHAPPEN (GEOGRAPHY) KULEUVENPresentation for geografie leerkrachten
18 Dec 2016 Ice shelves on AntarcticaONDERNEMERSHUIS MECHELENPresentation on rsquoIce shelves on Antarcticarsquo
Dec 2015 Antarctica voor beginnersKLEUTERSCHOOL URSULINENIntroductie voor kleuterschool
SkillsSoftware
Office applications Office (Word Excel Powerpoint Access) LaTeX Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop Illustrator Flash)Open-source Office Libreoffice suite Inkscape imagemagickProgram languages python R C++ fortran bash IDL matlab javascript php html+css sqlRemote sensing QGis Google Earth Engine gdalogr ArcGIS Envi Idrisi PCIOperating systems Linux Mac Windows
Languages
Dutch Mother tongueEnglish Proficient understanding speaking and writing [ C2 level]French Very good understanding good speaking and intermediate writingSpanish Very good understanding and speaking good writing
April 30 2019 12
STEF LHERMITTE CV REMOTE SENSING SCIENTIST
Field work managementOrganisation of field campaigns in the Chilean Andes (2010 2014) and coordinator and assistance in a scientific field campaign on theRoi Baudoin ice shelf (East-Antarctica Jan 2016 amp Dec 2017)
April 30 2019 13
STEF LHERMITTE CV REMOTE SENSING SCIENTIST
7 Nov 2018 Assessing ice sheet changes from Copernicus satellitesCOPERNICUS amp POLAR REGIONS INDUSTRY WORKSHOPPolar applications of Copernicus
16 Oct 2018 De fysica van AntarcticaNATUURKUNDE SYMPOSIUM PHYSICS OF NATUREKeynote lecture [httpssymposiumvvtptudelftnl]
12 Oct 2018 What happens in Antarctica does not stay in AntarcticaVIB BRAIN amp DISEASE PHD SYMPOSIUMKeynote lecture
4 Oct 2018 Remote Sensing of anomalies and feedbacks using time series modelsSATEX WORKSHOP ON DATA GUIDED APPRAISAL OF BIOSPHERE-CLIMATE INTERACTIONS
4 Jul 2018 Antarctica Report science no-fictionCIMEMA LUMEN SIZZLING SUMMER OF SPACEIntroduction of Antarctic science by the movie rsquoEuropa Reportrsquo
13 May 2018 Hoe koud is het echt op AntarcticaTUDELFT JEUGD UNIVERSITEITPresentation for 8-12 year old students
21 Mar 2018 La Belgique et lAntarctique Impressions de ChercheursEVENING CONFERENCE ON ANTARCTIC RESEARCHPresentation for ice shelf research amp experiences
Feb 2018 Antarctica voor beginnersBASIS- amp KLEUTERSCHOOL URSULINENIntroductie voor kleuter- amp lagere school
21 Feb 2017 Ijsplaten van Antarctica in een veranderend klimaatCAUSERIE OXACOPresentation for wider audience
31 Jan 2017 Ijsplaten van Antarctica in een veranderend klimaatSLO NATUURWETENSCHAPPEN (GEOGRAPHY) KULEUVENPresentation for geografie leerkrachten
18 Dec 2016 Ice shelves on AntarcticaONDERNEMERSHUIS MECHELENPresentation on rsquoIce shelves on Antarcticarsquo
Dec 2015 Antarctica voor beginnersKLEUTERSCHOOL URSULINENIntroductie voor kleuterschool
SkillsSoftware
Office applications Office (Word Excel Powerpoint Access) LaTeX Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop Illustrator Flash)Open-source Office Libreoffice suite Inkscape imagemagickProgram languages python R C++ fortran bash IDL matlab javascript php html+css sqlRemote sensing QGis Google Earth Engine gdalogr ArcGIS Envi Idrisi PCIOperating systems Linux Mac Windows
Languages
Dutch Mother tongueEnglish Proficient understanding speaking and writing [ C2 level]French Very good understanding good speaking and intermediate writingSpanish Very good understanding and speaking good writing
April 30 2019 12
STEF LHERMITTE CV REMOTE SENSING SCIENTIST
Field work managementOrganisation of field campaigns in the Chilean Andes (2010 2014) and coordinator and assistance in a scientific field campaign on theRoi Baudoin ice shelf (East-Antarctica Jan 2016 amp Dec 2017)
April 30 2019 13
STEF LHERMITTE CV REMOTE SENSING SCIENTIST
Field work managementOrganisation of field campaigns in the Chilean Andes (2010 2014) and coordinator and assistance in a scientific field campaign on theRoi Baudoin ice shelf (East-Antarctica Jan 2016 amp Dec 2017)
April 30 2019 13
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