Franch, Belen

Degrees

  • Physics, Universitat de Valencia (2013) - Ph.D

Areas of Interest

  • Surface Albedo
  • Atmospheric Correction in the Solar Spectrum
  • Agriculture
  • Crop yield monitoring

Research Topics

  • Geospatial Information Science and Remote Sensing
  • Land Cover - Land Use Change
  • Franch, B., Cintas, J., Becker-Reshef, I., Sanchez-Torres, M. J., Roger, J., Skakun, S., Sobrino, J. A., Van Tricht, K., Degerickx, J., Gilliams, S., Koetz, B., Szantoi, Z., & Whitcraft, A. (2022).

  • B. Franch, E. Vermote, S. Skakun, A. Santamaria-Artigas, N. Kalecinski, J.-C. Roger, I. Becker-Reshef, B. Barker, C. Justice, J.A. Sobrino, The ARYA crop yield forecasting algorithm: Application to the main wheat exporting countries.

  • Skakun, S., Kalecinski, N.I., Brown, M.G.L., Johnson, D.M., Vermote, E.F., Roger, J.-C., & Franch, B. (2021). Assessing within-Field Corn and Soybean Yield Variability from WorldView-3, Planet, Sentinel-2, and Landsat 8 Satellite Imagery.

  • Vermote E., McCorkel J., Rountree W., Santamaría-Artigas A., Skakun S., Franch B. and Roger J.C., 2019, Validation of high spatial resolution surface reflectance using a camera system (CAMSIS), Fall AGU 2019, San Francisco, USA, 9-13 Dec, 2019.

  • Skakun, S.; Vermote, E.; Franch, B.; Roger, J.-C.; Kussul, N.; Ju, J.; Masek, J. (2019) Winter Wheat Yield Assessment from Landsat 8 and Sentinel-2 Data: Incorporating Surface Reflectance, Through Phenological Fitting, into Regression Yield Models.

  • Santamaria-Artigas, A., B. Franch, P. Guillevic, J.-C. Roger, E. F. Vermote, and S. Skakun (2019). “Evaluation of Near-Surface Air Temperature From Reanalysis Over the United States and Ukraine: Application to Winter Wheat Yield Forecasting”.

  • Franch, B., E. Vermote, S. Skakun, J.-C. Roger, J. Masek, J. Ju, J. L. Villaescusa-Nadal, and A. Santamaria-Artigas (2019). “A Method for Landsat and Sentinel 2 (HLS) BRDF Normalization”. In:Remote Sensing 11.6.DOI:10.3390/rs11060632.

  • Villaescusa-Nadal, J. L., Franch, B., Vermote, E. F., & Roger, J.-C. (2019). Improving the AVHRR Long Term Data Record BRDF Correction. Remote Sensing, 11(5), 502.

  • Franch, B., Vermote, E. F., Skakun, S., Roger, J. C., Becker-Reshef, I., Murphy, E., & Justice, C. (2019). Remote sensing based yield monitoring: Application to winter wheat in United States and Ukraine.

  • Villaescusa-Nadal, J. L., Franch, B., Roger, J. C., Vermote, E. F., Skakun, S., & Justice, C. (2019). Spectral Adjustment Model's Analysis and Application to Remote Sensing Data.

  • Franch B, Vermote E, Skakun S, Roger J-C, Santamaria-Artigas A, Villaescusa-Nadal JL and Masek J (2018) Toward Landsat and Sentinel-2 BRDF Normalization and Albedo Estimation: A Case Study in the Peruvian Amazon Forest. Front. Earth Sci. 6:185.

  • Becker-Reshef I, Franch B, Barker B, Murphy E, Santamaria-Artigas A, Humber M, Skakun S, Vermote E. Prior Season Crop Type Masks for Winter Wheat Yield Forecasting: A US Case Study. Remote Sensing. 2018; 10(10):1659.

  • Franch, B., Vermote, E., Roger, J.C., Murphy, E., Becker-Reshef, I., Justice, C., Claverie, M., Nagol, J., Csiszar, I., Meyer, D., Baret, F., Masuoka, E., Wolfe, R. and Devadiga, S., (2017)

  • Skakun, S., Vermote, E., Roger, J.-C., & Franch, B. (2017). Combined Use of Landsat-8 and Sentinel-2A Images for Winter Crop Mapping and Winter Wheat Yield Assessment at Regional Scale. AIMS Geosciences, 3(2), 163–186.

  • Skakun, S., Franch, B., Vermote, E., Roger, J.-C. Becker-Reshef, I., Justice, C., Kussul, N. (2017). Early season large-area winter crop mapping using MODIS NDVI data, growing degree days information and a Gaussian mixture model.

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