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Agnès Bégué is affiliated with the University of Montpellier in France and contributes to the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their research focuses on topics such as Remote Sensing in Agriculture, Land Use and Ecosystem Services, African Botany and Ecology Studies, Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology, Agriculture and Rural Development Research, Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications, and Smart Agriculture and AI.

Their recent publications cover various themes related to agroforestry systems, food security, and land degradation, with notable works including:

  • Remote Sensing Products and Services in Support of Agricultural Public Policies in Africa: Overview and Challenges, 2020, Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
  • Food security prediction from heterogeneous data combining machine and deep learning methods, 2021, Expert Systems with Applications
  • Using remote sensing to assess the effect of trees on millet yield in complex parklands of Central Senegal, 2020, Agricultural Systems
  • From land productivity trends to land degradation assessment in Mozambique: Effects of climate, human activities and stakeholder definitions, 2020, Land Degradation and Development
  • Landscape heterogeneity analysis using geospatial techniques and a priori knowledge in Sahelian agroforestry systems of Senegal, 2021, Ecological Indicators

Frequently collaborating with other researchers, Agnès Bégué has coauthored several publications with Maguelonne Teisseire, Roberto Interdonato, Louise Leroux, Élodie Maître d'Hôtel, and Raffaele Gaetano.

The scientist has published multiple papers in prominent venues, including:

  • International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation (4 publications)
  • Ecological Indicators (3 publications)
  • HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe) (3 publications)
  • Agritrop (Cirad) (2 publications)
  • Expert Systems with Applications (1 publication)

Agnès Bégué's work is concentrated in subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Forestry, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, and General Health Professions, reflecting a multidisciplinary approach toward environmental and agricultural research.

Best Publications

  • Remote Sensing and Cropping Practices: A Review

    Agnès Bégué;Damien Arvor;Beatriz Bellón;Julie Betbeder

  • Potential of SAR sensors TerraSAR-X, ASAR/ENVISAT and PALSAR/ALOS for monitoring sugarcane crops on Reunion Island

    Nicolas Baghdadi;Nathalie Boyer;Pierre Todoroff;Mahmoud El Hajj

  • Can Commercial Digital Cameras Be Used as Multispectral Sensors? A Crop Monitoring Test

    Valentine Lebourgeois;Agnès Bégué;Sylvain Labbé;Benjamin Mallavan

  • Analyzing the agricultural transition in Mato Grosso, Brazil, using satellite-derived indices

    Damien Arvor;Meirelles Margareth;Vincent Dubreuil;Agnes Begue

  • A Combined Random Forest and OBIA Classification Scheme for Mapping Smallholder Agriculture at Different Nomenclature Levels Using Multisource Data (Simulated Sentinel-2 Time Series, VHRS and DEM)

    Valentine Lebourgeois;Stéphane Dupuy;Élodie Vintrou;Maël Ameline

  • Can a 25-year trend in Soudano-Sahelian vegetation dynamics be interpreted in terms of land use change? A remote sensing approach

    Agnès Bégué;Elodie Vintrou;Denis Ruelland;Maxime Claden

  • Driving forces of recent vegetation changes in the Sahel: Lessons learned from regional and local level analyses

    Louise Leroux;Agnès Bégué;Danny Lo Seen;Audrey Jolivot

  • PAR extinction in shortgrass ecosystems: effects of clumping, sky conditions and soil albedo

    Yann Nouvellon;Agnès Bégué;M. Susan Moran;Danny Lo Seen

  • Crop area mapping in West Africa using landscape stratification of MODIS time series and comparison with existing global land products

    Elodie Vintrou;Annie Desbrosse;Agnès Bégué;Sibiry Traoré

  • Relative Radiometric Normalization and Atmospheric Correction of a SPOT 5 Time Series

    Mahmoud El Hajj;Agnès Bégué;Bruno Lafrance;Olivier Hagolle

  • Leaf area index estimation with MODIS reflectance time series and model inversion during full rotations of Eucalyptus plantations

    Guerric Le Maire;Claire Marsden;Wouter Verhoef;Flávio Jorge Ponzoni

  • Leaf area index, intercepted photosynthetically active radiation, and spectral vegetation indices: A sensitivity analysis for regular-clumped canopies

    Agnès Bégué

  • Maize yield estimation in West Africa from crop process-induced combinations of multi-domain remote sensing indices

    Louise Leroux;Mathieu Castets;Christian Baron;Maria-Jose Escorihuela

  • Integrating SPOT-5 time series, crop growth modeling and expert knowledge for monitoring agricultural practices — The case of sugarcane harvest on Reunion Island

    Mahmoud El Hajj;Agnès Bégué;Serge Guillaume;Jean-François Martiné

  • Spatio-temporal variability of sugarcane fields and recommendations for yield forecast using NDVI

    A. Bégué;V. Lebourgeois;E. Bappel;P. Todoroff

  • A Remote Sensing Approach for Regional-Scale Mapping of Agricultural Land-Use Systems Based on NDVI Time Series

    Beatriz Bellón;Agnès Bégué;Danny Lo Seen;Claudio Aparecido De Almeida

  • Coupling a grassland ecosystem model with Landsat imagery for a 10-year simulation of carbon and water budgets

    Yann Nouvellon;M.Susan Moran;Danny Lo Seen;Ross Bryant

  • Assessing optical earth observation systems for mapping and monitoring temporary ponds in arid areas

    Valérie Soti;Annelise Tran;Jean Stéphane Bailly;Christian Puech

  • Forecasting Regional Sugarcane Yield Based on Time Integral and Spatial Aggregation of MODIS NDVI

    Betty Mulianga;Agnès Bégué;Margareth Simoes;Pierre Todoroff

  • Toward a Satellite-Based System of Sugarcane Yield Estimation and Forecasting in Smallholder Farming Conditions: A Case Study on Reunion Island

    Julien Morel;Pierre Todoroff;Agnès Bégué;Aurore Bury

  • Modelling of daily fluxes of water and carbon from shortgrass steppes

    Y. Nouvellon;S. Rambal;D. Lo Seen;M.S. Moran

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen D. Prince
Stephen D. Prince University of Maryland, College Park
Jean-Louis Roujean
Jean-Louis Roujean Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Frédéric Baret
Frédéric Baret INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Alfredo Huete
Alfredo Huete University of Technology Sydney
Serge Rambal
Serge Rambal Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Pierre Defourny
Pierre Defourny Université Catholique de Louvain
Gérard Dedieu
Gérard Dedieu Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Olivier Hagolle
Olivier Hagolle Centre National D'Etudes Spatiales
Albert Olioso
Albert Olioso INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Yann Nouvellon
Yann Nouvellon University of Montpellier

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