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2026

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56
Citations
14927
World Ranking
2360
National Ranking
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Earth Science in Israel Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Earth Science in Israel Leader Award

Overview

Eyal Ben-Dor is affiliated with Tel Aviv University in Israel. Their research encompasses a combination of environmental science and computer science, focusing notably on environmental engineering and artificial intelligence within these broader fields.

Their work primarily concentrates on soil geostatistics and mapping, geochemistry and geologic mapping, and remote sensing in agriculture. Additional topics include soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics, spectroscopy and chemometric analyses, remote-sensing image classification, and remote sensing and LiDAR applications.

Frequent publication venues for Eyal Ben-Dor include Remote Sensing, Geoderma, SSRN Electronic Journal, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), and Scientific Reports.

The scientist has collaborated multiple times with coauthors Sabine Chabrillat, Nikolaos Tsakiridis, Nikolaos Tziolas, Asa Gholizadeh, and José Alexandre Melo Demattê.

Among recent papers, notable publications are:

  • Diffuse reflectance spectroscopy for estimating soil properties: A technology for the 21st century, 2022, European Journal of Soil Science
  • An integrated methodology using open soil spectral libraries and Earth Observation data for soil organic carbon estimations in support of soil-related SDGs, 2020, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Earth Observation Data-Driven Cropland Soil Monitoring: A Review, 2021, Remote Sensing
  • Employing a Multi-Input Deep Convolutional Neural Network to Derive Soil Clay Content from a Synergy of Multi-Temporal Optical and Radar Imagery Data, 2020, Remote Sensing
  • Modelling potentially toxic elements in forest soils with vis-NIR spectra and learning algorithms, 2020, Environmental Pollution

Best Publications

  • Near-Infrared Analysis as a Rapid Method to Simultaneously Evaluate Several Soil Properties

    E. Ben-Dor;A. Banin

  • A global spectral library to characterize the world’s soil

    R.A. Viscarra Rossel;T. Behrens;E. Ben-Dor;D.J. Brown

  • On the Use of Unmanned Aerial Systems for Environmental Monitoring

    Salvatore Manfreda;Matthew F. McCabe;Pauline E. Miller;Richard Lucas

  • Using Imaging Spectroscopy to study soil properties

    E. Ben-Dor;S. Chabrillat;J.A.M. Demattê;G.R. Taylor

  • The reflectance spectra of organic matter in the visible near-infrared and short wave infrared region (400-2500 nm) during a controlled decomposition process

    E. Ben-Dor;Y. Inbar;Y. Chen

  • Quantitative remote sensing of soil properties

    E. Ben-Dor

  • Mapping of several soil properties using DAIS-7915 hyperspectral scanner data - a case study over clayey soils in Israel

    E. Ben-Dor;K. Patkin;A. Banin;A. Karnieli

  • Soil Spectroscopy: An Alternative to Wet Chemistry for Soil Monitoring

    Marco Nocita;Antoine Stevens;Bas van Wesemael;Matt Aitkenhead

  • Determination of organic matter content in arid-zone soils using a simple loss-on-ignition method

    E. Ben‐Dor;A. Banin

  • Laboratory, field and airborne spectroscopy for monitoring organic carbon content in agricultural soils

    Antoine Stevens;Bas van Wesemael;Harm Bartholomeus;Damien Rosillon

  • Spatial distribution and microscale characteristics of the urban heat island in Tel-Aviv, Israel

    Hadas Saaroni;Eyal Ben-Dor;Arieh Bitan;Oded Potchter

  • Application in Analysis of Soils

    D. F. Malley;P. D. Martin;E. Ben-Dor

  • Current Practices in UAS-based Environmental Monitoring

    Goran Tmušić;Salvatore Manfreda;Helge Aasen;Mike R. James

  • Reflectance measurements of soils in the laboratory: Standards and protocols

    Eyal Ben Dor;Cindy Ong;Ian C. Lau

  • Visible and near-infrared (0.4–1.1 μm) analysis of arid and semiarid soils

    E. Ben-Dor;A. Banin

  • A Novel Method of Classifying Soil Profiles in the Field using Optical Means

    Eyal Ben-Dor;Daniela Heller;Alexandra Chudnovsky

  • Imaging Spectroscopy for Soil Mapping and Monitoring

    S. Chabrillat;E. Ben-Dor;J. Cierniewski;C. Gomez

  • Imaging Spectrometry for Soil Applications

    E. Ben‐Dor;R.G. Taylor;J. Hill;J.A.M. Demattê

  • Land use/land cover in view of earth observation: data sources, input dimensions, and classifiers—a review of the state of the art

    Prem Chandra Pandey;Nikos Koutsias;George P. Petropoulos;Prashant K. Srivastava

  • Spectral Characteristics of Cyanobacteria Soil Crust in Semiarid Environments

    Arnon Karnieli;Giora J Kidron;Cornelia Glaesser;Eyal Ben-Dor

  • Near infrared analysis (NIRA) as a method to simultaneously evaluate spectral featureless constituents in soils

    Eyal Ben-Dor;Amos Banin

  • A spectral based recognition of the urban environment using the visible and near-infrared spectral region (0.4-1.1 μm). A case study over Tel-Aviv, Israel

    E. Ben-Dor;N. Levin;H. Saaroni

Frequent Co-Authors

Arnon Karnieli
Arnon Karnieli Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Noam Levin
Noam Levin Hebrew University of Jerusalem
José Alexandre Melo Demattê
José Alexandre Melo Demattê Universidade de São Paulo
Amos Banin
Amos Banin Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Hadas Saaroni
Hadas Saaroni Tel Aviv University
Giora J. Kidron
Giora J. Kidron Hebrew University of Jerusalem
John B. Theocharis
John B. Theocharis Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Harm Bartholomeus
Harm Bartholomeus Wageningen University & Research
Arieh Singer
Arieh Singer Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Michael E. Schaepman
Michael E. Schaepman University of Zurich

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