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Niko E. C. Verhoest

Niko E. C. Verhoest

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
71
Citations
16394
World Ranking
1608
National Ranking
23

Overview

Niko E. C. Verhoest is affiliated with Ghent University in Belgium and focuses on Environmental Science, with extensive research contributions in subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Environmental Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, and Water Science and Technology.

Their research interests span multiple interdisciplinary topics, including:

  • Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing
  • Precipitation Measurement and Analysis
  • Climate Variability and Models
  • Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Applications and Techniques
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Hydrology and Drought Analysis
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies

Verhoest has published frequently in various scientific venues, with notable contributions in the following journals:

  • Remote Sensing
  • Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
  • Water
  • Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Scientific Data

Among the recent papers associated with Verhoest are:

  • "A roadmap for high-resolution satellite soil moisture applications - confronting product characteristics with user requirements," 2020, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • "Evaluating the land-surface energy partitioning in ERA5," 2020, Geoscientific Model Development
  • "Sun-induced fluorescence closely linked to ecosystem transpiration as evidenced by satellite data and radiative transfer models," 2020, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • "GLEAM4: global land evaporation and soil moisture dataset at 0.1° resolution from 1980 to near present," 2025, Scientific Data
  • "Flood Mapping in Vegetated Areas Using an Unsupervised Clustering Approach on Sentinel-1 and -2 Imagery," 2020, Remote Sensing

Verhoest has collaborated with various researchers repeatedly, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Bernard De Baets
  • Wouter Dorigo
  • Emma Tronquo
  • Jean Bouchat
  • Pierre Defourny

Best Publications

  • GLEAM v3: satellite-based land evaporation and root-zone soil moisture

    Brecht Martens;Diego G. Miralles;Diego G. Miralles;Hans Lievens;Hans Lievens;Robin van der Schalie

  • A review of spatial downscaling of satellite remotely sensed soil moisture

    Jian Peng;Alexander Loew;Alexander Loew;Olivier Merlin;Niko E. C. Verhoest

  • The Future of Earth Observation in Hydrology.

    Matthew F. McCabe;Matthew Rodell;Douglas E. Alsdorf;Diego G. Miralles

  • Random forests as a tool for ecohydrological distribution modelling

    Jan Peters;Bernard De Baets;Niko E.C. Verhoest;Roeland Samson

  • El Niño-La Niña cycle and recent trends in continental evaporation

    Diego G. Miralles;Martinus J. van den Berg;John H. Gash;Robert M. Parinussa

  • On the Soil Roughness Parameterization Problem in Soil Moisture Retrieval of Bare Surfaces from Synthetic Aperture Radar

    Niko E C Verhoest;Hans Lievens;Wolfgang Wagner;Jesús Álvarez-Mozos

  • Multivariate return periods in hydrology: a critical and practical review focusing on synthetic design hydrograph estimation

    B. Gräler;M. J. van den Berg;S. Vandenberghe;A. Petroselli

  • Rainfall partitioning into throughfall, stemflow, and interception within a single beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) canopy: influence of foliation, rain event characteristics, and meteorology

    Jeroen Staelens;An De Schrijver;Kris Verheyen;Niko E. C. Verhoest

  • A roadmap for high-resolution satellite soil moisture applications ─ confronting product characteristics with user requirements

    Jian Peng;Jian Peng;Jian Peng;Clement Albergel;Anna Balenzano;Luca Brocca

  • Multiscale assimilation of Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer–EOS snow water equivalent and Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer snow cover fraction observations in northern Colorado

    Gabriëlle J. M. De Lannoy;Gabriëlle J. M. De Lannoy;Rolf H. Reichle;Kristi R. Arsenault;Paul R. Houser

  • SMOS soil moisture assimilation for improved hydrologic simulation in the Murray Darling Basin, Australia

    H. Lievens;S.K. Tomer;A. Al Bitar;G.J.M. De Lannoy

  • The importance of the spatial patterns of remotely sensed soil moisture in the improvement of discharge predictions for small-scale basins through data assimilation

    Valentijn R.N. Pauwels;Rudi Hoeben;Niko E.C. Verhoest;François P. De Troch

  • Correcting for forecast bias in soil moisture assimilation with the ensemble Kalman filter

    Gabriëlle J. M. De Lannoy;Rolf H. Reichle;Rolf H. Reichle;Paul R. Houser;Valentijn R. N. Pauwels

  • Spatial variability and temporal stability of throughfall water under a dominant beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) tree in relationship to canopy cover

    Jeroen Staelens;An De Schrijver;Kris Verheyen;Niko E.C. Verhoest

  • Vegetation anomalies caused by antecedent precipitation in most of the world

    Christina Papagiannopoulou;Diego G. Miralles;Wouter Dorigo;Niko Verhoest

  • Comparison of data-driven Takagi-Sugeno models of rainfall-discharge dynamics

    Hilde Vernieuwe;Olga Georgieva;Bernard De Baets;Valentijn R.N. Pauwels

  • Spatial and temporal characteristics of soil moisture in an intensively monitored agricultural field (OPE3)

    Gabriëlle J.M. De Lannoy;Niko E.C. Verhoest;Paul R. Houser;Timothy J. Gish

  • The importance of hydraulic groundwater theory in catchment hydrology: The legacy of Wilfried Brutsaert and Jean‐Yves Parlange

    Peter A. Troch;Alexis Berne;Patrick Bogaart;Ciaran Harman

  • A comparative copula‐based bivariate frequency analysis of observed and simulated storm events: A case study on Bartlett‐Lewis modeled rainfall

    S. Vandenberghe;N. E. C. Verhoest;C. Onof;B. De Baets

  • Optimization of a coupled hydrology-crop growth model through the assimilation of observed soil moisture and leaf area index values using an ensemble Kalman filter

    Valentijn R. N. Pauwels;Niko E. C. Verhoest;Gabriëlle J. M. De Lannoy;Vincent Guissard

  • Some analytical solutions of the linearized Boussinesq equation with recharge for a sloping aquifer

    Niko E. C. Verhoest;Peter A. Troch

  • Communications in Agricultural and Applied Biological Sciences

    Guy Smagghe;Els Damme;Walter Steurbaut;Peter Bossier

Frequent Co-Authors

Valentijn R. N. Pauwels
Valentijn R. N. Pauwels Monash University
Bernard De Baets
Bernard De Baets Ghent University
Diego G. Miralles
Diego G. Miralles Ghent University
Jan Nyssen
Jan Nyssen Ghent University
Paul R. Houser
Paul R. Houser George Mason University
Jean Poesen
Jean Poesen KU Leuven
Jozef Deckers
Jozef Deckers KU Leuven
Peter Troch
Peter Troch University of Arizona

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