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Olivier Dewitte is affiliated with the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Belgium. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with particular attention to landslides and related hazards, flood risk assessment and management, and soil erosion and sediment transport. Their work further extends into cryospheric studies and observations, tree root and stability studies, rangeland management and livestock ecology, and the effects of fire on ecosystems.

Dewitte's publication record includes contributions to several scientific journals and venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Geomorphology
  • Nature Sustainability
  • Landslides
  • ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Dewitte showcase a focus on landslide dynamics, environmental changes, and data-scarce contexts in tropical regions. Notable publications include:

  • "Regional susceptibility assessments with heterogeneous landslide information: Slope unit- vs. pixel-based approach," 2020, Geomorphology
  • "Historical dynamics of landslide risk from population and forest-cover changes in the Kivu Rift," 2021, Nature Sustainability
  • "Acceleration of a large deep-seated tropical landslide due to urbanization feedbacks," 2022, Nature Geoscience
  • "When image correlation is needed: Unravelling the complex dynamics of a slow-moving landslide in the tropics with dense radar and optical time series," 2021, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • "Constraining landslide timing in a data-scarce context: from recent to very old processes in the tropical environment of the North Tanganyika-Kivu Rift region," 2020, Landslides

Dewitte has collaborated frequently with several researchers in the field. Some of the prominent co-authors include:

  • Arthur Depicker
  • Liesbet Jacobs
  • Matthieu Kervyn
  • Benoît Smets
  • Caroline Michellier

Their main fields of study are environmental science and its subfields, including management, monitoring, policy and law, global and planetary change, soil science, atmospheric science, and mechanical engineering. Dewitte's research extensively covers complex interactions within ecosystems, with a particular emphasis on geophysical hazards and landscape changes affecting both natural environments and human activities.

Best Publications

  • Soil Atlas of Africa

    A. Jones;H. Breuning-Madsen;Michel Brossard;A. Dampha

  • Harmonisation of the soil map of Africa at the continental scale

    Olivier Dewitte;Arwyn Jones;Otto Spaargaren;Henrik Breuning-Madsen

  • Tracking landslide displacements by multi-temporal DTMs: A combined aerial stereophotogrammetric and LIDAR approach in western Belgium

    Olivier Dewitte;J. C. Jasselette;Yves Cornet;M. Van den Eeckhaut

  • Modelling soil erosion at European scale: towards harmonization and reproducibility

    Claudio Bosco;Daniele de Rigo;Olivier Dewitte;Jean Poesen

  • Satellite interferometry for mapping surface deformation time series in one, two and three dimensions: A new method illustrated on a slow-moving landslide

    Sergey Samsonov;Antoine Dille;Antoine Dille;Olivier Dewitte;François Kervyn

  • The Rwenzori Mountains, a landslide-prone region?

    Liesbet Jacobs;Liesbet Jacobs;Olivier Dewitte;Jean Poesen;Damien Delvaux

  • Regional susceptibility assessments with heterogeneous landslide information: Slope unit- vs. pixel-based approach

    Liesbet Jacobs;Matthieu Kervyn;Paola Reichenbach;Mauro Rossi

  • Acceleration of a large deep-seated tropical landslide due to urbanization feedbacks

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  • Landslide characteristics and spatial distribution in the Rwenzori Mountains, Uganda

    Liesbet Jacobs;Liesbet Jacobs;Olivier Dewitte;Jean Poesen;Jan Maes;Jan Maes

  • Landslide risk reduction measures: a review of practices and challenges for the tropics

    Jan Maes;Matthieu Kervyn;Astrid de Hontheim;Olivier Dewitte

  • Historical dynamics of landslide risk from population and forest-cover changes in the Kivu Rift

    Arthur Depicker;Liesbet Jacobs;Nicholus Mboga;Benoȋt Smets;Benoȋt Smets

  • A susceptibility-based rainfall threshold approach for landslide occurrence

    Elise Monsieurs;Elise Monsieurs;Olivier Dewitte;Alain Demoulin

  • Predicting the susceptibility to gully initiation in data-poor regions

    Olivier Dewitte;Olivier Dewitte;Mohamed Daoudi;Claudio Bosco;Miet Van Den Eeckhaut

  • When image correlation is needed: Unravelling the complex dynamics of a slow-moving landslide in the tropics with dense radar and optical time series

    Antoine Dille;Antoine Dille;François Kervyn;Alexander L. Handwerger;Alexander L. Handwerger;Nicolas d'Oreye

  • Landslide inventory for hazard assessment in a data-poor context: a regional-scale approach in a tropical African environment

    Elise Monsieurs;Elise Monsieurs;Liesbet Jacobs;Caroline Michellier;Joseph Basimike Tchangaboba

  • Morphometry and kinematics of landslides inferred from precise DTMs in West Belgium

    O. Dewitte;A. Demoulin

  • The added value of a regional landslide susceptibility assessment: The western branch of the East African Rift

    Arthur Depicker;Liesbet Jacobs;Damien Delvaux;Hans-Balder Havenith

  • Topographic and road control of mega-gullies in Kinshasa (DR Congo)

    Fils Makanzu Imwangana;Fils Makanzu Imwangana;Olivier Dewitte;Médard Ntombi;Jan Moeyersons

  • Evaluating TMPA Rainfall over the Sparsely Gauged East African Rift

    Elise Monsieurs;Elise Monsieurs;Elise Monsieurs;Dalia Bach Kirschbaum;Jackson Tan;Jackson Tan;Jean-Claude Maki Mateso

  • Field-based landslide susceptibility assessment in a data-scarce environment: the populated areas of the Rwenzori Mountains

    Liesbet Jacobs;Liesbet Jacobs;Olivier Dewitte;Jean Poesen;John Sekajugo

  • Causes and triggers of deep-seated hillslope instability in the tropics – Insights from a 60-year record of Ikoma landslide (DR Congo)

    Antoine Dille;Antoine Dille;François Kervyn;Toussaint Mugaruka Bibentyo;Damien Delvaux

  • Reconstruction of a flash flood event through a multi-hazard approach: focus on the Rwenzori Mountains, Uganda

    Liesbet Jacobs;Liesbet Jacobs;Jan Maes;Jan Maes;Kewan Mertens;John Sekajugo

Frequent Co-Authors

Matthieu Kervyn
Matthieu Kervyn Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Jean Poesen
Jean Poesen KU Leuven
François Kervyn
François Kervyn Royal Museum for Central Africa
Luca Montanarella
Luca Montanarella European Commission
Damien Delvaux
Damien Delvaux Royal Museum for Central Africa
Wim Thiery
Wim Thiery Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Hans-Balder Havenith
Hans-Balder Havenith University of Liège
Gerard Govers
Gerard Govers KU Leuven
Charles Bielders
Charles Bielders Université Catholique de Louvain

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