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Sander Veraverbeke is affiliated with Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Their research focuses primarily on environmental and earth sciences, with a particular emphasis on fire dynamics and the impact of climate change.

The main fields of study in their work are Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Within these broad fields, the subfields they contribute to include Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, and Environmental Engineering.

The scientist's research covers a range of topics, including:

  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Landslides and related hazards
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications

They have published extensively in venues such as:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Global Change Biology
  • Remote Sensing
  • Earth system science data
  • Environmental Research Letters

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Sander Veraverbeke include:

  • Global and Regional Trends and Drivers of Fire Under Climate Change, 2022, Reviews of Geophysics
  • Increasing fire and the decline of fire adapted black spruce in the boreal forest, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Future increases in Arctic lightning and fire risk for permafrost carbon, 2021, Nature Climate Change
  • Fuel availability not fire weather controls boreal wildfire severity and carbon emissions, 2020, Nature Climate Change
  • Current Wildland Fire Patterns and Challenges in Europe: A Synthesis of National Perspectives, 2021, Air Soil and Water Research

Frequent collaborators with whom they have published multiple works include:

  • Brendan M. Rogers
  • Rebecca C. Scholten
  • James T. Randerson
  • Guido R. van der Werf
  • Michelle C. Mack

Best Publications

  • Global and Regional Trends and Drivers of Fire Under Climate Change

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  • Lightning as a major driver of recent large fire years in North American boreal forests

    Sander Veraverbeke;Sander Veraverbeke;Brendan M. Rogers;Mike L. Goulden;Randi R. Jandt

  • Carbon dioxide sources from Alaska driven by increasing early winter respiration from Arctic tundra.

    Roisin Commane;Jakob Lindaas;Joshua Benmergui;Kristina A. Luus

  • Increasing fire and the decline of fire adapted black spruce in the boreal forest.

    Jennifer L. Baltzer;Nicola J. Day;Xanthe J. Walker;David Greene

  • The temporal dimension of differenced Normalized Burn Ratio (dNBR) fire/burn severity studies: the case of the large 2007 Peloponnese wildfires in Greece.

    Sander Veraverbeke;Stefaan Lhermitte;Willem Verstraeten;Rudi Goossens

  • Future increases in Arctic lightning and fire risk for permafrost carbon

    Yang Chen;David M. Romps;David M. Romps;Jacob T. Seeley;Jacob T. Seeley;Sander Veraverbeke

  • Hyperspectral remote sensing of fire: State-of-the-art and future perspectives

    Sander Veraverbeke;Philip Dennison;Ioannis Gitas;Glynn Hulley

  • Current Wildland Fire Patterns and Challenges in Europe: A Synthesis of National Perspectives

    Nieves Fernandez-Anez;Andrey Krasovskiy;Mortimer Müller;Harald Vacik

  • Fuel availability not fire weather controls boreal wildfire severity and carbon emissions

    X. J. Walker;B. M. Rogers;S. Veraverbeke;J. F. Johnstone;J. F. Johnstone

  • Burned Area Detection and Burn Severity Assessment of a Heathland Fire in Belgium Using Airborne Imaging Spectroscopy (APEX)

    Lennert Schepers;Birgen Haest;Sander Veraverbeke;Toon Spanhove

  • Assessing post-fire vegetation recovery using red-near infrared vegetation indices: Accounting for background and vegetation variability

    S. Veraverbeke;S. Veraverbeke;Ioannis Z. Gitas;Thomas Katagis;Anastasia Polychronaki

  • State of Wildfires 2023–2024

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  • Global biomass burning fuel consumption and emissions at 500 m spatial resolution based on the Global Fire Emissions Database (GFED)

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  • Overwintering fires in boreal forests.

    Rebecca C. Scholten;Randi Jandt;Eric A. Miller;Brendan M. Rogers

  • Identification of two distinct fire regimes in Southern California: implications for economic impact and future change

    Yufang Jin;Yufang Jin;Michael L. Goulden;Nicolas Faivre;Sander Veraverbeke

  • Influence of Fire on the Carbon Cycle and Climate

    Gitta Lasslop;Alysha I. Coppola;Apostolos Voulgarakis;Chao Yue

  • Evaluating spectral indices for burned area discrimination using MODIS/ASTER (MASTER) airborne simulator data

    S Veraverbeke;Sarah Harris;Sarah Harris;Simon Hook

  • Thermal-based techniques for land cover change detection using a new dynamic MODIS multispectral emissivity product (MOD21)

    Glynn Hulley;Sander Veraverbeke;Simon J. Hook

  • Advances in Remote Sensing of Post-Fire Vegetation Recovery Monitoring - A Review

    Ioannis Gitas;George Mitri;Sander Veraverbeke;Anastasia Polychronaki

  • Global rise in forest fire emissions linked to climate change in the extratropics

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  • Evaluation of pre/post-fire differenced spectral indices for assessing burn severity in a Mediterranean environment with Landsat Thematic Mapper

    Sander Veraverbeke;Stefaan Lhermitte;Willem W. Verstraeten;R. Goossens

  • Evaluating Spectral Indices for Assessing Fire Severity in Chaparral Ecosystems (Southern California) Using MODIS/ASTER (MASTER) Airborne Simulator Data

    Sarah Harris;Sander Veraverbeke;Simon J. Hook

  • Evaluating Landsat Thematic Mapper spectral indices for estimating burn severity of the 2007 Peloponnese wildfires in Greece.

    Sander Veraverbeke;Willem W. Verstraeten;Stefaan Lhermitte;Rudi Goossens

  • Assessing intra-annual vegetation regrowth after fire using the pixel based regeneration index

    Stefaan Lhermitte;Stefaan Lhermitte;Jan Verbesselt;Jan Verbesselt;Willem W Verstraeten;Sander Veraverbeke

Frequent Co-Authors

James T. Randerson
James T. Randerson University of California, Irvine
Michelle C. Mack
Michelle C. Mack Northern Arizona University
Jill F. Johnstone
Jill F. Johnstone University of Saskatchewan
Merritt R. Turetsky
Merritt R. Turetsky University of Colorado Boulder
Simon J. Hook
Simon J. Hook California Institute of Technology
Charles E. Miller
Charles E. Miller California Institute of Technology
Jennifer L. Baltzer
Jennifer L. Baltzer Wilfrid Laurier University
Laura L. Bourgeau-Chavez
Laura L. Bourgeau-Chavez Michigan Technological University
Glynn C. Hulley
Glynn C. Hulley California Institute of Technology
Colm Sweeney
Colm Sweeney National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

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