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University of Sydney: Sydney, NSW, AU

2023-06-19 to present | Postdoctoral Research Associate in Soil Security (School of Life and Environmental Sciences)
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Nicolas Francos

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Tel Aviv University: Tel Aviv, IL

2018 to 2023-02-27 | PhD. in Soil Spectroscopy and Hyperspectral Remote Sensing (Geography)
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Tel Aviv University: Tel Aviv, Israel, IL

2015 to 2018 | MA in Geography with Specialization in Geo-informatics (with honors) (Geography )
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Hebrew University of Jerusalem: Jerusalem, Jerusalem, IL

2012 to 2015 | BA in Geography with Complementary Studies in Earth Sciences (Geography)
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Works (31)

Soil type classification using Landsat 8: A comparison between the USDA and a local system in Israel

International Soil and Water Conservation Research
2025-03 | Journal article
Contributors: Nicolas Francos; Eden Karasik; Matan Myers; Eyal Ben-Dor
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Mapping available water capacity as a soil production capital metric in Australia

Soil Security
2024-09 | Journal article
Contributors: Nicolas Francos; Alex B. McBratney; Damien J. Field; Budiman Minasny
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Valuing and integrating soil roles in assessing the capital dimension of soil security: An Australian case study

Soil Security
2024-09 | Journal article
Contributors: Nicolas Francos; Alex B. McBratney; Damien J. Field; Budiman Minasny; Julio C. Pachon; José Padarian; Anilkumar Hunakunti; Wartini Ng; Sandra J. Evangelista; Thomas O'Donoghue
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A standard and protocol for in-situ measurement of surface soil reflectance

Geoderma
2024-07 | Journal article
Contributors: Eyal Ben Dor; Bar Efrati; Or Amir; Nicolas Francos; Jonti Shepherd; Vahid Khosravi; Asa Gholizadeh; Aleš Klement; Luboš Borůvka
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Mapping Soil Organic Carbon Stock Using Hyperspectral Remote Sensing: A Case Study in the Sele River Plain in Southern Italy

Remote Sensing
2024-03-03 | Journal article
Contributors: Nicolas Francos; Paolo Nasta; Carolina Allocca; Benedetto Sica; Caterina Mazzitelli; Ugo Lazzaro; Guido D’Urso; Oscar Rosario Belfiore; Mariano Crimaldi; Fabrizio Sarghini et al.
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Estimating surrogates, utility graphs and indicator sets for soil capacity and security assessments using legacy data

Soil Research
2024-02-08 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1838-675X
Part of ISSN: 1838-6768
Contributors: Wartini Ng; Sandra J. Evangelista; José Padarian; Julio Pachon; Tom O’Donoghue; Peipei Xue; Nicolas Francos; Alex B. McBratney
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A Standard and Protocol for In-Situ Measurement of Surface Soil Reflectance

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2023 | Other
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2-s2.0-85180477938

Part of ISSN: 15565068
Contributors: Dor, E.B.; Gholizadeh, A.; Efrati, B.; Amir, O.; Francos, N.; Khosravi, V.; Klement, A.; Borůvka, L.
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Chapter 6. Mapping soil properties for UAS-based environmental monitoring

Unmanned Aerial Systems for Monitoring Soil, Vegetation, and Riverine Environments
2023 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 9780323852838
Contributors: Nunzio Romano; Brigitta Szabó; Antonella Belmonte; Annamaria Castrignanò; Eyal Ben Dor; Nicolas Francos; Paolo Nasta
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Mapping soil properties for unmanned aerial system–based environmental monitoring

Unmanned Aerial Systems for Monitoring Soil, Vegetation, and Riverine Environments
2023 | Book chapter
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2-s2.0-85159489464

Contributors: Romano, N.; Szabó, B.; Belmonte, A.; Castrignanò, A.; Dor, E.B.; Francos, N.; Nasta, P.
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Remote sensing of the Earth's soil color in space and time

Remote Sensing of Environment
2023 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85174587034

Part of ISSN: 00344257
Contributors: Rizzo, R.; Wadoux, A.M.J.-C.; Demattê, J.A.M.; Minasny, B.; Barrón, V.; Ben-Dor, E.; Francos, N.; Savin, I.; Poppiel, R.; Silvero, N.E.Q. et al.
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Estimation of Iron Content Using Reflectance Spectroscopy in a Complex Soil System After a Loss-on-Ignition Pre-treatment

Journal of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition
2023-12 | Journal article
Contributors: Nicolas Francos; Nuphar Gedulter; Eyal Ben-Dor
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Estimation of water-infiltration rate in Mediterranean sandy soils using airborne hyperspectral sensors

CATENA
2023-12 | Journal article
Contributors: Nicolas Francos; Sabine Chabrillat; Nikolaos Tziolas; Robert Milewski; Maximilian Brell; Nikiforos Samarinas; Theodora Angelopoulou; Nikolaos Tsakiridis; Vasillis Liakopoulos; Thomas Ruhtz et al.
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Exploitation of the SoilPRO® (SP) apparatus to measure soil surface reflectance in the field: Five case studies

Geoderma
2023-10 | Journal article
Contributors: Eyal Ben Dor; Amihai Granot; Rony Wallach; Nicolas Francos; Daniela Heller Pearlstein; Bar Efrati; Luboš Borůvka; Asa Gholizadeh; Thomas Schmid
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Smartphones based spectroscopy as a tool to estimate soil attributes for the citizen science concept

Smart Agricultural Technology
2023-09 | Journal article
Contributors: Sharad Kumar Gupta; Bar Efrati; Or Amir; Nicolas Francos; Marcelo Sternberg; Eyal Ben-Dor
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A Spectral Transfer Function to Harmonize Existing Soil Spectral Libraries Generated by Different Protocols

Applied and Environmental Soil Science
2023-01-20 | Journal article
Contributors: Nicolas Francos; Daniela Heller-Pearlshtien; José A. M. Demattê; Bas Van Wesemael; Robert Milewski; Sabine Chabrillat; Nikolaos Tziolas; Adrian Sanz Diaz; María Julia Yagüe Ballester; Asa Gholizadeh et al.
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Aggregate size distribution of arid and semiarid laboratory soils (<2 mm) as predicted by VIS-NIR-SWIR spectroscopy

Geoderma
2022 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85125952662

Part of ISSN: 00167061
Contributors: Ben Dor, E.; Francos, N.; Ogen, Y.; Banin, A.
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Spatial distribution of lead (Pb) in soil: a case study in a contaminated area of the Czech Republic

Geomatics, Natural Hazards and Risk
2022-12-31 | Journal article
Contributors: Nicolas Francos; Asa Gholizadeh; Eyal Ben Dor
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Effect of the internal soil standard on the spectral assessment of clay content

Geoderma
2022-08 | Journal article
Contributors: Nicolas Francos; Asa Gholizadeh; José Alexandre Melo Demattê; Eyal Ben-Dor
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Correction: Dematt&ecirc; et al. The Brazilian Soil Spectral Service (BraSpecS): A User-Friendly System for Global Soil Spectra Communication. <i>Remote Sens.</i> 2022, <i>14</i>, 740

Remote Sensing
2022-03 | Journal article | Author
Contributors: Jose Dematte; Ariane Francine da Silveira Paiva; Raúl Roberto Poppiel; Nícolas Augusto Rosin; Luis Fernando Chimelo Ruiz; Fellipe Alcantara de Oliveira Mello; Budiman Minasny; Sabine Grunwald; Yufeng Ge; Eyal Ben Dor et al.
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Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
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The Brazilian <i>S</i>oil <i>S</i>pectral <i>S</i>ervice (BraSpecS): A User-Friendly System for Global Soil Spectra Communication

Remote Sensing
2022-02 | Journal article | Author
Contributors: Jose Dematte; Ariane Francine da Silveira Paiva; Raúl Roberto Poppiel; Nícolas Augusto Rosin; Luis Fernando Chimelo Ruiz; Fellipe Alcantara de Oliveira Mello; Budiman Minasny; Sabine Grunwald; Yufeng Ge; Eyal Ben Dor et al.
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A transfer function to predict soil surface reflectance from laboratory soil spectral libraries

Geoderma
2022-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Nicolas Francos; Eyal Ben-Dor
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Spatial Distribution of Lead (Pb) in Soil: A Case Study in a Contaminated Area of the Czech Republic

2021-11-23 | Preprint
Contributors: Nicolas Francos; Asa Gholizadeh; Eyal Ben Dor
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Mapping Water Infiltration Rate Using Ground and UAV Hyperspectral Data: A Case Study of Alento, Italy

Remote Sensing
2021-07-02 | Journal article
Contributors: Nicolas Francos; Nunzio Romano; Paolo Nasta; Yijian Zeng; Brigitta Szabó; Salvatore Manfreda; Giuseppe Ciraolo; János Mészáros; Ruodan Zhuang; Bob Su et al.
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Spectral Assessment of Organic Matter with Different Composition Using Reflectance Spectroscopy

Remote Sensing
2021-04 | Journal article | Author
Contributors: Nicolas Francos; Yaron Ogen; Eyal Ben Dor
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Estimation of the Relative Abundance of Quartz to Clay Minerals Using the Visible–Near-Infrared–Shortwave-Infrared Spectral Region

Applied Spectroscopy
2021-03-09 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0003-7028
Contributors: Nicolas Francos; Gila Notesco; Eyal Ben-Dor
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A Geostatistical Approach to Map Near-Surface Soil Moisture Through Hyperspatial Resolution Thermal Inertia

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
2020 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0196-2892
Part of ISSN: 1558-0644
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An Integrative Information Aqueduct to Close the Gaps between Satellite Observation of Water Cycle and Local Sustainable Management of Water Resources

Water
2020-05 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2073-4441
Contributors: Zhongbo Su; Yijian Zeng; Nunzio Romano; Salvatore Manfreda; Félix Francés; Eyal Ben Dor; Brigitta Szabó; Giulia Vico; Paolo Nasta; Ruodan Zhuang et al.
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EnMAP airborne soil Greece campaign 2019

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2020-03-23 | Conference paper
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Soil Moisture Retrievals from Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS)

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2020-03-23 | Conference paper
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Cluster-based spectral models for a robust assessment of soil properties

Geoderma
2019-04 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0016-7061
Contributors: Yaron Ogen; Jacqueline Zaluda; Nicolas Francos; Naftaly Goldshleger; Eyal Ben-Dor
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Soil Surface Reflectance as a Tool to Estimate Water Infiltration Rate from UAV Platforms

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Contributors: Nicolas Francos; Eyal Ben Dor; Nunzio Romano; Paolo Nasta; Briggita Szabó; Janos Mészáros; Antonino Maltese; Salvatore Manfreda; Monica Garcia; Yijian Zeng
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