Philippe Rufin

F.R.S.-FNRS Postdoctoral Fellow, Earth & Life Institute, UCLouvain

philippe.rufin@uclouvain.be

Geographer interested in linking Land System Science and Earth Observation. My work involves the development and application of methods for large-area mapping of land use and land use intensity based on machine learning. Currently, I´m working on mapping the dynamics of cropland, field size, and land use intensity in Sub-Saharan Africa using deep learning and very high spatial resolution satellite imagery.

Interests

Land System Science
Earth Observation
Machine Learning
Geospatial Data Science
Open Science

Academia

Earth & Life Institute, UCLouvain

2023 - 2026

Postdoctoral Fellow | Medium-scale farms in Sub-Saharan Africa

Earth & Life Institute, UCLouvain

2021 - 2023

Postdoctoral Fellow | Field size dynamics in Sub-Saharan Africa

Earth Observation Lab, Humboldt-Universität

2019 - 2021

Postdoctoral Fellow | Large-area agriculture mapping

Earth Observation Lab, Humboldt-Universität

2015 - 2019

Ph.D. Geography | Earth Observation

Selected Publications

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Taking it further: Leveraging pseudo-labels for field delineation across label-scarce smallholder regions, 2024, Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Philippe Rufin , Sherrie Wang , Sá Lisboa , Jan Hemmerling , Mirela Tulbure , Patrick Meyfroidt

code data paper

Can we estimate farm size from field size? An empirical investigation of the field size to farm size relationship, 2024, Agricultural Systems

Clemens Jaenicke , Maximilian Wesemeyer , Cristina Chiarella , Tobia Lakes , Christian Levers , Patrick Meyfroidt , Daniel Mueller , Marie Pratzer , Philippe Rufin

paper

An actor-centered, scalable land system typology for addressing biodiversity loss in the world’s tropical dry woodlands, 2024, Global Environmental Change

Marie Pratzer , Patrick Meyfroidt , [...] , Philippe Rufin , Mariana Rufino , Mahesh Sankaran , Ricardo Torres , Srinivas Vaidyanathan , Maria Vallejos , Malika Virah-Sawmy , Tobias Kuemmerle

paper

Understanding the robustness of spectral-temporal metrics across the global Landsat archive from 1984 to 2019, 2023, Remote Sensing of Environment

David Frantz , Philippe Rufin , Andreas Janz , Stefan Ernst , Dirk Pflugmacher , Franz Schug , Patrick Hostert

data paper

Enabling spaces for bridging scales: scanning solutions for interdisciplinary human-environment research, 2023, Sustainability Science

Cecilie Friis , Mónica Hernández-Morcillo , Matthias Baumann , Claudia Coral , Theresa Frommen , Arash Ghoddousi , David Loibl , Philippe Rufin

paper

Post-Soviet changes in cropping practices in the irrigated drylands of the Aral Sea basin, 2022, Environmental Research Letters

Philippe Rufin , Mayra Daniela Peña-Guerrero , Atabek Umirbekov , Yanbing Wei , Daniel Müller

code map paper

Large-area mapping of active cropland and short-term fallows in smallholder landscapes using PlanetScope data, 2022, Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Philippe Rufin , Adia Bey , Michelle Picoli , Patrick Meyfroidt

code map paper

Revisiting the Past: Replicability of a Historic Long-Term Vegetation Dynamics Assessment in the Era of Big Data Analytics, 2022, Remote Sensing

David Frantz , Patrick Hostert , Philippe Rufin , Stefan Ernst , Achim Röder , Sebastian van der Linden

map paper

Mapping Crop Types and Cropping Systems in Nigeria with Sentinel-2 Imagery, 2021, Remote Sensing

Esther Shupel Ibrahim , Philippe Rufin , Leon Nill , Bahareh Kamali , Claas Nendel , Patrick Hostert

map paper

GEE Time Series Explorer for QGIS – Instant Access to Petabytes of Earth Observation Data, 2021, ISPRS Archives

Philippe Rufin , Andreas Rabe , Leon Nill , Patrick Hostert

code paper rtd software talk

Operational Coregistration of the Sentinel-2A/B Image Archive Using Multitemporal Landsat Spectral Averages, 2021, IEEE GRSL

Philippe Rufin , David Frantz , Lin Yan , Patrick Hostert

paper software

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