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Nikola Besic  

Laboratoire d'Inventaire Forestier (LIF), ENSG - IGN

   

Here are the most important publications I have worked on :

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  1. [PREPRINT] G. Destouet, N. Besic, E. Joetzjer, and M. Cuntz, “Turbulent transport extraction in time and frequency and the estimation of eddy fluxes at high resolution,” EGUsphere, 2024. DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-2024-3243.
    Open access (pdf DOI link)
  2. [PREPRINT] F. Fogel, Y. Perron, N. Besic, L. Saint-André, A. Pellissier-Tanon, M. Schwartz, T. Boudras, I. Fayad, A. d'Aspremont, L. Landrieu, and P. Ciais, “Open-Canopy: Towards Very High Resolution Forest Monitoring,” arXiv (accepted to CVPR 2025), 2024. DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2407.09392.
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  3. N. Besic, N. Picard, C. Vega, J.-D. Bontemps, L. Hertzog, J.-P. Renaud, F. Fogel, M. Schwartz, A. Pellissier-Tanon, G. Destouet, F. Mortier, M. Planells-Rodriguez, and P. Ciais , “Remote sensing-based forest canopy height mapping: some models are useful, but might they provide us with even more insights when combined?,” Geoscientific Model Development, 18, 337–359, 2025. DOI: 10.5194/gmd-18-337-2025.
    Open access (pdf DOI link)
  4. N. Besic, S. Durrieu, A. Schleich, and C. Vega, “Using structural class pairing to address the spatial mismatch between GEDI measurements and NFI plots,” IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, vol. 17, pp. 12 854–12 867, 2024. DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2024.3425431.
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  5. N. Besic, N. Picard, J. Sainte-Marie, M. Meliho, C. Piedallu, and M. Legay, “A novel framework and a new score for the comparative analysis of forest models accounting for the impact of climate change,” Journal of Agricultural, Biological and Environmental Statistics, vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 73–91, 2023.  DOI: 10.1007/s13253-023-00557-y.
    Postprint available (pdf)
  6. J. Gehring, A. Ferrone, A.-C. Billault-Roux, N. Besic, K. D. Ahn, G. Lee, and A. Berne, “Radar and groundlevel measurements of precipitation collected by the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne during the International Collaborative Experiments for Pyeongchang 2018 Olympic and Paralympic winter games,” Earth System Science Data, vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 417–433, 2021. DOI: 10.5194/essd-13-417-2021.
    Open access (pdf DOI link)
  7. J. Gehring, A. Oertel, É. Vignon, N. Jullien, N. Besic, and A. Berne, “Microphysics and dynamics of snowfall associated with a warm conveyor belt over Korea,” Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, vol. 20, no. 12, pp. 7373– 7392, 2020. DOI: 10.5194/acp-20-7373-2020.
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  8. A. Sunjerga, M. Rubinstein, N. Pineda, A. Mostajabi, M. Azadifar, D. Romero, O. Van der Velde, J. Montanya, J. Figueras i Ventura, N. Besic, J. Grazioli, A. Hering, U. Germann, G. Diendorfer, and F. Rachidi, “LMA observations of upward lightning flashes at the Säntis tower initiated by nearby lightning activity,” Electric Power Systems Research, vol. 181, p. 106 067, 2020, issn: 0378-7796. DOI: 10.1016/j.epsr.2019.106067.
    Open access (pdf DOI link)
  9. J. Figueras i Ventura, N. Pineda, N. Besic, J. Grazioli, A. Hering, O. A. van der Velde, D. Romero, A. Sunjerga, A. Mostajabi, M. Azadifar, M. Rubinstein, J. Montanyà, U. Germann, and F. Rachidi, “Analysis of the lightning production of convective cells,” Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, vol. 12, no. 10, pp. 5573–5591, 2019.  DOI: 10.5194/amt-12-5573-2019.
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  10. J. Figueras i Ventura, N. Pineda, N. Besic, J. Grazioli, A. Hering, O. A. van der Velde, D. Romero, A. Sunjerga, A. Mostajabi, M. Azadifar, M. Rubinstein, J. Montanyà, U. Germann, and F. Rachidi, “Polarimetric radar characteristics of lightning initiation and propagating channels,” Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, vol. 12, no. 5, pp. 2881–2911, 2019. DOI: 10.5194/amt-12-2881-2019.
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  11. N. Pineda, J. Figueras i Ventura, D. Romero, A. Mostajabi, M. Azadifar, A. Sunjerga, F. Rachidi, M. Rubinstein, J. Montanyà, O. van der Velde, P. Altube, N. Besic, J. Grazioli, U. Germann, and E. R. Williams, “Meteorological aspects of self-initiated upward lightning at the Säntis tower (Switzerland),” Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, vol. 124, no. 24, pp. 14 162–14 183, 2019. DOI: 10.1029/2019JD030834.
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  12. É.Vignon, N. Besic, N. Jullien, J. Gehring, and A. Berne, “Microphysics of snowfall over coastal East Antarctica simulated by Polar WRF and observed by radar,” Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, vol. 124, no. 21, pp. 11 452–11 476, 2019. DOI: 10.1029/2019JD031028.
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  13. N. Besic, J. Gehring, C. Praz, J. Figueras i Ventura, J. Grazioli, M. Gabella, U. Germann, and A. Berne, “Unraveling hydrometeor mixtures in polarimetric radar measurements,” Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, vol. 11, no. 8, pp. 4847–4866, 2018. DOI: 10.5194/amt-11-4847-2018.
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  14. F. Gerber, N. Besic, V. Sharma, R. Mott, M. Daniels, M. Gabella, A. Berne, U. Germann, and M. Lehning, “Spatial variability in snowprecipitation and accumulation in COSMO–WRF simulations and radar estimations over complex terrain,” The Cryosphere, vol. 12, no. 10, pp. 3137–3160, 2018. DOI: 10.5194/tc-12-3137-2018.
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  15. S. Trefalt, A. Martynov, H. Barras, N. Besic, A. Hering, S. Lenggenhager, P. Noti, M. Röthlisberger, S. Schemm, U. Germann, and O. Martius, “A severe hail storm in complex topography in Switzerland - observations and processes,” Atmospheric Research, vol. 209, pp. 76–94, 2018, issn: 0169-8095. DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2018.03.007.
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  16. D. Nerini, N. Besic, I. Sideris, U. Germann, and L. Foresti, “A non-stationary stochastic ensemble generator for radar rainfall fields based on the short-space Fourier transform,” Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, vol. 21, no. 6, pp. 2777–2797, 2017.  DOI: 10.5194/hess-21-2777-2017.
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  17. N. Besic, J. Figueras i Ventura, J. Grazioli, M. Gabella, U. Germann, and A. Berne, “Hydrometeor classification through statistical clustering of polarimetric radar measurements: a semi-supervised approach,” Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, vol. 9, no. 9, pp. 4425–4445, 2016. DOI: 10.5194/amt-9-4425-2016.
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  18. L. Pralon, G. Vasile, M. DallaMura, J. Chanussot, and N. Besic, “Evaluation of ICA-based ICTD for PoLSAR data analysis using a sliding window approach: Convergence rate, Gaussian sources, and spatial correlation,” IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 54, no. 7, pp. 4262–4271, 2016. DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2016.2538900.
  19. N. Besic, G. Vasile, J. Chanussot, and S. Stankovic, “Polarimetric incoherent target decomposition by means of independent component analysis,” IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 53, no. 3, pp. 1236–1247, 2015. DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2014.2336381.
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  20. N. Besic, G. Vasile, J.-P. Dedieu, J. Chanussot, and S. Stankovic, “Stochastic approach in wet snow detection using multitemporal SAR data,” IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 244–248, 2015.  DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2014.2334355.
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  21. N. Besic, G. Vasile, A. Anghel, T.-I. Petrut, C. Ioana, S. Stankovic, A. Girard, and G. d’Urso, “Zernike ultrasonic tomography for fluid velocity imaging based on pipeline intrusive time-of-flight measurements,” IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control, vol. 61, no. 11, pp. 1846–1855, 2014. DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2014.006515.
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  22. N. Besic, G. Vasile, F. Gottardi, J. Gailhard, A. Girard, and G. d’Urso, “Calibration of a distributed SWE model using MODIS snow cover maps and in situ measurements,” Remote Sensing Letters, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 230–239, 2014. DOI: 10.1080/2150704X.2014.897399.
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