SHARI ROMINA JOOSELI VAN WITTENBERGHE
PI-Invest Cont Projecte Europeu
PI-Invest Cont Projecte Europeu
Image Processing Laboratory (IPL) - Laboratory for Earth Observation (LEO)
C/ Catedràtic Agustín Escardino Benlloch, 46980 Paterna, Valencia
Tel: (+34) 963544065
ERC Project website PHOTOFLUX: https://leoipl.uv.es/photoflux/
Biography
I am a bioscience engineer, graduated from the University of Ghent (Master) and Antwerp University (PhD) in Belgium. My main interests are related to the optical monitoring of plant photosynthesis from a proximal sensing approach based on the absorption and emission (fluorescence) spectra. In this regard I have been involved in several preparatory projects related to the upcoming Fluorescence Explorer (FLEX) mission of the European Space Agency (ESA), for example on the development of retrieval algorithms of the mission’s photosynthesis products.
Since 2016 I have been working at the Laboratory of Earth Observation (LEO) in Valencia at the fascinating intersection between quantitative (hyperspectral) remote sensing and plant stress detection. My ambition is to quantify through remote sensing how vegetation engineers the light harvesting under different climatic conditions and how this impacts the terrestrial carbon uptake.
Journal Publications
- Shari Van Wittenberghe; Luis Alonso; Zbynek Malenovsky; José Moreno (2018) Photoprotection dynamics observed at leaf level from fast temporal reflectance changes. Geoscience and Remote Sensing (IGARSS), IEEE International Symposium, IGARSS 2018, pp. 5991 - 5994 . ISSN: 2153-6996
- Luis Alonso; Shari Van Wittenberghe; Julia Amorós-López; Joan Vila-Francés; Luis Gómez-Chova; Jose Moreno (2017) Diurnal Cycle Relationships between Passive Fluorescence, PRI and NPQ of Vegetation in a Controlled Stress Experiment. Remote Sensing, 9(8 - 770), pp. 1 - 16 . ISSN: 2072-4292
- Nieves Pasqualotto; Jesús Delegido; Shari Van Wittenberghe; Jochem Verrelst; Juan Pablo Rivera;José Moreno (2018) Retrieval of canopy water content of different crop types with two new hyperspectral indices: Water Absorption Area Index and Depth Water Index. International Journal Of Applied Earth Observation And Geoinformation, 67, pp. 69 - 78 . ISSN: 1569-8432
- Pasqualotto, N.,; Delegido, J.; Van Wittenberghe, S.; Rinaldi, M.; Moreno, J., (2019) Multi-crop green LAI estimation with a new simple Sentinel-2 LAI Index (SeLI). Sensors, 19(904) . ISSN: 1424-8220
- Pasqualotto, N.; D'Urso, G.; Bolognesi, S.F.; Belfiore, O.R.; Van Wittenberghe, S.; Delegido, J.; Pezzola, A.; Winschel, C.; Moreno, J. (2019) Retrieval of evapotranspiration from Sentinel-2: Comparison of vegetation indices, semi-empirical models and SNAP Biophysical Processor approach. Agronomy-Basel, 9(663) . ISSN: 2073-4395
- Neus Sabater; Pekka Kolmonen; Shari Van Wittenberghe; Antti Arola; José Moreno (2021) Challenges in the atmospheric characterization for the retrieval of spectrally resolved fluorescence and PRI region dynamics from space. Remote Sensing of Environment, 254, p. 112226 . ISSN: 0034-4257
- Carolina Tenjo; Antonio Ruiz-Verdú; Shari Van Wittenberghe; Jesús Delegido; José Moreno (2021) A New Algorithm for the Retrieval of Sun Induced Chlorophyll Fluorescence of Water Bodies Exploiting the Detailed Spectral Shape of Water-Leaving Radiance. Remote Sensing, 13(2), p. 329 . ISSN: 2072-4292
- Helge Aasen; Shari Van Wittenberghe; Neus Sabater Medina; Alexander Damm; Yves Goulas; Sebastian Wieneke; Andreas Hueni; Zbyněk Malenovský; Luis Alonso; Javier Pacheco-Labrador; M Pilar Cendrero-Mateo; Enrico Tomelleri; Andreas Burkart; Sergio Cogliati; Uwe Rascher; Alasdair Mac Arthur (2019) Sun-induced chlorophyll fluorescence II: review of passive measurement setups, protocols, and their application at the leaf to canopy level. Remote Sensing, 11(8), p. 927 . ISSN: 2072-4292
- Amparo Cisneros; Peterson Fiorio; Patricia Menezes; Nieves Pasqualotto; Shari Van Wittenberghe; Gustavo Bayma; Sandra Furlan Nogueira (2020) Mapping Productivity and Essential Biophysical Parameters of Cultivated Tropical Grasslands from Sentinel-2 Imagery. Agronomy-Basel, 10(5), p. 711 . ISSN: 2073-4395
- Albert Porcar-Castell, Zbyněk Malenovský, Troy Magney, Shari Van Wittenberghe, et al. (2021) Chlorophyll a fluorescence illuminates a path connecting plant molecular biology to Earth-system science. Nature Plants. ISSN: 2055-026X
- Van Wittenberghe, S., Laparra, V., García-Plazaola, J.I., Fernandez-Marín, B., Porcar-Castell, A., Moreno, J. (2021) Combined dynamics of the 500-600 nm leaf absorption and chlorophyll fluorescence changes in vivo: Evidence for the multifunctional energy quenching role of xanthophylls. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta-Bioenergetics, 1862(2), p. 148351 . ISSN: 0005-2728
- Van Wittenberghe, S., Alonso, L., Malenovský, Z., Moreno, J. (2019) In vivo photoprotection mechanisms observed from leaf spectral absorbance changes showing VIS-NIR slow-induced conformational pigment bed changes. Photosynthesis Research, 142(3), pp. 283 - 305 . ISSN: 0166-8595
- Ayala Izurieta, J.E.; Márquez, C.O.; García, V.J.; Jara, C.A.; Sisti, J.M.; Pasqualotto, N.;Van Wittenberghe, S.; Delegido, J. (2021) Multi-predictor mapping of soil organic carbon in the alpine tundra: a case study for the central Ecuadorian páramo. Carbon Balance And Management, 16(1)(32), pp. 1 - 19 . ISSN: 1750-0680
- Shari Van Wittenberghe; Neus Sabater; Maria Pilar Cendrero-Mateo; Carolina Tenjo; Adrian Moncholi; Luis Alonso; Jose moreno (2021) Towards the quantitative and physically-based interpretation of solar-induced vegetation fluorescence retrieved from global imaging. Photosynthetica, 59, pp. 438 - 457 . ISSN: 0300-3604
- Adrián Moncholi-Estornell; Shari Van Wittenberghe; Maria Pilar Cendrero-Mateo; Luis Alonso; Zbynek Malenovský;José Moreno (2022) Impact of Structural, Photochemical and Instrumental Effects on Leaf and Canopy Reflectance Variability in the 500-600 nm Range. Remote Sensing, 14(1), p. 56 . ISSN: 2072-4292
- Ayala Izurieta, J. E.; Jara Santillán, C. A.; Van Wittenberghe, S.; Delegido, J.; Verrelst, J. (2022) Improving the remote estimation of soil organic carbon in complex ecosystems with Sentinel‑2 and GIS using Gaussian processes regression. Plant and Soil, 479, pp. 159 - 183 . ISSN: 0032-079X
- Johanna Elizabeth Ayala Izurieta; Carlos Arturo Jara Santillán;Carmen Omaira Márquez; Víctor Julio García;Juan Pablo Rivera‑Caicedo;Shari Van Wittenberghe;Jesús Delegido;Jochem Verrelst (2022) Improving the remote estimation of soil organic carbon in complex ecosystems with Sentinel‑2 and GIS using Gaussian processes regression. Plant and Soil. ISSN: 0032-079X
- Katja Berger; Miriam Machwitz; Marlena Kycko; Shawn C. Kefauver; Shari Van Wittenberghe; Max Gerhards; Jochem Verrelst; Clement Atzberger; Christiaan van der Tol; Alexander Damm; Uwe Rascher; Ittai Herrmann; Veronica Sobejano Paz; Sven Fahrner; Roland Pieruschka; Egor Prikaziuk; Ma. Luisa Buchaillot; Andrej Halabuk; Marco Celesti; Gerbrand Koren; Esra Tunc Gormus; Micol Rossini; Michael Foerster; Bastian Siegmann; Asmaa Abdelbaki; Giulia Tagliabue; Tobias Hank; Roshanak Darvishzadeh; Helge Aasen; Monica Garcia; Isabel Pôças; Subhajit Bandopadhyay; Mauro Sulis; Enrico Tomelleri; Offer Rozenstein; Lachezar Filchev; Gheorghe Stancile; Martin Schlerf, (2022) Multi-sensor spectral synergies for crop stress detection and monitoring in the optical domain: A review. Remote Sensing of Environment, 280, p. 113198 . ISSN: 0034-4257
- Andrés A Beltrán-Dávalos; Johanna Elizabeth Ayala Izurieta; Magdy Mileni Echeverria Guadalupe; Shari Van Wittenberghe; Jesús Delegido; Xosé Luis Otero Pérez; Agustín Merino (2022) Evaluation of Soil Organic Carbon Storage of Atillo in the Ecuadorian Andean Wetlands. Soil Systems, 6(4), p. 92 . ISSN: 2571-8789
- Van Wittenberghe, S.; Amin, E.; Pascual-Venteo, A.B.; ... Drusch, M.; Moreno, J. (2024) Retrieval of leaf-level fluorescence quantum efficiency and NPQ-related xanthophyll absorption through spectral unmixing strategies for future VIS-NIR imaging spectroscopy. Remote Sensing of Environment, 300(113879) . ISSN: 0034-4257
- Clara García-Martínez; Adrian Moncholi-Estornell; Sara Pescador-Dionisio; Maria Pilar Cendrero-Mateo; María Jesús Rodrigo; José Moreno; Shari Van Wittenberghe (2025) Canopy imaging spectroscopy reveals a stepwise redshifted energy redistribution in the antenna under drought stress. Scientific Reports(17241) . ISSN: 2045-2322
- Sara Pescador-Dionisio; Maria Pilar Cendrero-Mateo; Adrián Moncholí-Estornell; Aida Robles-Fort; Miren I. Arzac; Begoña Renau-Morata; Beatriz Fernández-Marín; José Ignacio García-Plazaola; Rosa V. Molina; Carolina Rausell; José Moreno; Sergio G. Nebauer; Inmaculada García-Robles; Shari Van Wittenberghe (2024) In vivo detection of spectral reflectance changes associated with regulated heat dissipation mechanisms complements fluorescence quantum efficiency in early stress diagnosis. New Phytologist, pp. 1 - 18 . ISSN: 1469-8137
- Moncholi-Estornell, A.; Cendrero-Mateo, M.P.; Antala, M.; Cogliati, S.; Moreno, J.; Van Wittenberghe, S. (2023) Enhancing solar-induced fluorescence interpretation: Quantifying fractional sunlit vegetation cover using linear spectral unmixing. Remote Sensing, 15(4274), pp. 1 - 23 . ISSN: 2072-4292
- Moncholi-Estornell, Adrián; Van Wittenberghe, Shari; Cendrero-Mateo, Maria Pilar; Alonso, Luis; Jiménez, Marcos; Urrego, Patricia; Mac Arthur, Alasdair; Moreno, José (2023) FluoCat: A cable-suspended multi-sensor system for the vegetation SIF Cal/Val monitoring and estimation of effective sunlit surface fluorescence. International Journal Of Applied Earth Observation And Geoinformation, 116, pp. 1 - 14 . ISSN: 1569-8432
- Javier Pacheco-Labrador; M.Pilar Cendrero-Mateo; Shari Van Wittenberghe; Itza Hernandez-Sequeira; Gerbrand Koren; Egor Prikaziuk; Szilvia Fóti; Enrico Tomelleri; Kadmiel Maseyk; Nata¿a Čereković; Rosario Gonzalez-Cascon; Zbyněk Malenovský; Mar Albert-Saiz; Michal Antala; János Balogh; Henning Buddenbaum; Mohammad Hossain Dehghan-Shoar; Joseph T. Fennell; Jean-Baptiste Féret; Hamadou Balder; Miriam Machwitz; Ádám Mészáros; Guofang Miao; Miguel Morata; Paul Naethe; Zoltán Nagy; Krisztina Pintér; R. Reddy Pullanagari; Anshu Rastogi; Bastian Siegmann; Sheng Wang; Chenhui Zhang; Daniel Kopkáně (2024) Ecophysiological variables retrieval and early stress detection: insights from a synthetic spatial scaling exercise. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 41(1) . ISSN: 0143-1161
- Nela Jantol; Egor Prikaziuk; Marco Celesti; Itza Hernandez Sequeira; Enrico Tomelleri; Javier Pacheco Labrador; Shari Van Wittenberghe; Filiberto Pla; Subhajit Bandopadhyay; Gerbrand Koren; Bastian Siegmann; Tarzan Legovic; Hrvoje Kutnjak; M. Pilar Cendrero Mateo (2023) Using Sentinel-2-Based Metrics to Characterize the Spatial Heterogeneity of FLEX Sun-Induced Chlorophyll Fluorescence on Sub-Pixel Scale. Remote Sensing, 15(19) . ISSN: 2072-4292
- Eatidal Amin; Luca Pipia; Santiago Belda; Gregor Perich; Lukas Valentin Graf; Helge Aasen; Shari Van Wittenberghe; José Moreno; Jochem Verrelst (2024) In-season forecasting of within-field grain yield from Sentinel-2 time series data. International Journal Of Applied Earth Observation And Geoinformation, 126(103636) . ISSN: 0303-2434
- Wendi Lu;, Yelu Zeng,; Nastassia Vilfan; Jianxi Huang; Shari Van Wittenberghe; Yachang He; Yongyuan Gao; Laura Verena Junker-Frohn; Jennifer E Johnson; Wei Su; Qinhuo Liu; Bastian Siegmann; Dalei Hao (2025) Characterizing leaf-scale fluorescence with spectral invariants. Remote Sensing of Environment. ISSN: 0034-4257
- M Pilar Cendrero-Mateo; Shari Van Wittenberghe; Valero Laparra; Uwe Rascher; Shirley A Papuga; Guillermo Ponce-Campos; Jose Moreno (2025) Use of Sun-Induced Chlorophyll Fluorescence in Linear and Non-Linear Light Use Efficiency Models for Remote Estimation of Plant Photosynthesis Under Stress Conditions. Ieee Journal Of Selected Topics In Applied Earth Observations And Remote Sensing. ISSN: 1939-1404
- Pedro J Gómez-Giráldez; David Aragonés, Marcos Jiménez; Mª Pilar Cendrero-Mateo; Shari Van Wittenberghe; Juan José Peón; Adrián Moncholí-Estornell; Ricardo Díaz-Delgado (2025) SpaFLEX: Field Campaign for Calibration and Validation of FLEX-S3 Mission Products. Engineering Proceedings (Basel). ISSN: 2673-4591
- Ana B Pascual-Venteo; Adrián Pérez-Suay; Miguel Morata; Adrián Moncholí; Maria Pilar Cendrero-Mateo; Jorge Vicent Servera; Bastian Siegmann; Shari Van Wittenberghe (2026) Spectral Unmixing of Airborne and Ground-Based Imaging Spectroscopy for Pigment-Specific FAPAR and Sun-Induced Fluorescence Interpretation. Remote Sensing. ISSN: 2072-4292
Stays abroad in Research Centers
- Helsinki. FINLAND, 2019. Research stay, Programa VALi+d para investigadores en fase postdoctoral, Generalitat Valenciana. **Post-doctoral.
Thesis, minor thesis and research reports
- Nieves Pasqualotto Vicente, (2020). Estimation of key biophysical parameters related to crop stress through new remote sensors and multi-crop in situ data. (Doctoral Thesis). Universidad de Valencia..
- Adrián Moncholi Estornell, (2024). Sensor synergy in support of the FLEX mission: Cal/Val field protocols and product development. (Doctoral Thesis). Valencia..
- Nancy Carolina Tenjo Gil, (2024). Chlorophyll fluorescence algorithm development for the FLuORescence Imaging Spectrometer (FLORIS). (Doctoral Thesis). Valencia..
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