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2023

Ben-Shoushan, R. and Brook, , 2023. Fused Thermal and RGB Imagery for Robust Detection and Classification of Dynamic Objects in Mixed Datasets via Pre-Trained High-Level CNN. Remote Sensing, 15(3), p.723.
Mahamed, M., Wittenberg, L., Kutiel, H. and Brook, A., 2023. A novel urban vegetation mapping approach for fire risk assessment: A Mediterranean case study. Urban Ecosystems, pp.1-12.
Ovadia, M. and Brook, A., 2023. Adaption of Industrial Ndt Protocols Based on Active Infrared Thermography to the Art Conservation World: the Case of the Wall Painting at Herodium. ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, pp.223-228.

Shatner, M. & Schattner, U., Extreme events in Earth System – bug or feature? in Environmental Challenges as Catalysts for Regional Conflict and Cooperation in the Eastern Mediterranean, Z. Rubinovitz, Ed. (A Joint Publication by the Maritime Policy & Strategy Research Center (University of Haifa, Israel) and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation (Germany), 2023), chap. 3, pp. 16-31.
Ramos, R.B., Schattner, U., Lobo, F.J., Maly, M., Dias, R.J.S., Carerette, O., Sumida, P.Y.G. and de Mahiques, M.M., 2023. What could form a 35-km lineament of carbonate mounds on the ocean floor?. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 152, p.106239.
Schattner, U. and Shatner, M., 2023. Science desperately needs disruptive innovation. Qeios. doi:10.32388/KY5Y9L.2.
Segev, A. & Schattner, U.. "Why does volcanism associated with the Dead Sea fault occur only along its crossing with the Irbid rift and Harrat Ash-Shaam volcanic field?." Tectonophysics 848 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2023.229718
Katz, D.; and N. Nagabatla (2023). Damming Disputes: Conflict Prevention in Water Management. Water, 15(13), 2476.
Cohen, A., I. Fischhendler, and D. Katz (2023). Institutional acceptance of wildlife mitigation technologies for wind energy: The case of Israel. Energy Policy 173, 113359.
Tsairi, Y., A. Tal, and D. Katz. (2023). Policy dissonance when wearing the “employer hat”: the practice of governmental vehicle reimbursement among public sector employees. Case Studies on Transport Policy. 100997.
Schuber, M. and Collins-Kreiner, N. (2023) “Older adults at nature-tourism sites: Experiments with aging suits”, Annals of Tourism Research Empirical Insights. https://authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S2666-9579(23)00016-2
Cahn A, Katz D, Ghermandi A, Prevos P (2023) Adoption of data-as-a-service by water and wastewater utilities. Utilities Policy 81, 101492
Zohar, M., Salamon, A., Rapaport, C., (2023). How Expert Is the Crowd? Insights into Crowd Opinions on the Severity of Earthquake Damage. Data 2023, 8 (6), 108. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/data8060108 pdf file
Zohar, M., Gennosar, B., Avny, R., Tessler, N. Gal, A., (2023). Spatiotemporal analysis in high resolution of tweets associated with the November 2016 wildfire in Haifa (Israel). International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2023.103720 pdf file | virtual map

2022

Brook, A., #Hamzi, S., Roberts, D., Ichoku, C., Shtober-Zisu, N., Wittenberg, L. 2022. Total Carbon Content Assessed by UAS Near-Infrared Imagery as a New Fire Severity Metric. Special Issue Deep Learning for the Analysis of Multi-/Hyperspectral Images. Remote Sensing, 14(3632).
Tadmor Shalev N., Ghermandi A., Tchernov D., Shemesh E., Israel A., Brook, 2022 Phenotyping technology for assessing protein content in seaweed by field spectroscopy and a machine learning algorithm. Computers and electronics in agriculture.
Mahamed, M., Wittenberg, L., Kutiel, H. and Brook, A., Fire Risk Assessment on Wildland–Urban Interface and Adjoined Urban Areas: Estimation Vegetation Ignitability by Artificial Neural Network. Fire, 5(6), p.184.
Keshet D, Brook A, Malkinson D, Izhaki I, Charter M. The Use of Drones to Determine Rodent Location and Damage in Agricultural Crops. Drones. 2022; 6(12):396.
*#Ezzy, H., Brook, A., Monaco, E., Buonanno, M., Albrizio, R., Giorio, P., Erbaggio, A., Arena, C., Petracca, F., Cirillo, C. and De Micco, V., 2022. Effect of multi-level and multi-scale spectral data source on vineyard state assessment. terclim2022│XIVth International Terroir Congress, ClimWine Symposium.
Avneri A., #Aharon S., Brook, #Atsmon A., Smirnov E., Sadeh R., Abbo S., Peleg Z., Herrmann I., Bonfil D.J., Nisim Lati R., 2022. UAS-based imaging for prediction of chickpea crop biophysical parameters and yield. Computers and electronics in agriculture.

Schattner, U., Segev, A., Mikhailov, V., Rybakov, M., & Lyakhovsky, V. (2022). Detailed Regional Magnetic Mapping on a Bike, A Case Study from Northern Israel. Pure and Applied Geophysics, 1-27. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00024-022-03100-1
Segev, A., Reznik, I. J., & Schattner, U., 2022. Miocene to sub-Recent magmatism at the intersection between the Dead Sea Transform and the Ash Shaam volcanic field: evidence from the Yarmouk River gorge and vicinity. Geological Magazine, 159(4), 469-493. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0016756821001072
de Mahiques, M.M., Lobo, F.J., Schattner, U., López-Quirós, A., Rocha, C.B., ‎Dias, R.J.S., Montoya-Montes, I. and Vieira, A.C.B., 2022. Geomorphological ‎imprint of opposing ocean bottom currents, a case study from the southeastern Brazilian Atlantic margin. Marine Geology, p.106715‎ https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2021.106715
‎Ben-Avraham, Z., Reshef, M., Schattner, U., 2022. Gas hydrate indications on the southwest African continental margin, in: Mienert, J., Berndt, C., Tréhu, A., ‎Camerlenghi, A., Liu, C.-S. (Eds.), World Atlas of Submarine Gas Hydrates in ‎Continental Margins, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-81186-0‎

Kühne, O.; Parush, D.; Shmueli, D.; Jenal, C., 2022. "Conflicted Energy Transition—Conception of a Theoretical Framework for Its Investigation", Land, Vol. 11, 116. https://doi.org/10.3390/ land11010116
Feitelson, E., Plaut, P., Saltzberger, E., Shmueli, D., Altshuler, A., Amir, S. Ben Gal, M., 2022. "Learning from Others’ Disasters? A Comparative Study of SARS/MERS and COVID-19 Responses in Five Polities", International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, Vol. 74, 102913, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2022.102913.
Feitelson, E., Plaut, P., Saltzberger, E., Shmueli, D., Altshuler, A., Ben Gal, M., Israel, F., Rein-Sapir, Y., Zaychek, D., 2022. "The Effects of COVID-19 on Wellbeing: evidence from Israel", Sustainability, Special Issue "Economic and Social Consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic", Vol. 14, 3750. https://doi.org/ 10.3390/su14073750.
Walschot, M. and Katz, D. (2022). Desalination and Transboundary Water Conflict and Cooperation: A Mixed-Method Empirical Approach. Water 14(12), 1925.
Katz, D. (2022) Basin Management under Conditions of Scarcity: The Transformation of the Jordan River Basin from Regional Water Supplier to Regional Water Importer. Water 14(10), 1605.
Negev, M., Zohar, M. & Paz, S., (2022) Multidimensional hazards, vulnerabilities, and perceived risks regarding climate change and Covid-19 at the city level: An empirical study from Haifa, Israel. Urban Climate 43. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.uclim.2022.101146. pdf file
Shilo S. and Collins-Kreiner, N. (2022). “The Return of the “Black Swan”? Christian Pilgrimage to the Holy Land and the Covid19 Pandemic". Journal of Qualitative Research in Tourism. 3,1:1-13. https://doi.org/10.4337/jqrt.2022.0002
Doctori, M., Collins-Kreiner, N. and Kliot, N. (2022). "Much More than Voluntourism: The Altruistic Volunteer Tourism Motivation and Experience". International Journal of Tourism Policy (IJTP). 67-83 https://www.inderscienceonline.com/doi/abs/10.1504/IJTP.2023.129171
Hocherman T, Trop T, Ghermandi A (2022) Introducing a temporal DPSIR (tDPSIR) framework and its application to marine pollution by PET bottles. Ambio
Ghermandi A, Van Berkel D, Langemeyer J (2022) Twitter’s totter must prompt research rethink. Nature 612: 211
Elimelech E, Mintz KK, Katz-Gerro T, Segal-Klein H, Hussein L, Ayalon O (2022) Between perceptions and practices: The religious and cultural aspects of food wastage in households. Appetite, 106374
Shoshany-Tavory S, Trop T, Shiftan Y (2022) A cross-cultural study of nonprofit self-organized ridesharing. Transportation
Shoshany Tavory S, Trop T, Shiftan Y (2022) From individuals to a community of purpose: A methodical exploration of self-organized ridesharing initiative. International Journal of Sustainable Transportation
Sagar VMK, Sabu J, Arunkumar PS, Sheela AM, Ghermandi A, Kumar A (2023) A coastal Ramsar site on transition to hypoxia and tracking pollution sources: a case study of south-west coast of India. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 195(45), 1-28.
Lin Z, Jiao W, Liu H, Long T, Liu Y, Wei S, He G, Portnov BA, Trop T, Liu M, Li X (2022) Modelling the public perception of urban public space lighting based on SDGSAT-1 glimmer imagery. Sustainable Cities and Society, 104272.
Shama H, Gabinet N, Tzischinsky O, Portnov B (2022) Monitoring sleep in real-world conditions using low-cost technology tools. Biological Rhythm Research, pp.1-17
Tadmor Shalev N, Ghermandi A, Tchernov D, Shemesh E, Israel A, Brook A (2022) NIR spectroscopy and artificial neural network for seaweed protein content assessment in-situ. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture 201, 107304.
Gabinet NM, Portnov BA (2022) Investigating the combined effect of ALAN and noise on sleep by simultaneous real-time monitoring using low-cost smartphone devices. Environmental Research 214, 11394
Portnov BA, Fotios S, Saad R, Kliger D (2022) Establishing optimal illuminance for pedestrian reassurance using segmented regression. Lighting Research & Technology, 14771535221080649