Kaleb Negussie

The Namibia University of Science and Technology · Department of Geo-Spatial Sciences and Technology

Traditional communities in Namibia's Kunene Region for the Herero and the Himba inhabit very fragile lands and ecosystems prone to degradation which threatens their livelihood, properties, and traditional practices. Soil gully erosion is a type of land degradation and one of the most critical threatening environmental agents which usually creates d...

Namibia is a semi-arid country characterized by the alternation of long drought periods and short episodes of intense rain, which often causes great stress to plants, animals and people. Thus, a deep understanding of the spatio-temporal distribution of rainfall is required to minimize their negative impacts, affecting food security. The temporal oc...

Namibia is a dry and low populated country highly dependent on agriculture, with many areas experiencing land degradation accelerated by climate change. One of the most obvious and damaging manifestations of these degradation processes are gullies, which lead to great economic losses while accelerating desertification. The development of standardiz...

Land degradation in Namibia is currently threatening livelihoods from several regions of the country. One of the major causes of land degradation in Namibia is soil erosion, which produces very critical ecological, landscape and economic damage when it manifests in the form of gullies. The development of standardized methods to detect and monitor t...