Nana Ekow Nkwa Sey

University of Energy and Natural Resources | UENR · Earth Observation Research & Innovation Centre (EORIC)

Rooftop detection has numerous applications such as change detection in human settlements, land encroachments, planning routes to rural areas and estimation of solar generation potential of cities. Detecting the number, type and shape of building roofs form part of preliminary procedures to perform a variety of tasks for making decisions. Assessmen...

Globally 54% of children under 5 years are malnourished with an estimated 78.3 million and 57.5 million live in Asia and Africa respectively. However, with the advent of COVID-19, the situation is projected to worsen, as nations are already experiencing an imbalance of demand and supply within food value chains. Interestingly, nations with a high l...

Ghana’s forest and wildlife reserves are depleting at an alarming rate and hence, the Mole National Park which is considered the oldest and largest wildlife protected area in Ghana is no exception. Bush fires are a major contributor to this menace. Fire hotspot prediction and mapping using satellite data provides a better alternative to monitoring...

The increasing popularity in the use of drones has also led to their adoption by electric utility companies to monitor intrusive vegetation near powerlines due to their ability to provide reliable and cost-effective inspections, minimising downtime and improving the efficiency of the monitoring operations of such companies. Besides the lines themse...

Wildfire outbreaks in West Africa during the last decade has become a huge challenge towards, biodiversity, soil fertility, fora and fauna, agricultural sector development and the promotion of traditional medicine in this zone, and facilitates land degradation as well. This is because large wildfire outbreaks have destroyed tons of forests and farm...