![Dr. Beatrice Asenso Barnieh]()
DAAD climapAfrica Postdoc Fellow
University of Energy and Natural Resources (UENR), Sunyani
University of Ghana
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
Dr. Ir. Beatrice Asenso Barnieh has a Phd degree in Cartography and Geo-Information System (GIS) for Climate Change Mitigation from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Aerospace Information Research Institute in China and a Master’s degree in Geo-Information Science (GISc), Earth Observation (EO) and Remote Sensing (RS) for Natural Resources Management from the University of Twente-Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC) in the Netherlands. She worked as a researcher at the State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing-China. Modeling anthropic activities impacts on the climate system is the major focus of her research. In ClimapAfrica programme, she will focus on assessing the possible leakages in land use management policies and impacts on above ground carbon stock of trees towards sustainable development and climate change mitigation in Africa.
Climate change expertise and interests
- Field inventory for climate change research
- GIS database management
- Cloud computing
- Statistical analysis of large geospatial climate dataset with high-leveled programming languages and machine learning algorithms
- Satellite data acquisition, processing, analysis and interpretation of results
- Carbon stock mapping
- Monitoring of natural resources
- SAR and LIDAR Remote Sensing
- Land use land cover change and driving factors analysis
- Historical time series analysis of land surface climate indicators
- Earth system modeling
- Human activities and climate interaction modeling
- Specie distribution modeling
- Spatial multi-criteria analysis
- Suitability analysis for site selection and spatial targeting of climate change interventions
- Environmental impact assessment
- Collaborative planning
- Cognitive mapping and stakeholders’ analysis.
Publications – (most recent)
Asenso Barnieh, B.; Jia, L.; Menenti, M.; Jiang, M.; Zhou, J.; Zeng, Y.; Bennour, A. Modeling the Underlying Drivers of Natural Vegetation Occurrence in West Africa with Binary Logistic Regression Method. Sustainability 2021, 13, 4673. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13094673
Asenso Barnieh, B.; Jia, L.; Menenti, M.; Zhou, J.; Zeng, Y. Mapping Land Use Land Cover Transitions at Different Spatiotemporal Scales in West Africa. Sustainability 2020, 12, 8565. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12208565
Asenso Barnieh, B.; Leeuwen, L. Van; Duker, A.; Groen, T. A. (2015). Modelling Above-Ground Carbon Stock of Trees in Agro-Ecosystem and Forest Reserve under REDD + Mechanisms [University of Twente]. https://www.itc.nl/library/research/academic-output/
I participate at climapAfrica because...
It maintains a close tie with the global academic community through exchange, active networking with participants and experts in Germany. These contacts are useful for knowledge acquisition and international research work. In addition, new areas of knowledge arise through interaction between research scientists from different domains. The thematic research working groups, support for scientific workshops, seminars, conferences and skill trainings for participants are some of the things, which motivated me to be part of this programme.
