Doctor of Philosophy in Physical Geography | Oct 2018 - present.
Department of Geography and Geology, Edge Hill University, United Kingdom.
Thesis: Monitoring spatio-temporal dynamics of grazing lawns in southern African savannahs using very-high-resolution satellite imagery. | Supervisor: Prof. Paul Aplin.
Master of Science in Sustainable Forest and Nature Management | Sept 2015 - Aug 2017.
Joint Degree: Southern Swedish Forest Research Center, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden | Faculty of Forest Sciences and Forest Ecology, Universität Göttingen, Germany.
Thesis: Effects of spatial resolution, land cover heterogeneity and different classification methods on accuracy of land cover mapping. | Supervisors: Dr. Nils Noelke and Dr. Eric Agestam.
Bachelor of Science in Natural Resources Management | Aug 2010 - Jul 2014.
Faculty of Renewable Natural Resources, KNUST, Ghana.
Thesis: Assessment of the effects of pre-potting treatment and indigenous potting media on the early growth of Allanblackia parviflora. | Supervisors: Ms. Veronica Nana Ama Asare.
PhD Candidate and Graduate Teaching Assistant | Department of Geography and Geology, Edge Hill University, United Kingdom | Oct 2018 - present.
Project Researcher | Chair of Forest Inventory and Remote Sensing, University of Goettingen, Germany | Jul 2017 - Oct 2018.
Teaching and Research Assistant | Faculty of Renewable Natural Resources, KNUST, Ghana | Sept 2014 - Aug 2015.
Project Assistant | Forest Research Institute of Ghana (FORIG), Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Ghana | Jul 2013 - Feb 2014.
Intern Forester | Forest Services Division, Forestry Commission, Ghana | May 2012 - Jul 2012.
Spatio-temporal resilience of lawn grasses in southern African Savannas | Funded by Edge Hill University | Project Investigator | Ongoing.
Enhancing understanding of the management and benefits of trees on farms in the Zambia-Malawi Trans frontier Conservation area for improved land use planning and sustainable agricultural intensification | Funded by German Corporation for International Cooperation (GIZ) | Project Investigator | Closed.
Functions, Scales and Dynamics of Transition in Socio-Ecological Systems at the Rural-Urban Interface in India | Funded by German Research Foundation (DFG) | Research Assistant | Closed.
Allanblackia domestication project in Eastern, West and Central African region | Funded by International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) & European Union (EU) | Research Assistant | Closed.
Landscape Ecology | Edge Hill University, United Kingdom | 2020/2021.
Digital Geographies | Edge Hill University, United Kingdom | 2020/2021.
Practical Skills for Geography and Environmental Science | Edge Hill University, United Kingdom | 2019/2020.
Remote Sensing Image Processing with Open-source Software | University of Goettingen, Germany | 2017/2018.
Introduction to Remote Sensing | KNUST, Ghana | 2014/2015.
Awards, Grants & Fellowships
Royal Geographical Society's Geographical Club Award | 2019.
European Commission Erasmus Mundus Fellowship | 2015-2017.
Amoakoh, A.O., Aplin, P., Awuah, K.T., Delgado-Fernandez, I., Moses, C., Alonso, C.P., Kankam, S. and Mensah, J.C., 2021. Testing the Contribution of Multi-Source Remote Sensing Features for Random Forest Classification of the Greater Amanzule Tropical Peatland. Sensors, 21(10), p.3399.
Awuah, K.T., Aplin, P., Marston, C.G., Powell, I. and Smit, I.P.J., 2020. Probabilistic Mapping and Spatial Pattern Analysis of Grazing Lawns in Southern African Savannahs Using WorldView-3 Imagery and Machine Learning Techniques. Remote Sensing, 12, 3357.
Awuah, K.T., Nölke, N., Freudenberg, M., Diwakara, B.N., Tewari, V.P. and Kleinn, C., 2018. Spatial resolution and landscape structure along an urban-rural gradient: Do they relate to remote sensing classification accuracy?–A case study in the megacity of Bengaluru, India. Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment, 12, pp.89-98.
Mensah, A.A., Awuah, K.T., Ankomah, G.O., Abdulai, I. Habitat suitability mapping of African Mahogany (Khaya anthotheca C.DC.) under current and future climatic conditions across tropical forest gradient in Africa. Journal of Forest Ecosystems, submitted
Awuah, K.T., Aplin, P., Marston, C.G., Powell, I. and Smit, I.P.J., 2021. Machine learning classification of plant functional types in southern African savannahs using WorldView-3 imagery. International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Brussels, submitted.
Awuah, K.T. and Aplin, P., 2021. Fusion of Sentinel-2 data with high resolution open access Planet basemaps for grazing lawn detection in southern African savannahs. International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Brussels, submitted.
Awuah, K.T., Aplin, P., Marston, C.G., Powell, I. and Smit, I.P.J., 2020. Comparison of machine learning methods for grazing lawn detection in southern Africa using WorldView-3 imagery. RSPSoc2019, Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Society, Nottingham.
Aplin, P., Marston, C. and Awuah, K., 2019. The influence of seasonality on savannah land cover mapping. Living Planet Symposium, European Space Agency, Milan.
Awuah, K.T., 2018. Spatial resolution and landscape structure along an urban-rural gradient: Do they relate to remote sensing classification accuracy? European Space Agency 8th Advanced Training Course on Land Remote Sensing, Leicester.
Awuah, K.T., 2017. Spectral unmixing for land cover mapping in complex urban-rural landscapes. 6th Annual Alliance Graduate Summer School: Research Methods for Sustainable Development, Paris.
Awuah, K.T. and Kleinn, C., 2019. Trees outside forests, land cover and land use changes in the Zambia-Malawi Trans-Frontier Conservation Area: A remote sensing-based assessment. Report submitted to the World Agroforestry Center (ICRAF) and the German Corporation for International Cooperation (GIZ).
Learned Society Memberships
British Ecological Society.
Royal Geographical Soceity.
