Bireda Alemayehu Mengistu

Full name: Bireda Alemayehu Mengistu

2. Specialization: PhD in Remote Sensing
3. Academic rank: Assistant professor
4. Department: Geography and Environmental Studies
5. Phone number: +251910505233
6. alemayehu@dmu.edu.et or bireda97@gmail.com
7. Research interests

• Remote Sensing and GIS Applications
• Land Use and Land Cover Change Analysis
• Environmental Monitoring and Assessment
• Forest Ecology and Plantation Forestry
• Ecosystem Services Assessment and Valuation
• Climate Variability Characterization
• Vegetation Dynamics and Land Degradation Assessment
• Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence in Geospatial Analysis
• Spatial Modeling and Environmental Data Science
• Species Identification and Habitat Modelling
• Biodiversity Conservation and Landscape Restoration
• Agricultural and Forest Landscape Monitoring
• Biomass Estimation
• Carbon Sequestration and Nature-Based Solutions
• Geospatial Technologies for Sustainable Development

8. List of publications and ORCID link:

• Berhan, G., Chere, Z., Moged, T., Daba, G., Alemayehu, B., Kabite, G., Haimanote, W., Bedada, B., Mekasha, Y., Tuffa, S., Abdulatife, M., Gebeyehu, T., Ketema, G., Walelign, K., Abdela, E., Lule, D., Tsehay, B., & Yilma, A. (2026). Quantifying rangeland aboveground biomass dynamics using data fusion and machine learning framework in the Borana rangelands of Ethiopia. Environmental Challenges, 20, 101513. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envc.2026.101513
• Getie, S., & Alemayehu, B. (2026). Leveraging Sentinel-2 and Machine Learning for Precise Identification of Plantation Forests in the Upper Blue Nile. Forest Science and Technology, 1– 12. https://doi.org/10.1080/21580103.2026.2621009
• Alemayehu, , Suarez-Minguez, J., & Rosette, J. (2025). Plantation forests driven spatiotemporal vegetation trends and its interplay with climate variables in the Northwestern Highlands of Ethiopia. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 137. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2025.104411
• Alemayehu, , Suarez-Minguez, J., & Rosette, J. (2024b). The Implications of Plantation Forest- Driven Land Use/Land Cover Changes for Ecosystem Service Values in the Northwestern Highlands of Ethiopia. Remote Sensing, 16(22), 4159. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs16224159
• Alemayehu, , Suarez-Minguez, J., & Rosette, J. (2024a). Modeling the Spatial Distribution of Acacia decurrens Plantation Forests Using PlanetScope Images and Environmental Variables in the Northwestern Highlands of Ethiopia. Forests, 15(2), 277. https://doi.org/10.3390/f15020277
• Alemayehu, , Suarez-Minguez, J., Rosette, J., & Khan, S. A. (2023). Vegetation Trend Detection Using Time Series Satellite Data as Ecosystem Condition Indicators for Analysis in the Northwestern Highlands of Ethiopia. Remote Sensing, 15(20). https://doi.org/10.3390/rs15205032

ORCID: https://orcid.org/my-orcid?orcid=0009-0005-0187-920X

9. Grant project: no
10. Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bireda-alemayehu-202b92a1/