{"id":1244,"date":"2026-06-26T06:48:45","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T06:48:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssh.dmu.edu.et\/?page_id=1244"},"modified":"2026-06-26T06:48:45","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T06:48:45","slug":"bireda-alemayehu-mengistu","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ssh.dmu.edu.et\/?page_id=1244","title":{"rendered":"Bireda Alemayehu Mengistu"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"248\" height=\"255\" src=\"http:\/\/ssh.dmu.edu.et\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/06\/Bireda-Alemayehu-Mengistu.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1243\" style=\"width:193px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p><strong style=\"font-size: revert; color: initial;\">Full name<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: revert; color: initial;\">: Bireda Alemayehu Mengistu<\/span><\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li><strong>Specialization<\/strong>: PhD in Remote Sensing<\/li>\n<li><strong>Academic rank<\/strong>: Assistant professor<\/li>\n<li><strong>Department<\/strong>: Geography and Environmental Studies<\/li>\n<li><strong>Phone number<\/strong>: +251910505233<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"mailto:bireda.alemayehu@dmu.edu.et\">alemayehu@dmu.edu.et<\/a> or <a href=\"mailto:bireda97@gmail.com\">bireda97@gmail.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Research interests<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>Remote Sensing and GIS Applications<\/li>\n<li>Land Use and Land Cover Change Analysis<\/li>\n<li>Environmental Monitoring and Assessment<\/li>\n<li>Forest Ecology and Plantation Forestry<\/li>\n<li>Ecosystem Services Assessment and Valuation<\/li>\n<li>Climate Variability Characterization<\/li>\n<li>Vegetation Dynamics and Land Degradation Assessment<\/li>\n<li>Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence in Geospatial Analysis<\/li>\n<li>Spatial Modeling and Environmental Data Science<\/li>\n<li>Species Identification and Habitat Modelling<\/li>\n<li>Biodiversity Conservation and Landscape Restoration<\/li>\n<li>Agricultural and Forest Landscape Monitoring<\/li>\n<li>Biomass Estimation<\/li>\n<li>Carbon Sequestration and Nature-Based Solutions<\/li>\n<li>Geospatial Technologies for Sustainable Development<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol start=\"8\">\n<li><strong>List of publications and ORCID link:<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>Berhan, G., Chere, Z., Moged, T., Daba, G., <strong>Alemayehu, B.<\/strong>, Kabite, G., Haimanote, W., Bedada, B., Mekasha, Y., Tuffa, S., Abdulatife, M., Gebeyehu, T., Ketema, G., Walelign, K., Abdela, E., Lule, D., Tsehay, B., &amp; Yilma, A. (2026). Quantifying rangeland aboveground biomass dynamics using data fusion and machine learning framework in the Borana rangelands of Ethiopia. <em>Environmental Challenges<\/em>, <em>20<\/em>, 101513. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.envc.2026.101513\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.envc.2026.101513<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Getie, S., &amp; <strong>Alemayehu, B.<\/strong> (2026). Leveraging Sentinel-2 and Machine Learning for Precise Identification of Plantation Forests in the Upper Blue Nile. <em>Forest Science and Technology<\/em>, 1\u2013 12. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/21580103.2026.2621009\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/21580103.2026.2621009<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Alemayehu,<\/strong> <strong>,<\/strong> Suarez-Minguez, J., &amp; Rosette, J. (2025). Plantation forests driven spatiotemporal vegetation trends and its interplay with climate variables in the Northwestern Highlands of Ethiopia. <em>International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation<\/em>, <em>137<\/em>. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.jag.2025.104411\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.jag.2025.104411<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Alemayehu,<\/strong> <strong>,<\/strong> Suarez-Minguez, J., &amp; Rosette, J. (2024b). The Implications of Plantation Forest- Driven Land Use\/Land Cover Changes for Ecosystem Service Values in the Northwestern Highlands of Ethiopia. <em>Remote Sensing<\/em>, <em>16<\/em>(22), 4159. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/rs16224159\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/rs16224159<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Alemayehu,<\/strong> <strong>,<\/strong> Suarez-Minguez, J., &amp; Rosette, J. (2024a). Modeling the Spatial Distribution of Acacia decurrens Plantation Forests Using PlanetScope Images and Environmental Variables in the Northwestern Highlands of Ethiopia. <em>Forests<\/em>, <em>15<\/em>(2), 277. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/f15020277\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/f15020277<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Alemayehu,<\/strong> <strong>,<\/strong> Suarez-Minguez, J., Rosette, J., &amp; Khan, S. A. (2023). Vegetation Trend Detection Using Time Series Satellite Data as Ecosystem Condition Indicators for Analysis in the Northwestern Highlands of Ethiopia. <em>Remote Sensing<\/em>, <em>15<\/em>(20). <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/rs15205032\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/rs15205032<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>ORCID: <a href=\"https:\/\/orcid.org\/my-orcid?orcid=0009-0005-0187-920X\">https:\/\/orcid.org\/my-orcid?orcid=0009-0005-0187-920X<\/a><\/p>\n<ol start=\"9\">\n<li>Grant project: no<\/li>\n<li>Linkedin: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/bireda-alemayehu-202b92a1\/\">https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/bireda-alemayehu-202b92a1\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Full name: Bireda Alemayehu Mengistu Specialization: PhD in Remote Sensing Academic rank: Assistant professor Department: Geography and Environmental Studies Phone number: +251910505233 alemayehu@dmu.edu.et or bireda97@gmail.com 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1244","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssh.dmu.edu.et\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssh.dmu.edu.et\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssh.dmu.edu.et\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssh.dmu.edu.et\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssh.dmu.edu.et\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssh.dmu.edu.et\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1245,"href":"https:\/\/ssh.dmu.edu.et\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1244\/revisions\/1245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssh.dmu.edu.et\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}