Wondifraw Nigussie Mekuria

Full Name Wondifraw Nigussie Mekuria
Academic Rank Lecturer and Researcher on: GIS and Remote Sensing
Education Background
  • BSc in Geographic Information Science (GIS), from October 2011- July 2014 at Hawassa University, Wondogenet College of Forestry and Natural Resource
  • Master of Science in Remote Sensing and Geo-informatics from October 2016- July 2018 at Addis Ababa University
Working Experience
  •    Graduate Assistant I at Dilla University (March 1 2015 to March 2016)
  •    Graduate Assistant II at Dilla University (March 2016 to July 2018)
  •    Lecturer at Dilla University (July 2018 to March 2023)
  •       Department head of Land Administration and surveying at Dilla University from March 2021 to January 2023
  •    Lecturer at Injibara University (March 2023 to Present)
Research Interest
  •        Multi Spectral Image processing
  •        Microwave and Hyperspectral image processing
  •        Spatial Analysis and modeling
  •    GIS, Cartography, Photogrammetry
  •        GIS and Remote Sensing applications in agriculture, environment, climate, land use, water, forestry, and health
Publications 1.      Nigussie, W., Hailu, B. T., & Azagegn, T. (2019). Mapping of groundwater potential zones using sentinel satellites (− 1 SAR and-2A MSI) images and analytical hierarchy process in Ketar watershed, Main Ethiopian Rift. Journal of African Earth Sciences, 160, 103632. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2019.103632

2.      Nigussie, W., Al-Najjar, H., Zhang, W.,  Yirsaw, E., Nega, W., Zhang, Z., Kalantar, B (2024). Enhancing Coffee Agroforestry Systems Suitability Using Geospatial Analysis and Sentinel Satellite Data in Gedeo Zone, Ethiopia. Sensors, 24, 6287. https://doi.org/10.3390/s24196287

3.      Nega, W., Nigussie, W., & Balew, A. (2023). Investigating spatial relationship between vegetation cover and soil moisture using sentinel satellites: a case study of North Gondar Zone, Ethiopia. Journal of Spatial Science, 68(4), 667-683. https://doi.org/10.1080/14498596.2022.2133019

4.      Abdurahman, A., Yirsaw, E., Nigussie, W., & Hundera, K. (2023). Past and future land-use/land-cover change trends and its potential drivers in Koore’s agricultural landscape, Southern Ethiopia. Geocarto International, 38(1), 2229952. https://doi.org/10.1080/10106049.2023.2229952

5.      Yirsaw, E., & Nigussie, W. (2024). Land Use/Land Cover Change Modeling and Evaluating the Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Highland Bamboo Species in the Southern Highland of Ethiopia. Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing, 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12524-023-01799-6

6.      Yirsaw, E. and Nigussie, W. (2023). Evaluating Dynamics of Ecosystem Service Value in Response to Land use/Land cover Changes in the Southern highland of Ethiopia. Environ Anal Eco stud. 000766. 11(4). http://dx.doi.org/10.31031/EAES.2023.11.000766
Contact address E-mail: wondifrawnigussie46@gmail.com

Mobile No: +251 918640465

Injibara University, Injibara, Ethiopia

P.O.Box, 6040, Injibara University, Ethiopia

Institutional e-mail: wondifraw.nigussie@inu.edu.et