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Data analytics icon representing the Ghana Fire Observatory
OngoingWildfire and environmental applications

Ghana Fire Observatory

A national research and visualisation programme for understanding Ghana’s fire regime, sensor agreement and emerging wildfire-susceptibility work.

Period
2025–present
Role
Lead researcher and application developer

Contribution: Designed the public research architecture, district and agro-climatic-zone reporting, analytical interface and reproducible data-to-web workflow.

Data analytics icon representing the Ghana fire panel dataset
ReleasedWildfire and environmental applications

Ghana fire panel dataset

A public monthly fire-analysis dataset covering 260 harmonised districts and five agro-climatic zones in Ghana.

Period
2026
Role
Dataset author and data-workflow developer

Contribution: Consolidated monthly district and agro-climatic-zone panels, governed key audits, manifests and documented missing-data support for 2001–2024.

Data analytics icon representing sensor-comparison analysis
Under reviewScientific software and data visualisation

District-scale MODIS–VIIRS mismatch analysis

A reproducible analysis of where and when MODIS burned-area and VIIRS active-fire records describe different aspects of Ghana’s fire regime.

Period
2025–2026
Role
Lead researcher and analysis developer

Contribution: Developed leakage-safe panel analysis, seasonality, trend, mismatch-state and spatial-comparison workflows for district-scale sensor assessment.

Ghana fire dashboard showing a map and monthly fire charts
CompletedWildfire and environmental applications

Advanced Virtual Fire Information System contributions

A collaborative fire and weather information platform developed to support operational awareness and stakeholder access to fire information.

Period
August 2018–December 2020
Role
Software contributor and project-support team member

Contribution: Contributed web-application and API code, technical testing, data exchange workflows and project reporting.

Technical team working around a satellite ground-station antenna
OperationalSatellite ground systems

Professional SATCOM certification programme

A competency-based satellite-communications training initiative for engineers, technicians and entrepreneurs in Ghana.

Period
Implementation project: 2023–2025
Role
Project Co-Lead and facilitator

Contribution: Supported curriculum and programme implementation, stakeholder engagement, training-hub development and practical delivery for the first professional cohort.

Engineers assembling a satellite ground-station antenna system
OperationalEarth-observation infrastructure

COSMIC-2 and GNSS ground-system operations

Operational support for satellite-based atmospheric observation and GNSS reference-station services at UENR.

Period
2018–present
Role
Ground Systems Manager and technical operations lead

Contribution: Supports routine operations, maintenance, server and network troubleshooting, research access and technical capacity building for the receiving infrastructure.

Technicians installing and aligning a satellite antenna
OperationalSatellite ground systems

Hosted satellite ground-segment operations

Professional technical support for research and commercial satellite ground-segment infrastructure hosted at EORIC.

Period
2021–present
Role
Ground Systems Manager and technical adviser

Contribution: Supports installation, preventive maintenance, server and network operations, troubleshooting and partner coordination for hosted ground-segment services.

Globe icon representing environmental monitoring infrastructure
OperationalEarth-observation infrastructure

Carbon Flux Monitoring Station support

Technical support for an eddy-covariance facility measuring carbon, water and energy exchange in a Ghanaian tropical forest.

Period
2021–present
Role
Technical-support and project-committee contributor

Contribution: Supports infrastructure, connectivity, maintenance coordination and data continuity for the long-term environmental monitoring station.

Three-dimensional photogrammetric model generated from drone imagery
OngoingUAV and photogrammetry

UAV data acquisition and photogrammetry

Applied drone mapping for environmental monitoring, engineering inspection, research data collection and geospatial analysis.

Period
2017–present
Role
UAV operator, photogrammetry practitioner and technical trainer

Contribution: Conducts flight planning and data acquisition, supports orthomosaic and three-dimensional-product workflows, and contributes to practical training.

Artificial intelligence icon representing deep-learning research
PublishedUAV and photogrammetry

Vegetation-hazard monitoring near powerlines

A peer-reviewed deep-learning framework for supporting vegetation-hazard assessment around powerline corridors.

Period
2019–2023
Role
Lead researcher and first author

Contribution: Developed and evaluated a workflow combining UAV imagery, image translation and object detection for vegetation and powerline monitoring.

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PublishedScientific software and data visualisation

Rural rooftop instance segmentation

A computer-vision project for identifying individual rooftops in rural Ghana from high-resolution aerial imagery.

Period
2019–2022
Role
Research contributor and co-author

Contribution: Contributed to aerial-image preparation, analytical implementation and research reporting for a Mask R-CNN rooftop-segmentation workflow.

Desktop interface of the EUMETCast data sorter application
ReleasedScientific software and data visualisation

EUMETCast data sorter

A Python/Tkinter utility for sorting and managing satellite data products received through EUMETCast.

Period
2017–2020
Role
Application developer

Contribution: Designed a lightweight desktop application to organise EUMETCast product files by channel and product type for easier operational access.

Members of an ocean-discovery engineering team standing together
CompletedEngineering and prototyping

Autonomous underwater vehicle design contribution

Engineering-design support for an autonomous underwater-vehicle concept connected to ocean-discovery challenges.

Period
2019
Role
Mechanical and systems-design contributor

Contribution: Contributed computer-aided design and systems thinking to an autonomous underwater-vehicle concept developed by a multidisciplinary team.

Engineers demonstrating a battery-based home-backup prototype
CompletedEngineering and prototyping

PowerTube home-backup-system prototyping

Computer-aided design and three-dimensional-modelling work supporting a home energy-backup prototype.

Period
2019–2021
Role
CAD and prototype-modelling contributor

Contribution: Modelled selected components for additive manufacturing and supported prototype-design iteration for a compact home-backup system.

Screenshot of a public institutional website designed for Earth-observation services
CompletedWeb systems

Selected public website systems

A selection of institutional and small-organisation websites developed or maintained as part of technical and professional work.

Period
2016–2021
Role
Web designer and developer

Contribution: Designed and maintained selected HTML, CSS and WordPress sites, including public-facing information architecture and content presentation.

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