Dr. Clement E. Akumu

Dr. Clement E. Akumu
Research Associate Professor
Department of Agricultural Sciences and Engineering
College of Agriculture

Contact Information
Office Location: 113 Farrell-Westbrook Building
Office Telephone: 615-963-5616
FAX: 615-963-1557

Research Areas

Applied Remote Sensing and GIS

Precision Agriculture

Weeds Detection and Mapping using Drones.

Crops Performance monitoring

Climate Change Impacts, Mitigation and Adaptation

Land cover/Land use change.

Publications

1) Akumu, C.E., Oppong, J.N., Dennis, S. (2024) Examining the Percent Canopy Cover and Health of Winter Wheat in No-Till and Conventional Tillage Plots Using a Drone. Agriculture, 14 (760), doi.org/10.3390/agriculture14050760

2) Akumu, C.E. & Dennis, S. (2023) Effect of the Red-Edge Band from Drone Altum Multispectral Camera in Mapping the Canopy Cover of Winter Wheat, Chickweed, and Hairy Buttercup. Drones,7 (277), doi.org/10.3390/drones7040277

3) Akumu, C.E. & Dennis, S. (2023) Exploring the Exploring the Addition of Airborne Lidar-DEM and Derived TPI for Urban Land Cover and Land Use Classification and Mapping. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, 89 (1):19–26

4) Akumu, C.E. & Dennis, S. (2022) Urban Land Cover and Land Use Mapping, Monitoring and Change Detection analysis Using Multi-Temporal Landsat OLI with LiDAR- DEM and Derived TPI. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, 88 (4): 243–253

5) Akumu, C.E. & Eze, A. (2022) Examining the Integration of Landsat Operational Land Imager (OLI) with Sentinel-1 and Vegetation Indices in Mapping of Southern Yellow Pines (Loblolly, Shortleaf and Virginia Pines). Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, 88 (1): 29–38

6) Akumu, C.E. & Smith, R., Haile, S. (2021) Mapping and Monitoring the Canopy Cover and Greenness of Southern Yellow Pines (Loblolly, Shortleaf, and Virginia Pines) in Central‐Eastern Tennessee Using Multi‐Temporal Landsat Satellite Data. Forests, 12 (499), doi.org/10.3390/f12040499

7) Akumu, C.E., Amadi, E., Dennis, S. (2021) Application of Drone and WorldView-4 Satellite Data in Mapping and Monitoring Grazing Land Cover and Pasture Quality: Pre- and Post-Flooding. Land, 10 (321), doi.org/10.3390/land10030321

8) Akumu, C.E., Baldwin, K., Dennis, S. (2019) GIS-based modeling of forest soil moisture regime classes: Using Rinker Lake in northwestern Ontario, Canada as a case study. Geoderma, 351: 25–35

9) Akumu, C.E., Dennis, S., Reddy C., (2018). Land cover land use mapping and change detection analysis using geographic information system and remote sensing. International Journal of Human Capital in Urban Management, 3(3): 167-178

10) Akumu, C.E., Henry, J., Gala, T., Dennis, S., Reddy, C., Tegegne, F., Haile, S., Archer, R.S. (2018) Inland wetlands mapping and vulnerability assessment using an integrated geographic information system and remote sensing techniques. Global Journal of Environmental Science and Management,4(4), 387-400

11) Akumu, C.E., Woods, M., Johnson, J.A., Pitt, D.G., Uhlig, P., McMurray, S. (2016) GIS-fuzzy logic technique in modeling soil depth classes: Using parts of the Clay Belt and Hornepayne region in Ontario, Canada as a case study. Geoderma, 283, 78–87

12) Akumu, C.E, Johnson, J.A., Etheridge, D., Uhlig, P., Woods, M., Pitt, D. & McMurray, S. (2015) GIS-Fuzzy Logic based approach in modeling soil texture: using parts of the Clay Belt and Hornepayne region in Ontario Canada as a case study. Geoderma, 239–240, 13–24

13 ) Akumu, C.E. and McLaughlin, J. (2014) Modeling peatland carbon stock in a delineated portion of the Nayshkootayaow river watershed in Far North Ontario, using an integrated GIS and Remote Sensing approach. Catena, 121, 297-306

14 ) Akumu, C.E. and McLaughlin, J. (2013) Regional variation in peatland carbon stock assessments, northern Ontario, Canada. Geoderma, 209-210, 161-167

15 ) Akumu, C.E., Pathirana, S., Baban, S. and Bucher, D. (2011) Examining the potential impacts of sea level rise on coastal wetlands in north-eastern NSW, Australia. Journal of Coastal Conservation, 15(1), 15-22

16) Akumu, C.E., Pathirana, S., Baban, S. and Bucher, D. (2010) Modeling methane emission from wetlands in north-eastern New South Wales, Australia using Landsat ETM+. Remote Sensing, 2 (5), 1378-1399

17) Akumu, C.E., Pathirana, S., Baban, S. and Bucher, D. (2010) Monitoring coastal wetland communities in north-eastern NSW using ASTER and Landsat Satellite data. Wetlands Ecology and Management, 18(3), 357–365

Teaching
AGSC 6525 Remote Sensing and Image Analysis (Graduate)
AGSC 6510 Advanced Geospatial Information Systems (Graduate)

Education
BS (2003), Environmental Sciences - University of Buea (UB), Cameroon
MS (2006), Environmental Sciences – University College Cork (UCC), Ireland
PhD (2011), Applied Geoinformatics – Southern Cross University (SCU), Australia