Kwame Adu Agyekum [PhD, Ghana]

RESEARCH INTEREST

• Hydrological, productivity and conservation studies of coastal and marine systems
• Application of remote sensing and vessel traffic data analyse for fisheries resource management and maritime domain awareness
• Coastal Shoreline Inventory Mapping

MAJOR RESEARCH /PROJECTS UNDERTAKEN

On-going research projects

Mapping potential fishing zone (PFZ) in the Gulf of Guinea
Satellite AIS tracking of illegal, Unregulated and Unreported fishing in West Africa

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

1. Agyekum, K. A, Wiafe G. and Appiah, A. (2008). Diversity and spatial distribution of phytoplankton in a tropical lagoon. Journal of the Ghana Science Association, 10, 9-14.
2. Agyekum, K.A., Wiafe, G., Houghton, B., Dolk, S., Drake, T., Vogel, A. (2009). Observations of thermal variations in the mixed layer depth of the equatorial Atlantic. IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Proceedings
3. Nunoo, F. K. E., Boateng, J. O., Ahulu, A. M., Agyekum, K. A., & Sumaila, U. R. (2009). When trash fish is treasure: the case of Ghana in West Africa. Fisheries Research, 96(2), 167-172.
4. Sefah-Twerefour, A. A., Wiafe, G., & Agyekum, K. A. (2012). Development of an algorithm for automatic detection of oil slicks from synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery in the Gulf OF Guinea. In Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2012 IEEE International (pp. 2105-2108). IEEE.
5. Stastny, J., Cheung, S., Wiafe, G., Agyekum, K., & Greidanus, H. (2015). Application of RADAR Corner Reflectors for the Detection of Small Vessels in Synthetic Aperture Radar. Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, IEEE Journal of, 8(3), 1099-1107.
6. Wiafe, G., Dovlo, E., Agyekum, K. (2016). Comparative Productivity and Biomass Yields of the Guinea Current Large Marine Ecosystem. Environmental Development 17(1): 93 – 104. DOI: 10.1016/j. envdev.2015.07.001
7. Kurekin, A., Loveday, B., Clements, O., Quartly, G., Miller, P., Wiafe, G., & Agyekum, K. A. (2018). Use of Sentinel-l and Sentinel-2 for Monitoring Illegal Fishing Off Ghana. In IGARSS 2018-2018 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (pp. 6875-6878). IEEE.
8. Debrah E. A., Wiafe G., Agyekum K. A., Aheto D.W. (2018). An Assessment of the Potential for Mapping Fishing Zones off the Coast of Ghana using Ocean Forecast Data and Vessel Movement. West African Journal of Applied Ecology, vol. 26(2), 2018: 26 – 43
9. Kurekin, A. A., Loveday, B. R., Clements, O., Quartly, G. D., Miller, P. I., Wiafe, G., & Adu Agyekum, K. (2019). Operational monitoring of illegal fishing in Ghana through exploitation of satellite earth observation and AIS data. Remote Sensing, 11(3), 293.
10. Agyekum, K. A., Wiafe, G., & Nunoo, F. K. E. (2019).  Mapping of potential fishing zones in support of fisheries management in West Africa. Science & Development, Vol.2, No.1.