Biniam Sisheber Tilahun (PhD)

Department: Geography and Environmental Studies, Bahir Dar University

Position: Department head of GIS and Remote Sensing, Geospatial Data and Technology Center (GDTC)

E-mail Address: biniamsisheber@gmail.com / Biniam.Sisheber@bdu.edu.et 

Phone: +251922600142

1. Biography

Biniam Sisheber was born in Markos, Ethiopia, in 1983. He received the B.Sc. degree in geography and environmental studies from the Haromaya University, Dire Dawa, Ethiopia, in 2004, the M.S. degree in geographic information systems (GIS) and remote sensing from Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. He obtained his PhD from the Faculty of Geo-information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), University of Twente, The Netherlands in 2024. His current research Interest includes: 

• Crop and vegetation phenology 
• Biomass and yield modeling 
• Natural resource mapping, disaster risk assessment 
• Time series analysis 
•  Multi-sensor Earth observation data analysis (eg, data fusion)

1. Teaching Experience 

• 2005 – October  2012: Debr Birhan Teachers Education and Vocational Training College , Debr Birhan- Ethiopia
• October 2012 to-date Bahir Dar University, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia

4. Research projects since joining BDU

Internal project 

1. Integration of RUSLE and GIS to Estimate Soil Erosion Risk at Koga Watershed 
2. GIS based Irrigation Management System for Koga Irrigation Project 
3. Digital Soil Mapping in Tana Basin 
4. Developing Interactive Web and Mobile Based Tour/Tourist Guide of Bahir Dar Town 
5. A Geospatatial Application of Malaria risk Modeling based on the dynamic environmental variables in Western Amhara Region, Ethiopia

External project involved 

1. EO AFRICA - CONTINENTAL DEMONSTRATOR LUISA: LAND USE INTENSITYS POTENTIAL, VULNERABILITY AND RESILIENCE FOR SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE IN AFRICA
2. Conferences Attended

Sisheber, B., Fente, D., Adgo, E., & Nyssen, J. (2015). Regional geography of dek island, lake tana, ethiopia. Paper presented at the TropiLakes 2015: Tropical lakes in a changing environment: water, land, biology, climate and humans: excursion guide mid-conference excursion.  http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-6956980

6. Publications
7. Molla, T. & Sisheber. B (2017) Estimating soil erosion risk and evaluating erosion control measures for soil conservation planning at Koga watershed in the highlands of Ethiopia. Solid Earth, 8, 13-25.
8. Sisheber, B., M. Marshall, D. Ayalew & A. Nelson (2022) Tracking crop phenology in a highly dynamic landscape with knowledge-based Landsat–MODIS data fusion. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 106, 102670.
9. Sisheber, B., M. Marshall, D. Mengistu & A. Nelson (2023) Detecting the long-term spatiotemporal crop phenology changes in a highly fragmented agricultural landscape. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 340, 109601.
10. Sisheber, B., Marshall, M., Mengistu, D., and Nelson, A. (2023). Assimilation of Earth Observation data for crop yield estimation in smallholder agricultural systems. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 1-17, 10.1109/jstars.2023.3329237
11. Sisheber, B., Marshall, M., Mengistu, D., and Nelson, A. (2024). The influence of temporal resolution on crop yield estimation with Earth Observation data assimilation. Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment 36, 101272. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rsase.2024.101272