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Catherine Nakalembe

University of Maryland

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Scholarly Papers (5)

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1.

Forecasting agricultural drought impacts on crop productivity using satellite soil moisture in water-limited environments

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 23 May 2026
Adebowale Daniel Adebayo and Catherine Nakalembe
affiliation not provided to SSRN and University of Maryland
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Agricultural drought forecasting, root-zone soil moisture, SMAP, NIRV, sub-seasonal prediction, eastern and southern Africa, vegetation anomaly

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GLSTM-MLP: a deep learning framework for crop type classification in smallholder farms with PlanetScope images

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 10 Dec 2025 Last Revised: 17 Apr 2026
Valinho António, Eric Umuhoza, Catherine Nakalembe, Pierre Bakunzibake and Moise Busogi
University of Rwanda - African Centre of Excellence in Internet of Things, Independent, University of Maryland, affiliation not provided to SSRN and Independent
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Crop type mapping, machine learning, PlanetScope images, smallholder farms

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GeoAI-Based Crop Yield Estimation in Africa: A Systematic and Bibliometric Literature Review With Comparisons to Major Agricultural Producers

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 17 Apr 2026 Last Revised: 06 Jun 2026
Valinho António, Catherine Nakalembe, Moise Busogi and Eric Umuhoza
University of Rwanda - African Centre of Excellence in Internet of Things, University of Maryland, Independent and Independent
Downloads 49 (1,097,529)

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Crop yield estimation, Machine learning, Remote sensing, Sentinel-2, Africa, Multi-sensor fusion, Crop growth models

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Optimizing Satellite-Based Cropland Area Estimation Through Integrated Map Accuracy Assessment and Stratified Sampling Design Across Six African Countries

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 09 Dec 2025
Catherine Nakalembe, Adebowale Daniel Adebayo, Sergii Skakun, Diana Botchway, Alana Ginsburg, Yash Hitesh Gadhiya, Monica Adjei, Hannah Kerner and Inbal Becker-Reshef
University of Maryland, affiliation not provided to SSRN, University of Maryland, College Park, affiliation not provided to SSRN, University of Delaware, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN and - Department of Geographical Sciences
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Cropland area estimation, Remote Sensing-based, Accuracy Assessment, Agricultural

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Climatic heterogeneity and constrained land access threaten the resilience of Uganda’s refugee agricultural self-reliance and integration model

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 14 Jan 2026
Emnet Negash, Erin Coughlan de Perez, Laura E.R. Peters, Abena Boatemaa Asare-Ansah, Ronald Twongyirwe, Kwinten Van Weverberg, Catherine Nakalembe and Jamon Van Den Hoek
Oregon State University, Tufts University, Oregon State University, University of Maryland, Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Ghent University, University of Maryland and Oregon State University
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refugee integration, hydroclimatic extremes, food security, livelihoods, self-reliance, land access