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Esmaeel Adrah

Department of Geography
Ph.D. Student and Research Assistant
Campus:
Kent
Contact Information
Email:
eadrah@kent.edu
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Biography

Esmaeel Adrah is a geospatial and remote sensing researcher and a Ph. D. candidate at 麻豆传媒. His research focuses on developing geospatial frameworks that combine Earth Observations (EO) and geospatial AI (GeoAI) for agriculture resilience, water management, and disaster preparedness. 

Specifically, his work investigates the dynamics of long-term irrigation, crop loss from disasters, and water-climate-conflict in transboundary basins. Recent projects include IrrEM: a 26-year, high-resolution irrigation record for the Eastern Mediterranean; sensor fusion for mapping tree crops; and, more recently, developing geospatial foundation model framework and benchmark for agricultural damage and loss. More broadly, he aims to integrate EO physical indicators with causal and socio-economic analysis, linking environmental changes to human decisions to support evidence-based management and disaster response.

His research appears in venues like Remote Sensing of Environment, and has been recognized by the NSF I-GUIDE program, earning an honorary mention in the Spatial AI Challenge for his , and in the Extreme Events and Disaster Resilience summer school for collaborative work on . He is also a recipient of the  with  for his research on transboundary water in the Eastern Mediterranean, as well as the AAG Amy Mather Scholar Award for his work exploring 鈥渉ow does conflict increase climate-induced crop failure?鈥. 

He holds an M.Sc. in Geospatial Analysis and a B.Sc. in Civil/Geotechnical Engineering. His academic path is informed by practical experience prior to his doctoral studies, drawing on training with and supporting the work of international organizations including UN-Habitat and the UN Volunteering Program on multidisciplinary projects across the Middle East, the southwestern Pacific, and South Asia.

Alongside his research, Esmaeel is actively involved in supporting teaching activities at 麻豆传媒 through instructing and assisting in courses such as physical geography laboratory, remote sensing, and natural disasters and society. He also conducts hands-on geospatial training across various institutions, such as a recent. Committed to science communication, he also leads the .

Publications

  • Adrah, E., Brocca, L., Yu, M., & Yin, H. (2026). Physics-informed Geo-AI for quantifying irrigation withdrawals: Application to the Central Valley. IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS 2026). (Accepted). Preprint available
  • Adrah, E., Brocca, L., Senkardesler, E., & Yin, H. (2026). IrrEM (Irrigation in the Eastern Mediterranean): Two and a half decades of annual high-resolution irrigated land maps of the Eastern Mediterranean. Earth System Science Data. (Under Review).
  • Adrah, E., Wong, J. P., & Yin, H. (2025). Integrating GEDI, Sentinel-2, and Sentinel-1 imagery for tree crops mapping. Remote Sensing of Environment, 319, 114644. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2025.114644
  • Adrah, E., Wan Mohd Jaafar, W. S., Omar, H., Bajaj, S., Leite, R. V., Mazlan, S. M., Silva, C. A., 鈥 & Mohan, M. (2022). Analyzing canopy height patterns and environmental landscape drivers in tropical forests using NASA鈥檚 GEDI spaceborne LiDAR. Remote Se
  • Mohan, M., Pastorello, G. Z., Feng, Y., Adrah, E., et al. (2026). Water availability modulates maximum canopy heights of low-elevation Amazonian second-growth forests. Tropical Ecology, 67, 68鈥83. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42965-025-00412-w
  • Mohan, M., Dutta Roy, A., Montenegro, J. F., 鈥 Adrah, E., et al. (2024). Mangrove forest regeneration age map and drivers of restoration success in Gulf Cooperation Council countries from satellite imagery. Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environ
  • Saad, S. N. M., Wan Mohd Jaafar, W. S., Omar, H., Abdul Maulud, K. N., Muhmad Kamarulzaman, A. M., Adrah, E., et al. (2023). Modeling carbon emissions of post-selective logging in the production forests of Ulu Jelai, Pahang, Malaysia. Remote Sensing, 15(4
  • Mohan, M., Rue, H. A., Bajaj, S., Galgamuwa, G. A. P., Adrah, E., et al. (2021). Afforestation, reforestation and new challenges from COVID-19: Thirty-three recommendations to support civil society organizations (CSOs). Journal of Environmental Management
  • Doaemo, W., Mohan, M., Adrah, E., Srinivasan, S., & Dalla Corte, A. P. (2020). Exploring forest change spatial patterns in Papua New Guinea: A pilot study in the Bumbu River Basin. Land, 9(9), 282. https://doi.org/10.3390/land9090282
  • Mazlan, S. M., Wan Mohd Jaafar, W. S., Muhmad Kamarulzaman, A. M., 鈥 Adrah, E., et al. (2022). A review on the use of LiDAR remote sensing for forest landscape restoration. In M. N. Suratman (Ed.), Concepts and applications of remote sensing in forestry (
  • Adrah, E., Mohd Jaafar, W. S. W., Bajaj, S., Omar, H., Leite, R. V., Silva, C. A., Cardil, A., & Mohan, M. (2021). Analyzing canopy height variations in secondary tropical forests of Malaysia using NASA GEDI. IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental
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