Gerald Forkuor with his supervisor Prof. Christopher Conrad
On January 14 2015 Gerald Forkuor defended his PhD on remote sensing for crop mapping in West Africa successfully – congratulations!
He is currently working at the International Water Management Institute in Ghana in a related topic of remote sensing.
The PhD dissertation is available under https://opus.uni-wuerzburg.de/files/10868/Thesis_Gerald_Forkuor_2014.pdf
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