Joseph Awange

Joseph joined the department of Spatial Sciences, Curtin University (Australia) in 2006 under a Curtin Research Fellowship and concurrently undertook the prestigious Alexander von Humboldt (AvH) Fellowship at the Geodetic Institute (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) having been awarded the 2008-2011 Ludwig Leichhardt Memorial Fellowship for experienced researchers. In 2015, he won all the three major Fellowship Awards: Alexander von Humboldt (Germany), Japan Society of Promotion of Science (Japan) and Brazil Frontier of Science (Brazil) to carry out research in those countries. He is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Spatial Sciences, Curtin University, Australia. Research Interests are in Satellite Environmental Sensing, e,g., changes in global and regional stored water (surface, underground, ice, and soil moisture) using GRACE and TRMM satellites; Climate Change using GNSS and altimetry satellites; Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA), Environmental Audit (EA) and Monitoring, Geometrical Geodesy, GNSS, Mathematics (Algebra, Robust Statistics, Quantitative Methods).

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Acadêmico

Formação acadêmica

Doutorado em Geodesy

1998 - 2001

Universitat Stuttgart
Título: Groebner Bases, Multipolynomial Resultants and the Gauss-Jacobi combinatorial algorithms-adjustment of nonlinear GPS/LPS observations
Orientador: Professore Dr.-Ing. Mult. Erik Grafarend
com Bolsista do(a): German Academic Exchange Program, DAAD, Alemanha.

Mestrado em Geodesy

1998 - 1999

Universitat Stuttgart
Título: Integrating the GPS and LPS systems-the three-dimensional orientation problem,Ano de Obtenção: 1999
Orientador: Professor Dr.-Ing. Mult Erik Grafarend
Bolsista do(a): German Academic Exchange Program, DAAD, Alemanha.

Pós-doutorado

2002 - 2004

Pós-Doutorado. , Kyoto University, KYOTO, Japão. , Bolsista do(a): Japan Society of Promotion of Science, JSPS, Japão. , Grande área: Ciências Exatas e da Terra

Áreas de atuação

Grande área: Ciências Exatas e da Terra / Área: Geociências / Subárea: Geodésia/Especialidade: Environmental Geoinformatics.

Grande área: Ciências Exatas e da Terra / Área: Geociências / Subárea: Geodésia/Especialidade: Geodésia Física.

Grande área: Ciências Exatas e da Terra / Área: Geociências / Subárea: Geodésia/Especialidade: Geodésia Geométrica.

Grande área: Ciências Exatas e da Terra / Área: Geociências / Subárea: Geodésia/Especialidade: Cartografia Básica.

Grande área: Ciências Exatas e da Terra / Área: Geociências / Subárea: Geodésia/Especialidade: Geodésia Celeste.

Grande área: Ciências Exatas e da Terra / Área: Geociências / Subárea: Geodésia/Especialidade: Fotogrametria.

Produções bibliográficas

AWANGE, JOSEPH L. ; GONCALVES, RODRIGO M. . When every drop counts: Analysis of Droughts in Brazil for the 1901-2013 period. Science of the Total Environment , v. 566, p. 1472-1478, 2016.
AWANGE, J.L. ; KHANDU ; SCHUMACHER, M. ; FOROOTAN, E. ; HECK, B. . Exploring hydro-meteorological drought patterns over the Greater Horn of Africa (1979-2014) using remote sensing and reanalysis products. Advances in Water Resources , v. 94, p. 45-59, 2016.
FOROOTAN, E. ; KHANDU ; AWANGE, J.L. ; SCHUMACHER, M. ; ANYAH, R.O. ; VAN DIJK, A.I.J.M. ; KUSCHE, J. . Quantifying the impacts of ENSO and IOD on rain gauge and remotely sensed precipitation products over Australia. Remote Sensing of Environment , v. 172, p. 50-66, 2016.
AWANGE, J.L. ; FERREIRA, V.G. ; FOROOTAN, E. ; KHANDU ; ANDAM-AKORFUL, S.A. ; AGUTU, N.O. ; HE, X.F. . Uncertainties in remotely sensed precipitation data over Africa. International Journal of Climatology , v. 36, p. 303-323, 2016.
KHANDU ; AWANGE, J. L. ; FOROOTAN, E. . An evaluation of high-resolution gridded precipitation products over Bhutan (1998-2012). International Journal of Climatology , v. 36, p. 1067-1087, 2016.
NDEHEDEHE, CHRISTOPHER ; Awange, Joseph ; AGUTU, NATHAN ; KUHN, MICHAEL ; HECK, BERNHARD . Understanding changes in terrestrial water storage over West Africa between 2002 and 2014. Advances in Water Resources , v. 88, p. 211-230, 2016.
KHANDU ; FOROOTAN, EHSAN ; SCHUMACHER, MAIKE ; AWANGE, JOSEPH L. ; MÜLLER SCHMIED, HANNES . Exploring the influence of precipitation extremes and human water use on total water storage (TWS) changes in the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna River Basin. Water Resources Research , v. 52, p. 2240-2258, 2016.
NDEHEDEHE, CHRISTOPHER E. ; AWANGE, JOSEPH L. ; CORNER, ROBERT J. ; KUHN, MICHAEL ; OKWUASHI, ONUWA . On the potentials of multiple climate variables in assessing the spatio-temporal characteristics of hydrological droughts over the Volta Basin. Science of the Total Environment , v. 557-558, p. 819-837, 2016.
PALÁNCZ, B. ; AWANGE, J. L. ; SOMOGYI, A. ; REHÁNY, N. ; LOVAS, T. ; MOLNÁR, B. ; FUKUDA, Y. . A robust cylindrical fitting to point cloud data. AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCES , v. 63, p. 665-673, 2016.
AWANGE, J. L. ; PALANCZ, B. ; LEWIS, R. ; LOVAS, T. ; HECK, B. ; FUKUDA, Y. . An algebraic solution of maximum likelihood function in case of Gaussian mixture distribution. AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCES , v. 63, p. 193-203, 2016.
KHAKI, M. ; FOROOTAN, E. ; SHARIFI, M.A. ; AWANGE, J. ; KUHN, M. . Improved gravity anomaly fields from retracked multimission satellite radar altimetry observations over the Persian Gulf and the Caspian Sea. Geophysical Journal International (Print) , v. 202, p. 1522-1534, 2015.
PALÁNCZ, B. ; AWANGE, J. L. ; VÖLGYESI, L. . Correction of Gravimetric Geoid Using Symbolic Regression. Mathematical Geosciences , v. 47, p. 867-883, 2015.
ANDAM-AKORFUL, S. A. ; FERREIRA, V. G. ; AWANGE, J. L. ; FOROOTAN, E. ; HE, X. F. . Multi-model and multi-sensor estimations of evapotranspiration over the Volta Basin, West Africa. International Journal of Climatology , v. 35, p. n/a-n/a, 2014.
FOROOTAN, E. ; RIETBROEK, R. ; KUSCHE, J. ; SHARIFI, M.A. ; AWANGE, J.L. ; SCHMIDT, M. ; OMONDI, P. ; FAMIGLIETTI, J. . Separation of large scale water storage patterns over Iran using GRACE, altimetry and hydrological data. Remote Sensing of Environment , v. 140, p. 580-595, 2014.
AWANGE, J.L. ; GEBREMICHAEL, M. ; FOROOTAN, E. ; WAKBULCHO, G. ; ANYAH, R. ; FERREIRA, V.G. ; ALEMAYEHU, T. . Characterization of Ethiopian mega hydrogeological regimes using GRACE, TRMM and GLDAS datasets. Advances in Water Resources , v. 74, p. 64-78, 2014.
AWANGE, J.L. ; FOROOTAN, E. ; KUHN, M. ; KUSCHE, J. ; HECK, B. . Water storage changes and climate variability within the Nile Basin between 2002 and 2011. Advances in Water Resources , v. 73, p. 1-15, 2014.
XIAOGUANG LUO ; MAYER, MICHAEL ; HECK, BERNHARD ; AWANGE, JOSEPH L. . A Realistic and Easy-to-Implement Weighting Model for GPS Phase Observations. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing , v. 52, p. 6110-6118, 2014.
OMONDI, PHILIP AMING'O ; AWANGE, JOSEPH L. ; FOROOTAN, EHSAN ; OGALLO, LABAN AYIEKO ; BARAKIZA, RUBEN ; GIRMAW, GEZAHEGN BOGALE ; FESSEHA, ISAAC ; KULULETERA, VENERABILIS ; KILEMBE, CAROLINE ; MBATI, MATHIEU MUGUNGA ; KILAVI, MARY ; KING'UYU, STEPHEN MUTUA ; OMENY, PETER ADEK ; NJOGU, ANDREW ; BADR, ELDIN MAMOUN ; MUSA, TIBIN ADAM ; MUCHIRI, PERIS ; BAMANYA, DEUS ; KOMUTUNGA, EVERLINE . Changes in temperature and precipitation extremes over the Greater Horn of Africa region from 1961 to 2010. International Journal of Climatology , v. 34, p. 1262-1277, 2014.
MENDONÇA, FRANCISCO JAIME BEZERRA ; GONÇALVES, RODRIGO MIKOSZ ; Awange, Joseph ; SILVA, LUCIANA MARIA DA ; GREGÓRIO, MARIA DAS NEVES . TEMPORAL SHORELINE SERIES ANALYSIS USING GNSS. Boletim de Ciências Geodésicas (Online) , v. 20, p. 701-719, 2014.
FOROOTAN, EHSAN ; KUSCHE, JÜRGEN ; LOTH, INA ; SCHUH, WOLF-DIETER ; EICKER, ANNETTE ; Awange, Joseph ; LONGUEVERGNE, LAURENT ; DIEKKRÜGER, BERND ; SCHMIDT, MICHAEL ; SHUM, C. K. . Multivariate Prediction of Total Water Storage Changes Over West Africa from Multi-Satellite Data. Surveys in Geophysics , v. 35, p. 913-940, 2014.
AWANGE, J. L. ; ANYAH, R. ; AGOLA, N. ; FOROOTAN, E. ; OMONDI, P. . Potential impacts of climate and environmental change on the stored water of Lake Victoria Basin and economic implications. Water Resources Research , v. 49, p. 8160-8173, 2013.
LUO, X. ; HECK, B. ; AWANGE, J.L. . Improving the estimation of zenith dry tropospheric delays using regional surface meteorological data. Advances in Space Research , v. 52, p. 2204-2214, 2013.
PALÁNCZ, B. ; AWANGE, J. L. ; VÖLGYESI, L. . Pareto optimality solution of the Gauss-Helmert model. Acta Geodaetica et Geophysica , v. 48, p. 293-304, 2013.
SHARIFI, M.A. ; FOROOTAN, E. ; NIKKHOO, M. ; AWANGE, J.L. ; NAJAFI-ALAMDARI, M. . A point-wise least squares spectral analysis (LSSA) of the Caspian Sea level fluctuations, using TOPEX/Poseidon and Jason-1 observations. Advances in Space Research , v. 51, p. 858-873, 2013.
OMONDI, P. ; AWANGE, J.L. ; OGALLO, L.A. ; ININDA, J. ; FOROOTAN, E. . The influence of low frequency sea surface temperature modes on delineated decadal rainfall zones in Eastern Africa region. Advances in Water Resources , v. 54, p. 161-180, 2013.
AWANGE, J.L. ; FOROOTAN, E. ; KUSCHE, J. ; KIEMA, J.B.K. ; OMONDI, P.A. ; HECK, B. ; FLEMING, K. ; OHANYA, S.O. ; GONÇALVES, R.M. . Understanding the decline of water storage across the Ramser-Lake Naivasha using satellite-based methods. Advances in Water Resources , v. 60, p. 7-23, 2013.
PALÁNCZ, B. ; AWANGE, J. L. . Pareto optimality solution of the multi-objective photogrammetric resection-intersection problem. Earth Science Informatics (Print) , v. 6, p. 1-20, 2013.
ENDRIS, HUSSEN SEID ; OMONDI, PHILIP ; JAIN, SUMAN ; LENNARD, CHRISTOPHER ; HEWITSON, BRUCE ; CHANG'A, LADISLAUS ; AWANGE, J. L. ; DOSIO, ALESSANDRO ; KETIEM, PATRICK ; NIKULIN, GRIGORY ; PANITZ, HANS-JÜRGEN ; BÜCHNER, MATTHIAS ; STORDAL, FRODE ; TAZALIKA, LUKIYA . Assessment of the Performance of CORDEX Regional Climate Models in Simulating East African Rainfall. Journal of Climate , v. 26, p. 8453-8475, 2013.
FLEMING, K. ; AWANGE, J. L. . Comparing the version 7 TRMM 3B43 monthly precipitation product with the TRMM 3B43 version 6/6A and Bureau of Meteorology datasets for Australia. Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Journal , v. 63, p. 421, 2013.
GONCALVES, RODRIGO MIKOSZ ; AWANGE, AWANGE ; KRUEGER, CLÁUDIA PEREIRA . GNSS-based monitoring and mapping of shoreline position in support of planning and management of Matinhos/PR (Brazil). Journal of Global Positioning Systems (Print) , v. 11, p. 156-168, 2012.
FOROOTAN, E. ; AWANGE, J.L. ; KUSCHE, J. ; HECK, B. ; EICKER, A. . Independent patterns of water mass anomalies over Australia from satellite data and models. Remote Sensing of Environment , v. 124, p. 427-443, 2012.
OMONDI, P. ; AWANGE, J.L. ; OGALLO, L.A. ; OKOOLA, R.A. ; FOROOTAN, E. . Decadal rainfall variability modes in observed rainfall records over East Africa and their relations to historical sea surface temperature changes. Journal of Hydrology (Amsterdam) , v. 464-465, p. 140-156, 2012.
PALÁNCZ, B. ; AWANGE, J. L. . Application of Pareto optimality to linear models with errors-in-all-variables. JOURNAL OF GEODESY , v. 86, p. 531-545, 2012.
OMUTE, PAUL ; CORNER, ROB ; AWANGE, JOSEPH LANGAT . The use of NDVI and its Derivatives for Monitoring Lake Victoria?s Water Level and Drought Conditions. Water Resources Management , v. 26, p. 1591-1613, 2012.
GONCALVES, RODRIGO MIKOSZ ; AWANGE, JOSEPH L. ; KRUEGER, CLAUDIA PEREIRA ; HECK, BERNHARD ; COELHO, LEANDRO DOS SANTOS . A comparison between three short-term shoreline prediction models. Ocean & Coastal Management , v. 69, p. 102-110, 2012.
AWANGE, J.L. ; FLEMING, K.M. ; KUHN, M. ; FEATHERSTONE, W.E. ; HECK, B. ; ANJASMARA, I. . On the suitability of the 4°×4° GRACE mascon solutions for remote sensing Australian hydrology. Remote Sensing of Environment , v. 115, p. 864-875, 2011.
KHANDU ; AWANGE, J. L. ; WICKERT, J. ; SCHMIDT, T. ; SHARIFI, M. A. ; HECK, B. ; FLEMING, K. . GNSS remote sensing of the Australian tropopause. Climatic Change , v. 105, p. 597-618, 2011.
SCHLODERER, GLEN ; BINGHAM, MATTHEW ; AWANGE, JOSEPH L. ; FLEMING, KEVIN M. . Application of GNSS-RTK derived topographical maps for rapid environmental monitoring: a case study of Jack Finnery Lake (Perth, Australia). Environmental Monitoring and Assessment (Print) , v. 180, p. 147-161, 2011.
PALÁNCZ, B. ; ZALETNYIK, P. ; AWANGE, J. L. ; HECK, B. . Extension of the ABC-Procrustes algorithm for 3D affine coordinate transformation. Earth, Planets and Space , v. 62, p. 857-862, 2010.
Paláncz, Béla ; AWANGE, JOSEPH L. ; ZALETNYIK, PIROSKA ; LEWIS, ROBERT H. . Linear homotopy solution of nonlinear systems of equations in geodesy. JOURNAL OF GEODESY , v. 84, p. 79-95, 2010.
RIESER, D. ; KUHN, M. ; PAIL, R. ; ANJASMARA, I. M. ; AWANGE, J. . Relation between GRACE-derived surface mass variations and precipitation over Australia. AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCES , v. 57, p. 887-900, 2010.
HELALI, H. ; AWANGE, J.L. ; OMIDI, E. . Using Areal-Scale as Opposed to the Linear-Scale for Map Applications. Survey Review , v. 42, p. 375-387, 2010.
AWANGE, J.L. ; SHARIFI, M.A. ; BAUR, O. ; KELLER, W. ; FEATHERSTONE, W.E. ; KUHN, M. . GRACE hydrological monitoring of Australia: Current limitations and future prospects. Journal of Spatial Science , v. 54, p. 23-36, 2009.
AWANGE, JOSEPH L. ; SHARIFI, MOHAMMAD A. ; OGONDA, GODFREY ; WICKERT, JENS ; GRAFAREND, ERIK W. ; OMULO, MONICA A. . The Falling Lake Victoria Water Level: GRACE, TRIMM and CHAMP Satellite Analysis of the Lake Basin. Water Resources Management , v. 22, p. 775-796, 2008.
AWANGE, JOSEPH L. ; OGALO, LABAN ; BAE, KWANG-HO ; WERE, PAUL ; OMONDI, PHILIP ; OMUTE, PAUL ; OMULLO, MONICA . Falling Lake Victoria water levels: Is climate a contributing factor?. Climatic Change , v. 89, p. 281-297, 2008.
AWANGE, J. L. ; BAE, K. -H. ; CLAESSENS, S. J. . Procrustean solution of the 9-parameter transformation problem. Earth, Planets and Space (Online) , v. 60, p. 529-537, 2008.
Paláncz, Béla ; AWANGE, JOSEPH L. ; GRAFAREND, ERIK W. . Computer algebra solution of the GPS N-points problem. GPS SOLUTIONS , v. 11, p. 295-299, 2007.
AWANGE, JOSEPH L. ; OBERA, BENARD . Motor Vehicles: Are They Emerging Threats to Lake Victoria and its Environment?. Water, Air and Soil Pollution (Print) , v. 182, p. 43-56, 2007.
AWANGE, JL ; ALUOCH, J ; OGALLO, LA ; OMULO, M ; OMONDI, P . Frequency and severity of drought in the Lake Victoria region (Kenya) and its effects on food security. Climate Research , v. 33, p. 135-142, 2007.
AWANGE, J. L. ; FUKUDA, Y. . Resultant Optimization of the Three-dimensional Intersection Problem. Survey Review , v. 39, p. 100-108, 2007.
CHIANU, J.N ; AWANGE, J. ; HIROSHI, T . Environmental impact of agricultural production practices in the savannas of northern Nigeria. International Journal of Food, Agriculture and Environment (Online) , v. 4, p. 255-260, 2006.
AWANGE, JOSEPH L. . DIAGNOSIS OF OUTLIER OF TYPE MULTIPATH IN GPS PSEUDO-RANGE OBSERVATIONS. Survey Review , v. 38, p. 177-189, 2005.
AWANGE, J. L. ; GRAFAREND, E.W. ; FUKUDA, Y. ; TAKEMOTO, S. . The application of commutative algebra to geodesy: two examples. JOURNAL OF GEODESY , v. 79, p. 93-102, 2005.
AWANGE, JOSEPH L. ; Fukuda, Yoichi ; Takemoto, Shuzo ; WICKERT, JENS ; AOYAMA, YUICHI . Analytic solution of GPS atmospheric sounding refraction angles. Earth, Planets and Space (Online) , v. 56, p. 573-587, 2004.
GRAFAREND, E. W. ; AWANGE, J. L. . Nonlinear analysis of the three-dimensional datum transformation [conformal group ? 7 (3)]. JOURNAL OF GEODESY , v. 77, p. 66-76, 2003.
AWANGE, J. L. ; GRAFAREND, E. W. . Explicit solution of the overdetermined three-dimensional resection problem. JOURNAL OF GEODESY , v. 76, p. 605-616, 2003.
AWANGE, J. L. ; GRAFAREND, E. W. . Groebner-basis solution of the three-dimensional resection problem (P4P). JOURNAL OF GEODESY , v. 77, p. 327-337, 2003.
WALKER, J. ; AWANGE, JOSEPH L. . Surveying for Civil and Mine Engineers. 1. ed. , 2017.
SHOLARIN, E. ; AWANGE, JOSEPH L. . Environmental Project Management. 1. ed. , 2016.
Othieno, Herick ; Awange, Joseph . Energy Resources in Africa. 1. ed. Springer International Publishing, 2016.
AWANGE, JOSEPH L. ; Paláncz, Béla . Geospatial Algebraic Computations. 3. ed. Springer International Publishing, 2016.
Agola, Nathaniel O. ; AWANGE, JOSEPH L. . Globalized Poverty and Environment. 1. ed. Berlin: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2014. 374p .
Grafarend, Erik ; Awange, Joseph . Linear and Nonlinear Models. 1. ed. Berlin: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2012. 1016p .
AWANGE, JOSEPH L. . Environmental Monitoring using GNSS. 1. ed. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2012. 382p .
Awange, Joseph ; Paláncz, Béla ; Lewis, Robert . Groebner Basis in Geodesy and Geoinformatics. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 1ed.: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2014, v. , p. 367-373.
AWANGE, J. L. ; FOROOTAN, E. ; FLEMING, K. ; Odhiambo, G. . Dominant Patterns of Water Storage Changes in the Nile Basin During 2003-2013. Geophysical Monograph Series. 1ed.: John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2014, v. , p. 367-381.
Awange, Joseph ; Paláncz, Béla ; Lewis, Robert . Maximizing Likelihood Function for Parameter Estimation in Point Clouds via Groebner Basis. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 1ed.: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2014, v. , p. 359-366.
Zaletnyik, P ; Paláncz, B ; AWANGE, J.L ; Grafarend, E.W . Application of Computer Algebra System to Geodesy. Observing our Changing Earth. 1ed.: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009, v. , p. 803-808.
AWANGE, J.L ; Sharifi, M.A ; Keller, W ; Kuhn, M . GRACE Application to the Receding Lake Victoria Water Level and Australian Drought. Observing our Changing Earth. 1ed.: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009, v. , p. 387-396.
AWANGE, JOSEPH L. ; Fukuda, Yoichi ; Takemoto, Shuzo ; GRAFAREND, ERIK W. . Role of algebra in modern day Geodesy. A Window on the Future of Geodesy. 1ed.: Springer-Verlag, 2005, v. , p. 524-529.

Histórico profissional

Endereço profissional

Curtin University of Technology, Department of Spatial Sciences. , Department of Spatial Sciences, Kent Street, Bemtley, Bentley, 6102 - Perth, - Austrália, Telefone: (61) 892667600, URL da Homepage:

Experiência profissional

2012 - Atual

Curtin University of Technology

Vínculo: , Enquadramento Funcional: Professor (Associate)