Projects

Below are highlights of a few projects I have worked on over the years.

Remote Sensing of Heat in Prison Landscapes

Remote Sensing, GIS / Ongoing

Remote Sensing of PM 2.5 burden in Prison Landscapes

GIS / Ongoing

Geospatial data for hurricane disaster response in carceral landscapes

GIS / Sept 2022

Multi-Method Detection of Invasive Water Hyacinth

Remote Sensing, Hardware / Ongoing

Personal Portfolio Website

Web Design / Aug 2023

Improving methane budget characterization using ammonia observations

Remote Sensing, GIS / Spring 2021

Publications

Peer-Reviewed Articles

Ovienmhada, U., Hines, M., Krisch, M., Diongue, A., Minchew, B., Wood, D. (2024). "Spatiotemporal facility‐level patterns of summer heat exposure, vulnerability, and risk in United States prison landscapes". GeoHealth.

Ovienmhada, U*, Sayyed, T.K.*, Kashani, M*, Vohra, K., Kerr, G.H., O’Donnell, C., Harris, M., Gladson, L., Titus, A., Adamo, S., Fong, K., Gargulinski, E.M., Soja, A.J., Anenberg, S., and Kuwayama, Y. (2024). "Satellite Data for Environmental Justice: a scoping review of the literature in the United States" . Environmental Research Letters. (* indicates co-first authorship)

Bennett, M., Gleason, C.J., Alvarez León, L.F., Friedrich, H. , Mathews, A., Ovenmhada, U., Tellman, B. (2024). "Bringing satellites down to Earth: Six steps to more ethical remote sensing". Global Environmental Change Advances.

Carter, T. S., Kerr, G. H., Amini, H., Martin, R. V., Ovienmhada, U., Schwartz, J., van Donkelaar, A., & Anenberg, S. C. (2023) "PM2.5 data inputs alter identification of disadvantaged communities". Environmental Research Letters.

Ovienmhada, U., Diongue, A., Pellow, D., Wood, D. (2023). "Satellite Data for Environmental Justice: Perspectives from Anti-prison Activists on the uses of Geospatial Data". Environmental Justice.

Carrera, D., Ovienmhada, U., Hussein, S., Soden, R. (2023). "The Unseen Landscape of Abolitionism: Examining the role of digital maps in grassroots organizing". In CSCW ’23: ACM CSCW Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, October 14-18, 2023, Minneapolis, Minnesota. New York, NY, USA.

Ovienmhada, U., Mouftaou, F., Wood, D (2021). “Inclusive Design of Earth Observation Decision Support Systems: A case study of Lake Nokoue”. Frontiers in Climate.

Articles - Under Review

Articles - In Prep

Ovienmhada, U., West, A., Wood, D. (2025). "Spatial Pattern of PM2.5 Air Pollution in U.S. Prisons from 1998 - 2022". In Prep.

Baltezar, P., Ovienmhada, U., Lagomasino, D., Fatoyinbo, L., Lombardo, S., Djihouessi, B., Félicien, D., Tomavo, G., Wood, D. (2025). "Implementation of an Earth Observation Application for Long-term Monitoring of Water Hyacinth in Lake Nokoué, Benin". In Prep.