Mathews Jere
Mathews Jere is a Malawian computer scientist and MSc candidate in Informatics at University of Malawi (UNIMA). His research blends open-source geo-AI, satellite imagery and computer vision.
Session
11-19
16:30
25min
GeoAI Transformer–LSTM Boosts Maize-Yield Accuracy in Malawi’s Smallholder Fields
Kondwani Munthali, Mathews Jere
Leave-one-field-out tests on Malawian smallholder plots compare multiband/index linear regression, XGBoost, CNN-LSTM, a frozen ViT and a ViT-LSTM on Sentinel-2 VT–R1 stacks. ViT-LSTM delivers the best accuracy (RMSE 0.022 t ha⁻¹) but runs 2.5 × slower than CNN-LSTM.
Academic
WG802