Ender Bugday

• PhD
• Dr. at Çankırı Karatekin University

Since early civilizations, the growing need for information has driven continuous advancements in surveying and photogrammetry, particularly with modern technologies enhancing measurement techniques and the integration of global positioning systems across terrestrial, aerial, and satellite platforms. Since the early twenty-first century, technologi...

One of the important distribution areas of stone pine (Pinus pinea L.), a native tree species of the Mediterranean Basin in Türkiye, is the Kozak Basin. Pine nut production plays an important role in the livelihood of the rural people of the Kozak Basin. However, in recent years, as a result of mining activities, climate change, and damage caused b...

The intention to conduct forestry activities throughout the year is one of the fundamental requirements of the sustainable forest management. Forest road networks are key structures that provide access to forest areas to carry out forestry activities such as afforestation, forest protection, forest transportation, and forest management. In order to...

The most significant steps in the management of forests is to identify the management strategies of existing forest roads, which are basic infrastructure facilities. In the present study, managerial strategies were put forward by evaluating the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats of forest road management. To create a strategy in fore...

Forest road is important for forestry activities. Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) is very useful device and a revolutionary technology. As a result of the development of technology and the rapid spread of modern methods in forestry road design, innovative techniques offer a more efficient and more consistent decision-making environment. Considering t...

Oral Presentations Abstract Forest roads are the basic infrastructure facilities needed in the effective management of forests. Since forests generally spread in mountainous and high sloping areas in our country, forest roads also provide basic transportation support to settlements. Planning of the forest roads is carried out depending on many fact...

This study, using Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) for the existing forest road network on forest roads, which undertakes the basic infrastructure in the execution of various forestry activities, is used to determine and plan the forest road locations required for the optimal forest road network, such as drones, etc. This study was conducted to demons...

Forest roads are important infrastructure facilities that enable forestry activities to continue without interruption. These infrastructure facilities are very important in terms of protection and maintenance of forests, safe transportation of the produced property, afforestation, recreation, and transportation to forest fires as soon as possible....

Ecosystem management is a complex management system that includes interacting organisms, processes and scientific disciplines. As single-species focused management systems have not been able to provide a through solution to applied ecology, ecosystem-based management systems have become the main focus in this area. Ecosystem-based management involv...

Laser Imaging Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) is a technology that allows understanding the distance of an object or a surface by using multiple laser beams. Simple working principle; It is the calculation of the distance by means of the time difference between the time of exit from the source and the return time of the constant speed laser pulse sen...

Landslides are natural disasters that affect not only residential areas but alos forest ecosystems. In order to determine the areas with high landslide risk and take necessary measures in risky areas, landslides susceptible should analyzed and susceptible map (LSM) should be developed in advance. In this study, a LSM was produced for two study area...

Forestry activities should be carried out within the purview of sustainable forestry while reaping the benefits of forestry. Accordingly, the construction of forest roads through forests should be carefully planned, especially in protection forests. Forest areas in Turkey are generally widespread in moun tainous and high sloping areas that are susc...

The rising temperatures and decreasing rainfall are expected to have negative effects on ecosystem services by causing significant shrinkage or shift of forest distribution particularly in Mediterranean basin. In this study, it was aimed to determine the distribution of oriental beech (Fagus orientalis Lipsky.) by modelling the current and future p...

Background Forest roads are among the most basic infrastructure used for forestry activities and services. To facilitate the increased amount of biomass harvesting adequately, the existing road network may require modifications to allow forest transportation within harvesting units that are not yet accessed by the roads. The construction of a fores...

Introduction: In order to increase, protect, and sustain forest assets, it is important to determine the factors that affect forestry activities and minimize their impact. In this study, the landslide factor in forestry applications was tackled. The negative effect of unpredictable factors of forestry activities (road construction, harvesting, affo...

Due to the increase in the demand for wood raw materials, it is of great importance that the forest resources, which are limited due to increase, are effectively managed, used and maintained according to the sustainable forest management approach. Forest fires pose a threat to both nature and people. The most important stage of the fight against fo...

The effective management of forest resources is very important for the future of the forest and to meet both ecological and economic needs. In this study, it is aimed to contribute to the applicability of modeling in practice by identifying regions that may be landslide in forest areas via different modeling approaches. A total of six models were c...

Orman yolları, koruma, bakım, rekreasyon vb. amaçlar için ormanlara ulaşımı sağlayan, karayollarına oranla daha düşük geometrik özelliklere sahip altyapı tesisleridir. Orman yolları, sadece odun hammaddesi taşınan yapılar olmayıp bunun yanı sıra farklı ormancılık hizmetlerinin (yangınla mücadele, doğa turizmi, ağaçlandırma vb.) yürütülmesinde de sü...

Ormanların korunmasına hizmet eden birçok birim bulunmaktadır. Bunlardan yaygın olarak kullanılan tesislerden biri yangın gözetleme kuleleri (YGK) dir. YGK yangının henüz başlama evresinde erken bilgi vermesi sebebiyle çok etkilidir. YGK lokasyonları itibariyle sorumluluk alanına hâkim olmak ve azami seviyede alanı görmek üzere inşa edilmektedir. B...

BUĞDAY, E.; ERKAN BUĞDAY, S. Modeling and simulating land use/cover change using artificial neural network from remotely sensing data. CERNE, v. 25, n. 2, p.246-254, 2019. HIGHLIGHTS Applicability of decision support systems in landscape planning. To reveal the spatio-temporal land use and land cover changes. Estimation of land use and cover change...

Forest roads are one of the fundamental infrastructures in carrying out forestry activities and services. According to FAO, approximately 20 percent of the world’s forest lands are covered mountain forests. Since forests are generally located also in mountainous areas with steep slope in Turkey, difficulties experienced in these mountainous conditi...

Uydu ve hava araçları yardımıyla elde edilen görüntüler, uzaktan algılama teknikleriyle dönüştürüldükten sonra ormancılıkta çeşitli alt faaliyet dallarında yaygın olarak kullanılmaktadır. Son zamanlarda bu kullanılan araçlara İnsansız Hava Araçları (İHA) da eklenmeye başlamıştır. İHA, diğerlerine oranla düşük maliyetlerle elde edilmesi ve pratik ku...

Afforestation activity needs serious feasibility in as much as it is a work of establishing a new facility. Moreover, the process of selecting the land to be afforested; determining site conditions; selecting suitable tree species, provenance, and clones; the planting or sowing techniques; and planning of the environmental transport network are all...

In this study focuses on the planning of harvesting-production and marketing process in beech stands. İnebolu Forest Management District (FMD) has been designated as the study area. Potential beech timber forest with high economic values were identified, and estimated log production quantities were determined. In the marketing phase of the products...

The forests in Turkey is classified and managed according to their functions within the framework of Ecosystem Based MultiPurpose Planning policy. It is very important to ensure that planning activities are handled appropriately in order to carry out forestry activities which are labor intensive, difficult and dangerous. Forest roads have served as...

Currently, it is very important to identify and use the most appropriate methods in the management of limited resources and to reach a conclusion in a short time period by using the technology in an effective manner to fastly obtain information in high quality. Remote sensing (RS) techniques are used as a very effective tool for this purpose. Obtai...

Introduction: In the past, forest road network planning was carried out with the perspective of open up forest areas for production, carrying out conservation activities, etc. Today, this perspective has turned into a perspective of planning a forest road network with minimum cost and maximum benefit, which can meet functional planning and multi-pu...

The differences in work and labour qualifications in the regional and social sense are being tried to eliminate via vocational qualification activities based on "lifelong learning" at international and national scale. Due to the fact that vocational qualification activities are investments in people over the long term, at the same time economic and...

One of the most important and common application areas of remote sensing technologies is the monitoring of urban development with the aid of satellite imagery. Detailed determination of urban land use is important for decision makers, planners, practitioners, and researchers. Many environmental factors such as ecosystem, biodiversity, and regional...

There are different factors which affect the well-planning of forest road networks and originated from both general and regional characteristics. It is necessary to support the decision maker effectively by considering the selected criteria during the process of planning the forest roads in the forest areas which are located in the mountainous regi...

Almost all of the forests (99.9%) are state forests in Turkey and they are managed by Turkish Ministry of Forestry and Water Affairs, General Directorate of Forestry. Forest roads are regulated with the notification number 292, which contains planning, construction and maintaining technics of forest roads. Forest road network plans and maps contain...

Many studies have been conducted on the ecological and hydrological effects of different types of terrain use in catchments. However, there have been few studies on the effects of forestry activities and especially logging roads on catchment hydrology. Forest roads are very important in terms of providing access to forestry products and to satify h...

Oriental beech and common beech are two natural beech species, spreading on east to northwest, mainly found in the northern region of Turkey representing the marginal distribution of beech, with the ratio of 9 percent of forest lands and average beech timber production in Turkey is more than 700.000 cubic meter in recent years. Felling large trees...

Ülkemizde kullanılabilen yüzeysel suların %50'si, içilebilir nitelikteki suyun %80'i orman alanlarında üretilmektedir. Ormanla kaplı bu havzalarda üretilen suyun kalitesi genellikle iyi olmasına rağmen bazı ormancılık uygulamaları suyun kalitesinde önemli bozulmalara neden olabilmektedir. Ormancılık faaliyetlerinin neden olduğu su kirlilik kaynakla...

Protection forests are determined according to their hazard potential conditions to prevent harmful impacts of natural hazards, including avalanche, landslide, erosion or rock-fall in steep mountainous areas and there should be some different applications like forest road network planning for these areas. Study area, located in Çankırı was decided...

Benefitting from forests without giving any damage to forest is impossible. Forests are generally spread on mountainous and sloped terrain in Turkey and some damages occur to residual trees, soil and raw wood materials as a result of forest harvesting activities. Timber extraction is still largely carried out by conventional methods like ground ski...

This study investigated soil compaction, caused by tree felling and ground based forest harvesting operations, in sandy loamy brown forest soil, located in mixed forest stand harvesting units. In the study area, conventional forest harvesting is still practiced and this resulted in considerable soil compaction. As the forests are on the mountainous...