Gordana Kaplan

Eskisehir Technical University, Eskisehir, Turkey · Institute of Earth and Space Sciences

As one of the most important ecosystems, wetlands are threatened from both natural and anthropogenic activities. Mapping wetland is one of the curtail needs in order to prevent further loss. Since the beginning of the Remote Sensing revolution, different approaches using satellite images have been used for mapping and monitoring wetlands. In this...

Soil salinization is a ubiquitous global problem. The literature supports the integration of remote sensing (RS) techniques and field measurements as effective methods for developing soil salinity prediction models. The objectives of this study were to (i) estimate the level of soil salinity in Abu Dhabi using spectral indices and field measurement...

Effective post-event emergency management contributes substantially to communities' earthquake resilience, and one of the most crucial actions following an earthquake is building damage assessment. On-site inspections are dangerous, expensive, and time-consuming. Remote sensing techniques have shown great potential in localizing the most damaged re...

Oil contamination is a major source of pollution in the environment. It may take decades for oil-contaminated soils to be remedied. This study models oil-contaminated soils using one of the world’s greatest environmental disasters, the onshore oil spill in the desert of Kuwait in 1991. This work uses state-of-art remote sensing technologies and mac...

Detecting asbestos-containing roofs has been of great interest in the past few years as it negatively affects human health and the environment. Different remote sensing data have been successfully used for this purpose. However, RGB and thermal data have yet to be investigated. This study aims at investigating classifying asbestos-containing roofs...

This study investigates ground-level ozone (O3) distribution across different land cover classes in Veneto, Italy, from 2019 to 2022. Analysis revealed high correlations between O3 and its precursors, such as temperature and solar radiation, across various land covers. Cropland areas exhibited the lowest O3 levels, while built-up areas had the high...

This comprehensive review explores the transformative role of remote sensing technologies in the detection and monitoring of water pollution. Remote sensing provides dynamic, large-scale, and cost-effective solutions for continuous assessment of water quality. The review covers the application of remote sensing for detecting a range of pollutants,...

European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) forests are suffering under increasingly severe and frequent drought. Three closely related, hybridizing beech species, ranging from Bulgaria through Asia Minor and the Caucasus to Iran, offer potential resources for assisted gene flow (AGF) with the aim of increasing the adaptive capacity of European beech fores...

In the face of increasing industrial pollution, there is an urgent need to enhance water quality monitoring around industrial zones. This research explores the development of an advanced remote sensing system designed to continuously monitor water quality and provide early (timely) warning on changes that could signify environmental risks. With in...

Welcome to the final conference of the PHOENIX COST Action in Naples in this very beautiful place, the Villa Doria d’Angri. This final Conference represents the culmination of collective efforts, findings and achievements over the past four years of this COST ACTION Project. This conference serves as a platform to celebrate our achievements, share...

Differentiating European beech (F. sylvatica ssp. sylvatica) from Oriental beech (F. sylvatica ssp. orientalis) is crucial for ecological management and assisted gene flow. Current methods rely on molecular markers, impractical for widespread monitoring. Our study uses advanced remote sensing to differentiate these subspecies. Employing diverse spe...

Clean air is the precursor of healthy life. Air quality is an issue that has been getting under its well-deserved spotlight in the last few years. From a remote sensing point of view, the first Copernicus mission with the main purpose of monitoring the atmosphere and tracking air pollutants, the Sentinel-5P TROPOMI mission, has been widely used wor...

A centuries-long research area continues to develop on determining diversity in the heterogeneous environment in which the soil is inherently located. As a result of open data sharing, accessible datasets can be easily used by the scientific community and can be of great benefit to the soil science community and policy stakeholders and improve the...

Water resources are becoming scarce due to climate change and anthropogenic activities, necessitating immediate action. The first step in conserving our water supplies is to manage them mindfully and sustainably. To achieve this, water sources must be monitored, mapped, and evaluated regularly. Updating national water maps using conventional method...

We are experiencing a considerable increase in soil salinity as a result of the influence of climate change or environmental contamination produced by excessive industry and agriculture. To be able to cope with this issue, reliable and up-to-date soil salinity measurements are required. The use of remote sensing data allows for faster and more effi...

Globally, the COVID-19 pandemic is a top-level public health concern. This paper attempts to identify the COVID-19 pandemic in Qom and Mazandaran provinces, Iran using spatial analysis approaches. This study was based on secondary data of confirmed cases and deaths from February 3, 2020, to late October 2021, in two Qom and Mazandaran provinces fro...

Monitoring trees is necessary to manage and take inventory of forests, monitor plants in urban areas, distribute vegetation, monitor change, and establish sensitive and renewable agricultural systems. This study aims to automatically detect, count, and map apricot trees in an orthophoto, covering an area of approximately 48 ha on the ground surface...

The availability of medium-resolution satellite data such as the open-access Sentinel-2 as well as high-resolution commercial satellite imagery from PlanetScope presents significant opportunities for the agricultural sector and allows us to gain insight into the land surface, land use, and their management. Agricultural Greenhouses (AGs) are the fa...

Vegetation, precipitation, and surface temperature are three important elements of the environment. By increasing the concerns about climate change and global warming, monitoring vegetation dynamics are considered to be crucial. In this study, the cross-relationship between vegetation, surface temperature, and precipitation, and their fluctuations...

Land degradation due to river dynamics is a significant problem worldwide. As people have settled near rivers, river dynamics cause severe material damage. This situation is getting more complicated when the same water bodies are the international border between two or more countries, making it a geopolitical problem. This natural disaster's mappin...

The extraction of building inventory information is vital for damage assessment and planning and modelling studies. In the last few years, the conventional data extraction for building inventory was overcome using various remote sensing data and techniques. The main objectives of this study were to supply the necessary data for the structural engin...

The importance of solar energy as a global energy source is expected to grow. Solar power's future looks bright, especially with an aged and deteriorating energy grid and rising fossil fuel prices. More precise methods for assessment of solar capacity are needed as more homes and companies investigate the possibility of small-scale photovoltaic (PV...

With the increased urbanization, the rise of the manufacturing industry, and the use of fossil fuels, poor air quality is one of the most serious and pressing problems worldwide. The COVID-19 outbreak prompted absolute lockdowns in the majority of countries throughout the world, posing new research questions. The study’s goals were to analyze air a...

As a significant environmental problem, soil salinity should be timely and accurately mapped and monitored. In recent years, remote sensing data and techniques have been widely used for soil salinity estimation. However, with the difference in the sensors' characteristics, satellite-based prediction of soil salinity remains highly uncertain. This s...

Predicting soil chemical properties such as soil organic carbon (SOC) and available phosphorus (Ava-P) content is critical in areas where different land uses exist. The distribution of SOC and Ava-P is influenced by both natural and anthropogenic factors. This study aimed at (1) predicting SOC and Ava-P in a piedmont plain of Northeast Iran using t...

National land-cover maps are essential for the development of the countries as land-use patterns have shifted dramatically throughout the world in the previous decades. With the latest development in the remote sensing community, the power and ease of web-mapping and web-based map and GIS services have increased. This work investigates several data...

Recently, object detection has experienced significant progress. However, in the field of remote sensing, it is still under investigation for real-time detection of small objects because of the limited resolution and information. The detection of a predefined object, such as heavy vehicle, is vital in some applications. This study aims to improve...

The spatial variation of several dynamic chemical soil characteristics is greatly influenced by land cover and land use. High-accuracy land use and land cover (LULC) classification have enormous promise for temporal scale evaluation of soil characteristics. The study aims to evaluate the performance of linear and non-linear classification methods i...

Salinity is one of the most critical problems for agricultural lands. Soil salinity should be monitored with fast, economical and accurate data and methods. In this study, soil salinity was estimated using remote sensing data and machine learning algorithms, where fıve different methods were used, and the results were compared. As a study area, Alp...

Crops such as cannabis, poppy, and coca tree are used to make illicit and addictive drugs. Detection and mapping of such crops can be significant for the controlled growth of the plants, thus supporting the prevention of illegal production. Remote sensing has the ability to monitor areas for cannabis growing. However, in the scientific literature,...

The negative impact humans have on the environment directly affects the environmental security. Over the years, it has been proven that wars make drastic and sometimes unrecoverable environmental damage. Remote sensing has played a main role in providing necessary data for spatio-temporal analysis. This paper reviews remote sensing implementation o...

Due to the gradual drying of parts of Urmia Lake, several centers of salt dust which is created and influence the agriculture, economy, public health and causes migrations within the region of the Urmia Lake. Hence, knowing the temporal and spatial distribution of this phenomenon is very important to quantify these effects. In the present study, us...

Lately, remote sensing has been an effective tool for monitoring the Earth and environmental changes. Landsat with its legacy is providing available data for time-based research. The aim of this paper is to estimate the time of the self-healing progress of an abandoned mine area using Landsat satellite images. In this study, five Landsat satellite...

Türkiye’de SARD-CoV-2 virüsünün yayılımını durdurmak amacıyla 15 Mart 2020 yılı ile 01 Mart 2021 tarihleri arasında kısmi ve tam kapanmalar uygulanmıştır. Ancak bu süre zarfında sanayi bölgesinde bulunan fabrikalar çalışmaya devam etmiştir. Bu durum popülasyon hareketliliğinin hava kalitesi üzerindeki etkilerini sınırlarken sanayi bölgelerinin hava...

Aralık 2019'da, COVID-19 olarak da bilinen şiddetli akut solunum sendromu koronavirüsünün (SARS-CoV-2) ilk vakaları Çin'in Wuhan kentinde ortaya çıkmıştır. 2020'nin başlarında virüs, önce İtalya'da ardından Avrupa'da hızla yayılmıştır. İnsan yaşamını tehdit eden bu salgın karşısında tüm dünyada pandeminin yayılımını durdurmak için birtakım önlemler...

Aim of the study: Our world is exposed to forest fires and threatens both natural and human environments. Remote sensing is one of the effective techniques to monitor forest fires. However, accessing and processing data on the field is challenging for researchers as it is costly and time-consuming. Study area: In this study, the Mersin-Gulnar fire...

With the developing technologies, the use of unmanned aerial vehicles’s (UAV) is increasing in all areas. Compared with the conventional photogrammetry and remote sensing sensors, UAVs are more convenient to collect data for small areas. In this study, the accuracy of UAV products was investigated in the archeological area of Eskişehir Şarhöyük. In...

With the increase of anthropogenic activities, the importance of the essence of life, water, proportionally continues to rise. The effective use of water is vital as an important role in socio economic development of nations. Thus, frequent water bodies monitoring is a crucial part of their sustainable management. As remote sensing data is useful i...

Soil salinity is a major threat to the continuity of sustainable agriculture and food provision and the soil structure deterioration. In this context, determining, reducing and managing soil salinity is very important for creating sustainable modern agriculture. Determining soil salinity is generally carried out in the laboratory environment and de...

In recent years, Kabul city's rapid urbanization has adversely affected the urban land cover, such as surface water bodies and croplands. Surface water resources are threatened due to overpopulation in the city either qualitatively or quantitatively, also croplands are being lost with the development of urbanization activities through the city. To...

Assessment of water-related disaster risk is essential for risk mitigation and management for sustainable development. This problem arises with transboundary waters, adding geopolitical problems to the existing ones. For moving borders, such as the border between Afghanistan and Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, mapping and monitoring of the river dynamic...

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Soil salinity is a major threat to the continuity of sustainable agriculture and the provision of food as well as the deterioration of the structure of the soil. In this context, determining, reducing, and managing soil salinity is very important for the process of creating sustainable modern agriculture. The process of determining soil salinity is...

Urbanization is accompanied by rapid social and economic development, while the process of urbanization causes the degradation of the natural ecology. Direct loss in vegetation biomass from areas with a high probability of urban expansion can contribute to the total emissions from tropical deforestation and land-use change. Monitoring of urban expa...

Land cover assessment and monitoring are essential for sustainable management of natural resources and environmental protection. Object-based image analysis (OBIA) for land cover classification has become an area of interest due to its superiority over the pixel-based classification method. In this study, we combine OBIA with rule-set semi-automate...

The 2019 pandemic of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome-Corona Virus Diseases (COVID-19) has posed a substantial threat to public health and major global economic losses. The Northern Emirates of the United Arab Emirates (NEUAE) had imposed intense preventive lockdown measures. On the first of April 2020, a lockdown was implemented. It was assumed,...

As the essence of life, water is one of the most important substances on Earth. In the last few decades, the aquatic ecosystem, has been faced with serious challenges due to overuse of water and negative effects of climate change. Thus, water monitoring is essential for water management. In the last few decades, remote sensing and Geographic Inform...

In order to prevent serious damages from a possible earthquake and to determine the possible losses, in settlements under earthquake risk, it is very important to extract building inventory information for further determination of the performance of existing buildings. As conventional methods, such as field investigations, can be time-consuming and...

Rapid economic development and population growth lead to fast urban expansion in both urban and rural landscapes. Accurate and updated mapping of urban expansions is essential in urban and territorial planning for sustainable and strategic urban development. Using Earth Observation (EO) technologies, the classification of urban areas in a rural lan...

As the essence of life, water is one of the most important substances on Earth. In the last few decades, the aquatic ecosystem, has been faced with serious challenges due to overuse of water and negative effects of climate change. Thus, water monitoring is essential for water management. In the last few decades, remote sensing and Geographic Inform...

In recent years, remote sensing and deep learning methods and techniques have been successfully used for mapping and monıtorıng water area changes. In this study, the changes occurring in the level and area of the Akşehir Lake in the long-term period were examined by geographic information systems and remote sensing techniques. In this study we use...

River morphological dynamics result from processes involving discharge flow, debris and sediment transport, channel migration, and floodplain erosion and accretion. Understanding the river channel dynamics is an essential component of the development of the most environmentally acceptable and sustainable fluvial projects. In this study, part of the...

Knowledge of forest structure is key to understanding, managing, and preserving forest biodiversity and function. With the well-established need within the remote sensing community for better understanding of canopy structure, in this paper, the effectiveness of Sentinel-2 imagery for broad-leaved and coniferous forest classification within the Goo...

Intensive human activities have added to the frequency and severity of river-related disasters that have increased and resulted in socio-economic and environmental damages in the last decades. Assessment of water-related disaster risk is essential for risk mitigation and management for sustainable development. In this study, the changes and destruc...

This study presents an analysis of the mean atmospheric column nitrogen dioxide (NO2) and carbon monoxide (CO) over the Republic of North Macedonia during six-month period. Measurements of NO2 and CO obtained from the recently launched Sentinel-5 Precursor spacecraft with TROPOspheric Monitoring Instrument (Sentinel-5P TROPOMI) have been used. The...

With the rapid urbanization and industrialization, people become more aware of the value of the green spaces. Green cadastre is an optimal solution to protect and preserve green areas in both urban and rural areas as it contributes to the proper maintenance of all green areas including trees and shrubs. In the last few years, the idea of green cada...

Surface water is one of the most vital Earth resources changing in time and space as a consequence of land use/land cover (LULC) changes, climate change, and other environmental factors. Timely monitoring of the water area and its surroundings is essential for policy and decision-making processes. Monitoring the land cover changes with conventional...

Following the objectives of the mission, Sentinel-2 (S2) makes a significant contribution to land monitoring, climate change, emergency management and security, and related problems. To increase the spatial resolution, researchers have been challenged to obtain a synthesized panchromatic band with a fine resolution for all S2 bands. The capacity to...

Tree detection and counting have been performed using conventional methods or high costly remote sensing data. In the past few years, deep learning techniques have gained significant progress in the remote sensing area. Namely, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been recognized as one of the most successful and widely used deep learning appr...

As a reason for a pandemic, the global novel COVID-19 virus has affected all of the World and caused lockdowns in many countries. Naturally, with decreased anthropogenic activities, the influence of the people over the environment has decreased. Thus, improvement in air quality has been noticed. With the use of remote sensing data, in this short co...

Many freshwater bodies are shared by two or more countries. Managing shared water can cause conflicts over freshwater rights and may become a brake on development for some struggling nations. Frequent water bodies monitoring is a crucial part of their sustainable management. As remote sensing data can be useful in monitoring water bodies, in this s...

With the rapid urbanization and industrialization, people become more aware of the value of the green spaces. Green cadastre is an optimal solution to protect and preserve green areas in both urban and rural areas as it contributes to the proper maintenance of all green areas including trees and shrubs. In the last few years, the idea of green cada...

The conflict in Syria is one of the largest war conflict in the 21st century. Since 1960s, remote sensing satellite imagery has played a significant role in military operations by providing information, and in the last few decades, has been used to investigate the environmental damages in conflict areas. The moderate resolution of the Landsat const...

Remotely sensed data can reinforce the abilities of water resources researchers and decision-makers to monitor water quality more effectively. In the past few decades, remote sensing techniques have been widely used to measure qualitative water quality parameters. However, the use of moderate resolution sensors may not meet the requirements for mon...

Rapid urbanization has several negative effects on both the environment and human health. Urbanization has also become an important contributor to global warming. One of these effects is the urban heat island (UHI), which is caused by human activities and defined as the temperature difference between urban and surrounding rural areas. With rapid ur...

Rapid urbanization has several negative effects on both the environment and human health. Urbanization has also become an important contributor to global warming. One of these effects is the urban heat islands (UHI), which is caused by human activities and defined as the temperature difference between urban and surrounding rural areas. With rapid u...

Presoja vloge zelenih in pozidanih površin pri zmanjševanju učinkov površinskega mestnega toplotnega otoka na podlagi podatkov daljinskega zaznavanja Hitra urbanizacija ima številne negativne vplive na okolje in zdravje ljudi ter pomembno prispeva h globalnemu segrevanju. Eden izmed teh vplivov so tudi mestni to-plotni otoki, ki jih povzroča človek...

In water resources management, remote sensing data and techniques are essential in watershed characterization and monitoring, especially when no data are available. Water quality is usually assessed through in-situ measurements which require high cost and time. Water quality parameters help in decision making regarding the further use of water-base...

The main aim of this paper is analyzing the correlation between the concept of environmental and urban security threats especially climate change and urbanization with the Urban Heat Island (UHI) phenomena. In that direction, the rapid growth of urbanization all over the World leads to negative impacts from different aspects. The urban area of the...

Pan-sharpening of remote sensing image aims to generate high resolution multispectral image from inputs of a panchromatic high spatial resolution image. An efficient pan-sharpening method should produce a high spatial resolution image while preserving more spectral information. In order to increase the resolution of Landsat-8 imagery, four differen...

Fresh water is a fundamental resource, integral to all ecological and societal activities. The geographical fact that many sources of fresh water are share by two or more nations, has led to the geopolitical reality of disputes over shared water resources. Conflicts over water rights may become a brake on development for some struggling nations, th...

Due to the high spatial heterogeneity and temporal variability, wetlands are one of the most difficult ecosystems to observe using remote sensing data. With the additional Sentinel-2 vegetation red-edge bands, an improvement of the vegetated classes classification is expected. In order to investigate the influence of the Sentinel-2 red-edge bands,...

With rapid population growth, both urbanization and transportation affect air pollution, population health, and global warming. A number of air pollutants are released from industrial facilities and other activities and may cause adverse effects on human health and the environment. One of the biggest air pollutants, nitrogen dioxide (NO2), is ma...

Wetlands provide a number of ecological services and a number of valuable functions. As one of the most important ecosystems, wetlands are threatened by both natural and anthropogenic activities. Mapping wetland is one of the curtail needs in order to prevent further loss. Since the beginning of the remote sensing and geographic information sys...

Wetlands are transition zone where the flow of water, the cycling of carbon and nutrients, and the energy to form a unique ecosystem are characterized by its hydrology, soils, and vegetation, between dryland and water. Over the years, remote sensing techniques have proven to be a successful tool for monitoring wetlands. Both optical and microwave e...