Himmet Karaman

Himmet Karaman
Istanbul Technical University · Department of Geomatics Engineering

PhD

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August 2020 - present
Istanbul Technical University
Position
  • Professor (Full)
Description
  • Vice Department Chair, Working on Resilience, Disaster Management and Decision Making with GIS
April 2015 - August 2020
Istanbul Technical University
Position
  • Professor (Associate)
July 2009 - April 2015
Istanbul Technical University
Position
  • Professor (Assistant)

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Publications (53)
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The creation of earthquake hazard maps requires various datasets with selected attenuation relations. Based on the selected attenuation relation, the calculation time varies from half an hour to a couple of days. The length of time needed to create an earthquake hazard map also depends on the resolution of the resulting map. The time gets longer as...
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Definition of an earthquake includes parameters with respect to region of interest. Each of those parameters has different weights on the earthquake ground motion and effect. This study examines the weight of common parameters that have an influence on the effects of earthquakes. The Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) is used for factor weighting of...
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The two important earthquakes that occurred in Turkey in 1999 have increased concerns on what would happen if a major earthquake affects Istanbul again. Alarming estimates reveal that Istanbul will probably be exposed to a devastating earthquake, with a magnitude between 6.5 and 7.7, in the next 25–30 years. The necessity of comprehensive plans for...
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The development of a general purpose disaster impact assessment software package is a daunting task, complicated by a number of technical, political, and administrative challenges. For example, geospatial information management should account for the administrative system of the country subject to the assessment, while the hazard, fragility, and in...
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A new generation of tools is needed to allow researchers and practicing engineers the ability to leverage investments in new methodologies and software infrastructure while enabling customization to local conditions. MAEviz represents such a next generation of seismic risk assessment software, based on the Mid-America Earthquake (MAE) Center resear...
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Effective shelter location-allocation is critical in nuclear emergencies to ensure rapid, safe evacuation and resource access for affected populations. This study presents a multi-dimensional optimization model for shelter allocation within humanitarian logistics, balancing evacuation time, supply accessibility, and shelter capacity. Using Geograph...
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Accurate signal path loss models for predictions are crucial in current cellular communication networks. Recently, numerous path loss estimation methods have been presented to improve the efficiency of networks. However, most of these existing models do not include spatial data such as land use/land cover, terrain elevation, building height, and th...
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This study conducted a regional assessment of the environmental and health consequences due to the release of radionuclides, including the most harmful, such as Cs-137 and I-131, from a hypothetical reactor accident at the first Nuclear Power Plant (NPP), Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant, in Turkiye under different meteorological conditions. Simulations...
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Signal strength maps are of great importance for cellular system providers in network planning and operation. Accurate prediction of signal strength is important for solving problems such as link quality. In this study, Received Signal Strength (RSS) prediction model is proposed for the 900 MHz band in the Van Yüzüncü Yıl University campus environm...
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Antarktika bulunduğu konum ve iklim özellikleri sebebiyle insanların aktif olarak yaşamadığı bir kıtadır. Bu nedenle Antarktika kıtasındaki coğrafi bilgi üretimi farklı açılardan kısıtlıdır. Geleneksel haritalama teknolojileri olarak kabul edilen uzaktan algılama, fotogrametri ve yersel ölçme yöntemleri ile Antarktika dijital veri tabanına katkı su...
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A large portion of the country of Turkey is located in a very high seismic region known as a first-degree earthquake zone where earthquakes occur frequently. Earthquakes result in damage to infrastructure including base station towers and subsequently failure of mobile communication networks. The loss of functionality of mobile communication networ...
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Transportation is a critical sector which is vulnerable to hazardous events like urban floods. Thedisruption in transportation infrastructure affects the whole community in terms of loss of life and property.A resilient transport system is fundamental for resilient communities, and considering the adverse impactsof climate change, it becomes even m...
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The location of natural gas emergency response team centers (NGERTCs) is critical in terms of addressing natural gas notifications that require a timely emergency response. The selection of NGERTCs in Istanbul has an important place in terms of providing better service, due to the necessity of responding to emergency natural gas notifications withi...
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Data availability to respond to a natural disaster is a tender spot to prevent secondary deaths. Authorities need a map showing spots with the annotations of the level and the size of the emergency to manage response teams. Whilst conventional spatial data acquisition techniques (such as; photogrammetry, remote sensing) seen somehow eligible to use...
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Over the past 20 years, the development of offshore wind farms has become increasingly important across the world. One of the most crucial reasons for that is offshore wind turbines have higher average speeds than those onshore, producing more electricity. In this study, a new hybrid approach integrating Interval Rough Numbers (IRNs) into Best Wors...
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Social Media is a new age of data sources that emerged in the last decade. Users who have diverse different motivations (such as; entertainment, communicating, or promoting) sign up the platforms worldwide. Currently, there is 3.5 billion active social media account worldwide. This growing number of account holders are accepted as human sensors tha...
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Social Media (SM) Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) is gradually being used for representing the real-time situation during emergency. This chapter presents the SM-VGI review as a new age contribution to emergency management. The study analyses a series of emergencies during the so-called coup attempt within the boundary of Istanbul on the 1...
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Turkey, a country affected by natural disasters is natural disasters such as flooding and landslides are seen frequently. Floods and landslides are one of the common natural disasters in Turkey. The use of GIS-based spatial statistical analysis in disaster studies has increased in recent years. From this point, it is essential to examine the spatia...
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Gelişen web ve akıllı mobil teknolojileri ile sosyal medya platformları yaygınlaşmıştır. Son 10 yılda bu platformlardaki aktif kullanıcı sayısının artması veri üretimine de yansımıştır. Sosyal medya platformları aracılığı ile üretilen mekansal veri doğrudan ya da dolaylı kullanımlarla afet yönetimi, pazarlama, politika gibi geniş çerçevede katkılar...
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The data generated by social media such as Twitter are classified as big data and the usability of those data can provide a wide range of resources to various study areas including disaster management, tourism, political science, and health. However, apart from the acquisition of the data, the reliability and accuracy when it comes to using it conc...
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Social media (SM) can be an invaluable resource in terms of understanding and managing the effects of catastrophic disasters. In order to use SM platforms for public participatory (PP) mapping of emergency management activities, a bias investigation should be undertaken with regard to the data related to the study area (urban, regional or national,...
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Sports has an important role for the health of present societies and the next generations as an element of urban design. Sports facilities have strong effects on the social life in urban areas. The facilities supply the communication between the dynamics of the cities and generate synergy in the city life of people interacting with each other for i...
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Determination of the location of a research station in Antarctica is a very important issue, and necessary for countries to have sustainable Antarctic Scientific Program and expeditions. The suitable site selection is affected by long-term scientific work plan, its realization costs, and field experience on the continent. For this purpose, using a...
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The credibility of Social Media (SM) data, and generally speaking crowd-generated content, has been questioned by many. The credibility could be even more questionable if a part of information is inferred from such contents as the inference itself can add to the uncertainty, reliability, and credibility. This is the case for the absolute majority o...
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Worldwide, earthquakes and related disasters have persistently had severe negative impacts on human livelihoods and have caused widespread socioeconomic and environmental damage. The severity of these disasters has prompted recognition of the need for comprehensive and effective disaster and emergency management (DEM) efforts, which are required to...
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Earthquakes and related disasters have persistently caused severe negative impacts on human livelihoods resulting in widespread socioeconomic and environmental damage, worldwide. The severity of these disasters have prompted recognition of the need for comprehensive and effective disaster and emergency management (DEM) efforts, which are required t...
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For many years, researchers have been warning that Istanbul will encounter a devastating earthquake in the very near future, which is likely to cause extensive damage to buildings, bridges and roads. In order to be able to take substantial precautions and manage any disaster in the best way possible, analyses are required not only of the expected s...
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Istanbul is located in one of the most active seismic zones in the world. Since Istanbul is the industrial, commercial, cultural and educational center of Turkey, it attracts ongoing migration from all over Turkey. However, those migrations caused unplanned construction and those unplanned constructions led to the formation of vulnerable and undocu...
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Although the occurrence of earthquakes cannot be prevented, the vulnerabilities of them can be mitigated by decreasing the population, strengthening the vulnerable assets or both. The impact of the earthquake would be even higher if it is not managed properly. Istanbul has been affected by earthquakes throughout its history. The most recent damages...
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Spatial data by using public knowledge is the most popular way to gather data in terms of social media within the last decade. Literature defines, public or volunteers are accepted bionic sensors detecting their surroundings and share what they detect in terms of their social media applications or microblogs. Besides being cheapest and fastest and...
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Spatial data by using public knowledge is the most popular way to gather data in terms of social media within the last decade. Literature defines, public or volunteers are accepted bionic sensors detecting their surroundings and share what they detect in terms of their social media applications or microblogs. Besides being cheapest and fastest and...
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Istanbul has been affected by earthquakes throughout its history. The most recent earthquake to shake Istanbul was on August 17 1999, along the North Anatolian Fault, 12 km southeast of the Izmit Province, with a magnitude of 7.4. Following the 1999 Izmit earthquake, the earthquake risk in Istanbul started to draw attention and many scientific stud...
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Bu çalışmada, CBS ve AHY yardımıyla üretilen deprem tehlike haritaları için girdi verileri olarak belirlenen ölçüt ağırlıklarının duyarlılık analizleri yapılandırılmaktadır. Ölçüt ağırlıklarının belirli oranlarla değiştirilmesinin model çıktı verileri üzerindeki etkileri görsel olarak yorumlanmaktadır. Çalışmada izlenen adımlar şu şekilde özetlenme...
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In this study, a geographic information system (GIS)-based model was developed to calculate the post-earthquake ignition probability of a building, considering damage to the building's interior gas and electrical distribution system and the overturning of appliances. In order to make our model more reliable and realistic, a weighting factor was use...
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In this study, a Geographic Information System (GIS) based model was developed to calculate the post-earthquake ignition probability of a building, considering damage to the building's interior gas and electrical distribution system and the overturning of appliances. In order to make our model more reliable and realistic, a weighting factor was use...
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The Burdur Fethiye fault zone in southwestern Turkey is located in a tectonically active area. According to historical recordings, the region has been destroyed by earthquakes many times. In this region alone, more than 90 earthquakes with magnitudes of more than 5 have occurred since the beginning of the 20 century. Seven of them were recorded wit...
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Afyonkarahisar, Burdur and Fethiye region, southwest of Turkey is located on a tectonically active area. According to the historical recordings, the region was destructed by earthquakes many times. Since the beginning of the 20th century, more than 35 earthquakes with magnitudes bigger than 4 occurred in Afyonkarahisar region. Seven earthquakes rec...
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The North Anatolian Fault (NAF) is one of the longest active strike slip systems. Slip rate of the NAF was estimated from the GPS data as 20–24mm/yr approximately from previous studies. One of the important features of the NAF is seen in the central part. Here NAF consists of southward splitting concave branches. These splines generally have right-...
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Satellite navigation technology is rapidly evolving. The modernisations in GPS, full deployments of GLONASS and GALILEO after 2008 will facilitate the development of new applications, hence opening new markets. It is time to prepare for this new commodity: ubiquitous provision of reliable and accurate positioning and timing services has already sta...
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Global Positioning System (GPS) has been very useful tool for the last two decades in the area of geodynamics because or the validation of the GPS results by the Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) and Satellite Laser Ranging (SLR) observations. The modest budget requirement and the high accuracy relative positioning availability of GPS increa...
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To mitigate the property and life losses at the İ.T.U. Ayazaǧa Campus, after a probable disaster that may occur in İstanbul, it is strongly necessary to constitute an emergency management based object model and database in order to apply the Turkey Disaster Information System (TABİS) which was developed within the scope of Constitution of the Natio...
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SUMMARY The proposed study considers the interdependency concept on seismic performance analysis of lifeline network systems. Seismic damage estimates of the electric power, potable water, and natural gas networks of the city will be calculated for the expected Marmara earthquake scenario and the results will be utilized to assess the performances...
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SUMMARY After the two devastating earthquakes in the Marmara Region of Turkey in August and September of 1999, several disaster and emergency management agencies have been established and several activities have been carried out. This paper summarizes those activities in Turkey. Management of disasters or emergency situations is to conduct prepared...

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