Çağlar Küçük

Research interests

• Remote sensing (last focus on geostationary satellites)
• Ecohydrology of drylands
• Data driven analyses

Ph.D. project

• Ecohydrology from Space
  Vegetation-water interactions in water limited regions in Africa via remote sensing: Diagnosing effects of secondary water resources at local scales yet over large domains with a data driven approach using remote sensing based observations

Academic background

• since 12/2018 PhD student in Ghent University, Hydro-Climate Extremes Lab
  
• 02/2014 - 06/2016 MSc in Geographic Information Technologies at Istanbul Technical University
  
• 09/2007 - 02/2013 BSc in Civil Engineering at Middle East Technical University

CV

• since 10/2017 PhD candidate in the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
• 04/2017 - 09/2017 Trainee researcher in Joint Research Centre of the European Commission for monitoring tree stress via remote sensing
• 04/2014 - 09/2015 Research assistant in Istanbul Technical University under 'Monitoring Paddy-rice Fields with X-band Images' project

Publication

In the oven: Küçük Ç., Koirala S., Carvalhais N., Miralles D.G., Reichstein M., Jung M. (2021). Characterising the response of vegetation cover to water limitation in Africa using geostationary satellites. ESSOAr. doi: 10.1002/essoar.10504964.2

Küçük Ç., Taşkın G., Erten E. (2016). Paddy-Rice Phenology Classification Based on Machine-Learning Methods Using Multitemporal Co-Polar X-Band SAR Images. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 9(6), 2509-2519. doi: 10.1109/JSTARS.2016.2547843

Conferences

• 2019 - AGU Fall Meeting, Poster presentation: Spatial patterns of seasonal decay rate in Fractional Vegetation Cover in Africa
• 2019 - ESA-LPS, Oral presentation: Spatial patterns of phenological decay in Africa
• 2015 - IGARSS, Oral presentation: Co-polar SAR data classification as a tool for real time paddy-rice monitoring
• 2014 - IGARSS, Oral presentation: Remote sensing image classification by non-parallel SVMs