--- Former member ---
(now at ZAMG, Vienna)
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
Another preprint:
Küçük Ç., Koirala S., Carvalhais N., Miralles D.G., Reichstein M., Jung M. (2021). Local-scale secondary water inputs modulate seasonal vegetation cover decay rate across Africa. ESSOAr. doi: 10.1002/essoar.10508299.1
Preprint:
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