Turkish Journal of Remote Sensing and GIS

Turkish Journal of Remote Sensing and GIS (Turk J Remote Sens GIS) is a high-quality open access peer-reviewed research journal publishing original research articles and reviews on all subjects related to both remote sensing and GIS.

The aim of the Turkish Journal of Remote Sensing and GIS is to provide researchers a qualified scientific publishing platform for their research focusing all subjects related to both remote sensing and GIS and to contribute sharing of current scientific development and knowledge with the scientific world.

Topics covered by the journal include, but are not limited to:

Remote sensing theory and applications
Image processing
Unmanned aerial systems applications
Point cloud processing
LIDAR data processing
Remotely sensed data fusion
Change detection
Digital photogrammetry
Close-range remote sensing
Planetary and extraterrestrial remote sensing
Synthetic-Aperture Radar (SAR) interferometry
SAR image analysis
Image enhancement
Machine learning applications
Pattern recognition
Hyperspectral data analysis
Image classification algorithms
Image segmentation
Feature extraction
Remote sensing and GIS integration
Remote sensing and GIS education
Remote sensing and GIS software development
Computational geometry in remote sensing and GIS
Computer vision
Data acquisition
Data structures and algorithms
Spatio-temporal databases
Spatial analysis, data mining, and decision support systems
Visualization theory and technology in real and virtual environments
Cartography, generalization and multiple representation
Spatial information science
Citizen science and geospatial technologies
Location based services
Data quality, uncertainty handling in spatial data
3D analysis and mapping
Spatial data infrastructures
Interoperability, open data, linked data
Remote sensing and GIS applications

Writing Rules

MANUSCRIPT PREPARATION

Authors should fill in the Copyright Transfer Form before uploading their articles.

LANGUAGE

• Authors can prepare and submit their manuscripts for the review process in English or Turkish.

• The manuscript should be written with clear and simple sentences.

PAGE LAYOUT

• Manuscripts should be prepared in accordance with the sample article format.

• The page size should be A4 (210*297mm) standard.

• Manuscripts should be single-spaced and the text should be written in one column.

• Manuscripts should be prepared with the margins of 2 cm on the left and right sides and 2.5 cm on the bottom and top sides of each page.

• Manuscript should not exceed 20 pages, including the references.

• Paragraphs should be justified and the first line of each paragraph should be indented 0.5 cm to the right.

TEXT STRUCTURE

Manuscript Title

• Manuscript title should be concise and informative and it should convey information about the topic and content of the article.

• The first letters of each word in the title should be written in capital and it should be typed as 16 points Calibri-bold and aligned to the left.

• The title in Turkish should be written in lowercase (except the first letters of each word in the title) and placed after the English Title. It should also be aligned to the left and typed as 14 points Calibri-bold.

Names and Addresses of Authors

• All author names and their addresses are to be listed below the title of the manuscript. Address (affiliation) information should be given without using any abbreviation e.g.; department name, university or organization name, postal (zip) code, city, state/province (if applicable), country.

Abstract

• Abstract should present the reasons for writing the manuscript, methods, findings and conclusions concisely and informatively.

• Abstract should be written both in English and Turkish.

• The length of the abstract must be between 150 and 200 words.

• Except for the standard and conventional abbreviations, use of abbreviations should be avoided in the abstract. In cases where the use of abbreviation(s) is necessary, please define it in parenthesis where it appears in the text for the first time.

Keywords

• Keywords should follow the abstract and not be less than 3 and more than 6.

Sections

• The text of the manuscript should be designed in sections as follows; Introduction, Material and Methods, Results and Discussion, Conclusions (Conclusions and Suggestions), Acknowledgements (if any), References, Appendices (if any).

• Introduction part should give the nature of the problem under investigation, main objectives of the study and method of approach accompanying relevant references of literature.

• Following sections may review on the theoretical bases of the study, the used and/or suggested methods and/or algorithms, the numerical applications, and the analyses on the provided results.

• Obtained results from the study can be summarized and suggestions can be presented in the Conclusions section.

• The institutions and associations from which the financial supports are provided, personal contacts of the authors who contribute to the manuscript can be acknowledged in the acknowledgements section. Acknowledgements should not be placed in any part of the manuscript as footnotes. Acknowledgements section should be as concise as possible.

• The main text should be written with Calibri characters in 10 points.

Numbering Sections

• Titles and subtitles of the sections and subsections should be numerated sequentially in decimal numbers. Section numbering should not exceed three levels. The abstract should not be numbered.

(Example: 1. Introduction, 2. Main Section, 2.1. Subsection, 2.1.1. Subsection)

Abbreviations

• Abbreviations should be defined at the first use in parenthesis following their full forms.

Mathematical Formulae

• Variables, vectors and matrices are to be presented in italics. Matrices should be depicted in bold capital letters and vectors should be written in bold lowercase.

• The equations are to be aligned to the left and numbered sequentially. Equation numbers should be placed next to the corresponding equation and aligned to the right.

• If simple formulas are required between lines of text, formulas should be prepared in text format. (e.g. for division sign; use solidus “/” instead of “–”).

• Equations must be prepared using a commonly-used equation editor (e.g. Ms. Word Equation editor, MathType) to allow editing. Equations should not be included in the manuscript in graphical formats.

Tables

• All tables should have table captions. Table caption should be placed above the table, e.g. “Table 1. Table caption”.

• Tables should be referred to in the text as follows:
Example: … as shown in Table 1 …

• The footnotes in the tables should be cited with superscript lowercase letters and the corresponding footnotes should be placed below the table.

• Tables in the manuscript must not be in graphical format.

Figures

• All figures should have figure captions. Figure caption should be placed below the figure, e.g. “Figure 1. Figure caption”.

• Figures should be referred in the text as follows:
Example: … as shown in Figure 1 …
• Figures at low resolution should not be included in the manuscript. Additionally, all figures should be at least 300 dpi.

Table and Figure Numbering

• Tables and figures should be numbered sequentially through the text without using any section number.

• Tables and figures in the Appendices sections must be numbered independently from the main text of the manuscript.
Example: The number of the 1st figure of Appendices 1 should be: Figure A1

Example: The number of the 1st table of Appendices 1 should be: Table A1

Color

• Use of color in the tables and figures is possible.

Terminology and Units

• Internationally accepted units and terminology standards are strongly encouraged. International system of units (SI) is requested to be used.

• If other units are mentioned, their equivalent in SI should be enclosed in parenthesis.

Footnotes

• To indicate additional information, footnotes can be included. Footnotes on the text should be cited in decimal numbers and formatted as superscript.

• Footnotes as usual should be written at the bottom of the page where the referenced text is placed on.

Citations and Quotations

• Citations should consist of the author’s surname with the first letter in capital and year of the publication in the form i.e. “(Surname, year)” or “Surname (year)”. In cases where the cited reference has two authors the word, “and” should be inserted between the surnames. In cases where the cited reference has more than two authors the phrase “et al.” should be inserted between the first author’s surname and the year of the publication. If cited text in the manuscript only refers to one page of the reference, then the page number of the reference should be given after the year of the publication by a comma between the year and the page number. Samples are given below.

Examples:
According to Ozalp (2013) ...

From the model of Vanicek and Kleusberg (1987) ...

Considering the research results of Pavlis et al. (2008) ...

In Comert (2002) ...

… (Bostanci, 1995).

… (Pursell and Potterfield, 2008).

… (Akinci, 2005; Dogan et al. 1992).

… (Tapley et al. 2005).

References

• References should be in APA format.

• References should be arranged in “References” section. Firstly, references should be ordered alphabetically according to the cited and quoted authors’ surname, then chronologically if necessary.

• Both References and Acknowledgements should not have section numbers.

• The name of articles listed in the References should be written in lowercase, except the first letter.

• For each reference, the second and following lines should be indented 0.5 cm to the right.

• Examples of different kinds of publications are given below.

Journal article:

Yilmaz, V., & Güngör, O. (2019). Estimating crown diameters in urban forests with Unmanned Aerial System-based photogrammetric point clouds. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 40(2), 468-505.

Fauci, A. S. (2002). Smallpox vaccination policy: The need for dialogue. New England Journal of Medicine, 346(17), 1319–1320.

Journal articles with DOI number:

Serifoglu Yilmaz, C., Yilmaz, V., Gungor, O., & Shan, J. (2019). Metaheuristic pansharpening based on symbiotic organisms search optimization. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2019.10.014.

Journal articles in press:

Yilmaz, V., Serifoglu Yilmaz, C., & Gungor, O. (in presss). Genetic algorithm-based synthetic variable ratio image fusion. Geocarto International. Retrieved from URL.

Book:

Pohl, C., & van Genderen, J. (2016). Remote sensing image fusion: A practical guide. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press.

Article or chapter in a book:

Haybron, D.M. (2008). Philosophy and the science of subjective well-being. In M. Eid & R.J. Larsen (Eds.), The science of subjective well-being (pp. 17–43). New York, NY: Guilford Press.

Nash, M. (1993). Malay. In P. Hockings (Ed.), Encyclopedia of world cultures (Vol. 5, pp. 174–176). New York, NY: G. K. Hall.

Conference paper:

Lee, D. J., Bates, D., Dromey, C., Xu, X., & Antani, S. (2003, June). An imaging system correlating lip shapes with tongue contact patterns for speech pathology research. In M. Krol, S. Mitra, & D. J. Lee (Eds.), CMBS 2003. Proceedings of the 16th IEEE symposium on computer-based medical systems (pp. 307–313). Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society.

Thesis or dissertation:

Gungor, O. (2008). Multi sensor multi resolution image fusion (Doctoral dissertation), Purdue University, USA.

Adams, R. J. (1973). Building a foundation for evaluation of instruction in higher education and continuing education (Doctoral dissertation). Retrieved from http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/

Oviedo, S. (1995). Adolescent pregnancy: Voices heard in the everyday lives of pregnant teenagers (Master’s thesis). University of North Texas, Denton, TX.

McNiel, D. S. (2006). Meaning through narrative: A personal narrative discussing growing up with an alcoholic mother (Master’s thesis). Available from ProQuest Dissertations and Theses database. (UMI No. 1434728)

Reports:

Author, A. A. (Year). Title of work (Report No. xxx). Place: Institution.

Feller, B. A. (1981). Health characteristics of persons with chronic activity limitation, United States, 1979 (Report No. VHS-SER-10/137). Hyattsville, MD: National Center for Health Statistics (US).

For reports retrieved online, identify the publisher as part of the retrieval statement unless the publisher has been identified as the author.

Kessy, S. S. A., & Urio, F. M. (2006). The contribution of microfinance institutions to poverty reduction in Tanzania (Research Report No. 06.3). Retrieved from Research on Poverty Alleviation website: http://www.repoa.or.tz/documents/publications/reports/06.3_Kessy_and_Urio.pdf

Online Sources:

When citing an entire website, it is sufficient just to give the address of the site in the text:

The BBC (http://www.bbc.co.uk).

Mitchell, S. D. (2000). The import of uncertainty. Retrieved from http://philsciarchive.pitt.edu/archive/00000162

Wright, J. (2007, May 5). Big stars have weather too. Retrieved from http://physics.org/articles/news/11/6/16/1.

USGS. (2019, October 12). What is remote sensing and what is it used for? Retrieved from https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/what-remote-sensing-and-what-it-used?qt-news_science_products=3#qt-news_science_products.

Ethical Principles and Publication Policy

Publication Ethics Statement

Turkish Journal of Remote Sensing and GIS (Turk J Remote Sens GIS) applies certain ethical standards for all publications in it to ensure high-quality scientific publications and public trust in the findings of scientific research. Turkish Journal of Remote Sensing and GIS accepts the rules and standards put out by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and we fully follow to its Code of Conduct and to its Best Practice Guidelines.

The editors of the Turkish Journal of Remote Sensing and GIS impose a demanding peer-review process together with strict ethical policies and standards to ensure improving high-quality scientific works in the related study area of scholarly publication. Against some unethical issues including cases of plagiarism, data falsification, image manipulation and inappropriate authorship credit, the editors of the Turkish Journal of Remote Sensing and GIS take such problems very seriously and are dedicated to proceed in such cases with a zero-tolerance policy.

Turkish Journal of Remote Sensing and GIS is committed to objective and fair blind peer reviews of submitted papers and the prevention of any actual or potential conflicts of interest between writers and reviewers.

Submitting authors must confirm the following:

1. Manuscripts must be the original work of the submitting author.

2. Submitted manuscripts must be unpublished and it should not contain any information that has already been published.

3. Any facts that might be perceived as a possible conflict of interest of the author(s) must be disclosed in the paper prior to submission.

4. The authors should cite all data sources used in the preparation of the manuscript.

5. Authors should accurately present their research findings and include an objective discussion of the significance of their findings.

6. Data and methods used in the research need to be presented in sufficient detail in the paper, so that other researchers can replicate the work.

7. Authors need to at least have the raw data readily available for presentation to the referees and the editors of the journal, if requested.

8. Republishing content that is not novel is not tolerated (for example, an English translation of a paper that is already published in another language will not be accepted).

9. If errors and inaccuracies are found by the authors after publication of their paper, they need to be promptly communicated to the editors of this journal so that appropriate actions can be taken.

10. Plagiarism, data fabrication and image manipulation are not tolerated.

Please note: It is unethical to submit a manuscript to more than one journal concurrently.

Reviewers must confirm the following:

1. Manuscripts are reviewed fairly based on the intellectual content of the paper regardless of gender, race, ethnicity, religion, citizenship or political view of the author(s).

2. Any observed conflict of interest during the review process must be sent to the editor.

3. Information pertaining to the manuscript is kept confidential.

4. Information that may be a cause for rejection of publication must be sent to the editor.

Editors must confirm the following:

1. Manuscripts are reviewed fairly based on the intellectual content of the paper regardless of gender, race, ethnicity, religion, citizenship or political view of the author(s).

2. Information pertaining to manuscripts is kept confidential.

3. Any observed conflict of interest pertaining manuscripts must be disclosed.