Dr. Khalil Valizadeh Kamran is currently working as a full Professor in the Department of Remote Sensing and GIS, University of Tabriz , Iran. His research interests includes Land use/Land cover classification, monitoring and change detection, Image processing, Thermal remote sensing, Remote sensing and GIS applied to climatology,Remote sensing and GIS application for Geohazard monitoring and risk assessment, SAR image processing, GIS based climatology. He is serving as an editorial member and reviewer of several international reputed journals. Prof. Dr. Khalil Valizadeh Kamran is the member of many international affiliations. He has successfully completed his Administrative responsibilities. He has authored of many research articles/books related to Land use.

I am guest researcher at Mersin University as a TUBITAK project

Murat Yakar was born in Mersin in 1968. He graduated from Selçuk University, Department of Geomatics Engineering in 1991, completed his PhD in 2002, and was promoted to full professor in 2017. An expert in photogrammetry and remote sensing, he has contributed to numerous international projects, including TIKA’s Mongolian Turkish Monuments Project, as well as nearly 50 national projects in Turkey. In 2017, he founded the Department of Geomatics Engineering at Mersin University, initiated several postgraduate programs, and played a leading role in launching major scientific congresses and international journals. He has authored 85 books, nearly 200 journal articles, and more than 200 conference papers, and continues to supervise graduate students in Turkey and abroad. Prof. Yakar currently serves at the Department of Geomatics Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Mersin University.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Orhan Ercan is a faculty member at Ankara University, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Department of Real Estate Development and Management. He received his B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in Geodesy and Photogrammetry Engineering from Yildiz Technical University, and was awarded the title of Associate Professor in Real Estate Development and Management in 2024.
Dr. Ercan served for many years at the General Directorate of Land Registry and Cadastre (TKGM), where he took leading roles in major national projects, including the Turkish National Spatial Data Infrastructure (TNSDI), the Land Registry and Cadastre Information System (TAKBIS), the Continuously Operating Reference Stations (CORS-TR), the Design of Macro-Level Agricultural Land Use Planning, And the Improvement of Soil Databases. He also contributed significantly to World Bank-funded programs, particularly in the completion of the national cadastre. In addition, he has been involved in several international projects in Libya, Saudi Arabia, the Netherlands, Switzerland, New Zealand, and Australia.
At the international level, Dr. Ercan has held distinguished positions such as Vice President of the International Federation of Surveyors (FIG), member of the UN Expert Group on Land Administration (UN-FELA), delegate of the Council of European Geodetic Surveyors (CLGE), and delegate of the Union of Mediterranean Surveyors (UMG).
He has published more than 60 papers and has been an invited keynote speaker in 13 countries. Combining extensive experience in public administration, private sector, and international organizations, his main fields of expertise include land administration, cadastre, land consolidation, spatial data infrastructures, and rural land management.