Articles submitted to the journal should be studies with the following characteristics:

*Research studies containing original scientific findings,

*Studies that convey application examples with a scientific approach,

*It should be in the form of review studies that comprehensively evaluate significant developments on a particular subject.

Additionally, as of the second issue of 2025, our journal will only accept manuscripts written in English. Therefore, all submissions must be prepared in English.
Articles should be uploaded electronically to the system at https://dergipark.org.tr/en/journal/3138/submission/start

You can use a template file that follows the writing guidelines as a guide when you write your article. Please click the file below to view a template article.

  Template Article  (docx)

Files Waiting to be Sent with the Article

 While your article is uploaded to the system, your plagarism report will be created via the "intihal.net" system. After your plagarism report created your article upload will be copmleted. Click for detailed information about "intihal.net".  If any manuscript is 25% plagiarized the article will be rejected and the author will be notified.

The copyright of the article remains with the author(s). By filling and signing the Copyright Agreement Form presented on the journal website, the author(s) grant the journal the right of first publication of the article. The signed Copyright Agreement Form must be downloaded from here, signed, scanned, and uploaded to the system as a PDF. Publications of author(s) who do not submit this form cannot be published.

3-Ethics Committee Permission (If required)

An Ethics Committee Permission document must be submitted for the publication application of articles that require ethics committee approval. 

Please inform the Turkish Journal of Remote Sensing whether your study requires Ethics Committee Approval by filling out the Ethics Committee Declaration section within the Copyright Form.

The Turkish Journal of Remote Sensing has been checking the ethical committee approval status of articles submitted since 2020. In this context, if your study falls into a category that requires ethical committee approval, you must upload the permission document along with your article files. Studies submitted to the journal that require ethical committee approval but lack the necessary permission documents will not be considered for evaluation.

Writing rules;

You can use the following rules and sample file written in accordance with the spelling rules while writing your article.

Abstract should be a single paragraph of about 300 words maximum. Also, it should be Cambria 9 font size, written justified and single line spaced.  Keywords should consist of at least 3 and a maximum of 5 words. Except for proper names and abbreviations, all words should be written in lower case.

Please select the appropriate roles for each author from the list below:
Conceptualization
Methodology
Software
Validation
Formal analysis
Investigation
Resources
Data Curation
Writing—Original Draft
Writing—Review & Editing
Visualization
Supervision
Project Administration
Funding Acquisition

Below are examples of how to format this section:

Single Author
For manuscripts with a single author, please use the following statement:
"The author confirms sole responsibility for the following: study conception and design, data collection, analysis and interpretation of results, and manuscript preparation."

Two or More Authors
Please list authors' contributions using their names or initials as shown in the examples below:
Example Configuration :
Author 1: Conceptualization, Methodology,
Author 3: Writing—review and editing.
Author 3: Software, Data curation, Writing—original draft preparation.
Author 4: Visualization, Writing—review and editing.

All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.

Funding: Please indicate whether the study is supported by an institution or not.
Example: “This study received no external funding” or “This study was funded by NAME OF FUNDER, grant number XXX”

Research and publication ethics statement: In the study, the author/s declare that there is no violation of research and publication ethics and that the study does not require ethics committee approval. (If exists will be notified)

Conflicts of Interest: Declare conflicts of interest or state “The authors declare no conflicts of interest.”. (If exists will be notified)

Data Availability: Authors should select the most appropriate Data Availability statement based on the nature of their study and data accessibility.
Example:” The data presented in this study are available on request from the corresponding author.”
“The data associated with this study are not publicly available due to privacy, institutional, or technical restrictions”

Abbreviations: (Optional)

References, tables, figures to be used must be prepared in accordance with APA 7. Articles that do not comply with the rules of writing and APA are eliminated in the first stage by the editor. You should review your references and check their compliance with APA 7.  Some expamlpes of citations/references are given below;

References within the text;

(1) (Orhan, 2021). (Çoruhlu & Çelik, 2022). (Orhan et al., 2023; Zheng et al., 2025)
(2) Orhan (2021) stated…, As stated by Çelik et al. (2024)…

Articles
Surname, N., Surname, N., & Surname, N. (Year). Name of the article. Journal’s name, Vol(No), pp. XX-XX. (If there is doi)

Orhan, O. (2021). Land suitability determination for citrus cultivation using a GIS-based multi-criteria analysis in Mersin, Turkey. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 190, 106433. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compag.2021.106433
Çoruhlu, Y. E., & Çelik, M. Ö. (2022). Protected area geographical management model from design to implementation for specially protected environment area. Land Use Policy, 122, 106357. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2022.106357

Books
Orhan, O., & Makineci, H. B. (2023). Agricultural land suitability analysis. Encyclopedia of Smart Agriculture Technologies. Springer.

e-Books
Brück, M. (2009). Women in early British and Irish astronomy: Stars and satellites. Springer Nature. https:/doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2473-2

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Contact:

Address: Mersin University, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Geomatics Engineering, 

Çiftlikköy Campus, 33343, Yenişehir/Mersin, Turkey