Developing Environment Friendly Transportation Networks

Lateral Load Resistance-Deflection of Piles Under Earthquake Excitation is Investigated in ITU Structural and Earthquake Engineering Laboratory

The purpose of this project, in which the shaking table in the Structural and Earthquake Engineering Laboratory of our faculty is used, is to develop soil-pile resistance-deflection (p-y) relation especially for group piles in sands under seismic waves propagating through the soil from the bedrock. Unlike the current studies in the literature, the effect of nonlinear dynamic behavior of the soil during seismic waves propagating from the bedrock toward the surface on the p-y curves will be investigated and the p-y relationships will be developed for piles in a group (without the group effect) instead of using the p-y relations for single piles.

National Satellite GÖKTÜRK is Used in Bathymetry Modeling of Horseshoe Island

In this study supported by TUBITAK, an 'Experimental' Satellite-based Bathymetry Model will be constructed for the Horseshoe Island shallow waters. Within the scope of the performance analysis, comparative tests will be carried out with the Landsat-8 and Sentinel-2 satellite datasets, whose resolution has been increased through Generative Adversarial Networks', and the satellite data obtained with the national satellite Göktürk.

Monitoring Climate Changes in the Antarctic Region with Navigation Satellite Systems

In recent years, advanced remote sensing technologies based on space geodetic techniques has become an effective supporting tool for monitoring global climate change by important parameters such as atmospheric water vapor, sea, ice and snow levels. In this context, GNSS Meteorology and GNSS Reflectometry techniques evolved based on satellite navigation signals are widely used for monitoring the Earth's surface and atmosphere characteristics. The main purpose of the project is observing meteorological and physical parameters such as water vapor in the atmosphere and ice/sea level changes in the Horseshoe Island, Antarctica to contribute climate change monitoring.

Glaciers in Antarctic Continent are Monitored and Modeled with UAVs

The Antarctic Continent is a very important region for observing climate change and its evolution over time. The studies investigate the climate change prove that with the melting of the glaciers and the rise of the water, which is formed by the disruption of the radiation balance of atmosphere, more than 1 billion people will be affected by this situation in the near future. Therefore, long-term monitoring of glaciers is very important for the analysis of climate change impacts. For this purpose, the melting of glaciers and the topographic structure will be observed by comprehensive data collection methods including UAV 3D laser scanning, UAV Photogrammetry and UHA GPR technologies within the scope of the international project (Project No: 121N033) supported within the scope of bilateral cooperation between TUBITAK and BAS (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences).