The İzmit Basin has developed under the control of North Anatolian Fault Zone (NAFZ). The basin is morphologically located in a plain between the Kocaeli Peneplane in the north and the Samanlıdağ Highlands in the south. NAFZ covering the study area in east west direction affects the region. Layers of sand and silty sand deposits are widespread in the alluvial basin. The groundwater level is con...

Recent times have seen a significant increase in the amount of readily available SAR data, with many current and historic SAR data holdings now adopting an open distribution policy. As more regular SAR observations are becoming available, the use of a hyper-temporal SAR change detection framework (utilizing a stack of potentially hundreds of SAR images) is now becoming significantly more feasib...

Nitrogen, phosphorus and sulphur are essential elements in all living matter and are found in varying proportions to carbon, depending on the chemical nature of the compounds in which they occur. A pattern for the circulation of these elements in nature developed when microorganisms, plants and animals appeared on earth. The pattern was set by the physical and chemical environment, by the chemi...