Biography

Mustafa Üstüner is an assistant professor at Dept. of Climate Science and Meteorological Engineering at Samsun University.

Mustafa obtained his PhD from the Department of Geomatic Engineering at Yildiz Technical University, and was a visiting researcher in the Geo-Spatial Analytics Lab at the University of South Florida (USF), US and in the Department of Earth Observation, Institute of Geography at the Friedrich-Schiller-University of Jena (FSU Jena), Germany.

His research focuses on remote sensing for environmental monitoring and agricultural applications. His PhD thesis titled 'Crop Classification with Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar Images: Comparative Analysis', evaluated polarimetric features and target decomposition methods to improve crop classification using advanced machine learning techniques. More recently, he has been working on multi-sensor data and classification of hyperspectral and SAR images for land cover monitoring and assessment.

He has practical experience with a variety of geospatial tools and software, including ENVI, ArcGIS/QGIS, SNAP, and PolSARPro, for the processing and analysis of complex remote sensing data sets. Besides these tools, he uses programming languages such as Python and Matlab for the processing of remote sensing data as well as Latex for scientific writing.

As an editorial task, He has been serving as an associate editor for the European Journal of Remote Sensing and as one of the co-editors for the Turkish Journal of Remote Sensing. He received the award for Top Reviewers for Geosciences - September 2018 from Publons.