Biography

Mustafa Üstüner is an assistant professor at Dept. of Climate Science and Meteorological Engineering at Samsun University. Also, he was appointed as an associate member of the Institute for Biodiversity and Sustainable Development (IBSD), Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia.

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 with multi-sensor EO data for environmental monitoring and assessment.

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.