Geographic Information System and Remote Sensing Research Department was established in year 1997 through "In situ conservation of genetic variabilitiy Project" which is supported by GEF fund of World Bank. There are ESRI- ArcGis and Erdas Imagine software licences and necessary hardware at the department. There are also NOAA-HRPT receiving station at the department. NOAA HRPT images are daily received and archieved as raw and processed data. Those images are used for drought monitoring and wheat crop yield prediction studies. The department is under General Directorate of Agricultural Research, Central Research Institute for Field Crops, Ankara, TURKEY.
Study areas
. Agrometeorological simulation modelling and crop yield forecasting,
• Geospatial decision support for drought risk management,
• Determining of agroecological zoning and crop suitability areas,
• Land use classification with remote sensing data
• Rangeland classsification and mapping
• Climate change and drought monitoring
Some of the projects completed
• National Grassland Management And Rehabilitation Project,(funded by national budget)
• Cereals Production and Yield Forecasting Project, (funded by FAO)
• Determining Olive Growing Areas and Establishing Olive Database of Balıkesir-Burhaniye in Turkey, (funded partly by Joint Research Center-JRC)
• Agricultural Yield Monitoring And Prediction System Project-,(funded by national budget)
• Development of Methods For Sustainable Rangeland Management Project in Accordance With The European Union Rural Development Regulation in Central Anatolia Region, ,(funded by Dutch government under the MATTRA government to government program)
• Investigation of The Topography Effect And Determination of Hazelnut Areas For Alternative Agricultural Products Conformity, (funded partly by Joint Research Center-JRC)
• Determination of Product Pattern And Yield of Sunflower in Edirne, (funded by national budget)
• Detection of Cotton Plantings Fields With Remote Sensing,(funded by national budget)
• Pollution Monitoring in The Gulf of Mugla Gulluk
• Determınatıon of Potential Cherry Growıng Areas in Seyhan Rıver Basın
