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Mapping Soil Functional Resilience in Mediterranean Ecosystems

Research Assistant at Isparta University of Applied Sciences

Isparta, Türkiye

About

Earth Observation-Driven Soil Resilience and Climate Adaptation Modelling for Mediterranean Agricultural Landscapes

I am seeking partners for Horizon CL6-2026 topics, particularly:

  • HORIZON-CL6-2026-03-GOVERNANCE-01 (Earth Intelligence and AI for sustainable competitiveness),

  • HORIZON-CL6-2026-01-BIODIV-01 (Living labs for ecosystem restoration), and

  • HORIZON-CL6-2026-03-GOVERNANCE-02 (Analytical capacity for social and agricultural systems).

My expertise includes digital soil mapping, geostatistics, ML-based soil property prediction, agro-climatic modelling (GDD, frost risk, chilling, heat stress), land degradation assessment, and Earth-observation-based soil health monitoring. I work extensively with high-resolution NetCDF climate projections, remote sensing datasets (Sentinel-2, Landsat, PlanetScope), soil profile databases, and yield modelling in Mediterranean agro-ecosystems.

I propose to contribute with:

  • EO-based soil condition and soil resilience indicators

  • AI-driven modelling pipelines for climate-smart agriculture

  • Integration of agro-climatic indices into decision-support frameworks

  • Fuzzy clustering & management zones for landscape-scale interventions

  • Multi-sensor data fusion for soil biodiversity and ecosystem restoration studies

I am open to joining consortiums as a researcher or work package contributor, especially in tasks related to soil sampling and mapping, soil monitoring studies (Now EU has a soil monitoring law, but Turkey no, but I'm detailed following from EU soil monitoring law proposal to approve stage) climate adaptation modelling, and data processing/analytics.

Key expertise: Soil Science, Soil survey, Digital soil mapping, EO, ML, climate modelling, SOC, pedology, AI for agriculture, resilience to climate change in Mediterranean biogeography.

Contact & Academic Profiles:
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0011-9020
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com.tr/citations?user=fgk2lhYAAAAJ&hl=tr&oi=ao
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Fuat-Kaya-4?ev=hdr_xprf
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fuat-kaya-40341bb6/

Stage

  • Early stage

Type

  • Partner looking for consortium

Organisation

Isparta University of Applied Sciences

University

Isparta, Türkiye

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