A5056900058- Risk and Safety Analysis
- Occupational Health and Safety Research
- Computational Physics and Python Applications
- Nuclear and radioactivity studies
- Disaster Management and Resilience
- Infrastructure Resilience and Vulnerability Analysis
- earthquake and tectonic studies
- Structural Response to Dynamic Loads
- Structural Integrity and Reliability Analysis
- Geographic Information Systems Studies
- Cryospheric studies and observations
- Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Applications and Techniques
- Climate variability and models
- Remote Sensing in Agriculture
- Landslides and related hazards
- Advanced Clustering Algorithms Research
- Environmental and Social Impact Assessments
- Mental Health Research Topics
- Chemical Safety and Risk Management
- Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing
- Engineering and Material Science Research
- Combustion and Detonation Processes
- Machine Learning and Data Classification
- Data-Driven Disease Surveillance
- Botany and Geology in Latin America and Caribbean
University of Twente
2022-2024
European Commission
2012-2019
Joint Research Centre
2014-2019
Middle East Technical University
2004-2013
Institut national de recherche en informatique et en automatique
2012
Incidents at U.S. onshore hazardous liquid pipeline systems were analyzed with an emphasis on natural hazards. triggered by hazards (natechs) identified keyword-based data mining and expert review supplemented various sources. The analysis covered about 7000 incidents in 1986–2012, 3800 of which regarded as significant based their consequences. 5.5% all 6.2% the found to be natechs that resulted a total substance release 317,700 bbl. Although there is no trend long-term yearly occurrence...
Natural hazard impacts on industrial activities handling hazardous substances can result in severe cascading events such as fires, explosions, and toxic or radioactive releases. These so-called Natech accidents are often overlooked regional national disaster risk management plans. National Risk Assessment (NRA) is a well-known instrument to identify, analyse compare wide range of risks with potential at extent. Increasingly complex comprehensive NRAs used globally for informed decision...
The devastating Kahramanmaraş earthquake sequence occurred on February 6, 2023. Two main events, Mw 7.8 and 7.5 nine hours apart, affected 11 cities in Turkey, subjected an area of ~90,000 km2 to shaking levels known trigger landslides (peak ground acceleration > 0.08 g). Extensive landsliding was expected given the hilly terrain by this significant shaking—about 15% topography is steeper than 20°—but not initially apparent early satellite imagery, mostly because snowfall that fell just...
Abstract. Natural-hazard triggered technological accidents (natechs) at industrial facilities have been recognized as an emerging risk. Adequate preparedness, proper emergency planning, and effective response are crucial for the prevention of natechs mitigation consequences. Under conditions a natural disaster, limited resources, possible unavailability measures, lack adequate communication complicate management natechs. The analysis past is learning lessons preventing or preparing future 17...
Industrial facilities and critical infrastructure are vulnerable to the impact of natural hazards. These impacts can trigger so-called Natech accidents release toxic substances, fires explosions, potentially resulting in health effects, environmental pollution economic losses. Different factors drive risk, including technical issues linked characteristics inherent events, as well risk governance socio-economic challenges. This paper discusses most important drivers detail, gives examples...
Landslide mapping is essential for hazard assessment and disaster response, methods based on Earth observation (EO) enable the of large areas impacted by major disasters.  These methods, however, often rely cloud-free optical images, which are rarely available in high-rainfall prone to landslides, delaying timely detection. Furthermore, mosaicking multiple consecutive images eliminate cloud cover discards valuable temporal information, such as actual timing landslide occurrences...
Abstract Urban centers are pivotal in shaping societies, yet a systematic global analysis of how countries organized around multiple urban is lacking. We enhance understanding by delineating city–regions worldwide, classifying over 30,000 into four tiers—town, small, intermediate and large city—based on population size mapping their catchment areas based travel time, differentiating between primary secondary city–regions. Here we identify 1,403 employing 3 h time cutoff increasing to 4,210...
Landslides cause severe damage to the built environment and communities, requiring effective hazard management. Landslide catalogs, which provide essential data on past landslide occurrences, are primary sources for this purpose. Furthermore, they enable training validation of predictive models.  Although catalogs largely compiled through manual mapping based expert judgement, various advanced techniques using optical Earth observation (EO) imagery have been developed automate...
This section focuses on the secondary sector, namely manufacturing and energy industries. These industries produce goods services that are consumed as final or intermediate services, necessary for activities in a society, while they also employ labour provide wages to households. Physical damage these not only leads shortage of produce, but causes declines income their forces. In addition, because globalised production networks well lean system employed various industries, business...
Khartoum, Sudan, is one of the fast-growing African metropolises, with a massive increase in its population from around 245,000 1956, to over 8 million 2022 (Khartoum State). This urban growth driven by rural-urban migration instigated climate change, conflicts, and forced displacement, pushing rural populations into areas. The growing often ends up deprived areas that lack adequate housing, services, infrastructure, etc. Spatial data support sustainable development strategies are limited....
Detecting and monitoring surface deformation using radar satellite data is vital in geohazard assessment. Sentinel-1 has provided unprecedented spatial temporal resolution, but processing complicated poses computational challenges. Although software tools exist, each with its own limitations. SNAP-ESA notable for user-friendly interface stable performance Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR). However, lacks a flexible approach generating interferometric time series stacks...
Management of contaminated sites is a critical environmental issue around the world due to human health risk involved for many and scarcity funding. Moreover, clean-up costs all their background levels with existing engineering technologies may be financially infeasible demand extended periods operation time. Given these constraints, achieve optimal utilization available funds prioritization that need immediate attention, health-risk-based soil quality guidelines should preferred over...
Natural-hazard triggered accidents at industrial facilities (natechs) are recognized as an emerging risk with possibly serious consequences. Risk maps helpful to identify natech hot spots. However, recent surveys showed that hardly any exist in the OECD and EU. A probabilistic mapping methodology for earthquakes was developed fill this gap implemented a web-based software tool: RAPID-N. The tool allows rapid assessment minimum data input. It can calculate on-site natural hazard parameters...
Abstract The European Union (EU)'s Nitrates Directive (ND) (91/676/EEC) aims to reduce water pollution caused or induced by nitrates from agricultural sources and prevent further such pollution. Turkey being a candidate country EU requires heavy cost investments in achieving approximation with Environmental Acquis. This study provides description of the technical measures investment assessment related implementation ND Turkey. As has not yet designated nitrate vulnerable zones (NVZs)...
The study investigates linguistic sexism in communication sports within a sociolinguistic context. starting point of the research is recent debate Turkish society about appropriate word to refer females sport. Specifically, manuscript focuses on preference between near-synonymous words kadın and bayan (the corresponding English are ‘woman’ ‘lady’) case describing We present theoretical background for gender language sources that explains multilayered meanings words. also findings supportive...