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Journal Papers

Aysenur Ozcan, Ugur Murat Leloglu, Lutfi Suzen, Early Yield Estimation by Photosynthetic Pigment Abundances using Landsat 8 Image Series, Geocarto International, 2021 (SCIE)

B. Gulmez, F. Demirtas, I. Yildirim, U.M. Leloglu, M. Yaman, E. T. Guneyi, A Method to Enhance Homogeneous Distribution of Matched Features for Image Matching, International Journal of Environment and Geoinformatics, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 102-107, Apr. 2020

Khitem Amiri, Mohamed Farah, Ugur Murat Leloglu, BoSG: Bag of Subgraphs for Remote Sensing Scene Classification, International Journal of Remote Sensing, vol. 41, no. 5, pp. 1986-2003, 2020 (SCIE)

Serkan Kaya, Ugur Murat Leloglu, Gulsah Tumuklu Ozyer, Robust Detection of Landmines from Thermal Image Time Series Using Hough Transform and HOG Features, International Journal of Remote Sensing (SCIE)

Ayfer Ozdemir, Ugur Murat Leloglu, A fast and automated hydrologic calibration tool for SWAT , Water and Environment Journal, 2019 (SCIE)

Emre Akyilmaz, Ugur Murat Leloglu, Similarity Ratio Based Adaptive Mahalanobis Distance Algorithm to Generate SAR Superpixels, Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing, vol. 43, no. 6, pp. 569-581, 2017 (SCIE)

Ayfer Ozdemir, Ugur Murat Leloglu, Karim C. Abbaspour, Hierarchical Approach to Hydrological Model Calibration, Environmental Earth Sciences, vol. 76, no. 8, p. 318, 2017 (SCIE)

Serkan Kaya, Ugur Murat Leloglu,Buried and Surface Mine Detection from Thermal Image Time Series, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, vol. 10, no. 10, pp. 4544 - 4552, Oct. 2017 (SCIE)

Emre Akyilmaz, Ugur Murat Leloglu,Segmentation of SAR Images using Similarity Ratios for Generating and Clustering Superpixels, Electronics Letters, vol. 52, no. 8, pp. 654–656, April 2016 (letter, SCIE)

Ugur Murat Leloglu, Characterization of Tool Marks on Cartridge Cases by Combining Multiple Images, IET Image Processing, vol. 6, no. 7, pp. 854-862, October 2012. (SCIE)

Ufuk Sakarya, Osman Topcu, Ugur Murat Leloglu, Medeni Soysal, Erol Tunali, Automated Region Segmentation on Cartridge-Case Base, Forensic Science International, vol. 222, no. 1-3, pp. 277-287.2012. (SCIE)

Selime Gürol, Irina Behnert, Hilal Ozen, Andrew Deadman, Nigel Fox, Ugur Murat Leloglu, Tuz Gölü, New CEOS Reference Standard Test Site for Infrared Visible Optical Sensors, Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing, vol. 36, no. 5, pp. 553-565, 2010. (SCI-Expande)

Susan Jason, Alex da Silva Curiel, Doug Liddle, Francis Chizea, Ugur Murat Leloglu, Mustafa Helvaci, Mohammed Bekhti, Djouad Benachir, Lee Boland, Luis Gomes, Martin Sweeting, Capacity Building in Emerging Space Nations: Experiences, Challenges and Benefits, Advances in Space Research, v. 46, issue 5, 571-581, September 2010. (SCI)

Ugur Murat Leloglu, Erol Kocaoglan, Establishing Space Industry in Developing Countries: Opportunities and Difficulties, Advances in Space Research, v. 42, issue 11, 1879-1886, December 2008. (SCI)

Ufuk Sakarya, Ugur Murat Leloglu, Erol Tunali, Three-Dimensional Surface Reconstruction for Cartridge Cases Using Photometric Stereo, Forensic Science International, volume 175, number 2-3, 209-217, March 2008. (SCI)

Ugur Murat Leloglu, Erol Tunali, On-Orbit Modulation Transfer Function Estimation for BILSAT Imagers, Revue Française de Photogrammétrie et de Télédétection, Issue 181, pp. 45-51, October 2006. (Engineering Index)

Chapter in Book

Ugur Murat Leloglu, Baris Gençay, How Newcomers will Participate in Space Exploration, in Space Science, Ed. Herman J. Mosquera Cuesta (Ed.), ISBN: 978-953-51-0423-0, InTech, 2012.

Proceedings

Semiha Demirbas Caglayan, Ugur Murat Leloglu, Can Bilgin, Lars Waser, Achilleas Psomas, Christian Ginzler, Mapping Compositional Diversity in Mediterranean Sparse Forests Using Sentinel-2 Imagery, 10th IALE World Conference, Milano, Italy, July 1-5, 2019. (abstract, oral presentation)

B. Gulmez, F. Demirtas, I. Yildirim, U.M. Leloglu, M. Yaman, E. T. Guneyi, A Method to Enhance Homogeneous Distribution of Matched Features for Image Matching,, 10th Technical Symposium of Turkish National Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Aksaray, Turkey, April 25-27, 2019. (full manuscript, oral presentation)

F. Demirtas, B. Gulmez, I. Yildirim, U.M. Leloglu, M. Yaman, E. T. Guneyi, M. Yaman, E. T. Guneyi, Investigation of the Effects of False Matches and Distribution of the Matched Keypoints on The PnP Algorithm,, 10th Technical Symposium of Turkish National Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Aksaray, Turkey, April 25-27, 2019. (full manuscript, oral presentation)

I. Yildirim, F. Demirtas, B. Gulmez, U.M. Leloglu, M. Yaman, E. T. Guneyi, M. Yaman, E. T. Guneyi, Comparison of Image Matching Algorithms on Satellite Images Taken in Different Seasons,, 10th Technical Symposium of Turkish National Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Aksaray, Turkey, April 25-27, 2019. (full manuscript, oral presentation)

Ugur Murat Leloglu, Erol Tunali, Wide-Area Spaceborne Maritime Surveillance System, 8th International Conference on Recent Advances in Space Technologies (RAST) 2017, Istanbul, Turkey, pp. 507-511, 19-22 June 2017.

Can Demirkesen, Ugur Murat Leloglu, Estimation of Noise Model Parameters for Images Taken by a Full-Frame Hyperspectral Camera, SPIE Remote Sensing 2015, Toulouse, France, 21-24 September 2015.

Can Demirkesen, Ugur Murat Leloglu,Information Theoretic SAR Boundary Detection with User Interaction , SPIE Remote Sensing 2015, Toulouse, France, 21-24 September 2015.

Ugur Murat Leloglu, Erol Tunali, Yüksel Subasi,A Compact Imager Design Concept for Micro/Nanosatellites Using Scanning Mirrors, 7th International Conference on Recent Advances in Space Technologies (RAST) 2015, Istanbul, Turkey, 16-19 June 2015.

Ayfer Özdemir, Ugur Murat Leloglu, Climate Change Impact Assessment on River Basin: Sarisu-Eylikler River, Turkey, 2nd International Sustainable Watershed Management Conference, SuWaMa 2014, Sarigerme, Turkey, 13-17 October 2014.

Can Demirkesen, Ugur Murat Leloglu, Noise Estimation for Hyperspectral Imagery using Spectral Unmixing and Synthesis, SPIE Remote Sensing Conference, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 22-25 September 2014.

Hilal Özen, Nigel Fox, Ugur Murat Leloglu, Irina Behnert, Andrew Deadman, The 2010 Tuz Golu Field Campaign—An Overview, IGARSS 2011, Vancouver, Canada, 24-29 July 2011.

Larry Leigh, Dennis Helder, Irina Behnert, Andrew Deadman, Nigel Fox, Ugur Murat Leloglu, Hilal Özen, Derek Griffith, Tuz Gölü Site Characteristics, IGARSS 2011, Vancouver, Canada, 24-29 July 2011.

Ugur Murat Leloglu, Baris Gençay, Newcomers Pave the Way to Space Exploration, The Fourth International Symposium on Strategy and Security Studies: Space Security and Aviation Technologies, Istanbul, Turkey, 14 April 2011 (keynote speaker).

U. Sakarya, s. A. Es, U. M. Leloglu, E. Tunali, Ö. Birgül, A Case Study of an Automated Firearms Identification System: BALİSTİKA 2010, BIT’s 1st Annual World Congress of Forensics (WCF-2010), Dalian, China, October 21-23, 2010 (abstract only).

U. M. Leloglu, S. Z. Gürbüz, H. Özen, S. Gürol, Characterization of the Spatial Uniformity of the Tuz Gölü Calibration Test Site, ISPRS Istanbul Workshop 2010, WG I/4: Modeling of Optical Airborne and Spaceborne Sensors, Istanbul, Turkey, October 11 – 13, 2010.

Ugur Murat Leloglu, Latecomer Advantage In Space Technologies: A Posse Ad Esse, Data Systems in Aerospace, DASIA 2009, Istanbul, Turkey, 26-29 May 2009, CD-ROM (invited talk).

Selime Gürol, Hilal Özen, Ugur Murat Leloglu, Erol Tunali, Tuz Gölü: New Absolute Radiometric Calibration Test Site, ISPRS Congress, Beijing, China, July 3-11, 2008.

Ugur Murat Leloglu, The Small Satellite Odyssey of Turkey, International Workshop on Small Satellites, New Missions and New Technologies, SSW08, Istanbul, 05-07 June 2008 (invited talk).

Gökhan Yüksel, Altug Okan, Ugur Murat Leloglu, First LEO Satellite Built in Turkey: RASAT, 3rd International Conference on Recent Advances in Space Technologies (RAST) 2007, Istanbul, Turkey, 14-16 June 2007.

Orhan sengül, Ugur Murat Leloglu, Erol Tunali, Mustafa Sancay Kirik, Neslin İsmailoglu, Refik Sever, ÇOBAN: Design of Multi-Spectral Opto-Electronic Satellite Camera System, 3rd International Conference on Recent Advances in Space Technologies (RAST) 2007, Istanbul, Turkey, 14-16 June 2007.

Ugur Murat Leloglu, Erol Tunali, On-Orbit Modulation Transfer Function Estimation for BILSAT Imagers, ISPRS Commission 1 Symposium: From Sensors to Imagery, Marne-la-Vallée, Paris, France, July 4-6, 2006, CD-ROM. (Also published in Revue Francaise de Photogrammetrie et de Teledetection, Issue 181, pp. 45-51, October 2006.)

Jurgen Friedrich, Ugur Murat Leloglu, Erol Tunali, Radiometric Camera Calibration of BiLSAT Small Satellite: Preliminary Results, ISPRS Topographic Mapping from Space (with Special Emphasis on Small Satellites), Ankara, Turkey, February 14-16, 2006, CD-ROM.

Jurgen Friedrich, Ugur Murat Leloglu, Erol Tunali, Geometric Camera Calibration of BiLSAT Small Satellite: Preliminary Results, ISPRS Topographic Mapping from Space (with Special Emphasis on Small Satellites), Ankara, Turkey, February 14-16, 2006, CD-ROM.

Ugur Murat Leloglu, Turkish Space Activities and Regional Collaboration for Peaceful Use of Space, 14th International Symposium on Remote Sensing and Development, Damascus, Syria, 27 - 30 September 2004 (abstract only).

Ugur Murat Leloglu, Erol Kocaoglan, Space Technology Transfer to Developing Countries: Opportunities and Difficulties, 35th COSPAR Scientific Assembly, Developing Countries Space Missions, Results and Future Prospects Panel, Paris, France, 18 - 25 July 2004 (abstract only).

Ugur Murat Leloglu, Ufuk Sakarya, Faik Boray Tek, Onur Çilingir, A New Automated Firearms Identification System using 3D Information-BALISTIKA, Proceedings of the 3rd European Academy of Forensic Science Meeting, Istanbul, Turkey, 22-27 September 2003 (abstract only).

Ugur Murat Leloglu, Ufuk Sakarya, Faik Boray Tek, Onur Çilingir, Erol Tunali, A Comparative Performance Test of A New Ballistic Analysis System-BALISTIKA, Proceedings of the 3rd European Academy of Forensic Science Meeting, Istanbul, Turkey, 22-27 September 2003 (abstract only).

Ugur M. Leloglu, Erol Tunali, F. Sancar Ozaner, Creation of A Low-Cost Digital Photogrammetry for Monitoring Coastal Zones of Turkey, RSLUCoast1, Studying Land Use Effects in Coastal Zones with Remote Sensing and GIS, Kemer, Antalya, pp. 71-79, 13-16 August 2003.

Murat Deviren, M. Koray Balci, Ugur M. Leloglu, Mete Severcan, A Feature Extraction Method for Marble Tile Classification, Third International Conference on Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition & Image Processing (CVPRIP 2000), Atlantic City, USA, pp 25-28, Feb. 27 - March 3, 2000.

Ugur M. Leloglu, Ugur Halici, Multi-Image Region Growing for Integrating Disparity Maps, 8th International Conference on Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns (CAIP’99), Ljubljana, Slovenia, September 1-3 1999.

Maxim Fradkin, Michel Roux, Henri Maître, Ugur M. Leloglu, Surface Reconstruction from Multiple Aerial Images in Dense Urban Areas, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR’99), Fort Collins, Colorado, USA, June 23-25, 1999.

Ugur M. Leloglu, Michel Roux, Henri Maître, Dense Urban DEM with Three or More High-Resolution Aerial Images, ISPRS Commission IV Symposium: GIS-Between Visions and Applications, Stuttgart, Germany, September 7-10, 1998.

Ugur M. Leloglu, Natural versus Artificial Stereo Depth Perception, Hints from life to Artificial Intelligence, ed. Ugur Halici, Artificial Neural Networks & Artificial Life Symposium, METU, Ankara, Turkey, December 15, 1994.

Ugur M. Leloglu, Dense Stereo Correspondence Using Elastic Nets, Second Turkish Artificial Intelligence and Artificial Neural Networks Symposium (TAIANN’93), Bogaziçi University, İstanbul, Turkey, June 24-25, 1993.

Publications in Turkish

Leili Nabdel, Semiha Demirbas Caglayan, Ugur S. Zeydanli, Ugur Murat Leloglu, Detection of Dry Steppes from Multispectral Image Series (in Turkish), VII. (National) Remote Sensing and Geographical Information Systems Symposium (UZAL-CBS 2018), Eskisehir, Sept. 18-21, 2018.

Mustafa Pesen, Ugur Murat Leloglu, Three-Dimensional Reconstruction and Visualization of Weather Radar Images (in Turkish), VII. (National) Remote Sensing and Geographical Information Systems Symposium (UZAL-CBS 2018), Eskisehir, Sept. 18-21, 2018.

Caner Demirpolat, Ugur Murat Leloglu, Barley Yield Estimation with Sentinel-2 Vegetation Indices (in Turkish), 2018 IEEE 26th Signal Processing and Communication Application Conference (SIU 2018), Izmir, Turkey, May 2-5, 2018.

İlker Gürcan, Mustafa Teke, Ugur Murat Leloglu, Land use/land cover classification for Göktürk-2 satellite , 2016 IEEE 24th Signal Processing and Communication Application Conference (SIU), 2097-2100, 2016.

Can Demirkesen, Ugur Murat Leloglu, Destriping of Hyperion Images (in Turkish), 2015 23th Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference (SIU), Malatya, Turkey, May 16-19, 2015.

Ali Ömer Kozal, Ugur Murat Leloglu, 3D Reconstruction from GÖKTÜRK-2 Images (in Turkish), National Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Association of Turkey, VIII. Symposium, Konya, Turkey, May 21-23, 2015.

Erol Tunali, Ugur Murat Leloglu, Recent Developments in Intra Satellite Free Space Optical Communication, 7. Congress of Defence Technologies (in Turkish), SAVTEK 2014, Ankara, June 25-27, 2014.

Ayfer Özdemir, Ugur Murat Leloglu, Bathymetry and Water Quality Measurement of Shallow Waters using Hyperion: Serçin Lake (in Turkish), IEEE 22nd Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference, SİU 2014, p. 2023-2026, Trabzon, Turkey, April 23-25, 2014.

Eylem Kaba, Ugur Murat Leloglu, Quantitative Monitoring of Soil Erosion using Remote Sensing Techniques (in Turkish), 3rd Geological Remote Sensing Symposium (National), JEOUZAL 2014, Antalya, Turkey, March 13-14, 2014 (Abstract).

Cansu Gönülalan, Ugur Murat Leloglu, Ufuk Sakarya, Global Shape Characteristics Based Classification for Firearm Brand Detection (in Turkish), SİU 2012, Mugla, Turkey, April 18-20, 2012.

Hilal Özen, Selime Gürol, Ugur Murat Leloglu, Erol Tunali, Homogeneity Analyses of Tuz Gölü from Satellite Images and in-situ Data (in Turkish), TUFUAB2009, V. Technical Symposium, Ankara, February 4-6, 2009.

Gökhan Yüksel, Ugur Murat Leloglu, Selime Gürol, Erol Tunali, TÜBİTAK-UZAY Studies on Earth Observation Satellites and Data Dissemination Policies (in Turkish), UZAL-CBS-2006, Istanbul, November 27-29, 2006.

Gökhan Yüksel , Altug Okan, Levent Ertürk, Önder Belce, Ugur Murat Leloglu, First Turkish Made Small Satellite: RASAT (in Turkish), Birinci Ulusal Havacilik ve Uzay Konferansi, ODTÜ, Ankara, 21-23 Eylül 2006, CD-ROM.

Ugur Murat Leloglu, Erol Tunali, Gülbin Dural, Small Satellite Technologies for Earth Observation and Turkey’s Path (in Turkish), Strategical Relations in Defense Industry, Bilkent Hotel, Ankara, 10-11 December 2002.

Erol Tunali, Haluk Zontul, Gökhan Yüksel, Ugur M. Leloglu, Small Satellites for Earth Observation, their use for Defense and BILSAT (in Turkish), Defense Technologies Congress, METU, Ankara, 24-25 October 2002.

Oktay Algün, Ugur Murat Leloglu, Mustafa Türker, Processing of Satellite Images (in Turkish), First Turkish Space Symposium, Ankara, Turkey, 30-31 May 2001.

Ugur M. Leloglu, Murat Deviren, Cem Sermen, M. Koray Balci, Automatical Matching of Striation Marks on Bullets (in Turkish), 8th Symposium of Signal Processing and Applications (SİU’2000), Antalya, Turkey, June 12-14, 2000.

Murat Deviren, M. Koray Balci, Ugur M. Leloglu, Mete Severcan, A Feature Extraction Algorithm for Marble Classification (in Turkish), 7th Symposium of Signal Processing and Applications (SİU’99), Ankara, Turkey, June 17-19, 1999.

Ugur M. Leloglu, Ugur Halici, Kemal Leblebicioglu, Volkan Atalay, Use of Partial Building Models as a Constraint in Image Matching (in Turkish), 7th Symposium of Signal Processing and Applications (SİU’99), Ankara, Turkey, June 17-19, 1999.

Ugur Murat Leloglu, Devrim Önder, Mete Severcan, BALİSTİKA: A Ballistic Analysis, Imaging and Recognition System (in Turkish), II. Forensic Sciences Symposium: Ballistic, İzmir, April 4-5 l997. (Ege Üniversitesi Basimevi, 1998)

Ugur Murat Leloglu, Mete Severcan, A Thin-Plate Model for Stereo Correspondence (in Turkish), 4th Symposium of Signal Processing and Applications (SİU’96), Kemer, Antalya, Turkey, April 5-6 1996.

Ugur Halici, Varol Akman, Ugur M. Leloglu, Main Trends in Artificial Intelligence and Philosophical Problems (in Turkish), Social, Philosophical and Legal Aspects of Artificial Intelligence, eds. Ugur Halici & Göktürk Üçoluk, ODTÜ, Ankara, Turkey, May 13, 1993.

Publications in Turkish (Hobby Related)

Koray Tork, Tulga Sener, Emrah Oztekin, Ugur Murat Leloglu, Birhan Altay, Deep Cave Potential of Geyik Mountain Range (Gündoğmuş-Antalya) (Geyik Dağları Kuşağı’nın (Gündoğmuş-Antalya) Derin Mağara Potansiyeli), 5th National Speleology Symposium, Istanbul, March 18-21, 2011.

Ugur Murat Leloglu, Kubilay Erdogan, A. Bahar Haser, Results of Cave Research Society Altintas Plateu Expedition (Mağara Araştırma Derneği Altıntaş Yaylası Araştırma Etkinlikleri Sonuçları), 4th National Speleology Symposium, Ankara, February 21-24 ,2008.

Ugur Murat Leloglu, Vedat Gun, Use of Single Wire Telephone in Caves: Lessons Learned (Bir Deneyimin Işığında Mağarada Tek Tel Telefon Kullanımı), 4th National Speleology Symposium, Ankara, February 21-24 ,2008.

Ugur Murat Leloglu, Caves in Evliya Celebi Travel Book (Evliya Çelebi Seyahatnamesi’nde Mağaralar), 3rd National Speleology Symposium, Hacettepe University, Ankara, November 20-21, 1999.

Ugur Murat Leloglu, Latest Developments in Cave Electronics (Mağara Elektroniğinde Son Gelişmeler), 3rd National Speleology Symposium, Hacettepe University, Ankara, November 20-21, 1999.

International Patents

Ufuk Sakarya, Ugur Murat Leloglu, Osman Topçu, Hasan Saygin Arkan, Mehmet Ziya Kadioglu, Sinan Canga, sükrü Alphan Es, Shape Index and Polynomial Coefficient Based Pattern Analysis and Comparison Method for Cartridge Cases and Bullets in Forensic Science (EPO, Priority date: 06/06/2012).

Ugur Murat Leloglu, Ufuk Sakarya, Erol Tunali; Method for Automatic Region Segmentation on Cartridge Case Base and Selection of the Best Mark Region for Cartridge Case Comparison (EPO Published: 02.03.2011).

Erol Tunali, Ugur M. Leloglu, Apparatus and method for Arranging Plaques into the Same Orientation, TR 200302373 B, EP1517758, (EPO Published: 30.03.2005, Granted: 22.08.2007).

National Patents

Ugur Murat Leloglu, Ufuk Sakarya, Erol Tunali; A Method for Analysis and Comparison of Criminologically Useful Marks that are created by Metal-Metal Interaction. (Priority: 16.4.2008 2008/02625)