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Basics
| Name | Mustafa Kemal Emil |
| Label | Remote Sensing Scientist |
| mustafakemal.emil@wmich.edu | |
| Url | https://mkemalemil.github.io/ |
| Summary | A remote sensing scientist interested in geohazards, hydrology, surface processes and mineralogy |
Work
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2021.08 - Present Senior Reseach Associate
Geological and Environmental Sciences, Western Michigan University
Remote sensing data scientist and lab manager at Earth Sciences Remote Sensing Facility
- InSAR
- Hyperspectral
- Geospatial data science
Education
Awards
- 2022.01.01
WMU All-University Graduate Research and Creative Scholar Award
Western Michigan University Faculty Senate
The All-University Graduate Research and Creative Scholar Awards are the highest honors bestowed on graduate students by the University
Publications
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2024.07.18 Optimization of floodwater redistribution from Lake Nasser could recharge Egypt’s aquifers and mitigate its excessive floods
Nature Communications Earth & Environment
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2021.03.15 -
2021.02.14 -
2020.06.12 Paleozoic glaciation in NE Africa: field and remote sensing-based evidence from the South Eastern Desert of Egypt
International Geology Review
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2019.09 -
2019.08 Response of deep aquifers to climate variability
Science of The Total Environment
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2019.06.20 A remote-sensing-based intensity–duration threshold, Faifa Mountains, Saudi Arabia
Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
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2018.04 Assessing Land Deformation and Sea Encroachment in the Nile Delta: A Radar Interferometric and Inundation Modeling Approach
Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth
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2014.6.23 An assessment of landslide susceptibility in the Faifa area, Saudi Arabia, using remote sensing and GIS techniques
Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
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2014.10.31 Monitoring Aquifer Depletion from Space: Case Studies from the Saharan and Arabian Aquifers
Remote Sensing of the Terrestrial Water Cycle
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2011.12.08 Landuse change detection in a surface coal mine area using multi-temporal high-resolution satellite images
International Journal of Mining, Reclamation and Environment
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2011.04.01 Surface coal mine area monitoring using multi-temporal high-resolution satellite imagery
International Journal of Coal Geology
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2011.04.01 Evaluation of pollution levels at an abandoned coal mine site in Turkey with the aid of GIS
International Journal of Coal Geology
Skills
| Remote Sensing | |
| InSAR time series analysis | |
| Imaging spectroscopy | |
| Time series analysis | |
| Damage proxy mapping | |
| Soil moisture estimation |
| Geospatial | |
| Spatial statistics | |
| GeoAI and Machine Learning | |
| Handling large-scale EO data | |
| Web-GIS development | |
| ESRI enterprise deployment and administration |
| Scientific Computing | |
| Programming: Python, R, Bash | |
| InSAR: ISCE, MintPy, MiaplyPy, SARscape | |
| Hyperspectral: Tetracorder, ENVI, emit-sds | |
| Machine Learning: Scikit-learn, PyTorch | |
| Geospatial: GDAL, Geopandas, ArcGIS server |
Languages
| Turkish | |
| Native speaker |
| English | |
| Fluent |
Interests
| Research Interests | |
| Ground motion monitoring | |
| Surface Mineralogy | |
| Geohazards | |
| Arid Land Hydrology | |
| Surface processes | |
| Damage proxy mapping |
| Teaching Interests | |
| Open Science and FOSS4GEO | |
| Microwave Remote Sensing | |
| Hyperspectral Remote Sensing | |
| Geospatial Data Science | |
| Geospatial AI | |
| Hydrogeology |