Research
The Center's research areas, ongoing and completed projects, publications and theses.
Research areas
Often regarded as a comprehensive database operating system, GIS supports researchers in decision-making across many different fields, from the digital production of very simple maps to complex decisions. From this perspective, an interdisciplinary service approach, rather than individual functions, is fundamental.
- Urban and regional planning
- Cadastre
- Forestry
- Agriculture
- Telecommunications
- Municipal services
- Transportation
- Environmental planning
- Coastal planning
- Land use classification
- Population census
- Planning of sports activities
Why GIS?
Today, it has become necessary not only to define all objects on the Earth graphically in relation to a coordinate system such as (x, y, z), but also to know their attribute information in relation to that coordinate system. Graphic data, usually in map form, describe an object's location, boundary, distribution and relative adjacency to other objects. Attribute data contain the conventional inventory information that describes an object's physical state.
As a requirement of the information age, and particularly in dynamic mapping, graphic and attribute information must be kept together in a form that can be processed. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are information systems developed to acquire spatial data, convert them to digital form and store them on computers, analyse and model them, generate new information from existing information, and deliver processed spatial information to users on demand.
The amount of data acquired from satellites, together with the information produced, is growing every day; studies estimate that it will roughly double over the next eight years. According to research and statistics, up to 80% of this information is spatial in nature, that is, related to land, the environment or a location. Handling so much information and making it available to society requires a broad field of expertise. To meet such needs, GIS has developed a very wide range of uses today, including zoning and urban planning, telecommunications, environmental and coastal planning, the organisation of Olympic Games, various engineering projects, transportation, commerce, the Internet, and even politics and policy-making.
In parallel with a rapidly growing population, demand for high-quality and diverse services, the need for a peaceful and comfortable life, the growing demand for diverse data and information, and the goal of reaching the level of contemporary civilisation, in short of becoming an information society, make it necessary for a university to carry out applied research in addition to education. Today, computer-aided GIS research and application centres have been established at many universities; alongside their activities within the university, they play an important role in transferring the knowledge and technology produced at the centre to the outside world.
Projects
- Ongoing
- Completed
Space Cadastre
Development of a Space Cadastre Model Based on a 4-Dimensional Geographic Information System for Space
TÜBİTAK 1001 · 125Y182
Ongoing · 2025–
EV Charging Stations
Development of a site selection model for electric vehicle charging stations integrating GIS and machine learning methods
İTÜ-DAP
Ongoing
Disaster Management
Spatial risk analyses for disaster management in smart cities based on multi-source GIS and remote sensing integration
İTÜ-BAP
Image: Derman and Mete (2025), Systems 13, 1007, CC BY 4.0
Ongoing
BIM · Condominium Ownership
Development of a new integrated model for condominium ownership registration based on Building Information Modelling (BIM)
TÜBİTAK 1001 · 122Y325
Image: the Center's IFC–CesiumJS application (2025); basemap: Cesium ion
Completed · 2022–2025
Publications
This section lists articles, conference papers and books by the Center's researchers that relate to the Center's fields of study. The list is compiled automatically from the open bibliographic database OpenAlex and updated regularly; publications can be filtered by type, year and researcher.
Theses
Master's and doctoral theses related to the Center's work will be listed in this section.