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Ziyadin Cakir is affiliated with Istanbul Technical University in Turkey and focuses on research within Earth and Planetary Sciences and Engineering. Their work spans multiple subfields including Geophysics, Aerospace Engineering, Atmospheric Science, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, and Oceanography.

The scientist's primary research topics include:

  • Earthquake and tectonic studies
  • Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) applications and techniques
  • Earthquake detection and analysis
  • Geological and geochemical analysis
  • Landslides and related hazards
  • Marine and environmental studies
  • High-pressure geophysics and materials

Frequent co-authors in their publications are:

  • Uǧur Doǧan
  • Semih Ergintav
  • Alpay Özdemir
  • Gökhan Aslan
  • Mustapha Meghraoui

Cakir has published multiple papers in various scientific journals. Notable recent papers include:

  • "Landslide Mapping and Monitoring Using Persistent Scatterer Interferometry (PSI) Technique in the French Alps," 2020, Remote Sensing
  • "Preconditioning the 2023 Kahramanmaraş (Türkiye) earthquake disaster," 2023, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • "Sentinel-1 interferometric coherence and backscattering analysis for crop monitoring," 2021, Computers and Electronics in Agriculture
  • "Arrest of the Mw 6.8 January 24, 2020 Elaziğ (Turkey) earthquake by shallow fault creep," 2023, Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • "Paradigm of Geological Mapping of the Adıyaman Fault Zone of Eastern Turkey Using Landsat 8 Remotely Sensed Data Coupled with PCA, ICA, and MNFA Techniques," 2021, ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information

Cakir's work regularly appears in publication venues such as:

  • TURKISH JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCES
  • Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • Remote Sensing
  • Nature Reviews Earth & Environment

Best Publications

  • The Surface Rupture and Slip Distribution of the 17 August 1999 İzmit Earthquake (M 7.4), North Anatolian Fault

    A. Barka;H.S. Akyuz;E. Altunel;G. Sunal

  • Submarine fault scarps in the Sea of Marmara pull-apart (North Anatolian Fault): Implications for seismic hazard in Istanbul

    Rolando Armijo;Nicolas Pondard;Bertrand Meyer;Gulsen Uçarkus

  • Travitonics: using travertines in active fault studies

    P.L Hancock;R.M.L Chalmers;E Altunel;Z Çakir

  • Coastal uplift and thrust faulting associated with the Mw = 6.8 Zemmouri (Algeria) earthquake of 21 May, 2003

    M. Meghraoui;S. Maouche;B. Chemaa;Z. Cakir

  • Sensitivity Analysis of Multi-Temporal Sentinel-1 SAR Parameters to Crop Height and Canopy Coverage

    Rouhollah Nasirzadehdizaji;Fusun Balik Sanli;Saygin Abdikan;Ziyadin Cakir

  • A two‐step process for the reflooding of the Mediterranean after the Messinian Salinity Crisis

    François Bache;François Bache;Speranta-Maria Popescu;Marina Rabineau;Christian Gorini

  • Coseismic and early post-seismic slip associated with the 1999 Izmit earthquake (Turkey), from SAR interferometry and tectonic field observations

    Ziyadin Çakir;Jean-Bernard de Chabalier;Rolando Armijo;Bertrand Meyer

  • Istanbul's earthquake hot spots: Geodetic constraints on strain accumulation along faults in the Marmara seismic gap

    Semih Ergintav;Robert Reilinger;R. Cakmak;Michael Floyd

  • Creeping along the Ismetpasa section of the North Anatolian fault (Western Turkey): Rate and extent from InSAR

    Ziyadin Cakir;Ahmet M. Akoglu;Samir Belabbes;Semih Ergintav

  • Preconditioning the 2023 Kahramanmaraş (Türkiye) earthquake disaster

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  • Landslide Mapping and Monitoring Using Persistent Scatterer Interferometry (PSI) Technique in the French Alps

    Gokhan Aslan;Michael Foumelis;Daniel Raucoules;Marcello De Michele

  • Crustal deformation and kinematics of the Eastern Part of the North Anatolian Fault Zone (Turkey) from GPS measurements

    Orhan Tatar;Fatih Poyraz;Halil Gürsoy;Ziyadin Cakir

  • Kinematic study at the junction of the East Anatolian fault and the Dead Sea fault from GPS measurements

    Yasser Mahmoud;Frederic Masson;Mustapha Meghraoui;Ziyadin Cakir

  • Along-Strike Discontinuity of Active Normal Faults and Its Influence on Quaternary Travertine Deposition; Examples From Western Turkey

    Ziyadin Çakir

  • Monitoring of coal mining subsidence in peri-urban area of Zonguldak city (NW Turkey) with persistent scatterer interferometry using ALOS-PALSAR

    Saygin Abdikan;Mahmut Arıkan;Fusun Balik Sanli;Ziyadin Cakir

  • An aseismic slip transient on the North Anatolian Fault

    Baptiste Rousset;Romain Jolivet;Mark Simons;Cécile Lasserre

  • Onset of aseismic creep on major strike-slip faults

    Ziyadin Çakir;Ziyadin Çakir;Semih Ergintav;Haluk Özener;Uğur Dogan

  • Rupture characteristics of the A.D. 1912 Mürefte (Ganos) earthquake segment of the North Anatolian fault (western Turkey)

    Murat Ersen Aksoy;Mustapha Meghraoui;Martin Vallée;Ziyadin Çakır

  • Extent and distribution of aseismic slip on the Ismetpaşa segment of the North Anatolian Fault (Turkey) from Persistent Scatterer InSAR

    Esra Cetin;Ziyadin Cakir;Mustapha Meghraoui;Semih Ergintav

  • The 1994 2004 Al Hoceima (Morocco) earthquake sequence: Conjugate fault ruptures deduced from InSAR

    Ahmet M. Akoglu;Ziyadin Cakir;Mustapha Meghraoui;Samir Belabbes

  • Determining and modeling tectonic movements along the central part of the North Anatolian Fault (Turkey) using geodetic measurements

    Hakan Yavaşoğlu;Ergin Tarı;Okan Tüysüz;Ziyadin Çakır

  • Surface creep on the North Anatolian Fault at Ismetpasa, Turkey, 1944–2016

    Roger Bilham;H. Ozener;D. Mencin;D. Mencin;A. Dogru

Frequent Co-Authors

Semih Ergintav
Semih Ergintav Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute
Mustapha Meghraoui
Mustapha Meghraoui University of Strasbourg
Hayrullah Karabulut
Hayrullah Karabulut Boğaziçi University
François Renard
François Renard University of Oslo
Roger Bilham
Roger Bilham University of Colorado Boulder
Cécile Lasserre
Cécile Lasserre Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Rolando Armijo
Rolando Armijo Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris
Aykut Barka
Aykut Barka Istanbul Technical University
Bertrand Meyer
Bertrand Meyer Sorbonne University

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