Fatma SARSU
General Directorate of Agricultural Research and Policies
Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Livestock
Expertise: Agrometetorological simulation models and crop yield prediction , climatic data analysis, drought monitoring, main expertise is GIS& Remote sensing applications in agriculture and environment, image processing for land use, land cover mapping, sustainable soil, fertilizer and water management, - determination of contaminated soil and water resources and their reclamation, water management under limited water resources, conserving and improving soil quality, reclamation of saline and alkaline soils, soil and water conservation, snow hydrology, climate change and drought, Geographical Information System and Remote Sensing for soil and water resources management, precision farmig, rural development economies and socio-economic problems, input optimization in agricultural investments and financial models for rural societies. Facility: Soil analysis laboratory, organic fertilizer-plant analysis laboratory, chemical fertilizer analysis laboratory, soil microbiology laboratory, saline and alkaline soils laboratory, water analysis laboratory, irrigation and soil physics laboratory, GIS and Remote Sensing laborato, Microbial Fertilizer Production Plant and a Greenhouse, Automatic Meteorology Station (agricultural drought monitoring station), ESRI- ArcGis and Erdas Imagine software licences and necessary hardware at the department. The department has also NOAA satellite antenna and receiving station. Priority: Precision farming and precision irrigation, Sustainable soil and water management, Climate change and drought, hydrological modelling, snow hydrology, Reclamation of saline and alkaline soils, IInvestment management, rural development economies and socio-economic problems, Agrometetorological simulation models and crop yield prediction , climatic data analysis, drought monitoring, main expertise is GIS& Remote sensing applications in agriculture and environment, image processing for land use, land cover mapping,