Geophilo
🏛️ About Me
Research Assistant and PhD Candidate in City and Regional Planning, Dokuz Eylül University — working where computational spatial science, GIScience, remote sensing and operational urban resilience meet.
A plan is only as good as what a municipality can actually run on Monday morning. So the question I keep returning to is a practical one:
Which parts of planning can be made reproducible — and what does a city gain in resilience and equity when they are?
That takes two forms. Research: evacuation accessibility, seismic road-network vulnerability, urban heat and green-space equity, flood mapping, computer vision for walkability (SAM 3), multi-objective infrastructure optimisation. And tooling: PyQGIS plugins that put those methods in a planner's hands, where they are run by people who will never open a notebook.
| 27 plugins published on the QGIS Plugin Hub |
4 funded projects · World Bank, TÜBİTAK, ministry, metropolitan |
İzmir the metropolitan region most of it is tested on |
Open methods, code and data released to be re-run |
📡 Contribution Signal
🗺️ Research Pillars
Four lines of work. Each one starts from a question a municipality has actually asked, and ends in something that can be re-run on another city.
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🏗️ Doctoral Research & Funded Projects
🧬 PhD DissertationMulti-Objective Optimization of Urban Service Facility Location
Where public services should go, settled by evolutionary optimisation (NSGA-II) and network routing rather than by rule of thumb — holding cost efficiency, spatial equity, environmental sustainability and system resilience against each other at once, rather than optimising one and calling the rest a constraint.
| Project | Role & funder | What was built |
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Urban Vulnerability & Multi-Hazard Systems Assessment |
Urban Resilience & Spatial Data Specialist World Bank STC · financed by the EU (TAFF), implemented by the World Bank & AFAD |
Tiered metropolitan multi-hazard risk assessment — $Risk = rac{Hazard imes Exposure imes Vulnerability}{Capacity}$ — with network-graph accessibility under seismic shock, Fuzzy Best-Worst Method (F-BWM) spatial prioritisation and Triple-Dividend cost-benefit analysis feeding the Strategic Disaster Resilience Roadmap. |
Working Group 6 — Urban-Regional Planning & Zoning Applications |
Lead GeoAI Data Scientist & Spatial Analyst İzmir Metropolitan Municipality / academic consortium |
Data engineering and GeoAI land-use suitability modelling (XGBoost with SHAP, so the model can be argued with), functional vulnerability and road-network accessibility simulation (NetworkX, OSMnx), and emergency assembly-area optimisation (PuLP, PostGIS) across 11 central districts. |
Türkiye Urban & Rural Settlement Systems Study |
Data Science & GIS Specialist Ministry of Industry & Technology, Directorate General of Development Agencies |
Multi-dimensional settlement hierarchy classification and ML typology clustering (PCA, K-means) over a six-dimension indicator framework — production, service delivery, intermediation, accessibility, social capacity, environmental vulnerability — across 6 pilot districts in Şanlıurfa, Gaziantep and Kilis. |
2025–2027 |
Researcher TÜBİTAK |
Determining road-network vulnerability and the accessibility of critical urban areas during earthquakes, through a GIS-based method. |
📄 Academic Research Repositories
Complete catalogue of open-science research companions, manuscript repositories, and computational spatial models.
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🔌 QGIS Plugins & PlanX Planning Automation Ecosystem
Open-source PyQGIS tools, CAD drafting utilities, spatial analytics, and procedural 3D urban engines.
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📚 Selected Academic Publications
📰 Journal Articles
- Phantom Capacity in Urban Pedestrian Networks: An AI-Assisted Approach to Functional Walkability Using Street View Imagery and SAM 3
Under Review, 2026. — Yusuf Eminoğlu, Hilmi Evren Erdin, Nurseli Şanlı. - Dual Friction Mapping of Urban Pedestrian Spaces
Manuscript, 2026. — Yusuf Eminoğlu, Kemal Mert Çubukçu. - Diagnosing Urban Heat Vulnerability through Multiscale Spatial Modelling: Evidence from Istanbul for Climate-Resilient Cities
Sustainable Cities and Society, 2026. — Yusuf Eminoğlu, H. M. Çelik. - Decadal Evolution of GIS in Disaster Management and Risk Assessment
International Journal of Engineering and Geosciences, 10(2), 173-196, 2025. — Yusuf Eminoğlu, Ç. Tarhan. - Mapping Daytime Urban Heat Exposure across Local Climate Zones with Multi-Scale MGWR
Under Review at Cities, 2026. — Yusuf Eminoğlu.
📖 Book Chapters & Edited Books
- Cloud-Native Monitoring of Forest Change in Bursa (1990-2020): Risk Mapping and Explainable Drivers
In Urban Resilience: Disasters, Climate, and Spatial Strategies, İksad Yayınevi, 2025. - Evaluating Spatial Equity in Urban Park Accessibility: A GIS-Based Analysis of the İzmir Gulf Region, Türkiye
In Architectural Sciences and Sustainable Approaches: Urban Resilience, İksad Yayınevi, 2025. - Revealing Urban Cooling Dynamics through Landscape Structure and Equity Diagnostics: A Multiscale Analysis of Park-Based Microclimate Regulation in the İzmir Gulf Region
In Landscape Research V, Livre de Lyon, 2025. - Assessing and Mapping Urban Green Spaces: A Novel Methodological Approach Integrating GIS and Remote Sensing
In Smart Buildings and Cities with Remote Sensing and GIS, Chapman & Hall/CRC, 2025.
🛠️ Methodological Toolbox & Skills
Spatial & Analytical Methods:
Computer Vision (SAM 3, Panoptic Segmentation) · GNNWR · Network Analysis · Accessibility & Service-Area Modeling · Remote Sensing (Sentinel-1/2, Landsat) · Spatial Statistics (MGWR, LISA, OLS, PCA) · Multi-Objective Optimization (NSGA-II) · Explainable AI (SHAP, XGBoost) · Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (AHP, TOPSIS, VIKOR) · Spatiotemporal Data Cubes (xarray/Dask) · PyQGIS Plugin Development · Spatial Database Design · Google Apps Script & Cloud Workflows.
Computational tools for resilient infrastructure, spatial justice, and climate-sensitive urban planning.