A functional data analysis approach to remote sensing data

Abstract

I would like to express my sincere thanks to my supervisor Gülay Ba¸sarır who encouraged me to study this subject and helped me improve during this process with her support, to my co-supervisor and mastermind of this work Pedro Delicado who not only has answered my endless questions patiently so that I have learned a lot from him but also supported me and helped me meet new people who also study on this area, to Isabel Caballero who gently shared her data and knowledge with me and turned a collaboration into a friendship. I appreciate my dear professors Aydın Erar and Mujgan Tez who helped me form this study with their precious comments, Gülay Ilona Telsiz Kayaoglu who has offered ˘ me references for the theoretical background of the study and helped me organize appendices, my dearest friend Elif Ertürk and Ebru Payaslıoglu Kılıç who helped me ˘ with English translations for their contributions. I would like to express my gratitude to my dear professor Nalan Cinemre for her trust, support and understanding during my journey, to all the professors, PhD students and members of UPC who support me during my stay in Barcelona, to my friends from Argentina, Mexico, Spain and other countries who cheered me up and helped me a lot during this process, to Lilliana Tolomei and Daris Fernandez who are in particular just a phone away from me, to Manuel Ramos-Casals and Antoni Sisó-Almirall for their moral support, to my professors and friends in my department for their understanding and to all friends for being there with me in tough times. I also would like to thank my mother who could bear not seeing me for a long time and is looking forward to the end of this process, my father who encouraged me for my academic career and now watching me smiling from somewhere up above, my lovely niece Ela who awaits for me to play with her, my brother who has always been my side, my little nephew and all my family for their trust, moral support and belief in me. And lastly I would like to thank my pillar of strength, my fellow traveller, my husband Belchin Kostov (Belçin Denizli) with whom I met by means of this project and who did his best to help me and be there for me during this process.