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AcknowledgementI would like to express my gratitude to my supervisor Prof. Enis Çetin for hisguidance and contributions at all stages of this work. He was much more thanan academic advisor. I was very fortunate to have such a wise person as mysupervisor.I am also very grateful to Prof. Uğur Güdükbay and Prof. Orhan Arıkan fortheir support, suggestions and encouragement during the development of thisthesis and throughout my PhD studies.I would also like to express my sincere thanks to Prof. Aydın Alatan andProf. Sinan Gezici for accepting to read and review this thesis and providinguseful comments.I want to thank Dr. Bilgay Akhan for drawing our attention to fire detectionproblems in video, in the early days of my graduate studies.I wish to thank all of my friends and colleagues at İSYAM and our departmentfor their collaboration and support. My special thanks go to Erdem Dengel,Yiğithan Dedeoğlu, Birey Soyer, İbrahim Onaran, Kıvanç Köse, Onay Urfalıoğlu,Osman Günay, and Kasım Taşdemir. I would also like to thank our department’slegendary secretary Mürüvet Parlakay for her assistance during my yearsin Bilkent.I would like to extend my thanks to the administrative staff and personnelof General Directorate of Forestry: Mr. Osman Kahveci, Mr. Nurettin Doğan,Mr. İlhami Aydın, Mr. İsmail Belen, and Mr. Ahmet Ulukanlıgil for theircollaboration.I am indebted to my parents, my sister and my brother for their continuoussupport and encouragement throughout my life.It is a pleasure to express my special thanks to my wife and my son for theirendless love and understanding at all stages of my graduate studies.viii