Halil İbrahim Gündüz

Explainable seasonal land surface temperature modeling with tree-based machine learning over Menteşe, Türkiye

This study evaluated three tree-based ensembles—Random Forest, XGBoost, and LightGBM—for seasonal modeling of land surface temperature (LST) in the Menteşe district of Muğla, Türkiye, a Mediterranean landscape with pronounced seasonality. Three nested feature sets—a topographic b...