AKURA MeeTC transforms the contemporary research outcomes into business and industry as well as protection of the nature and environment. AKURA works with a competent group of scientists and professionals to generate solid solutions for business challenges. AKURA’s activities are as follows;
- providing service and consultancy comprising artificial intelligence, machine learning and blockchain to solve business problems.
- providing service and consultancy to handle environmental problems by using space technology and high-tech solutions.

PROJ 3.1: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE  DRIVEN TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION
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Identifying the Challenge & Requirements:
The conservation process for nature, endangered animals, species and environment require identification, monitoring and management of the fauna and flora. For multiple times, AKURA used to support consortiums to develop a conservation plan to protect the fauna including endangered small cormorant and the flora.
The Approach, Conducted Work:
The geospatial data including soil, land use/cover, forest stand, elevation, topographic, statistical, geological, 3D UAV (drone)photogrammetry are managed in GIS and, geospatial artificial Intelligence and machine learning Analysis are performed.
Output:
The project yields visual analytics, web services over a portal to access the results of geospatial analysis, spatial statistics, geospatial prediction, artificial analysis to make decisions on predicting locations of species, stressed flora and fauna.
Partners, Alliance:
The project is conducted with the support of academicians from Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara Univ., Abant Izzet Baysal Univ.,

PROJ 3.2: BLOCKCHAIN FOR BETTER LAND MANAGEMENT
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Identifying the Challenge &Requirements:
In this project, AKURA introduces the problem of inconsistent boundary determination in between succeeding cadastre surveys and a methodology that prevents employment of boundary change into land registry without common and joint approval of all stakeholders. The
Approach, Conducted Work:
AKURA proposes geodata enabled blockchain model, there are three components in a blockchain node that are loosely coupled, namely ‘blockchain database’,‘middleware’ and ‘GIS/CAD’. The ‘blockchain database’ handles the communication and trace of transactions, ‘the middleware’ handles a lossless geo and non-geodata transaction and ‘the GIS/CAD’ component handles the geometrical part of blockchain cadastre survey. In the architecture of ‘blockchain database’, there are three levels in a hierarchy to control and mutually decide on any transaction by approval of relevant participants in accordance with the land registry and cadastre organization as a trusted node watching the procedures.
Output:
This project mainly contributes use of blockchain technology to minimize the inconsistencies in cadastral andland registration processes to minimize the mistakes that cause claims at cadastre courts.
Partners, Alliance:
The project is conducted with the support of an international group of experts