A research project conducted at Koç University aims to shed light on future social and environmental threats. The study of 30,000 km2 of land in Turkey and Bulgaria will analyze radical changes in land use and land cover. Correlating the data with population dynamics, the research will contribute to predictions of possible agricultural population loss and deforestation in the future. Conducted by Assoc. Prof. M. Erdem Kabadayı of the Koç University Department of History, the project titled "A GeoAI-based Land Use Land Cover Segmentation Process to Analyze and Predict Rural Depopulation, Agricultural Land Abandonment, and Deforestation in Bulgaria and Turkey, 1940-2040" was granted a Proof of Concept Grant by the European Research Council (ERC).