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Determining land use changes by radar-optic fused images and monitoring its environmental impacts in Edremit region of western Turkey

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Rapid and unplanned urbanization and industrialization are the main reasons of environmental problems. If urban growth is not based on resource sustainability criteria and urban plans are not applied, natural and human resources are damaged dramatically. In this study, land use change and urban expansion in Edremit region of Turkey is determined by means of remote sensing techniques between 1971 and 2002. To improve the accuracy of land use/cover maps, the contribution of SAR images to optic images in defining land cover types was investigated. To determine the situation of land use/cover types in 2002 accurately, Landsat-5 images and Radarsat-1 images were fused, and the land use/cover types were defined from the fused images. Comparisons with the ground truth reveal that land use maps generated using the fuse technique are improved about 6% with an accuracy of 81.20%. To define land use types and urban expansion, screen digitizing and classification methods were used. The results of the study indicate that the urban areas have been increased 1,826 ha across the agricultural fields which are in land use capability classes of I and II, and significant environmental changes such as land degradation and degeneration of ground water quality occurred.

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  1. Department of Geodesy and Photogrammetry Engineering, Civil Engineering Faculty, Yildiz Technical University, 34349, Besiktas, Istanbul, Turkey

    Fusun Balik Sanli

  2. Soil Science Department, Agriculture Faculty, Ege University, 35100, Bornova, Izmir, Turkey

    Yusuf Kurucu & Mustafa Tolga Esetlili

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Balik Sanli, F., Kurucu, Y. & Esetlili, M.T. Determining land use changes by radar-optic fused images and monitoring its environmental impacts in Edremit region of western Turkey. Environ Monit Assess 151, 45–58 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-008-0248-z

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