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Assessment of vegetation change using NDVI, LST, and carbon analyses in Çankırı Karatekin University, Turkey

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Due to a rising population and urbanization, the green areas have been decreasing in cities, with a negative impact on air pollution, human health, and ecosystem. As part of the urban environment, university campuses contribute to urban ecosystem with their vegetation. This study aims to (1) assess the change of vegetative land cover of the Çankırı Karatekin University in Turkey and (2) evaluate its benefits to the ecosystem in terms of carbon sequestration, storage, and improvement of air quality by means of a simulation. In the study, the density and vegetation change were assessed with NDVI and LST analyses in ArcGIS; carbon emissions and air pollution benefits were estimated in i-Tree Canopy tool. The study showed that the healthy vegetation consisting of trees/shrubs and grass/herbaceous, which was 32.2% (28 ha) in 2000, increased to 85% (74 ha) in 2020 NDVI maps, and the surface temperature also increased between 2000 and 2020 in LST maps.

The rise in vegetation as grass/herbaceous areas instead of trees/shrubs and the use of impervious buildings/roads on the land surface increased the land surface temperature. As a result of the analyses in the i-Tree-Canopy tool, it was estimated that the trees/shrubs and grass/herbaceous vegetation canopy covering 31.42% of the study area removed a total of 512,845.65 g of pollutant gas and particles from the air, 20.79 tonnes of carbon sequestered annually, and 522.01 tonnes of carbon stored by vegetative land cover. In the simulation, where 32.62% soil/bare ground areas were converted to trees/shrubs in order to improve vegetation cover in the area, it was determined that it contributed 5 times more to the ecosystem service value for removing pollutants from the air, carbon storage, and improving the ecosystem. It was revealed that the vegetative land cover formed by tree/shrub species should be increased in the campus in the future. The study method model serves as a tool for planning and designing eco-friendly urban environment.

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  1. Faculty of Forestry, Department of Landscape Architecture, Çankırı Karatekin University, Çankırı, Turkey

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Pelin Şahin Körmeçli wrote the main manuscript and contributed to analyzing the maps, acquisition, and interpretation and editing of data. Gamze Seçkin Gündoğan contributed to the data collection, analyzing the maps, and reading and revising the manuscript.

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Şahin Körmeçli, P., Seçkin Gündoğan, G. Assessment of vegetation change using NDVI, LST, and carbon analyses in Çankırı Karatekin University, Turkey. Environ Monit Assess 196, 331 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-024-12465-w

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