The potential of remote sensing for monitoring land cover changes and effects on physical geography in the area of Kayisdagi Mountain and its surroundings (Istanbul) |
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Authors: | Abdurrahman Geymen Ibrahim Baz |
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Institution: | (1) Faculty of Engineering, Department of Geodesy and Photogrammetry Engineering, Erciyes University, 38039 Kayseri, Turkey;(2) Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality, Istanbul, Turkey |
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Abstract: | The effect of land cover change, from natural to anthropogenic, on physical geography conditions has been studied in Kayisdagi
Mountain. Land degradation is the most important environmental issue involved in this study. Most forms of land degradation
are natural processes accelerated by human activity. Land degradation is a human induced or natural process that negatively
affects the ability of land to function effectively within an ecosystem. Environmental degradation from human pressure and
land use has become a major problem in the study area because of high population growth, urbanization rate, and the associated
rapid depletion of natural resources. When studying the cost of land degradation, it is not possible to ignore the role of
urbanization. In particular, a major cause of deforestation is conversion to urban land. The paper reviews the principles
of current remote sensing techniques considered particularly suitable for monitoring Kayisdagi Mountain and its surrounding
land cover changes and their effects on physical geography conditions. In addition, this paper addresses the problem of how
spatially explicit information about degradation processes in the study area rangelands can be derived from different time
series of satellite data. The monitoring approach comprises the time period between 1990 and 2005. Satellite remote sensing
techniques have proven to be cost effective in widespread land cover changes. Physical geography and particularly natural
geomorphologic processes like erosion, mass movement, physical weathering, and chemical weathering features etc. have faced
significant unnatural variation. |
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Keywords: | Land degradation Geographic information system Physical geography Remote sensing Land cover Istanbul Geomorphology Monitoring |
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