Arazi Toplulaştırma Projelerinde Parsel Şekillerinin Değerlendirilmesi: Yeni Şekil İndeksi Yaklaşımı

Firat Arslan,Hasan Degi̇rmenci̇,Evelin Jürgenson,Serife Akkaya

doi:10.18016/ksutarimdoga.vi.774846

Abstract

Land consolidation (LC) is of significant importance and is an application that decreases land fragmentation level and deformed parcels, which reduce agricultural production, increasing fuel consumption and labor cost in the agriculture sector. The present research focuses on parcel shapes and investigates a new index measuring complexity of parcels. The most commonly used indices (fractal dimension, shape index, form factor, areal form factor, area perimeter ratios, and the number of points) are compared with the new shape index. The new shape index is calculated with the parcel's area and minimum bounding geometry of the parcel using geographic information systems. The new approach was applied to the cadastral data consisting of different types of parcel shapes before LC in a village in Mersin, Turkey. The new shape index showed a good performance in terms of measuring shape complexity and is easily applicable. The presented method may be used to assess LC projects or to determine priority areas for LC.

Highlights

The land structure of farms is one of the essential factors to increase agricultural production
The new parcel shape index is calculated with minimum bounding geometry areas is divided into a parcel area
The findings reported here shed new light on measuring a parcel's deformation level in a rural area

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Introduction

The land structure of farms is one of the essential factors to increase agricultural production. Non-fragmented holding, and suitable parcel shape are important for a wide range of agricultural production processes. In the history of the development of agricultural lands, fragmented and deformed parcel shapes are thought of as a critical factor in the circumstances decreasing profitability of enterprises (Gonzales et al, 2004; Ayrancı, 2004; Aslan et al, 2007; Hristov, 2009; Vijulie et al, 2012; Kirmikil and Arıcı, 2013; Colombo et al, 2017). Investigators examined the effects of land consolidation on climate change (Stańczuk-Gałwiaczek et al, 2018), fuel consumption, labor and machinery (Sharifzadeh et al, 2018; Değirmenci et al, 2017; Küsek, 2014), designing of irrigation schemes (Akkaya et al, 2017), parcel size (Boztoprak, 2015) and transportation (Harasimowicz et al, 2017; Platonova et al, 2011; Platonova, 2014)

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