Abstract
Abstract. The sustainable use of water and soil, which are indispensable for living things, is closely related to the concept of land use. While land use is becoming gradually modern as a necessity of the age, urbanization and industrialization are also gaining great importance. So much so that, in Turkey, where agriculture-based economy was emphasized until the 1980s, interest in exports of industrial products has increased in recent years and industrial investments especially in the Marmara region have increased considerably. This situation has increased job opportunities due to the industrialization developing in the region and has led to an increase in the population in parallel. The structure process has accelerated in order to meet the needs of the increasing population.Basin areas, which contain a wide variety of classes, are among the regions that are highly affected by these changes. Within the scope of the study, Elmalı Basin, which is used to supply potable and utility water to the province of Istanbul, was chosen as the study area. Within the scope of the research, the temporal change of the land use in Elmalı Basin has been investigated by using Landsat-8 satellite with a spatial resolution of 30 meters for the years 2013, 2015, 2018 and 2020 taking advantage of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and Remote Sensing (RS) technologies. Classification was made with support vector machines, one of the controlled classification methods on satellite images, and the changes in land use were evaluated by comparing the images of working years.
Highlights
Human beings actively use many riches that exist throughout their lives
Considering the land use status of the study area, it is seen that the forest area contains a large amount of area compared to other classes due to the dense forest area around the water area of the basin
In line with the data in Figure 4. and Table 1., it is seen that the settlement area, which was at its lowest level in 2013, increased in 2015 and 2018 and approached the forest area in 2020
Summary
Human beings actively use many riches that exist throughout their lives. As a requirement of the age we live in, land uses have become increasingly modern, as well as urbanization and industrialization have gained importance. Many negative situations have emerged with urbanization and industrialization, and changes that are contrary to natural use cause the traces of climate change to increase (Özdemir, 2015). It is increasing interest in the problems arising from the abuse of land use and land (Elmastaş, 2008). Basin areas, which contain complex layers such as settlement area, water area, forest, land areas, mine and quarry areas, agriculture/pasture area, industrial area, park and access roads, are among the main regions that should be used carefully and planned in terms of land use activities (Garipağaoğlu, 2012)
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