Monitoring land use/land cover changes using CORINE land cover data: a case study of Silivri coastal zone in Metropolitan Istanbul

• Published in: Environmental monitoring and assessment Vol. 165; no. 1-4; pp. 603 - 615
• Main Author: YILMAZ, Rüya
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands 01.06.2010; Springer Netherlands; Springer; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Agriculture; Analysis; Applied geophysics; Areal geology; Areal geology. Maps; Assessments; Atmospheric Protection/Air Quality Control/Air Pollution; Case studies; Cities; Coastal; Coastal zone; Conservation of Natural Resources; CORINE; Databases, Factual; Developing countries; Earth and Environmental Science; Earth sciences; Earth, ocean, space; Ecology; Ecotoxicology; Environment; Environmental degradation; Environmental Management; Environmental monitoring; Environmental Monitoring - methods; Environmental protection; Exact sciences and technology; Geographic Information Systems; Geographical Information System (GIS); Geography; Geologic maps, cartography; Information sources; Internal geophysics; Land cover; Land use; Land use/land cover; LDCs; Monitoring/Environmental Analysis; Program Development; Remote sense; Remote sensing; Silivri-Istanbul; Studies; Towns; Turkey; Urbanization; Wetlands; Middle East; Asia; Turkey; MED, Marmara Sea; MED, Turkey, Istanbul; MED, Turkey; ANE, Europe; Remote sense; Land use/land cover; CORINE; Geographical Information System (GIS); Silivri–Istanbul; Silivri―Istanbul; land use; aerial photography; land cover maps; geographic information systems; remote sensing; coastal environment; land cover

The objective of the present study was to assess changes in land use/land cover patterns in the coastal town of Silivri, a part of greater Istanbul administratively. In the assessment, remotely sensed data, in the form of satellite images, and geographic information systems were used. Types of land...