Changing Land Cover Characteristics of a Developing Coastal Town: A Case Study of Didim, Turkey

Tourism-Led Land-Use Changes and their Environmental Effects in the Southern Coastal Region of Hainan Island, China

“…Construction in residential areas has proceeded in a disorderly fashion by developing tourism in the Lugu Lake area (Don, Yu, and Liu, 2008). The rapid emergence of mass tourism development in Turkey, encouraged without considering protection and sustainable use of natural and cultural resources, has resulted in serious problems in forest areas (Esbah et al, 2010;Kuvan, 2005). Remote sensing (RS) and geographic information systems (GIS) have been accepted as powerful and effective tools for detecting land-use patterns and changes therein (Fazal, 2000;Lambin, 1997).…”

Object-Based Analysis of Multispectral RS Data and GIS for Detection of Climate Change Impact on the Karakoram Range Northern Pakistan

“…Therefore, a consistent decrease in overall mass balance of glacier snow cover has been observed in the analysis of Landsat imagery of the study area. Esbah et al [21] categorically explain that after careful study of historical data of Himalayan region, the temperature of this region has been increasing considerably during the last century and it is also currently much higher than average global temperature [6,21]. World meteorological organization's technical reports confirm that greenhouse gas-emissions were at their highest level during 2012 and previous decade since 2012 was the warmest in metrological history [23].…”

“…Secondly, unlike the pixel-based analysis approach, newly developed object-based techniques have increased spatial internal variability that extended mapping capabilities in many ways [19]. Segmented areas, image objects or set of homogenous pixels, bears both spatial and spectral properties while on the other hand, it is quite difficult in pixel-based analysis to extract complex information only from spectral mix input or from single pixel [20,21]. Object oriented analysis focuses on the representation of meaningful objects in the remotely sensed data that corresponds true spatial pattern unlike traditional approaches where uniform pixels have a unique representative entity [22].…”

Kentsel Peyzaj Yapısındaki Değişimlerin Peyzaj Metrikleri İle Analizi, İzmir Örneği

“…Buna bağlı olarak, en önemli çevresel problemler; orman alanlarının parçalanması, tahribi, habitat kaybı, tarım arazilerindeki kontrolsüz artış, doğal alanlardaki baskı, toprak verimliliğinin azalması, biyolojik çeşitliliğin azalması / yok edilmesi ve iklim değişiklikleridir (Mac et al, 1998;Bennett and Saunders, 2010;Alberti, 2005). Bu değişim ve dönüşümler sadece fiziksel boyutta kalmayıp peyzajın yapısı ve fonksiyonunda da önemli değişimlere sebep olmaktadır (Kesgin and Nurlu, 2009;Selman, 2010;Esbah et al, 2010;Ersoy et al, 2015). Dolayısıyla karar vericilerin ve karar mekanizmalarının desteklenmesi açısından, insan ve doğal unsurlar arasındaki etkileşimlerin ve buna bağlı olarak ortaya çıkan alan kullanım değişimlerinin neden ve sonuçlarının analizi peyzaj planlama açısından büyük önem taşımaktadır.…”