| 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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PMID: 17624804 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE |
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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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Authors:
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Abdurrahman Geymen; Ibrahim Baz |
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Type: Journal Article Date: 2007-07-10 |
Journal Detail:
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Title: Environmental monitoring and assessment Volume: 140 ISSN: 0167-6369 ISO Abbreviation: Environ Monit Assess Publication Date: 2008 May |
Date Detail:
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Created Date: 2008-03-28 Completed Date: 2008-06-03 Revised Date: 2009-05-11 |
Medline Journal Info:
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Nlm Unique ID: 8508350 Medline TA: Environ Monit Assess Country: Netherlands |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 33-42 Citation Subset: IM |
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Faculty of Engineering, Department of Geodesy and Photogrammetry Engineering, Erciyes University, 38039, Kayseri, Turkey. ageymen@erciyes.edu.tr |
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Ecosystem* Geographic Information Systems Geography Pilot Projects Turkey |
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