مرکز منطقه ای اطلاع رساني علوم و فناوري - Monitoring Agriculture and Vegetation Areas of Aegean Region Using Natural Breaks Method (Jenks)

Abstract :

Collecting information about vegetation on a regular basis is important issue. Vegetation studies have been done by using manual methods which require more labor and money. These studies also do not include continuous data, thus results commonly do not cover whole area and space. Satellite data provides an opportunity to monitor and research in a wide band the vegetation cover changes on which depend natural events and human. Aegean Region is one of the richest vegetation diversity areas of Turkey. The main reasons for this are; effect of climates, geomorphologic conditions and human activities on the vegetation. Remote sensing provides an opportunity to monitor and research in a wide band the vegetation cover changes on which depend natural events, in particular climate and human, and to present them by numerical data reliably. Conducted by using the remote sensing method, researches about which are relationships between vegetation and natural environment are examined using different vegetation index and satellite images. Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) is one of the most commonly used remote sensing models in monitoring vegetation cover changes. NDVI data belonging to MODIS satellite images which are in the present day used to monitor vegetation changes on wide areas with 250 m. spatial and 16-days temporal resolutions. In this investigation, change within the year of vegetation cover which has a high biomass activity in Aegean Region. In consequence of the investigation, significant changes were determined vegetation cover changes on which depend natural events during the period of 2012 on vegetation cover of Aegean Region.