Determination of Land Cover/ Land Use Changes with Geograph？c Information Systems and Remote Sensing Methods: Bingol City Center Example

The urbanization, with its roots in ancient times, has rapidly changed with the industrial revolution and development of technological achievements. The most persistent change which happens to vegetation is due to improper land use. For a good urban growth, cities must be managed and planned to ensure the sustainable use of the vegetation. Today, Geographical Information Systems and Remote Sensing are effective methods for fast and dynamic analysis of changes,to this aim, the change in land cover / land use in city center of Bing？l was investigated in timespan of 32 years between 1985-2017 using satellite images. The softwares used for the evaluation of the images for the years between 1985-2000 was Landsat 4-5 TM with a positional resolution of 30m, and Sentinel-2 satellite images with a spatial resolution of 10m using the ArcGIS 10.4.1 and Erdas Imagine 2014 software for 2017. Controlled classification method was applied to satellite images and and 5 main classes were determined for this method: urban area, agricultural area, green area, water bodies and free space. Accuracy assesment was applied to the images obtained as a result of the classification and it was 95% for the classified image of 1985, 96% for the classified image for the year 2000 and 92% for the classified image of the year 2017. As a result of the findings, an increase of 512 ha was observed in the residential areas of Bing？l city from 1985 to 2107. In the presence of water, it was concluded that there were 54 ha and 712 ha decrease in free spaces, 231 ha in green area and 13 ha increase in agricultural areas. It was determined which land uses on land cover were developed and what the development ways were. Based on the results obtained, suggestions for sustainable land use were made about the city center which is expected to be expanded in the future