Assessing Two Decades of Land Use/Land Cover Changes in the Uluabat Lake Ramsar Site using Satellite Imagery

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dc.contributor.authorKilincarslan, Emre
dc.contributor.authorGencal, Burhan
dc.contributor.authorTas, İnanç
dc.date.accessioned2026-02-08T15:11:02Z
dc.date.available2026-02-08T15:11:02Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.departmentBursa Teknik Üniversitesi
dc.description.abstractThe Ramsar Convention on Wetlands designates over 2,000 sites of international importance, providing crucial habitats for diverse species. Uluabat Lake faces anthropogenic pressures such as urbanization, agriculture, and industrialization, affecting its ecological integrity. The land use/land cover (LULC) changes in the lake's catchment area were assessed using multi-temporal Landsat 7 and Landsat 9 satellite images from 2002 and 2022, along with 2019 management plans. Data were pre-processed with ENVI and stored in ERDAS Imagine program. Then, pixel-based image analysis with maximum likelihood classification (MLC) was employed to generate LULC maps and evaluated classification accuracy using ground truth data and the kappa coefficient. The results revealed a 15.8% reduction in lake area, from 136.1 km2 in 2002 to 114.5 km2 in 2022, primarily due to sediment transport from surrounding agricultural land and tributary streams. Urban-agricultural and reed-swamp areas increased by 74.7% and 59.6%, respectively, while shrubs and forests declined by 35.64%, largely from reed conversion to agriculture in the Mustafakemalpaşa River delta. Overall classification accuracy ranged from 88.2% to 91% with a kappa coefficient of 0.81 to 0.82, respectively. These transformations highlight the increase in reed and swamp areas and the decrease in lake area, emphasizing the need for effective conservation and management practices. © Copyright 2024 by Forest Engineering and Technologies Platform on-line at https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/ejfe.
dc.identifier.doi10.33904/ejfe.1318353
dc.identifier.endpage111
dc.identifier.issue2
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85212213705
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ2
dc.identifier.startpage100
dc.identifier.trdizinid1335798
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.33904/ejfe.1318353
dc.identifier.urihttps://search.trdizin.gov.tr/tr/yayin/detay/1335798
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12885/5182
dc.identifier.volume10
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopus
dc.indekslendigikaynakTR-Dizin
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherForest Engineering and Technologies Platform
dc.relation.ispartofEuropean Journal of Forest Engineering
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanı
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.snmzScopus_KA_20260207
dc.subjectClassification
dc.subjectland use land change
dc.subjectRamsar area
dc.subjectsatellite images
dc.subjectwetlands
dc.titleAssessing Two Decades of Land Use/Land Cover Changes in the Uluabat Lake Ramsar Site using Satellite Imagery
dc.typeArticle

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