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XXIV IUFRO 2014 World Congress "Sustaining Forests, Sustaining People: The Role of Research", Salt Lake Utah, United States Of America, 5 - 11 October 2014, vol.16, no.5, pp.29-30, (Summary Text)
As a bridge of Asia to Europe, Istanbul is a developing city which attracts migrants from surrounding cities. This migration and development have caused a real affective pressure on its forests. As a result, rapid changes in forest lands have occurred. In this study, the changes occurring to forest cover and other land use forms in northern forest of İstanbul were determined by the post classifi cation comparison change detection method. For this purpose, standard topographic maps and forest management maps with 1/25 000 scale, 1987 Landsat TM and 2006 Landsat ETM+ and 2013 Landsat OLI multispectral satellite images were evaluated as data for this study. The changes of forest cover and other land use forms in northern forest of Istanbul about 30 year period were investigated. After analysing the results of forest cover changes, the potantial situation of the northern forest cover by the year of 2025 were predicted. Consequently, planning interventions, incentives and constraints, such as reserve areas and infrastructural changes that may alter the course of development in the change prediction process, were suggested for the northern forest of Istanbul.