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KASTAMONU UNIVERSITY JOURNAL OF FORESTRY FACULTY, no.1, pp.12-19, 2010 (ESCI)
Forest Management plans provide data-information transformation to forestry applications. Planning a sustainable balance with the forest ecosystem to move into the future is one of key objectives. Data sources have become varied in forest ecosystems. The forest ecosystems data have been obtained to combination of remote sensing and aerial inventory. In this way the data is presented to user reliable, up-to-date, and fast. GIS has been used to data analysis, querying and manipulation in this study. GIS has become to present all forest values easily to foresters. Owing to GIS has showed easily small parts of areas in forest management plans. Roads, rivers and power lines had demonstrated to line coverage in forest management plans for decades. However, these structures have showed polygon areas. It is important to use the areal information in forest management plans. In this study demonstrated to polygon coverages for roads, rivers and power lines structures using high resolution IKONOS images in Artvin, Camili and Bulanikdere Forest Planning Units. Corresponding to these structures to intersect stand types were calculated volumes. As a result, road, river and power line structures can be necessity to presented polygon coverages in Forest Management Plan.