Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
FETEC2024 - 5th International Symposium of Forest Engineering and Technologies, Ljubljana, Slovenya, 16 - 18 Eylül 2024, ss.64-71
Forest roads, which are the basic infrastructure facilities of forestry activities, are used throughout the year for transportation and production vehicles to perform forestry services and, most importantly, to open forests for operation. During the construction of forest roads, the main objective is to plan the road routes closest to nature. However, since the construction of forest roads is a direct intervention in nature, it brings with it inevitable damage to nature. In order to detect these damages, this study aims to detect the changes in forest roads using satellite images. Forest roads within the borders of the Forest Management Directorate of Trabzon Forestry Regional Directorate were selected as the study area. It was tried to determine the degree of change that the identified forest roads had an impact on the forest area over time depending on the years of construction. Controlled classification was performed using SNAP software on Sentinel-2 satellite images of 2016, 2019, 2022 and 2024 to determine the current situation. As a result of this study, the time-dependent change of forest road constructions and their damages to the underlying stands were calculated proportionally. It is thought that the resulting data will show the dynamics of forest road changes and provide a basis for future planning.
Keywords: Forest roads, satellite images, classification, environmental damages, temporal change