Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
ADVANCES IN SPACE RESEARCH, cilt.76, sa.9, ss.4858-4879, 2025 (SCI-Expanded)
This study focused on developing a MATLAB-GUI-based application to generate optimal forest road routes. Within this scope, landslide susceptibility maps (LSMs) for the study area were produced to be used as base maps in the developed application. Considering the parameters of total length (km) and average percentage risk value (%) for five different test areas within the study area boundaries, it was observed that all the proposed optimal forest road routes were shorter and located in areas with lower landslide risk compared to the existing forest roads. In this context, the maximum total length difference between the existing forest road routes and the developed optimal forest road routes was calculated as 1.31 km, while the highest difference in the average percentage risk value was determined as 25.02 %. Additionally, the developed application provides users with the ability to define restrictive areas where forest roads cannot pass or must pass, offering significant convenience. This feature allows the generated optimal forest road routes to be designed in a realistic manner that aligns with terrain conditions. Moreover, thanks to the developed application, the results can be displayed instantly and simply in the result output panel without requiring an intensive computational load. This capability of the developed program demonstrates the pioneering contribution of the study to the literature.