Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
2. International Baku Scientific Researches Conference, Baku, Azerbaycan, 28 - 30 Nisan 2021, cilt.1, ss.287-292
Longos (flooded) forests refer to forests where the water level is at or near the surface of the
soil and the area is periodically or rarely covered with shallow water. Submerged lakes in the
flooded forests will cause changes in water levels. Increasing and decreasing water levels on
the forest floor is the cause of the rich biodiversity. Igneada Longos Forest, which is one of
the rare flooded forests in Turkey, was selected as the study area. Logos Forests, located in
the Igneada town of Demirköy district of Kırklareli province, was certified as a National Park
in 2007 with the decision of the Council of Ministers. In this study, an analysis of Turkey's
Igneada Longos Forests' long-term changes in the last ten years was carried out using Landsat
7 (ETM +) and Landsat-8 (OLI) satellite images. Owing to the greenness of the tree leaves in
the spring and summer seasons of the year, the satellite images were selected among the
cloudless images gathered in the April and August months of all the monitored years. The
Google Earth Engine (GEE) platform, which is available in the cloud environment, was
developed by Google, and has been highly preferred in Remote Sensing (RS) studies in recent
years, especially for mapping large areas, examining changes that occurred in the past, and
making future predictions. GEE, a platform that works with JavaScript and Python coding
languages, can easily and simultaneously access all archives of Landsat satellite images, and
process petabyte-scale data. The detection of the change on the Igneada Flooded Forests was
performed by time series analysis using the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI)
with the JavaScript coding language on the GEE platform. According to the time series
analysis, it is detected that there has been no significant change in forest areas in the last ten
years.