MONITORING THE CHANGE OF URBAN SETTLEMENT IN 72 YEARS BY USING REMOTE SENSING METHODS A CASE STUDY IN KAZANLI TURKEY

Residential areas in the world are tending to spread in general. There are many reasons for that rising such as their locations, physiographic units, closeness to a city or to trade areas, environmental conditions, urbanization plans. and agricultural politics. Each of these factors can affect the spread or stability of urban areas at different powers. For example; if there is the main trade port around a city, this city is under very powerful pressure by that transportation port. It means that city probably will spread too much in the future, On the other hand, if the agricultural policies of the relevant institutions are aimed at the protection and development of agricultural lands, this time there will he more stagnation in settlements. There is both commercial and agricultural pressure due to the location of the Kazanli District in the study area, The Kazanli is centered in the study area and it is only 1 km from the sea in the north direction. Agricultural uses (greenhouses. citrus garden and others) are predominant in this region. Secondly, there are residential use and finally small and large scale factories. The Kazanli settlement occupied 6 ha and 292 ha in 1948 and 2020, respectively. Any factory use has not been identified in the study area in 1948. While the area covered by Kazanli settlement in the study area was approximately 0.22% in 1948. this rate was 10.62% in 2020. The results show that the total increase of Kazanli district (both settlement and factories use) in the study area is 10.40% in 72 years. The biggest reasons for this increase seem to be the proximity of Kazan!" district to Mersin. which has a high commercial potential (port. main highway). On the other hand, it is predicted that the factor that stops the increase in these settlements in 72 years is intensive agricultural (mostly greenhouse) uses around Kazanli district, In this study, it has been observed that the contribution of both aerial photographs and satellite data within the framework of remote sensing methods is very important in detecting such changes in land use over the years.