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replaced by coniferous trees trough forestation works in time, and that the Black Sea coastline in particular moved 
towards the sea (Table 3). Tree cutting in forest management in the shaving manner is carried out at 20-year intervals 
in the woods fit for cutting and in the areas where artificial regeneration process is to be applied. This situation may 
lead to errors in assessing the classification results of the satellite data. Although some areas where trees were cut for 
the purpose of new plantations existed within the classification results of the year 1997, it was found out, in the checks 
made, that most of the areas that appeared as non-forest were transformed into either mining sites or settlement areas. 
Another reason of the change in vegetation cover in 1997 is the modification of natural vegetation of the area because 
of reforestation works carried out in many places. 
Monitoring the temporal changes of the forest lands which are among the natural resources that are very difficult or 
sometimes even impossible to retrieve will enable us to find solutions to the potential environment problems on time. 
Furthermore; accurate, fast and low cost data/information can be obtained in the studies aimed at determining the 
potentials of forests, monitoring their temporal changes and updating relevant information by using remote sensing data 
with spectral range fit for the purpose and spatial resolution that are supported from the field check. 
ACKNOWLEDGMENT 
I would like to thank you very much to Prof. Cankut Ormeci and Prof. Unal Asan who have supported me during my 
study and whose information was of much for me. 
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