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Table 3 Distributions of forest crimes according to forest 
management units. 
  
  
  
  
  
Forest Management units Field (m^) % 
High Forest 224774 21 
Unproductive High Forest 169561 16 
Unproductive Coppice 686469 63 
Total 1080804 100 
  
  
  
  
  
Observations based on Landsat images indicate that in coppice 
located north-northwest sections of study area (1095-4094 
canopy degree), attacks were observed. The results in Table 2 
verify that the change between the years of 1992-2000 
corresponds to the change between the agriculture and forest 
areas. In order to observe the illegal activities in the study area, 
Landsat 5 TM image in raster format of the year 2000 has been 
converted to the vector format. In a similar way, the map 
showing the canopy and management units in the study area in 
1984 have been digitized (Figure 4). When the transparent 
image of this map has been superimposed onto the Landsat 5 
TM image, it has been shown that what kind of management 
units have been converted to what kind of land use classes 
between 1984-2000 (Figure 5A/B). 
  
  
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