International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, Vol XXXV, Part B7. Istanbul 2004 
road dividers, pipelines, and erected tall features like electric 
poles, lampposts, Towers like telecommunication, Radio, T.V., 
Pylons etc., can be detected with IKONOS data. 
On the other way around, the land consolidation works in general 
and in Turkey include the development of road, water 
management and drainage, improvement of land and landscape, 
and consolidation of scattered, fragmented and shared farmplots. 
The aim is also improvement of agricultural economics and the 
rights of owners. 
The agricultural areas in Turkey have become insufficient due to 
high population rate and decreasing productivity. The increase of 
land productivity is related to improvement of land and water 
resources, technology level, agricultural structure, and the quantity 
and quality of seed, fertilizer, pesticide and water use. The land 
consolidation develops agricultural structure, which is one of the 
main factors in improvement of land and water resources. 
Fortunately, the opportunities offered by satellite images such as 
explained above can meet well many of requirements described in 
land consolidation projects. 
The purposes of land consolidation as given in the 3083 numbered 
and 22.11.1984 dated law, “Agricultural Reform Law for Land 
Consolidation in Well-Watered Areas” and “Application 
Regulations" are as follows: 
-Connection of highly fragmented plots according to the 
principles of modern management 
-Improvement of land and soil 
-Reorganization and improvement of 
managements 
-Building roads, drainage and water management systems 
-Leveling and tree planting of mountainous areas 
-Arrangement and reallocation of land and enlargement of 
managements 
-Arrangement of settlements (electrification etc.), joining of 
scattered plots, improvement of all aspects of agricultural life in 
order to obtain highest productivity of land and labor, and taking 
measures in technical, social, cultural and economic aspects to 
increase agricultural life ( Banger, 1992) . 
agricultural 
2. BASIC STAGES OF GENERAL LAND 
CONSOLIDATION PROJECTS 
Land consolidation projects generally have four basic stages ( 
Kara, 1980; Takka, 1993; Cay, 2001): 
a- Preliminary study 
Preliminary interview with land owners (for demanded 
consolidations) 
. Cadastral procedures 
. Determination of project borders 
. Preparation of list of old owners and alphabetical list of old 
Owners 
(for demanded consolidation) 
. Preparation of preliminary study report 
. Decision by Ministry Board 
b- Planning 
Announcement of land consolidation field and annotation on 
. 
Land Register 
. Determination of present state of project area 
. Evaluating ownership state 
. Land study and classification 
. Formation of blocks (water management, drainage and road 
systems) 
. Determination of stationary establishments 
. Determination of share for common establishments 
. Preparation of planning report 
c- Project making 
. Filling out interview forms 
. Planning new parcels 
. Announcement of new ownership map 
. Forming project file 
d- Application 
. Application of blocks 
. Leveling of road and soil, and filling canalet base 
. Application and temporary delivery of new parcels 
. Land improvement, making stabilized roads, construction of 
canalets, drainage system and art structures. 
. Remeasuring, drawing, preparation and registering new parcels 
The Planning Phase in Land Consolidation Projects 
[n the planning section; 
e Determination of present state of project area 
e Land study and classification 
e Formation of blocks (water management, drainage and 
road systems) 
e Determination of stationary establishments 
can be done using satellite images. 
2.1 Determination Of Present State Of Project Are: 
This process includes the determination of stationary 
establishments such as irrigation canalets, drain structures, road 
and path networks, water resources, wells, buildings. wire hedge 
and delineation of them on map So, the cadastral maps can then be 
updated data. 
2.2 Land Study And Classification 
Land classification value is computed with respect to soil, 
productivity and location indexes of plots as shown below, 
Plot index (PI) = soil index (SI)* %70 + productivity index (Pr) + 
location index (LI) 
These indexes change 0 to 100 for soil, 0 to 10 for productivity 
and 0 to 20 for location.Soil index is determined after laboratory 
analyses and sampling technique is used. Productivity index map 
is obtained after laboratory analyses and agricultural statistics. 
To find out location indexes of plots, it is important to take into 
account those; distances to residential centre, to road, to irrigation 
network, to power line and to flood plain area etc. 
2.3 Formation of Blocks (water management, drainage and 
road systems) 
Application projects of infrastructures and superstructures, which 
were previously planned by private or governmental foundations 
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