International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, Vol XXXV, Part B2. Istanbul 2004 
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Figure 2. Visualization of classification results from 1992 image (A) and from 2000 image (B). 
4. Results and Discussion 
Both images contain same number of pixels (1,364,200). The 
dispersion (as percentage) of total pixels that constitute the field 
of study according to the terrain types determined for each year 
is shown in Table 2. The change in forest areas belonging to 
each year is negative (-5.6%). This percentage is 6.31% for 
agricultural and idle areas. Considering these results, the change 
in Bartin province and its vicinity is the transformation of the 
land into agricultural areas. Furthermore, the increase in 
residential areas (0.3%) is the result of construction activities in 
recent years. The decrease in the amount of sandy-stony-rocky 
areas (0.46%) is the result of dense industrialization and 
construction activities in these types of areas. in Bartin forests, 
there are three different forest management units; high forest, 
unproductive high forest, unproductive coppice (Table 3). 
According to the investigations made on crime files, which were 
documented by Bartin Forest Directorate, most of the crimes 
were observed in areas belonging coppice management unit. 
Table 2. Total pixels dispersion that constitute the field of 
study according to the  land-cover types 
determined for each year. 
  
  
1992 2000 Change 
Land-Cover type (%) (%) (%) 
Forest 37.11% 31.51% -5.6% 
  
Agricultural and 
Idle Areas 
Settlement Areas 3.74% 4.04% 0.3% 
Sandy-Stoney- 
Rocky Areas 
Sea 18.69% 18.69% 0.00% 
Cloud 0.55% - - 
38.54% 44.85% 6.31% 
  
  
1.37% 0.91% -0.46% 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
The reason of high forests being more damaged than 
unproductive high forest is that high forest occupies 3.2 times 
more area than the unproductive high forest. Also, the reason of 
having the most damage on coppice area is not to provide 
enough revenue and not to take care of forest by forest 
directorates. In order to keep coppice areas safe which are 
damaged by forest villages continuously, these forest areas must 
be rehabilitated and converted to high forest. Nevertheless, in 
this case protection measures will be increased and this forest 
will face less negative effects. When looking at the illegal 
activities stem from forest villagers to the forested areas in 
terms of the canopy and management unit, it was observed that 
coppice having 1096-4096 canopy degree has been experienced 
the most severe damage. High forests having 41%-100% 
canopy degree had no damage at all. Another reason of attack in 
these forest areas is being near to agricultural or settlement 
areas. Social-economic structure of the people in those areas 
brings such a result. 
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