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S. CONCLUSION
The importance of agriculture is not only local or country based
but global. As the population rises, the countries have to plan
and manage the agricultural resources in a way that there won't
be any problems for the future of their countries and worlds.
Countries have to take care of their needs and decisions on
economy through the knowledge of their agricultural products
and the power of these products.
As today's one of the developing countries, Turkey has to be
aware of its agricultural products and use them in a more
efficient way. Turkey has a potential of being an agricultural
country instead of an industrial one, although as the time goes
on, this is not taken into consideration enough.
As the use of space and computer technology developed,
humankind has a great advantage of produce this much
important projects with the help of technology in an easier,
more accurate way within less time than other ways. In addition
to this with the help of geographical information systems,
complex analyses can be also done. As a result all these can
have a very effective role in helping the country to increase the
amount and the quality of agricultural products.
In this study, the agricultural potential in Lüleburgaz district in
Kirklareli, Thrace region, one of the most important region of
its agricultural and industrial production over the country’
average, was examined by multitemporal remotely sensed data.
With different vegetation indexes applied, the changes in
biomass were assessed for the years between 1987 and 2003. It
was shown that the multitemporal and multisensor satellite data
have an great success in biomass analysis.
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
We would like to thank to Assoc.Prof. Levent Saylan, ITU
Faculty of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Meteorological
Engineering Department for the meteorological data support.
