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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF REMOTE SENSING, vol.27, no.17, pp.3627-3643, 2006 (SCI-Expanded)
Landsat TM and ETM + imagery was evaluated as a potential data source for monitoring the coastal degradation of Candarli Bay and its basin on the eastern coast of the Aegean Sea. The bay is under pressure from conflicting uses, and there is an information need for future management plans for the area surrounding the bay. Spatial and temporal distributions of land use/land cover patterns were derived by unsupervised classification with the ISODATA algorithm. The post-classification comparison technique was applied to evaluate decadal changes in land area. The turbidity patterns of the bay were determined from sea surface reflectances, and at-satellite temperatures for the sea area were calculated. The processed images show that the water clarity conditions were affected by the adjacent coastal land uses and by river discharges. In accordance with the change-detection analysis of land-use patterns, the forested areas were decreased by 21%, whereas the increase in urban areas was determined as 105% within a decade.