OPPURTUNITIES PROVIDED BY REMOTE SENSING DATA FOR WATERSHED MANAGEMENT: EXAMPLE OF KONYA CLOSED BASIN

• Main Authors: Ayse Gul TANİK, Nebiye MUSAOGLU, Esra ERTEN, Baha BİLGİLİOGLU, Nur YAGMUR, Aylin TUZCU
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Mersin University 2020-10-01
• Series: International Journal of Engineering and Geosciences
• Subjects: konya closed basin; modis; sentinel; landsat; worldview-3
• Online Access: https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/ijeg/issue/54181/638669?publisher=https-www-selcuk-edu-tr-muhendislik-harita-akademik-personel-bilgi-3325-tr

Remote sensing data provides great opportunities to be utilized in various steps of watershed management like characterization of watersheds that bear dynamic structure with large land, monitoring the variations within the basin, and conducting various scenario analyses. The high resolution capacity of today’s satellite images enables the production of land use/cover data of the basin in shorter period of times. In this study, it is aimed to demonstrate various aspects of remote sensing technology to be further used in watershed management studies. A methodology is developed on the utilization of remote sensing technology consisting of 3 main groups; field surveys, satellite images and ancillary data. The importance of establishing watershed information systems together with databases reflecting the characteristics of watersheds is underlined. Various examples are given from Konya Closed Basin in Turkey that is known as the largest closed basin of the country with a surface area of 5.426.480 ha. The basin owns 17 water bodies out of which 2 of them are RAMSAR sites. Within the scope of the study, the inputs of the information obtained from optical and SAR satellite images in the basin are discussed.