DETERMINING OPTIMAL LAND USE OF THE BINGOL PLAIN AND ITS NEAR SURROUNDING WITH GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS (GIS) AND ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS (AHS)
COĞRAFİ BİLGİ SİSTEMLERİ (CBS) VE ANALİTİK HİYERARŞİ SÜRECİ (AHS) İLE BİNGÖL OVASI VE YAKIN ÇEVRESİNDE OPTİMAL ARAZİ KULLANIMININ BELİRLENMESİ

Author : Fatma ESEN --
Number of pages : 176-193

Abstract

The use of existing natural resources, intensely and unconsciously with the concern of providing the increasing demand with the increasing population and rapidly developing technology, causes harm that can not be repaired in nature. In order to keep these losses to a minimum, they have to be used in the direction the convenient of the potentials of the available resources. Land, which is a valuable natural resource, needs to be subjected to land use in the direction of its potentials so that it can sustain its productivity for many years. In this study, the optimal land use for these land use types in the geographical potential direction of the present land has been determined by carrying out suitability analyzes for pasture-grassland, forest and agricultural land use types in Bingöl Plain and its vicinity. According to optimal land use conditions, 55 % of the research area should be used as pasture-grassland, 40 % in forest and 4 % as agriculture area. When the optimal land use is compared with the existing land use situation, it has been determined that some of the land to be used as pasture in the existing land use is used as agriculture, and some of the land to be used as forest is used as grassland.

Keywords

Bingöl Plain, Land Use, Suitability Analysis, Geographic Information Systems Analytical Hierarchy Pr

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