Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
20th ISPRS Congress on Technical Commission VII, İstanbul, Türkiye, 12 - 23 Temmuz 2004, cilt.35
© 2004 International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. All rights reserved.Zonguldak Metropolitan Area (ZMA) is located in North-western part of Turkey and a mining and industry region which occuppies the 80% of the Zonguldak Hardcoal Basin (ZHB). In this region, hardcoal mining has been made since 1848 and, based on the records kept since 1865, 328 million tons pit run coal have been produced. Resulted amount of waste from the processing of coal in the coal washing factories is about 114 million tons. Some parts of these coal wastes have been stocked along the coastal lines in ZMA by governmental and private companies while the others have been stored in the valleys and hilly side of inner regions. Additionally, waste materials have been used as filling materials in road and plant constructions. In this study, coal waste areas and use of wastes in the settlement areas have been determined by means of the analysis carried out on the Landsat TM images of the region using object-oriented image analysis program eCognition 3.0. After segmentation and required classification procedures, results are integrated to GIS environment. At this phase, classified images are superimposed with the highresolution Ikonos images and then necessary analyses have been realized. Based on the findings, in ZMA, in1992, there was about 2.1 sq.km coal and coal waste areas, their dimensions increased to 4.2sq.km in 2000. In the urban areas, while the size of coal waste cover was about 9.7sq.km in 1992, it was measured as 16.5sq.km in 2000.