Monitoring the change of Turkey’s tourism city Antalya’s Konyaaltı shoreline with multi-source satellite and meteorological data

Yiğit, Abdurahman Yasin

Uncontrolled tourism activities cause the destruction of nature and deterioration of the ecological balance. Since coastal areas are both economically and socially important, monitoring shoreline changes has become one of the important research areas. Monitoring short-term and long-term changes in coastal areas is important to prevent damages that may occur due to natural and human factors and protect the shorelines. In this study, which is an important tourist city of Antalya, Turkey, and the world, coastal changes using historical and recent satellite data have been analyzed. The focus of the study is to analyze long-term coastal change with Landsat data and the data obtained every 5 years between 1985 and 2020 and to analyze short-term change with annual Sentinel-2 data between 2015 and...