Calculation of glacial area change at Cilo mountain with Google Earth Engine

Abstract

Global climate change has become an important natural phenomenon that threatens the world today, with the negative factors that occur in the ecosystem such as constantly developing cities, population growth and climatic conditions. Since active glacial areas are very sensitive to climate changes, it is one of the important areas that should be examined to reveal the extent of global warming. They grouped Turkey's current glaciers and regions of glaciation under three main groups: Taurus Mountains, Eastern Black Sea Mountains, Volcanoes and other independent mountains of Anatolia. Cilo Mountain, located in the Taurus Mountains group, constitutes one of the important glaciation areas with active glaciers and many glacial forms. In this study, the active glacier on Cilo Mountain is examined using Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems techniques. In the study, the numerical data used in the Normalized Difference Snow Index (NDSI) study were obtained with the Google Earth Engine tool and the analyzes created as a result of the algorithms made using satellite data.