Evaluation of the change of Istanbul Anatolian Side land surface temperature values with CORINE data

Abstract

Socio-economic developments, diversity of employment opportunities, proximity to city functions such as education, health, and social services make cities the focus of people's attention. Consequently, in order to serve all functions such as industry, trade, accommodation, education, entertainment and transportation, a very dense impervious surface structures occur in cities. The increase in these uncontrolled artificial impervious areas causes changes in the urban climate and land surface temperature (LST). Remote sensing technologies have been frequently preferred in recent years to monitoring and detecting these changes quickly. In this study, using Landsat 8 OLI images, the temperature changes on the surfaces in the Anatolian Side of Istanbul, whose surface temperature values were obtained, were evaluated. In the study, LST values of Landsat 8 OLI satellite images of 23 April 2018 and 28 April 2020 were obtained and analyzed with the help of 2018 CORINE data. The Anatolian Side of Istanbul shows an intense urbanization tendency, especially in the coastal part. Special focus has been placed on the temperature changes of the impervious surfaces used in this region. It has emerged that these surfaces should be especially evaluated in planning and design studies due to their effect on city surface temperature changes.