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RECENT INNOVATIONS BROUGHT BY GEOGRAPHIC<br />

INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND REMOTE SENSING IN<br />

VEGETATION AND FLORA STUDIES IN TURKEY<br />

Hakan Mete DO�AN 1 , Musa DO�AN 2 , Ferhat CELEP 2<br />

1 Gaziosmanpasa University, Agricultural Faculty, Soil Science Department, Tokat hmdogan@hotmail.com<br />

2 Department of Biological Sciences, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, doganm@metu.edu.tr<br />

fcelep@metu.edu.tr<br />

In the last two decades, the use of geographic information systems (GIS) and Remote Sensing<br />

(RS) increased rapidly due to the great interest of many institutions in Turkey. Parallel to this<br />

increase, hardware, software and trained people structures started to develop. This progress<br />

enabled the preparation of some countrywide digital databases to be used in spatial analysis and<br />

modelling processes. Flora and vegetation studies took the benefit of these improvements, and<br />

some applications showed the emerging utility of these tools. In this presentation, we<br />

summarized two latest innovations of us that can be used for plant bio-diversity and community<br />

composition mapping. In the former, we explained how plant bio-diversity of Nall�han forest<br />

ecosystem were modelled and mapped in GIS by utilizing diversity indices (Shannon Wiener,<br />

Simpson, Number of Species), environmental variables (soil, topography, geology and climate),<br />

and remotely sensed data (LANDSAT-ETM+). In the latter, we summarized the ways of<br />

Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) usage to develop plant community composition<br />

maps of Tersakan Valley in Amasya by using both GIS and RS.<br />

Keywords: Geographic information systems, remote sensing, plant bio-diversity, community<br />

composition, mapping<br />

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