THE IMPACT OF URBAN GROWTH ON LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE IN KONYA PROVINCE's SELÇUKLU DISTRICT
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: The ecosystem and climate are significantly impacted by population increase and rapid, uncontrolled urbanization. Green, moisture-retaining natural environments become impermeable artificial surfaces as a result of urbanization, changes in land cover, and the rate of melting. These changes in land cover caused by humans have a big impact on the microclimate. The urban environment gets hotter due to the rise in artificial surfaces and the fall in greenery, particularly in regular areas. Heat islands are what these situations are known as. This study uses data from Landsat 5 TM and Landsat 8 OLI/TIRS Konya for the years 1985-2005-2015-2021 of the Selçuklu district, a highly developed province with a population and service sector resulting from industrial development between 1985 and 2015, as well as sensors and industrial zones. The impact of increase on Land Surface Temperature (LST) was explored. Land surface temperature tests conducted separately for residential and industrial zones, a significant rise was noted in industrial areas. Increased land surface temperatures caused by industrialization in the Selçuk region also impacted the villages nearby, resulting in an increase in land surface temperature in areas close to the industrial area. This leads us to the conclusion that industrial regions have a greater impact on temperature than residential areas.
Authors: Deniz Koklu, Fatih İşcan, Ceren Yağcı
Institutions: Konya Technical University, Osmaniye Korkut Ata University
Language: English
Topic: Urban Heat Island Mitigation
Subfield: Environmental Engineering
Field: Environmental Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4413952840