CORINE Sistemine Göre Kars İlinde Arazi Örtüsü/Arazi Kullanımı, Değişimi ve Projeksiyonu.

This study aims to determine the changes that occur periodically in the land cover/land use in the Kars province according to the coordination of information on the environment (CORINE) system, to determine the natural and human environmental factors that affect this change and help project future land use. In the study, a 1990 vector data set representing the first sampling year in the CORINE system and customized according to the administrative boundaries of the Kars province and a vector data set of 2018 representing the last sampling year of the same system were used. In the analysis made on these data sets, 23 land subclasses belonging to five mainland cover/land use class in the province were determined in both years that constitute the research sample. In the last stage of the research, the situation of land cover/land use in the province in 2040 was projected with a hybrid model combining multilayer perceptron, artificial neural network, and Markov chain (MC) approaches. Accordingly, in parallel with the situation in the years constituting the research sample, it was concluded that the land cover/land use in the province could significantly change in 2040. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]