“…The research method is conducted mainly in 3 stages. In the creation of the method of this study, the similar studies as (Heien and Jusuf, 2007;Hilton and Burkhard, 2009;Atik et al, 2010;Hepcan et al, 2011;Tan et al, 2014;Acheampong et al, 2018;Kalaycı Önaç et al, 2018;Wei et al, 2018) In order to assess temporal changes in the study area, the images belonging to different years were digitized according to land use categories. Structural and functional situation of the areas are taken into account as benchmarks while putting forward the land use types and four different land use categories (manmade, vegetation, no-vegetation, agriculture) which contain 13 different subclasses (buildings, concrete, car parking, construction, roads, canals, water surface, sports, very intense green area, moderately intense green area, low intense green area, soil, agriculture) has been created (Figure 1).…”