Creating Cool Island with Street Afforestation: The Case Study of Antalya

Kuşçu Şimşek Ç., Arabacı D., Olgun B.

5th International Conference of Contemporary Affairs in Architecture and Urbanism (ICCAUA-2022), Antalya, Türkiye, 11 - 13 Mayıs 2022, ss.27

  • Yayın Türü: Bildiri / Özet Bildiri
  • Basıldığı Şehir: Antalya
  • Basıldığı Ülke: Türkiye
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.27
  • Akdeniz Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

In this study, the effect of increasing street afforestation on the local climate in Muratpaşa, one of the densely populated districts of Antalya, was investigated by artificial neural network (ANN) simulations. In the method based on NDVI (normalized difference vegetation index) values obtained from satellite images, new synthetic images were created by afforesting road networks and then new surface temperatures of the region were calculated from the simulations that used these synthetic images. By analysing the thermal changes between the obtained simulated surface temperatures and the original surface temperatures, the effects of street afforestation on the region were examined. The results revealed that street afforestation is also effective in cooling the road networks and their peripheries.