5th International Conference of Contemporary Affairs in Architecture and Urbanism (ICCAUA-2022), Antalya, Turkey, 11 - 13 May 2022, pp.27
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.