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                                                                <journal-id>j. int. environmental application &amp; science</journal-id>
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                                                                                    <journal-title>Journal of International Environmental Application and Science</journal-title>
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                            <issn pub-type="ppub">1307-0428</issn>
                                        <issn pub-type="epub">2636-7661</issn>
                                                                                            <publisher>
                    <publisher-name>Şükrü DURSUN</publisher-name>
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                                                                                                                        <article-title>Vegetation Cover Change of Çeşme Alaçatı Wind Power Plant Using Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI)</article-title>
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                                                                        <contrib contrib-type="author">
                                                                <name>
                                    <surname>Balik</surname>
                                    <given-names>Gökhan</given-names>
                                </name>
                                                                    <aff>Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Landscape Architecture, Ege University, Turkey</aff>
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                                                    <contrib contrib-type="author">
                                                                <name>
                                    <surname>Aktaş</surname>
                                    <given-names>Erden</given-names>
                                </name>
                                                            </contrib>
                                                    <contrib contrib-type="author">
                                                                <name>
                                    <surname>Önaç</surname>
                                    <given-names>Ayşe Kalayci</given-names>
                                </name>
                                                            </contrib>
                                                    <contrib contrib-type="author">
                                                                <name>
                                    <surname>Birişçi</surname>
                                    <given-names>Tanay</given-names>
                                </name>
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                                        <pub-date pub-type="pub" iso-8601-date="20170930">
                    <day>09</day>
                    <month>30</month>
                    <year>2017</year>
                </pub-date>
                                        <volume>12</volume>
                                        <issue>3</issue>
                                        <fpage>204</fpage>
                                        <lpage>211</lpage>
                        
                        <history>
                                    <date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="20170517">
                        <day>05</day>
                        <month>17</month>
                        <year>2017</year>
                    </date>
                                                    <date date-type="accepted" iso-8601-date="20170719">
                        <day>07</day>
                        <month>19</month>
                        <year>2017</year>
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                    <copyright-statement>Copyright © 2006, Journal of International Environmental Application and Science</copyright-statement>
                    <copyright-year>2006</copyright-year>
                    <copyright-holder>Journal of International Environmental Application and Science</copyright-holder>
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                                                                                                <abstract><p>The environmental impacts of wind power plants, oneof the most widely used renewable energy sources in the world, are still beingdiscussed. In this study, the effects of Çeşme Alaçatı Wind Power Plant on vegetationcover change are evaluated by using normalized difference vegetation index(NDVI) between the pre and post-turbine periods. The satellite images of SPOTJune 1996 and Pleiades June 2014 have been used for the analysis process.According to the results of the study; it has been determined that the presenceof plants increased by 1.3% in the whole area including the health protectionband. However, the results showed that the rate of plant presence has beendecreased by 27.1 % in the main area excluding the health protection band. Onlyspatial changes and field studies were considered in evaluations for vegetationcover change.</p></abstract>
                                                                                    
            
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                                                    <kwd>Wind power plant</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  NDVI</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  GIS</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  vegetation cover</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  Çeşme</kwd>
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