Coastal land use alteration and coastline changes from 1984 to
2011 were investigated along the Trabzon city coast including
central district and nine coastal counties that totally comprises
110 km long coastline. The study area has been generally used to
supply services such as beach, port facilities, fisherman wharfs,
residential and transportation. In order to strength the coastal
stabilization, breakwaters, jetties and groins were observed from
place to place as coastal engineering structures in the region.
Detailed map showing the study area is presented in Fig. 1.