Coastal areas are the most variable units on earth. Especially for the last 25 years, coastal areas of Turkey have been under tremendous repression mainly because of population explosion arising from the domestic and foreign tourism demands, and also settlements by holiday dwellers and industrial companies, higways constructed to overcome traffic problems, intentions to convert beaches to sand supplying quarries and the other applications. The city of Trabzon has recently had its share of this shoreline exploitation causing fast and unplanned urbanization. This paper introduces an efficient method for monitoring environmental changes using a different approach for the images taken from the same geographical location within the province of Trabzon but at different times. After the completion of orientation process, the differences between consecutive data sets displayed in one picture immediately reveal environmental changes that took place in the meantime, regarding e.g. urban development, roads or coast lines. Resultsobtained so far are precise and clear enough to confirm the findings of the introduced method and to indicate that digital photogrammetry is an effective approach for monitoring coastal land use status of a large area.