Version 1
: Received: 10 May 2019 / Approved: 13 May 2019 / Online: 13 May 2019 (13:33:35 CEST)
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Bimrew, A.B.; Oda, T.K. Mapping Land-Use and Land-Cover Changes in Bahir Dar City and its Surrounds Using Remote Sensing. Preprints2019, 2019050161. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201905.0161.v1
Bimrew, A.B.; Oda, T.K. Mapping Land-Use and Land-Cover Changes in Bahir Dar City and its Surrounds Using Remote Sensing. Preprints 2019, 2019050161. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201905.0161.v1
Bimrew, A.B.; Oda, T.K. Mapping Land-Use and Land-Cover Changes in Bahir Dar City and its Surrounds Using Remote Sensing. Preprints2019, 2019050161. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201905.0161.v1
APA Style
Bimrew, A.B., & Oda, T.K. (2019). Mapping Land-Use and Land-Cover Changes in Bahir Dar City and its Surrounds Using Remote Sensing. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201905.0161.v1
Chicago/Turabian Style
Bimrew, A.B. and Tesfaye Korme Oda. 2019 "Mapping Land-Use and Land-Cover Changes in Bahir Dar City and its Surrounds Using Remote Sensing" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201905.0161.v1
Abstract
Spatio-temporal Land-Use and Land-Cover (LULC) changes have been affecting geo-environmental and climate change globally. This study aims to analyze LULC changes in Bahir Dar city and its surrounds. Landsat 5 TM (1987), Landsat 7 ETM+ (2002) and Landsat 8 OLI (2017) and SPOT images, and aerial photographs, master plan map and Google Earth Landsat images were used to analyze changes. In Bahir Dar city and its surrounds, LULC has been changing in space and time. During 1987-2017, more than 50% of the study area was covered with cropland. Settlement areas have increased from 3.3% in 1987 to 9.13% in 2017. However, wetland vegetation, shrubland, grassland, forest, and waterbodies have degraded. These changes are mainly attributed to population growth and its effect on the environment. Land-use and land-cover is a serious problem and it causes land and environmental degradation, climate change and loss of the biological environment.
Keywords
Landuse and landcover; LULC change; remote sensing; LandSat image; Bahir Dar city
Subject
Environmental and Earth Sciences, Ecology
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