Land-use/land-cover changes and implications in Southern Ethiopia: evidence from remote sensing and informants
Understanding land use/cover (LULC) changes and their impacts on the catchment are imperative for proper land management. Hence, useful information concerning responses to LULC changes becomes important to minimize negative impacts on future land uses. The aim of the study was to evaluate the LULC c...
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| author | Hailu Gisha Kuma Fekadu Fufa Feyessa Tamene Adugna Demissie |
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| description | Understanding land use/cover (LULC) changes and their impacts on the catchment are imperative for proper land management. Hence, useful information concerning responses to LULC changes becomes important to minimize negative impacts on future land uses. The aim of the study was to evaluate the LULC changes and consequences of the change at Bilate catchment from 1986 to 2018. The LULC change evaluations were undertaken by using Landsat images of 1986, 2002 and 2018. Supervised image classification was employed to map the land cover classes. Informant interviews and group discussions with field observations were used to identify the consequences of the changes. Over the past periods, built-up areas, water bodies, cultivation, and barren lands have increased by 0.97, 0.13, 9.27, and 1.36%, respectively. However, the forest and grazing lands have decreased by 8.56 and 3.18% respectively. Exhaustive land cultivation without appropriate management and cultivation of sloppy lands have increased soil erosion and sediment yield to water bodies. A decline in crop yields, livestock products and numbers, and fish population in Lake Abaya are the major implications of LULC change in the catchment. Therefore, to ensure sustainable land use, responsible bodies commit and work closely with communities through participatory approaches. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-0b98db1833d247d5ac5dd6915f50a58d2022-12-22T02:41:30ZengElsevierHeliyon2405-84402022-03-0183e09071Land-use/land-cover changes and implications in Southern Ethiopia: evidence from remote sensing and informantsHailu Gisha Kuma0Fekadu Fufa Feyessa1Tamene Adugna Demissie2Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Jimma Institute of Technology, Jimma University, Jimma 378, EthiopiaFaculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Jimma Institute of Technology, Jimma University, Jimma 378, EthiopiaCorresponding author.; Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Jimma Institute of Technology, Jimma University, Jimma 378, EthiopiaUnderstanding land use/cover (LULC) changes and their impacts on the catchment are imperative for proper land management. Hence, useful information concerning responses to LULC changes becomes important to minimize negative impacts on future land uses. The aim of the study was to evaluate the LULC changes and consequences of the change at Bilate catchment from 1986 to 2018. The LULC change evaluations were undertaken by using Landsat images of 1986, 2002 and 2018. Supervised image classification was employed to map the land cover classes. Informant interviews and group discussions with field observations were used to identify the consequences of the changes. Over the past periods, built-up areas, water bodies, cultivation, and barren lands have increased by 0.97, 0.13, 9.27, and 1.36%, respectively. However, the forest and grazing lands have decreased by 8.56 and 3.18% respectively. Exhaustive land cultivation without appropriate management and cultivation of sloppy lands have increased soil erosion and sediment yield to water bodies. A decline in crop yields, livestock products and numbers, and fish population in Lake Abaya are the major implications of LULC change in the catchment. Therefore, to ensure sustainable land use, responsible bodies commit and work closely with communities through participatory approaches.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405844022003590Bilate catchmentImplicationsInformantsLULC changeRemote sensing |
| spellingShingle | Hailu Gisha Kuma Fekadu Fufa Feyessa Tamene Adugna Demissie Land-use/land-cover changes and implications in Southern Ethiopia: evidence from remote sensing and informants Heliyon Bilate catchment Implications Informants LULC change Remote sensing |
| title | Land-use/land-cover changes and implications in Southern Ethiopia: evidence from remote sensing and informants |
| title_full | Land-use/land-cover changes and implications in Southern Ethiopia: evidence from remote sensing and informants |
| title_fullStr | Land-use/land-cover changes and implications in Southern Ethiopia: evidence from remote sensing and informants |
| title_full_unstemmed | Land-use/land-cover changes and implications in Southern Ethiopia: evidence from remote sensing and informants |
| title_short | Land-use/land-cover changes and implications in Southern Ethiopia: evidence from remote sensing and informants |
| title_sort | land use land cover changes and implications in southern ethiopia evidence from remote sensing and informants |
| topic | Bilate catchment Implications Informants LULC change Remote sensing |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405844022003590 |
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