Application of GIS and Remote Sensing for Land Use and Land Cover Change in Kilite Awulalo, Tigray Ethiopia
This study examines the application of GIS and Remote Sensing in mapping Land Use and Land Cover change in Kilite Awulalo Woreda, Eastern Tigray Zone from 1972 to 2014. For this study, LANDSAT images of 1972 (Landsat-1 MSS); 1984 (Landsat-5 TM); 2000 (Landsat-7 ETM+) and 2014 (Landsat-8 OLI_TIRS) we...
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| author | Abineh Tilahun Zubairul Islam Ayele Behaylu Grmay Kassa Mandefro Abere |
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| description | This study examines the application of GIS and Remote Sensing in mapping Land Use and Land Cover change in Kilite Awulalo Woreda, Eastern Tigray Zone from 1972 to 2014. For this study, LANDSAT images of 1972 (Landsat-1 MSS); 1984 (Landsat-5 TM); 2000 (Landsat-7 ETM+) and 2014 (Landsat-8 OLI_TIRS) were used and analyzed using Arc GIS 10.1 and Erdas Imagine 13. Supervised classification scheme was used to classify the images. Under land use and land cover categories Agriculture land, Settlement land, Grazing land, Forest land, Bush land, Water bodies and Bare/stony land were studied. The result shows that Bush land was decreased from 1972 to 2014 which is 1972 (58007.88 hectare), 1984 (47900.79 hectare), 2000 (45000.1 hectare) and 2014 (40573.53 hectare) and forested land was decreased from the year 1984 (21706.65 hectare) to 2014 (11916.6 hectare). Agriculture and settlement area was increased from the year 1972 to 2014. Agriculture was increasing 13138.92, 20856.78, and 23000.09 to 30402.27 hectares from the year 1972, 1984, 2000 and 2014 respectively. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-3e1ae71c560345cb8e7707b98b40f5462023-02-02T06:26:48ZengEnvironment, Agriculture and Education SocietyG-Journal of Environmental Science and Technology2322-02282015-04-0125Application of GIS and Remote Sensing for Land Use and Land Cover Change in Kilite Awulalo, Tigray EthiopiaAbineh Tilahun0Zubairul Islam1Ayele Behaylu2Grmay Kassa3Mandefro Abere4Department of Geography and environmental studies, Adigrat University, ETHIOPIADepartment of Geography and environmental studies, Adigrat University, ETHIOPIADepartment of Geography and environmental studies, Adigrat University, ETHIOPIAGrmay Kassa, Department of Geology, Adigrat University, ETHIOPIAMandefro Abere, Department of Statics, Adigrat University, ETHIOPIAThis study examines the application of GIS and Remote Sensing in mapping Land Use and Land Cover change in Kilite Awulalo Woreda, Eastern Tigray Zone from 1972 to 2014. For this study, LANDSAT images of 1972 (Landsat-1 MSS); 1984 (Landsat-5 TM); 2000 (Landsat-7 ETM+) and 2014 (Landsat-8 OLI_TIRS) were used and analyzed using Arc GIS 10.1 and Erdas Imagine 13. Supervised classification scheme was used to classify the images. Under land use and land cover categories Agriculture land, Settlement land, Grazing land, Forest land, Bush land, Water bodies and Bare/stony land were studied. The result shows that Bush land was decreased from 1972 to 2014 which is 1972 (58007.88 hectare), 1984 (47900.79 hectare), 2000 (45000.1 hectare) and 2014 (40573.53 hectare) and forested land was decreased from the year 1984 (21706.65 hectare) to 2014 (11916.6 hectare). Agriculture and settlement area was increased from the year 1972 to 2014. Agriculture was increasing 13138.92, 20856.78, and 23000.09 to 30402.27 hectares from the year 1972, 1984, 2000 and 2014 respectively.https://gjestenv.com/index.php/gjest/article/view/39Landsat imageLand UseLand CoverGISRS |
| spellingShingle | Abineh Tilahun Zubairul Islam Ayele Behaylu Grmay Kassa Mandefro Abere Application of GIS and Remote Sensing for Land Use and Land Cover Change in Kilite Awulalo, Tigray Ethiopia G-Journal of Environmental Science and Technology Landsat image Land Use Land Cover GIS RS |
| title | Application of GIS and Remote Sensing for Land Use and Land Cover Change in Kilite Awulalo, Tigray Ethiopia |
| title_full | Application of GIS and Remote Sensing for Land Use and Land Cover Change in Kilite Awulalo, Tigray Ethiopia |
| title_fullStr | Application of GIS and Remote Sensing for Land Use and Land Cover Change in Kilite Awulalo, Tigray Ethiopia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Application of GIS and Remote Sensing for Land Use and Land Cover Change in Kilite Awulalo, Tigray Ethiopia |
| title_short | Application of GIS and Remote Sensing for Land Use and Land Cover Change in Kilite Awulalo, Tigray Ethiopia |
| title_sort | application of gis and remote sensing for land use and land cover change in kilite awulalo tigray ethiopia |
| topic | Landsat image Land Use Land Cover GIS RS |
| url | https://gjestenv.com/index.php/gjest/article/view/39 |
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