Assessing land use and land cover changes and agricultural farmland expansions in Gambella Region, Ethiopia, using Landsat 5 and Sentinel 2a multispectral data

The pace of change in land use and cover in Ethiopia depends on three main factors that cause pressure on agriculture land: resettlement programmes, population growth and increasing agricultural investments. Gambella is one of the regions of Ethiopia that attracts large-scale agricultural investment...

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Main Authors: Azeb W. Degife, Florian Zabel, Wolfram Mauser
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2018-11-01
Series:Heliyon
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405844018347601