Land Use and Land Cover Change Detection Using GIS and Remote Sensing

ISBN-13: 9783659235474 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 120 str.

Gebeyehu Abebe

Opis

Information on LULC change would have helped for planners and decision makers to implement LULC planning aimed at sustainable use and management of resources, to improve rural livelihood at regional and local level as well. This study is intended to assess the LULC change in the Koga watershed, North Western Ethiopia, for the past thirty eight years (1973-2011) using GIS and remote sensing techniques. The study watershed covered 29,348.8 hectares.

O autorze

Abebe, GebeyehuGebeyehu was born on 25 January 1981 in North Shoa, Ethiopia. He obtained his first degree(B.ed)in July 2003 from Alemaya University. After years of services in different organizations, he joined the graduate program of Geo-information, Bahir Dar University for his second degree and he obtaind his M.Sc in july 2012.