Sudan as a Sahelian country faced numerous drought periods resulting in famine and mass immigration. Spatial data on dynamics of land use and land cover is scarce and/or almost non-existent. The North Kordofan State is located in the centre of Sudan. The region generally yields reasonable harvests of rainfed crops and grasslands supports plenty of livestock. But any attempts to develop medium- to long-term strategies of sustainable land management have been hampered by the impacts of drought and desertification over a long period of time. This resarch aimed to determine and analyse the...