Land Use Land Cover Change Detection by Using Remote Sensing Data in Akaki River Basin

Keyword: Akaki River basin, LULCC, GIS, Remote sensing.

Abstract: Land use land cover change (LULCC) is the result of the long time process of natural and anthropogenic activities that has been practiced on the land. GIS and remote sensing are the best tools that support to generate the relevant land use/cover change in the basin. This study was conducted in the Akaki River basin to detect land use land cover changes within the 30 years period (1985-2015) by using landsat imagery data acquired from the GCF. Supervised maximum likelihood algorithm classification were deployed to classify land use/cover into four prominent land use groups and data’s were processed by using ERDAS imagine 2014 and ArcGIS10.1 software. In the basin dominant LULC was agricultural land use which accounts around 56.28% and the second largest is built-up area by 31.51% and the rest, forest(11.9%) and water body(0.31%) coverage were takes third and fourth position(as 2015 data). The rapid expansion of Addis Ababa city consumes more fertile land near to the city. According to the projected LULCC for 2030 the proportion of agricultural and built-up area near to each other, i.e., agricultural land reduced to 42.33% and urban or built-up area increased to 41.63%. One good thing observed in the basin was an increment of the forest land in between 2011 and 2015 by 23.85% whereas in between 1985 and 2015 the annual rate of change was by 4.2. This may be due to the implementation of green-economy building strategy of the government and other stakeholders to rehabilitate the degraded lands in order to achieve MDG and SDG goals. Urbanization, industrialization, commercial center enlargement and population explosion in the main city Addis Ababa grabs more fertile and productive lands which supports more semi-urban communities. Hence, the government should consider the dramatic and drastic horizontal expansion of the urbanization which resulted due to lack of appropriate master plan for the city and towns in the basin to protect the loss agricultural productive lands.

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Adimasu Woldesenbet Worako et al."Land Use Land Cover Change Detection by Using Remote Sensing Data in Akaki River Basin". International Journal of Environment Agriculture and Biotechnology(ISSN: 2456-1878),vol 1, no. 1, 2016, pp.01-10 AI Publications

Adimasu Woldesenbet Worako, P.(2016).Land Use Land Cover Change Detection by Using Remote Sensing Data in Akaki River Basin. International Journal of Environment Agriculture and Biotechnology(ISSN: 2456-1878).1(1), 01-10

Adimasu Woldesenbet Worako, P.(2016).Land Use Land Cover Change Detection by Using Remote Sensing Data in Akaki River Basin. International Journal of Environment Agriculture and Biotechnology(ISSN: 2456-1878).1(1), pp.01-10.

Adimasu Woldesenbet Worako. 2016."Land Use Land Cover Change Detection by Using Remote Sensing Data in Akaki River Basin". International Journal of Environment Agriculture and Biotechnology(ISSN: 2456-1878).1(1):01-10.

Adimasu Woldesenbet Worako."Land Use Land Cover Change Detection by Using Remote Sensing Data in Akaki River Basin", International Journal of Environment Agriculture and Biotechnology,vol.1,no. 1, pp.01-10,2016.

@article { adimasuwoldesenbetworako2016land,
title={Land Use Land Cover Change Detection by Using Remote Sensing Data in Akaki River Basin},
author={Adimasu Woldesenbet Worako , R},
journal={International Journal of Environment Agriculture and Biotechnology},
volume={1},
year= {2016} ,
}