Ethiopian Environment and Forest Research Institute, P.O. Box: 24536, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Dr. Zelalem Teshager is a research scientist and belongs to department of CGMED Laboratory at University of Tunis and is interested in the various fields of GIS and Remote Sensing , topography, Geography, Environment and Forest Research and Geoinformation.
Research Article
GIS and Remote Sensing based Land Use/Land Cover Change Detection: The Case of Kility Watershed
Author(s): Zelalem Teshager* and Kenaw Abeje
The land cover and land use changes are caused by both, natural and anthropogenic factors. This study was conducted in kility Watershed, Amhara Region, North western Ethiopia. The objective of this study was to detect and analyse LULC changes in the watershed. The study has used ArcGIS10.3 and ERDAS IMAGINE 15, Landsat images of 1986 and 2002; Sentinel 2 image for 2019 to analyse land cover and land use changes of Kility watershed. In addition, the survey was conducted to detect the land use class and their drivers of changes. The Maximum Likelihood Algorithm of Supervised Classification has been used to generate land use and land cover maps. For the accuracy of classified Land Use/Land Cover maps, a confusion matrix was used to derive overall accuracy and results were above the minimum and acceptable threshold level. Post classification comparison change detection method was employed.. View more»