Journal of Remote Sensing & GIS

Sintayehu Legesse Gebre

Publications

• Research Article
  Analyzing the Rate of Land Use and Land Cover Change and Determining the Causes of Forest Cover Change in Gog District, Gambella Regional State, Ethiopia
  Author(s): Obang Owar Othow, Sintayehu Legesse Gebre and Dessalegn Obsi GemedaObang Owar Othow, Sintayehu Legesse Gebre and Dessalegn Obsi Gemeda
  
  This research study examines the causes of forest cover change, the rate of land use land cover change in Gog district, Gambella regional state between the years 1990-2017 using Geospatial techniques. Land sat TM image of 1990, ETM+ of 2002 and OLI-TIRS of 2017 were used to generate land cover map. Field observation, FGDs, KIs and remotely sensed data were used to analyze the causes and rate of land use land cover change. Six land cover classes including bare land, farmland, water, bush land, forest cover and grass land were used for classifications. An explanatory sequential approach of mixed research design were used in this study where maximum likelihood technique of the supervised classification was used to classify land cover categories using ERDAS Imagine 2014 software. Out of the six classes, the results show a dramatic increase of farm land from (4%) in 2002 to (23%) i.. View More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2469-4134.1000219

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