Land use and land cover change in the bale mountain eco-region of Ethiopia during 1985 to 2015

Land

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2016, Pages

  Hailemariam, Sisay Nune ^a   Soromessa, Teshome ^a   Teketay, Demel ^b  

^a ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^b BOTSWANA COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE   (Botswana)

Author keywords

Correlation; Farmland; Forest; GIS; Land use and land cover change; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

EID: 85018468230     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2073445X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/land5040041     Document Type: Article

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