Land use/cover spatiotemporal dynamics, driving forces and implications at the Beshillo catchment of the Blue Nile Basin, North Eastern Highlands of Ethiopia

Environmental Systems Research

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2019, Pages

  Yesuph, Asnake Yimam ^a   Dagnew, Amare Bantider ^b  

^a DILLA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^b ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

Change detection; Gedalas watershed; Land cover; Land use; Land use cover dynamics

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); CONSERVATION; DYNAMICS; ECONOMICS; EXPANSION; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; MAPS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT; VEGETATION MAPPING; WATERSHEDS;

BLUE NILE; CHANGE DETECTION; ETHIOPIA; GEDALA WATERSHED; LAND COVER; LAND USE/COVER; LAND USE/COVER DYNAMIC; NATURAL FACTORS; NILE BASINS; SATELLITE IMAGES;

LAND USE;

EID: 85190948664     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21932697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s40068-019-0148-y     Document Type: Article

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