Retrospective Analysis of Land Use Land Cover Dynamics Using GIS and Remote sensing in Central Highlands of Ethiopia

Agarwal, S., Puri, K., Areendran, G., Raj, K., Govil, H., Mazumdar, S., &Munsi, M (2010). Forest Change analysis of Jim Corbett National Park, Uttarakhand: A remote sensing and GIS approach. ESRI India User Conference.Search in Google Scholar

Agrawal, A. & Angelsen, A. (2009). Using community forest management to achieve REDD+ goals. In A. Angelsen, ed., Realising REDD+: national strategy and policy options (pp. 1-10). Bogor, Center for International Forestry Research.Search in Google Scholar

Alemayehu, F., Taha, N., Nyssen, J., Girma, A., Zenebe, A., Behailu, M. &Poesen, J. (2009). The impacts of watershed management on land use and land cover dynamics in Eastern Tigray (Ethiopia). Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 53(4), pp. 192-198.10.1016/j.resconrec.2008.11.007Search in Google Scholar

Alemu, B. (2015). The Effect of Land Use Land Cover Change on Land Degradation in the Highlands of Ethiopia. Journal of Environment and Earth Science. 5 (1).Search in Google Scholar

Amare, B. (2007). Landscape Transformation and Opportunities for Sustainable Land Management along the Escarpments of Wello, Ethiopia. PhD Thesis, Bern University, Bern.Search in Google Scholar

Ayele, H. (2011). Land use/land cover change and impact of Jatropha on soil fertility: the case of Mieso and Bati Districts, Ethiopia. M. Sc. thesis.Search in Google Scholar

Bewket, W. (2002). Land cover dynamics since the 1950s in Chemoga watershed, Blue NileBasin, Ethiopia. Mountain Research and Development, 22(3), pp. 263-269.10.1659/0276-4741(2002)022[0263:LCDSTI]2.0.CO;2Search in Google Scholar

Biru, M. K., & Debay, A. B. (2015). Multitemporal Land Use Land Cover Change and Dynamics of Blue Nile Basin by Using GIS and Remote Sensing Techniques, North-Western Ethiopia. International Journal of Environmental Sciences. 4 (2), pp. 81-88.Search in Google Scholar

Boyd, D.S. & Danson, F.M., (2005). Satellite remote sensing of forest resources: three decades of research development. Progress in Physical Geography, 29(1), pp.1-26.10.1191/0309133305pp432raSearch in Google Scholar

Chowdhury, R. R. (2006). Driving forces of tropical deforestation: The role of remote sensing and spatial models. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 27(1), pp. 82-101.10.1111/j.1467-9493.2006.00241.xSearch in Google Scholar

Desclée, B., Bogaert, P., & Defourny, P. (2006). Forest change detection by statistical object-based method. Remote Sensing of Environment, 102(1), pp. 1-11.10.1016/j.rse.2006.01.013Search in Google Scholar

Du, X., Jin, X., Yang, X., Yang, X., & Zhou, Y. (2014). Spatial pattern of land use change and its driving force in Jiangsu province. International journal of environmental research and public health, 11(3), pp. 3215-3232.10.3390/ijerph110303215Search in Google Scholar

Dugo, G. S. (2009). The structure and regeration status of tree and shrub species of chilimo forest-ecological sustainability Indicators for participatory forest management (PFM) in Oromia, Ethiopia.Search in Google Scholar

Foody, G. M. (2002). Status of land cover classification accuracy assessment. Remote sensing of environment, 80(1), pp. 185-201.10.1016/S0034-4257(01)00295-4Search in Google Scholar

Garede, N. M., & Minale, A. S. (2014). Land Use/Cover Dynamics in Ribb Watershed, North Western Ethiopia. J. Nat. Sci. Res, 4(9), p.16.Search in Google Scholar

Geist, H., Lambent, E. (2001). What drives tropical deforestation? A meta-analysis of proximate and underlying causes of deforestation based on subnational case study evidence. Land-use and land-cover change (LUCC) project, International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP). LUCC Report Series: 4.Search in Google Scholar

Geist, H. (1999). Exploring the entry points for political ecology in the international research agenda on global environmental change. Zeitschriftfür Wirtschaftsgeographie, 43(1), pp. 158-168.10.1515/zfw.1999.0011Search in Google Scholar

Gessesse, D. & Kleman, J. (2007). Pattern and Magnitude of Deforestation in the South Central Rift Valley Region of Ethiopia. Mountain Research and Development. 27: pp. 162-168.Search in Google Scholar

Gillanders, S. N., Coops, N. C., Wulder, M. A., Gergel, S. E., & Nelson, T. (2008). Multitemporal remote sensing of landscape dynamics and pattern change: describing natural and anthropogenic trends. Progress in Physical Geography, 32(5), pp. 503-528.10.1177/0309133308098363Search in Google Scholar

Giri, C., Pengra, B., Zhu, Z., Singh, A., &Tieszen, L. L. (2007). Monitoring mangrove forest dynamics of the Sundarbans in Bangladesh and India using multi-temporal satellite data from 1973 to 2000. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 73(1), pp. 91-100.10.1016/j.ecss.2006.12.019Search in Google Scholar

Golmehr, E. (2009). Current Application of Remote Sensing Techniques in Land Use Mapping: A Case Study of Northern Parts of Kolhapur District, India. Journal of Applied Sciences and Environmental Management, 13(4).10.4314/jasem.v13i4.55389Search in Google Scholar

Haregeweyn, N., Fikadu, G., Tsunekawa, A., Tsubo, M., & Meshesha, D. T. (2012). The dynamics of urban expansion and its impacts on land use/land cover change and small-scale farmers living near the urban fringe: A case study of Bahir Dar, Ethiopia. Landscape and urban planning, 106(2), pp. 149-157.10.1016/j.landurbplan.2012.02.016Search in Google Scholar

IGU. (1998). Land use/cover change. Land Use Policy 15 2: pp. 165–166.10.1016/S0264-8377(97)00044-6Search in Google Scholar

Ismail, M. H., & Jusoff, K. (2008). Satellite data classification accuracy assessment based from reference dataset. International Journal of Computer and Information Science and Engineering, 2(2), pp. 96-102.Search in Google Scholar

Jahjah, M., &Ulivieri, C. (2004). GIS and RS integration: application of geostatistical techniques and environmental changes in the coastal zone in Kenya. In Remote Sensing (pp. 14-25). International Society for Optics and Photonics.10.1117/12.511188Search in Google Scholar

Keno, B. & Suryabhagavan, K. V. (2014). Multitemporal remote sensing of landscape dynamics and pattern change in Dire district, southern Ethiopia Journal of Geomatics 8 (2).10.4172/2157-7617.1000226Search in Google Scholar

Lambin, E. F., Geist, H. J., & Lepers, E. (2003). Dynamics of land-use and land-cover change in tropical regions. Annual review of environment and resources, 28(1), pp. 205-241.10.1146/annurev.energy.28.050302.105459Search in Google Scholar

Lu, D., Mausel, P., Brondizio, E., Moran, E. (2004). Change detection techniques. Int. J. Remote Sensing 25(12): pp. 2365-2407.Search in Google Scholar

Mekonnen, M., Sewunet, T., Gebeyehu, M., Azene, B., & Melesse, A. M. (2016). GIS and Remote Sensing-Based Forest Resource Assessment, Quantification, and Mapping in Amhara Region, Ethiopia. In Landscape Dynamics, Soils and Hydrological Processes in Varied Climates (pp. 9-29). Springer International Publishing.10.1007/978-3-319-18787-7_2Search in Google Scholar

Minale, A. S. (2013). Retrospective analysis of land cover and use dynamics in GilgelAbbay Watershed by using GIS and remote sensing techniques, Northwestern Ethiopia. International Journal of Geosciences, 4(07), p. 1003.10.4236/ijg.2013.47093Search in Google Scholar

Monserud, Robert A. (2003): Evaluating forest models in a SFM context. Forest Biometry, Modelling and Information Sciences 1(1). Pp. 35-47.Search in Google Scholar

Morshed, A. (2002). Land use change dynamics: A dynamic spatial simulation (Doctoral dissertation, PhD Thesis).Search in Google Scholar

Pielke, R. A., Marland, G., Betts, R. A., Chase, T. N., Eastman, J. L., Niles, J. O., & Running, S. W. (2002). The influence of land-use change and landscape dynamics on the climate system: relevance to climate-change policy beyond the radiative effect of greenhouse gases. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 360(1797), pp. 1705-1719.10.1098/rsta.2002.102712460493Search in Google Scholar

Pomeroy, D., Tukahirwa, J., Mugisha, S., Nanyunja, R., Namaganda, M. and Chelimo N (2003) Linkages between Change in Land Use, Land Degradation and Biodiversity in SW Uganda. Retrieved August 3, 2003 from www.lucideastafrica.orgSearch in Google Scholar

Ramankutty, N.; Foley, J.A. (1998). Characterizing patterns of global land use: An analysis of global croplands data. Glob. Biogeochem. Cycles 1998, 12, pp. 667–685.10.1029/98GB02512Search in Google Scholar

Running, T., & Bauer, M. E. (1996). Change detection in forest ecosystems with remote sensing digital imagery. Remote sensing reviews, 13, pp. 207-234.10.1080/02757259609532305Search in Google Scholar

Skole, D., Justice, C., Townshend, J., & Janetos, A. (1997). A land cover change monitoring program: strategies for equitable development, for forests, for people. New York10.1007/BF02437201Search in Google Scholar

Soromessa, T., & Kelbessa, E. (2013). Diversity and endemicity of Chilimo forest, central Ethiopia. Bioscience Discovery, 4(1), pp. 1-4.Search in Google Scholar

Thapa, R., & Murayama, Y., (2009). Urban Mapping, Accuracy, & Image Classification: A Comparison of Multiple Approaches in Tsukuba City, Japan, Applied Geography, 29, pp.135–144.Search in Google Scholar

Turner, M. G., Wear, D. N., &Flamm, R. O. (1996). Land ownership and land-cover change in the southern Appalachian highlands and the Olympic peninsula. Ecological applications, 6(4), pp. 1150-1172.10.2307/2269599Search in Google Scholar

Vashum, K. T., & Jayakumar, S. (2012). Methods to estimate above-ground biomass and carbon stock in natural forests-a review. J. Ecosyst. Ecogr, 2(4), pp. 1-7.10.4172/2157-7625.1000116Search in Google Scholar

Weng, Q. (2002). Land use change analysis in the Zhujiang Delta of China using satellite remote sensing, GIS and stochastic modelling. Journal of environmental management, 64(3), pp. 273-284.10.1006/jema.2001.050912040960Search in Google Scholar

Woldemariam, T.G. (1998). Diversity of Woody Plants and Avifauna in a Dry Afromontane Forest: on the Central Plateau of Ethiopia MSc Thesis Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Skinnskatteberg, Sweden.Search in Google Scholar

Zerga, B. (2016). Land Resource, Uses, and Ownership in Ethiopia: Past, Present and Future. International Journal of Scientific Research Engineering Technology 2 (1).Search in Google Scholar

Zornoza, R., Acosta, J. A., Bastida, F., Domínguez, S. G., Toledo, D. M., & Faz, A. (2015). Identification of sensitive indicators to assess the interrelationship between soil quality, management practices and human health. Soil, 1(1), p. 173.10.5194/soil-1-173-2015Search in Google Scholar