Title :
Land Use/Cover change detection of the city of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia using remote sensing and geographic information system technology
Author :
Tadesse, W. ; Tsegaye, T.D. ; Coleman, T.L.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Plant & Soil Sci., Alabama A&M Univ., Normal, AL, USA
Abstract :
Information about changes in land use/cover provides valuable insights while devising future natural resource management strategies. Remotely sensed data, serve as an effective tool for deriving this kind of information. Landsat Thematic Mapper images of 1987 and 1999 were used to extract land use/cover change of the city of Addis Ababa and the surrounding area. Analysis of the multitemporal Landsat images has clearly revealed the loss of forest to urban and residential sprawl within the city limit and the surrounding area
Keywords :
forestry; geographic information systems; geophysical signal processing; geophysical techniques; image sequences; remote sensing; terrain mapping; vegetation mapping; AD 1987; AD 1999; Addis Ababa; Africa; Ethiopia; GIS; Landsat; Thematic Mapper; change detection; city; forest; geographic information system; geophysical measurement technique; image sequence; land cover change; land surface; land use; multispectral remote sensing; multitemporal images; optical imaging; remote sensing; sprawl; terrain mapping; urban area; vegetation mapping; Cities and towns; Data mining; Geographic Information Systems; Image analysis; Radiometry; Remote sensing; Satellite broadcasting; Soil; Spatial resolution; Thermal sensors;
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2001. IGARSS '01. IEEE 2001 International
Conference_Location :
Sydney, NSW
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7031-7
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.2001.976190
