Research Article
Impacts of Recent Climate Trends and Human Activity on the Land Cover Change of the Abbay River Basin in Ethiopia
Table 3
Changing present of land covers in 2001 and 2013.
| No. | Land cover types | Initial area 2001 | Final area 2013 | Changing status | km2 | % | km2 | % | km2 | % |
| 1 | Bare land | 12.28 | 0.01 | 55.36 | 0.03 | 43.08 | 0.02 | 2 | Cultivated land | 58249.08 | 29.18 | 58784.42 | 29.45 | 535.34 | 0.27 | 3 | Forest land | 6460.33 | 3.24 | 3030.72 | 1.52 | (−3429.62) | −1.72 | 4 | Grass land | 131551.69 | 65.91 | 134331.01 | 67.30 | 2779.33 | 1.39 | 5 | Urban | 89.45 | 0.04 | 90.10 | 0.05 | 0.65 | 0.0003 | 6 | Water | 3141.27 | 1.57 | 3059.82 | 1.53 | (−81.45) | −0.04 | 7 | Wetland | 88.08 | 0.04 | 240.74 | 0.12 | 152.66 | 0.08 |
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