Abstract:
This study examine the land use and land cover dynamics in Adea woreda from 1986 to 2016 by
using Geographic Information System and Remote sensing technology to detect and analyze the
changes that takes place over those 30 years. To this end, the research generate and analyze
spatial distribution and pattern of land use land cover on the study area, analyze land use land
cover change occurred in 1986, 1996 and 2016 and produce land use land cover map. In order
to achieve these, both quantitative and qualitative approaches were utilized and use both
primary and secondary source of data. 16 elders, experts and managers were selected by using
non-probability sampling techniques. Landsat image of 1986, 1996 and ETM of 2016 was
employed using ERDAS IMAGINE 2010 and Arc GIS through Maximum Likelihood of
Supervised Classification to generate land use and land cover maps. For the accuracy of
classified Land Use/Land Cover maps, a confusion matrix was used to derive overall accuracy. Post classification method was employed to identify gains and losses between different Land Use
Land Cover classes. The satellite image results show that Agriculture land and Built up area
shows decreasing and increasing trend within the study period respectively. Therefore, it is
recommended that Adea district administration, community and all concerned body should
create awareness about family planning, which is major cause of problem.
