Abstract:
Majority of the People in Ethiopia rely on eucalyptus for socioeconomic benefits. As a
result, the conversion of farmlands into eucalyptus woodlots has sparked
significantly. There has been still a concern on eucalyptus expansion on charge . The study
aimed at assessing the impact of eucalyptus plantation expansion on the farm land in
the case of Damot Gale woreda, Wolaita zone, southern Ethiopia . Spatial data were
collected different years' (1993,2003,2013 and 2023) satellite imageries were used to
effectively analyze LULC changes patch to compute the trend of eucalyptus expansion .
Around 165 sample points were collected using handheld GPS Garmin 72 to check
the image classification accuracy
