Title

Forest and Lake Changes in Central Ethiopia (1984 - 2019)

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Abstract

Hawassa-Zeway watershed has experienced significant land cover changes from 1984 to 2019 including lose of natural areas (loss of forest, water bodies, and swamp) and gain of forests (woodland and plantation forests). The forest and water bodies change information was derived using the 1984 and 2019 land cover layers created in MRV center. ed

Publication Date

Nov. 1, 2020, 10:56 a.m.

Type

Raster Data

Keywords

environment , EPSG:32637 , GeoTIFF , lulc_change1984to2019 , WCS

Category

Environment

environmental resources, protection and conservation. Examples: environmental pollution, waste storage and treatment, environmental impact assessment, monitoring environmental risk, nature reserves, landscape

Regions

Global , Ethiopia

Owner

admin

More info

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Maintenance Frequency

Frequency Of Maintenance For The Data Is Not Known

Restrictions

formal permission to do something

Language

English

Temporal Extent

Jan. 1, 1984, 9:30 a.m. - Dec. 31, 2019, 9:30 a.m.

Data Quality

The 1984 and 2019 land cover layers, which were used for deriving the forest-water bodies change data, were created using Landsat images (30 meters resolution.). The minimum mapping unit of the land cover layers was 0.81 hectares.

Supplemental Information

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Spatial Representation Type

grid data is used to represent geographic data

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