Dynamics and Prediction of Land Use and Land Cover Changes Using Geospatial Techniques in Abelti Watershed, Omo Gibe River Basin, Ethiopia

Table 6

Percentage distributions and area coverage of the classified LULC types from 2000 to 2017.

LULC class name	Area (%)			Change (%)		2010–2017
	LULC_2000	LULC_2010	LULC_2017	2000–2010	2000–2017
Agriculture	41.231	42.617	49.327	1.39	8.096	6.710
Water bodies	0.000	0.283	0.297	0.28	0.297	0.014
Settlements	5.471	9.439	11.528	3.97	6.057	2.089
Forest	18.938	7.800	10.892act	−11.14	−8.046	3.092
Shrub lands	26.082	24.459	19.305	−1.62	−6.777	−5.155
Bare lands	8.279	15.402	8.652	7.12	0.374	−6.750

Source. Own study.