Identification of Suitable Land for Livestock Production Using GIS-Based Multicriteria Decision Analysis and Remote Sensing in the Bale Lowlands, Ethiopia

Table 4

Rangeland suitability class for livestock with respective area coverage.

Suitability classes	Livestock category
	Cattle		Sheep		Goat		Camel
	Area (km^2)	Area (%)	Area (km^2)	Area (%)	Area (km^2)	Area (%)	Area (km^2)	Area (%)
S1	4112.5	7.87	16311.42	31.21	6643.57	12.71	9820.5	18.79
S2	40099.26	76.74	30925.93	59.18	41981.25	80.34	36802.67	70.43
S3	7644.3	14.63	4671.73	8.94	3630.36	6.95	5631.97	10.78
N1	399.1	0.76	346.1	0.66	—	—	—	—