Land Use and Land Cover Dynamics: Deriving Forces and Perceptions of Local Community in Derashe, Southern Ethiopia

Table 2

Description of LULC classes, field survey 2022.

No.	LULC class	Description	Photo
1	Settlement	Residential (urban & rural), socioeconomic infrastructure (transportation (roads, stations), tel communication, and utilities), and mixed residential lands
2	Agricultural	All cultivated and uncultivated agricultural lands such as crop fields, orchards, groves, vineyards, nurseries, and ornamental horticultural areas, farmsteads, corrals, small farm ponds, ditches, and canals in the farm
3	Forest	Natural forests, plantation forest (man-made), mixed forest lands and forests on customary land
4	Bush	Land covered by scattered various woody shrubs and bushy small trees occur in dense-to- open thickets and mixed with grass vegetation including bare land; wet land and grass/range lands found mostly in hilly areas and closures water shades
5	Water body	Rivers (including dry rivers visible on the image) and permanent open water bodies