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

Table 3

Absolute area coverage of the LULC classes; classification result, 2022.

No.	LULC class	Absolute area cover of the classes in hector over the periods
		1988		1998		2010		2019
		Area	%	Area	%	Area	%	Area	%
1	Settlement	1049.58	1.50	1542.96	2.21	1841.67	2.63	3429.45	4.90
2	Agriculture	20497.59	29.30	23110.83	33.05	29504.16	42.19	35075.34	50.15
3	Forest	11874.24	16.97	6987.42	9.99	7923.6	11.33	4612.95	6.59
4	Bush	35917.47	51.35	37768.86	54.00	30290.22	43.31	26305.83	37.61
5	Water	597.96	0.85	526.77	0.75	377.19	0.54	513.27	0.73
	Total	69936.84	100	69936.84	100	69936.84	100	69936.84	100