Land use/cover spatiotemporal dynamics, driving forces and implications at the Beshillo catchment of the Blue Nile Basin, North Eastern Highlands of Ethiopia

Environmental Systems Research

Table 1 Landsat scenes, source and specifications used for the study

Characteristic	Landsat MSS	Landsat TM	Landsat ETM⁺ SLC-on	Landsat 8 OLl/TlRS
Data set attribute	MSS L1G	L5	L7	L8
WRS path/raw	181/052	168/052	168/052	168/052
Number of bands	4	7	8	11
Pixel resolution	79 × 79 m	30 m × 30 m	30 m × 30 m	30 m × 30 m
Acquisition date	31-January-73	23-December-86	22-January-01	10-January-17
Sources	EROS/USGS	EROS/USGS	EROS/USGS	EROS/USGS

TM thematic mapper, ETM⁺ enhanced thematic mapper plus, OLI operational land imager, TIRS thermal infrared sensor