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 3 A 7 × 7 LULC transition matrix for comparing two maps from different points in time.

Time 1	Time 2							Total time 1	Loss
Time 1	LULC 1	LULC 2	LULC 3	LULC 4	LULC 5	LULC 6	LULC 7	Total time 1	Loss
LULC 1	P11	P12	P13	P14	P15	P16	P17	P1+	P1+ − P11
LULC 2	P21	P22	P23	P24	P25	P26	P27	P2+	P2+ − P22
LULC 3	P31	P32	P33	P34	P35	P36	P37	P3+	P3+ − P33
LULC 4	P41	P42	P43	P44	P45	P46	P47	P4+	P4+ − P44
LULC 5	P51	P52	P53	P54	P55	P56	P57	P5+	P5+ − P55
LULC6	P61	P62	P63	P64	P65	P66	P67	P6+	P6+ − P66
LULC 7	P71	P72	P73	P74	P75	P76	P77	P7+	P7+ − P77
Total time 2	P+1	P+2	P+3	P+4	P+5	P+6	P+7	1
Gain	P+1 − P11	P+2 − P22	P+3 − P33	P+4 − P44	P+5 − P55	P+6 − P66	P+7 − p77

“P” refers to any conversion from one land use/cover (LULC) to another and the number refers to columns and rows of LULC categories