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Table 2 Types of LULC and its description

From: Impact of landscape dynamics and intensities on the ecological land of major cities in Ethiopia

LULC type

Description

Urban forest and greenery

Areas occupied by plantation forest and urban green parks with 65% canopy cover or higher, evergreen and mixed urban forests and greenery and other vegetation that is relatively tall and dense, as well as areas covered with both indigenous and exotic tree

Urban agriculture

The purpose of which is used for urban crop production and livestock husbandry grazing land by peri-urban field farmers, although cultivated land use is relatively different in terms of size, soil fertility, use of input, and other important variables from rural agriculture. Includes, grazing areas, cultivated lands, community open lands and areas along the lake shore that are used for agricultural purposes when the lake level retreats following the long dry-season

Water bodies

Permanent natural water bodies such as lakes, rivers, ponds reservoirs, and man-made water bodies, the water table in irrigated land

Built up

The built-up area with congested buildings includes all types of artificial surfaces, residential and scattered settlements in urban fringe zones, commercial, industrial land uses as well as transportation infrastructure

Bare land

The land consists of roads, rocky outcrops, and degraded lands, where the area is dominated by the regular movement of trucks, quarry for road construction, and abandoned lands as a result of gully formation etc

  1. Source: (Gashu and Gebre-Egziabher 2018)