Impacts of Recent Climate Trends and Human Activity on the Land Cover Change of the Abbay River Basin in Ethiopia

Table 1

Land covers types and their detail descriptions in Abbay River Basin.

Land cover types	Code	Description
Bare land	Bl	Areas of land that are poorly covered by vegetation due to erosion, overgrazing, cultivation, mining area, etc.
Cultivated land	Cl	Lands used for agriculture, horticulture, and gardens, including paddy fields, irrigated and dry farmland, vegetation and fruit gardens, etc.
Forest land	Fl	Lands covered with trees, with vegetation cover over 30%, including deciduous and coniferous forests, and sparse woodland with cover 10–30%, etc.
Grass land	Gl	Lands covered by natural grass with cover over 10%, etc.
Urban	Ur	Lands modified by human activities, including all kinds of habitation, residential, commercial, industrial, transportation facilities, interior urban green zones, etc.
Water	Wa	Water bodies in the land area, including river, lake, reservoir, fish pond, lands covered by temporally snow, glacier and icecap, etc.
Wetland	Wl	Lands covered with wetland plants and water bodies, including inland marsh, lake marsh, river floodplain wetland, forest/shrub wetland, peat bogs, mangrove and salt marsh, etc.