Modeling Impact of Land Use Dynamics on Hydrology and Sedimentation of Megech Dam Watershed, Ethiopia

Table 6

Summary of spatial analysis result for land use dynamics.

Original land use	SWAT code	Area (ha)		Area coverage (%)		Dynamics (%)
		1998 LULC	2016 LULC	1998 LULC	2016 LULC	2016 LULC–1998 LULC
Cultivated land	AGRC	23922.14	26478.21	60.69	67.17	6.48
Plantation forest	FRSE	723.54	354.31	1.84	0.90	-0.94
Grass land	PAST	4502.82	2101.48	11.42	5.33	-6.09
Shrubland	RNGB	7951.23	8151.54	20.17	20.68	0.51
Bareland	URLD	1412.15	1008.52	3.58	2.56	-1.02
Urban	URHD	907.32	1325.14	2.30	3.36	1.06