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Impacts of land use/land cover dynamics on land surface temperature using geospatial techniques in Anger River Sub-basin, Western Ethiopia

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Land surface temperature (LST) is increasing due to land use land cover (LULC) conversion in the world. Global warming was caused by highly expansion of agricultural land, expansion of human settlements and removal of vegetation cover. Here, we analyzed the impacts of LULC dynamics on LST from the year 1991 to 2020 in the Anger River Sub-basin, western Ethiopia. The LST and LULC changes were derived from thermal infrared and multispectral band of Landsat 5 TM (1991), Landsat 7 ETM+ (2003) and Landsat 8 OLI/TIRS (2020), respectively. The LULC map of the study area was produced using the supervised classification method with the maximum likelihood algorithm. Our study results revealed that agricultural land was increased by the rate of 30.4 km2/year. Between 1991 and 2020, about 650.3 km2 of grassland was converted to agricultural land while 305.4 km2 was converted from forest to agricultural land. The mean minimum LST was 21.2 °C in 1991 and increased to 23.50 °C and 26.80 °C in the years 2003 and 2020, respectively. Thus, the mean LST of the study area was increased by 5.6 °C between 1991 and 2020. Consequently, the conversion of LULC is the main factor for the increment of the LST. The LST was highly increased when forestland and grassland were converted to agricultural land. Similarly, when forestland was converted to bare land, the LST was increased. Our results suggest the need for environmental protection to respond to the increasing trend of LST and rapid conversion of LULC change in the study area.

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Abbreviations

LULC:

Land use land cover

LST:

Land surface temperature

NDVI:

Normalized Difference Vegetation Index

MoWIE:

Ministry of Water and Irrigation Engineering

TM:

Thematic Mapper

ETM+:

Enhanced Thematic Mapper plus

OLI/TIRS:

Operational land imager/thermal infrared sensor

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The authors would like to acknowledge Wollega University Shambu Campus Faculty of Technology and Wollega University College of Natural and Computational Sciences, Oda Bultum University Institute of Land Administration and Jimma University College of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine for the existing facilities to conduct this research.

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    Mitiku Badasa Moisa

  2. Department of Earth Sciences, College of Natural and Computational Sciences, Wollega University Nekemte Campus, Nekemte, Ethiopia

    Indale Niguse Dejene

  3. Department of Geographic Information System, Institute of Land Administration, Oda Bultum University, Chiro, Ethiopia

    Biratu Bobo Merga

  4. Department of Natural Resource Management, College of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, Jimma University, Jimma, Ethiopia

    Dessalegn Obsi Gemeda

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Moisa, M.B., Dejene, I.N., Merga, B.B. et al. Impacts of land use/land cover dynamics on land surface temperature using geospatial techniques in Anger River Sub-basin, Western Ethiopia. Environ Earth Sci 81, 99 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12665-022-10221-2

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