Hydrology: Current Research

Yitea Seneshaw Getahun

Publications

• Research Article
  Assessing the Impacts of Land Use-Cover Change on Hydrology of Melka Kuntrie Subbasin in Ethiopia, Using a Conceptual Hydrological Model
  Author(s): Yitea Seneshaw Getahun and Van Lanen HAJYitea Seneshaw Getahun and Van Lanen HAJ
  
  The growth of population and its effect on the land use-cover change have been influencing the hydrology of the sub basin by changing the magnitude of stream flow and groundwater flow. In this paper, the likely land use-cover change impacts on hydrology of the Melka Kuntrie sub basin in the Upper Awash River Basin have been evaluated using the semi-distributed HBV hydrological model and Landsat imageries for two different periods. ArcGIS was used to generate the land use-cover maps from Landsat 5 TM and 7 ETM+ acquired, in the year 1986 and 2003, respectively. The land use-cover maps were generated using the Maximum Likelihood Algorithm of Supervised Classification. The accuracy of the classified maps was assessed using contingency matrix. The result of this analysis showed that the cultivated land has expanded from 1986 to 2003. The land use in 2003, which was mostly converted to agr.. Read More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2157-7587.1000210

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