The Suluh river basin is subjected to land use and land cover change due to population pressure, improper farming practices, lack of alternative non-farm activities, and rugged topography. Yet, land use/land cover change detection and its driving factors have not been applied in the study area. Thus, the current study detected land use and land use change and identified the drivers for it in the Suluh river basin, the northern highland part of Ethiopia. Landsat image data and Ancillary data sources were used to achieve the objectives. With the aid software’s of eCognition Developer 9.2 and IDRISI Selva 17.3, images were classified and changes were detected. Both qualitative and quantitative data were analyzed. According to the study's findings, between 1990 and 2018, cultivated land expanded by 7.98%, plantation land by 43.7%, built up land by 135.5%, and bar land by 9.8%. A decline trend was found to exist for water bodies by 79.6%, pasture land by 48.6%, shrub and bush land by 61.7%, and forest land by 576.7%. Thus, in order to implement sustainable land management practices in the Suluh river basin, land use planners should take into account information about land use and land cover change, as well as the corresponding drivers.
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Change Detection, Drivers, Fuzzy Classification, Image Segmentation, Multi-Spectral Resolution, Suluh River Basin
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