Abstract:
The pri rnary objccti vc of this study was to provide quantiiati vc and [igurati vc in fonnati on
about the urban land use and morphological changes of Bahir Dru- town. In order to
characterize the changes, of the- I0\\11, producing land use map and database for each
assessment year 'were necessary. With the application of Remote Sensing data and GTS
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soil wares, the above.required results were obtained. The numbers enable later to reach al
a good conclusion about the land use and relared morphological changes. The change in
the land use over the last 4i years, 19,?7:!004, was assessed by two methods: analyzing
by category and considering the land use classes independently. Contiguity and
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Abstract
compactness indexes were applied to show the morphological changes of the town.
Empirical parameters were used in both cases to summarize the results and recommend
possibk; solutions, which capable of a base for further researches.