Table 2.

LULC categories and their description in Ojoje watershed, Ethiopia.

No.	Land cover type	explanations
1	Cropland	Land owned by smallholder farmers to grow cropland. It is characterized by tilled and planted, bare crop fields, and limited areas temporarily left as fallow. It is used for the cultivation of annual and perennial crops as well as for cattle raising.
2	Wetland	Land use that is waterlogged and swampy during the wet season, which dries in the sunny season.
3	Shrub land	Areas covered by small trees, bushes, and shrubs mixed with grasses; less than forests.
4	Forest land	Land covered with dense trees, mixed forest, and plantation forests.
5	Grassland	The land is dominated by grasses, forbs, and herbs with nil or little proportion of shrubs.
6	urban built-up area	It includes rural settlement areas, educational, health, socio-economic facilities, residential houses, administrative buildings, small-scale industrial areas, transportation infrastructures, and playgrounds.
7	Bare land	Areas with little or no vegetation cover consist of exposed soil and/or rock outcrops and quarries.