Datasets underlying the paper: Urban land use efficiency in Ethiopia: An assessment of urban land use sustainability in Addis Ababa

The data was used to assess urban boundary expansion, urban land use density, and land-use efficiency in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The data was analyzed using ArcGIS. The findings of the results revealed that urban land is being inefficiently used in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The datasets have two components: spatial and quantitative data. Spatial data are primarily from Landsat 7 and 8. Data from Google Earth imagery history are also included. Quantitative data are mainly demographic data about the population size of the study area. Photos of the study area taken during the field trip are also included. The data are meant mainly for Addis Ababa and its surrounding. Geographic coordinate: 8.9806° N, 38.7578° E WGS 84 / UTM zone 37N The spatial data include a row and processed Landsat imagery.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.17026/dans-zdc-s5wx
PID https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:nl:ui:13-ir-b6rs
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2020.105081
Metadata Access https://easy.dans.knaw.nl/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:easy.dans.knaw.nl:easy-dataset:200198
Provenance
Creator Koroso, NH ORCID logo
Publisher Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS)
Contributor Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), University of Twente
Publication Year 2021
Rights info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess; License: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0; http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0
OpenAccess true
Representation
Language English
Resource Type Dataset
Format image/tiff
Discipline Other
Spatial Coverage (8.981 LON, 38.758 LAT); Addis Ababa, Ethiopia