Workshop on the lessons and success stories from a pilot project on climate change adaptation

interventions in Kabe watershed, south Wollo, Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, 11-12 February 2013

Bekele Abebe and Mickias Woldesellassie (Wollo University)

Resource mapping of the Kabe Watershed Pilot Project in Ethiopia, 2011-2013

• To produce different thematic maps– Watershed/Catchment delineation map– Landuse /Land cover map– Water resources (distribution of springs, wells,

rivers...) maps– Soil types, Lithological/Structural maps– Human and livestock population density map– Agroclamatic zones/Altitude maps– Climate change- rainfall and temperature

trends/projections maps

Objectives

• Satellite Data– Office Work– Ground Truthing– Reinterpretation

Methodology

Some of the maps generated

• Watershed level Assumption:

In 1 House= 5 people lives

Elevation Map

• Both 30m DTED and 20m Contours used.

• Fall in the same agroclimatic zones

Soil Map

• Sampling• Remote Sensing

Landuse Landcover Map

• Landsat?• QuickBird

Image

Water Resource Distribution Map

• Hand held GPS is used to collect every water resource sites

Average Total Rainfall Trend

Average Temperature Trend

• Size of the area• Climatic data gaps and Lack of Enough Data• Historical Gage (River, Stream Yield) data

Challenges