This study examines the accuracy assessment of land use land cover classification using Google Earth in the case of Kilite Awulalo, Tigray State, Ethiopia for the year 2014. For this study, Landsat-8 OLI_TIRS image of 2014 was used and analyzed using Arc GIS 10.1. Supervised classification scheme was used to classify the images. Under land use and land cover categories Agriculture land, Settlement land, Grazing land, Forest land, Bush land, Water bodies and Bare/stony land were studied. After classification of land use land cover types, 100 Random Points were generated in Arc GIS and converting random points to KML in order to open in Google Earth. Each random point’s value verified from Google Earth for accuracy assessment. Google Earth model was used to measure of how many ground truth pixels are correctly classified. For this study, Free Google Earth which was Build in Date 10/7/2013 was used. The result shows that total (overall) accuracy of land use and land cover for 2014 is 82.00% and Kappa (K) is 77.02% which is acceptable in both accuracy total (overall) and Kappa accuracy.
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