| Categories | Description |
| Scattered bushland | Trees and shrubs are common: dominated by bushes, short grass is also available and ground cover is poor. |
| Shrubland | Area dominated short shrubs that are usually not greater than 6 meters in height and a canopy cover greater than 20%: dominated by grouped shrubs with good or poor ground cover. |
| Grassland | Grass is the dominant vegetation type with widely scattered trees and shrubs but their canopy cover doesn’t exceed 2%. |
| Farmland | Plots for annual rain fed and irrigated cultivation. |
| Bare land | Little or no vegetation cover at all mainly on areas with volcano origin exposed rocks. |
| Volcano crater | Volcano crater hole at the top of volcano origin mountain (Mt. Fentale). |