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In many regions of the world, soil erosion is one of the main land degradation processes that reduce the soil productivity by removing fertile topsoil layers, thus decreasing levels of organic matter and the nutrients. Therefore erosion researches constitute an important part of the research on the soils. The aim of this research is the determination of the relationship between land use/land cover and some erodibility indices in Madendere Watershed soils. Land use and land cover classes were generated from Geoeye-2013 image data classification. Forest is the highest land cover in the study area and has about 38.6 % of the total area, while the lowest land cover is settlement which is about 3.6%. Erosion ratio, dispersion ratio, soil erodibility and aggregate stability were determined for 71 each soil samples collected according to grid method from each 200 m distance point and 0-20 cm soil depth in Watershed. According to the results of erodibility analysis for soil samples taken from different land uses and land covers, it was determined that the soils of watershed are high erodible soils. For 1that reason, it was given some suggestions to take some mesurments for this watershed.
