Modelling road surface sediment production using a vector geographic information system

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 95-107

  Anderson, Donald M ^a   Macdonald, Lee H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Crosion modeling; Geographic information systems; Network analysis; Road surface crosion

Indexed keywords

GIS; SEDIMENT PRODUCTION;

EID: 0031981457     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9837(199802)23:2<95::AID-ESP849>3.0.CO;2-1     Document Type: Article

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