A rule-based soil erosion model for a hilly catchment

Catena

Volumn 37, Issue 3-4, 1999, Pages 309-318

  Adinarayana, J ^a   Gopal Rao, K ^a   Rama Krishna, N ^a   Venkatachalam, P ^a   Suri, J K ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

Author keywords

Geographical Information Systems; Hilly catchment; Integrated resources unit; Multi disciplinary knowledge based rules; Rule based approach; Soil erosion

Indexed keywords

GIS; MODELING; SOIL EROSION;

EID: 0032716693     PISSN: 03418162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0341-8162(99)00023-5     Document Type: Article

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