Gully erosion modelling and landscape response in the Mbuluzi River catchment of Swaziland

Catena

Volumn 50, Issue 2-4, 2003, Pages 507-525

  Sidorchuk, Aleksey ^a   Märker, Michael ^b   Moretti, Sandro ^c   Rodolfi, Giuliano ^c  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Erosion modelling; Erosion Response Units; Gully erosion; South Africa; Swaziland

Indexed keywords

GIS; GULLY EROSION; MODELING; REMOTE SENSING;

SWAZILAND;

CATENA;

EID: 0037221796     PISSN: 03418162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0341-8162(02)00123-6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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