Delineation of erosion classes in semi-arid southern African grasslands using vegetation indices from optical remote sensing data

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 917-928

  Hochschild, Volker ^a   Märker, Michael ^b   Rodolfi, Giuliano ^b   Staudenrausch, Helmut ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Degradation; Erosion modelling; Remote sensing; Swaziland

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; PROBLEM SOLVING; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL TESTING; VEGETATION;

DELINEATION;

EROSION;

EROSION; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL;

EROSION; GRASSLAND; REMOTE SENSING; SEMIARID REGION; SOIL; SOIL EROSION; VEGETATION;

SWAZILAND;

EID: 0038034257     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.1170     Document Type: Article

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