An Integrated gis/rs approach for soil erosion assessment and modeling in syrian coastal soils

Pedosphere

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 167-174

  Al Abed, M ^a   Zhou, Shi ^a   Yaghi, A ^b   Renchao, Wang ^b  

^a General Organization for Remote Sensing   (Syrian Arab Republic)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Geographic information system; Remote sensing; Soil erosion; Universal soil loss equation (usle)

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141470319     PISSN: 10020160     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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