Determination of frequency for remeasuring ground and vegetation cover factor needed for soil erosion modeling

Environmental Management

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 84-97

  Gertner, George ^a   Wang, Guangxing ^a   Anderson, Alan B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b U S ARMY ENGINEER RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Geostatistics; Optimal sampling design; Soil erosion models; Spatial and temporal variability

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOIL CONSERVATION; VEGETATION;

GEOSTATICS; OPTIMAL SAMPLING DESIGN; SOIL EROSION MODELS; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIABILITY;

EROSION;

GEOSTATISTICS; GROUND COVER; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MODELING; SOIL EROSION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; VEGETATION COVER;

ACCURACY; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MEASUREMENT; PREDICTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOIL; SOIL EROSION; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME; VARIANCE; VEGETATION;

CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PLANTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESEARCH DESIGN; SOIL; TEXAS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 29544437781     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: 14321009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-004-0152-4     Document Type: Article

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