Use of terrain variables for mapping gully erosion susceptibility in Lebanon

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 32, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1770-1782

  Bou Kheir, Rania ^a   Wilson, John ^b   Deng, Yongxin ^c  

^a NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH   (Lebanon)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c WESTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Geographic information systems; Gully erosion maps; Regression models; Terrain analysis

Indexed keywords

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SOIL CONSERVATION; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TOPOGRAPHY; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

GULLY EROSION; TERRAIN ANALYSIS;

EROSION;

EROSION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SOIL CONSERVATION; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TOPOGRAPHY; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; GIS; GULLY EROSION; MAPPING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOIL CONSERVATION; TERRAIN;

ASIA; EURASIA; LEBANON; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 35748965059     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.1501     Document Type: Article

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