Large scale soil erosion modeling for a mountainous watershed

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 89, Issue , 2006, Pages 55-67

  Zhou, P ^a   Nieminen, J ^a   Tokola, T ^a   Luukkanen, O ^a   Oliver, T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

DEM; k NN method; RUSLE; Soil erosion; Upper Min River Watershed

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; DATA; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; EROSION CONTROL; EROSIVITY; GIS; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL CONSERVATION; SOIL EROSION; WATERSHED;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; MIN RIVER [SICHUAN]; SICHUAN;

EID: 36148989567     PISSN: 17433541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2495/GEO060071     Document Type: Article

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