Comparison of traditional and geostatistical methods to estimate soil erodibility factor

Arid Land Research and Management

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 29-45

  Baskan, Oguz ^a   Dengiz, Orhan ^b  

^a Institute of Soil and Water Resources Research   (Turkey)

^b ONDOKUZ MAYIS UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Geostatistics; K factor; Kriging; Semi variogram; Soil erodibility; Universal soil loss equation (USLE)

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; ERODIBILITY; ESTIMATION METHOD; GEOSTATISTICS; MAPPING; SOIL EROSION; SPATIAL VARIATION; VARIOGRAM;

EID: 37549050535     PISSN: 15324982     EISSN: 15324990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15324980701784241     Document Type: Article

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