A conditional GIS-interpolation-based model for mapping soil-water erosion processes in Lebanon

Land Degradation and Development

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 122-135

  Kheir, Rania Bou ^a  

^a NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

Conditional rule based model; Erosion proxies; Field erosion signs; GIS; Land degradation; Lebanonto; Spatial interpolation; Water soil erosion

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INTERPOLATION; MAPPING; STATISTICAL METHODS;

CONDITIONAL RULE-BASED MODEL; FIELD EROSION SIGNS; LAND DEGRADATION; SPATIAL INTERPOLATION; WATER-SOIL EROSION;

EROSION;

GEOLOGICAL MAPPING; GIS; INTERPOLATION; LAND DEGRADATION; LAND MANAGEMENT; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; MAPPING; SOIL EROSION; WATER EROSION;

ASIA; EURASIA; LEBANON; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 42949156181     PISSN: 10853278     EISSN: 1099145X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ldr.834     Document Type: Article

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