Site-specific decision-making based on RTK GPS survey and six alternative elevation data sources: Soil erosion predictions

Transactions of the ASABE

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 413-424

  Renschler, Chris S ^a   Flanagan, Dennis C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b NATIONAL SOIL EROSION RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Decision making; Erosion; Global positioning systems; Modeling; Topography; Watershed; WEPP

Indexed keywords

SOIL EROSION PREDICTIONS; SOIL LOSS PREDICTIONS; TOPOGRAPHIC DATA SOURCES;

DECISION MAKING; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; SOILS;

EROSION;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; DECISION MAKING; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; GPS; PHOTOGRAMMETRY; PRECISION AGRICULTURE; PREDICTION; SEDIMENT YIELD; SEDIMENTATION RATE; SOIL EROSION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SURVEY; TOPOGRAPHY; WATERSHED;

EID: 44449133724     PISSN: 21510032     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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