Estimation of the USLE cover and management factor C using satellite remote sensing: A review

Proceedings - 2011 19th International Conference on Geoinformatics, Geoinformatics 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Zhang, Weiwei ^a,b   Zhang, Zengxiang ^a   Liu, Fang ^a   Qiao, Zhuping ^a,b   Hu, Shunguang ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF REMOTE SENSING APPLICATIONS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

C factor; semote Sensing; USLE; vegetation coverage; vegetation index

Indexed keywords

C FACTOR; SEMOTE SENSING; USLE; VEGETATION COVERAGE; VEGETATION INDEX;

EROSION; GEOLOGIC MODELS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; SATELLITES; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SOIL MECHANICS; SOILS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; VEGETATION;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 80052369912     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/GeoInformatics.2011.5980735     Document Type: Conference Paper

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