Mapping of erosion rates in marly badlands based on a coupling of anatomical changes in exposed roots with slope maps derived from LiDAR data

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1162-1171

  Saez, Jérôme Lopez ^a   Corona, Christophe ^a   Stoffe, Markus ^b,c   Rovéra, Georges ^d   Astrade, Laurent ^e   Berger, Frédéric ^a  

^a Cemagref   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^d UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE SAVOIE   (France)

Author keywords

Dendrogeomorphology; Erosion rates; Lidar; Mapping; Marly badlands; Roots

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; DIGITAL STORAGE; FERTILIZERS; FORESTRY; LINEAR REGRESSION; MAPPING; OPTICAL RADAR; RUNOFF; SOIL SURVEYS; SOILS;

DENDROGEOMORPHOLOGY; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; EROSION RATES; LINEAR REGRESSION MODELS; MARLY BADLANDS; POINT-SCALE MEASUREMENTS; ROOTS; SURFACE ELEVATION CHANGES;

EROSION;

ANATOMY; BADLANDS; DENUDATION; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; EROSION RATE; GEOMORPHOLOGICAL MAPPING; LIDAR; MARL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; ROOT; SEDIMENT YIELD; SOIL EROSION;

ALPS;

PINUS SYLVESTRIS;

EID: 80054956282     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.2141     Document Type: Article

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