Soil-landscape modeling and land suitability evaluation: The case of rainwater harvesting in a dry rangeland environment

International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 157-164

  Al Shamiri, Anwar ^a   Ziadat, Feras M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JORDAN   (Jordan)

Author keywords

Digital elevation model; Land use planning; Soil survey; Spatial interpolation; Terrain attributes; Watershed

Indexed keywords

ARID REGION; CLIMATE CHANGE; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; HARVESTING; INTERPOLATION; LAND EVALUATION; LAND USE PLANNING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PREDICTION; RAINWATER; RANGELAND; SEMIARID REGION; SOIL DEPTH; SOIL SURVEY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; WATERSHED;

ATRIPLEX; ATRIPLEX HALIMUS; HORDEUM; HORDEUM VULGARE;

EID: 84864498608     PISSN: 15698432     EISSN: 1872826X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jag.2012.01.005     Document Type: Article

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