Spatial modelling of soil erosion potential in a mountainous watershed of South-eastern Serbia

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 115-128

  Perović, Veljko ^a   Životić, Ljubomir ^b   Kadović, Ratko ^b   Dordević, Aleksandar ^b   Jaramaz, Darko ^a   Mrvić, Vesna ^a   Todorović, Mladen ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF SOIL SCIENCE   (Serbia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^c ISTITUTO AGRONOMICO MEDITERRANEO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Erosion rate; GIS; Nisava River Basin; USLE

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION PRACTICES; CROP MANAGEMENTS; ENHANCED THEMATIC MAPPERS; EROSION FACTORS; EROSION RATES; LANDSAT 7; LIMITED DATA; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; RIVER BASINS; SEDIMENT YIELD MEASUREMENTS; SEVERE EROSION; SOIL EROSION; SOIL EROSION POTENTIAL; SOIL EROSION RATE; SOIL LOSS; SOIL RESOURCES; SPATIAL MODELLING; STUDY AREAS; SURFACE AREA; UNIVERSAL SOIL LOSS EQUATION; USLE; VULNERABLE AREA; WATERSHED AREAS;

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; LANDFORMS; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SOILS; WATERSHEDS;

EROSION;

AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; EROSION RATE; GIS; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; MOUNTAIN REGION; NDVI; RIVER BASIN; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEDIMENT YIELD; SOIL CONSERVATION; SOIL EROSION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SURFACE AREA; UNIVERSAL SOIL LOSS EQUATION; WATERSHED;

NISAVA RIVER; SERBIA;

EID: 84871932626     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-012-1720-1     Document Type: Article

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