Geospatial assessment of soil erosion vulnerability at watershed level in some sections of the Upper Subarnarekha river basin, Jharkhand, India

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 357-374

  Chatterjee, Shuvabrata ^a   Krishna, A P ^b   Sharma, A P ^a  

^a ICAR CENTRAL INLAND FISHERIES RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^b BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

LULC change; Remote sensing; Soil erosion; Subarnarekha River Basin; USLE; Watershed management

Indexed keywords

LULC CHANGE; RIVER BASINS; SOIL EROSION; USLE; WATERSHED MANAGEMENT;

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; RAIN; REMOTE SENSING; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SOIL CONSERVATION; SOILS; WATER CONSERVATION; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATERSHEDS;

EROSION;

ESTIMATION METHOD; LAND COVER; RIVER BASIN; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SOIL EROSION; TOPOGRAPHIC MAPPING; VULNERABILITY; WATERSHED;

INDIA; SUBARNAREKHA RIVER;

EID: 84892440929     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-013-2439-3     Document Type: Article

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