Towards large-scale monitoring of soil erosion in Africa: Accounting for the dynamics of rainfall erosivity

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 115, Issue , 2014, Pages 33-43

  Vrieling, Anton ^a   Hoedjes, Joost C B ^b   van der Velde, Marijn ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b INTERNATIONAL LIVESTOCK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^c INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

Author keywords

Africa; Rainfall erosivity; Remote sensing; Satellite imagery; Soil erosion; Time series

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893823324     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2014.01.009     Document Type: Article

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