Seasonal monitoring of soil erosion at regional scale: An application of the G2 model in crete focusing on agricultural land uses

International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Volumn 27, Issue PARTB, 2014, Pages 147-155

  Panagos, Panagos ^a   Christos, Karydas ^b   Cristiano, Ballabio ^a   Ioannis, Gitas ^b  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Copernicus; Gavrilovic; GMES; Spatio temporal mapping; USLE; Vegetation retention

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; GRASSLAND; LAND USE; MAPPING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; SHRUBLAND; SOIL EROSION; TIME SERIES; UNIVERSAL SOIL LOSS EQUATION; VEGETATION;

AEGEAN ISLANDS; CRETE [GREECE]; GREECE;

EID: 84897563794     PISSN: 15698432     EISSN: 1872826X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jag.2013.09.012     Document Type: Article

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