Assessing soil erosion in inaccessible mountainous areas in the tropics: The use of land cover and topographic parameters in a case study in Thailand

Catena

Volumn 121, Issue , 2014, Pages 40-52

  Shrestha, D P ^a   Suriyaprasit, M ^b   Prachansri, S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b Thailand Land Development Department Bangkok   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Conservation; Flow accumulation; Land cover parameters; Local drainage network; Mapping rills and gullies; Runoff estimation

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; EROSION CONTROL; GULLY; LAND COVER; MOUNTAIN REGION; REMOTE SENSING; RILL; RUNOFF; SOIL CONSERVATION; SOIL EROSION; TOPOGRAPHIC MAPPING; UNIVERSAL SOIL LOSS EQUATION;

THAILAND;

EID: 84901376326     PISSN: 03418162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.catena.2014.04.016     Document Type: Article

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