GIS-Based Soil Erosion Modeling

Treatise on Geomorphology

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages 228-258

  Mitasova, H ^a   Barton, M ^b   Ullah, I ^b   Hofierka, J ^c   Harmon, R S ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c P J AFÁRIK UNIVERSITY   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Detachment; Digital elevation model; GRASS GIS; Gullies; Landscape evolution; Rills; Sediment deposition; Sediment transport; Soil erosion; Topographic erosion factor; Unit stream power

Indexed keywords

EID: 84903414788     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-374739-6.00052-X     Document Type: Chapter

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