Identification of areas vulnerable to soil erosion risk in India using GIS methods

Solid Earth

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1247-1257

  Biswas, H ^a   Raizada, A ^a   Mandal, D ^a   Kumar, S ^a   Srinivas, S ^b   Mishra, P K ^a  

^a ICAR INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION   (India)

^b ICAR NATIONAL BUREAU OF SOIL SURVEY AND LAND USE PLANNING   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION; EROSION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; NATURAL RESOURCES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOILS;

CONSERVATION MEASURES; CONSERVATION PLANNING; GEOGRAPHICAL AREA; POLICY MAKERS; RESOURCE CONSERVATION; SOIL EROSION RISK; SOIL EROSION RISK (SER); TOLERANCE LIMITS;

SOIL CONSERVATION;

CONSERVATION PLANNING; GIS; NATURAL RESOURCE; SOIL CONSERVATION; SOIL EROSION;

ADILABAD; INDIA; KARIMNAGAR; KHAMMAM; TELANGANA; WARANGAL;

EID: 84949235456     PISSN: 18699510     EISSN: 18699529     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/se-6-1247-2015     Document Type: Article

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