Multi-temporal Digital Photogrammetric Analysis for Quantitative Assessment of Soil Erosion Rates in the Landola Catchment of the Upper Orcia Valley (Tuscany, Italy)

Land Degradation and Development

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 1075-1092

  Aucelli, Pietro P C ^a   Conforti, Massimo ^b   Della Seta, Marta ^c   Del Monte, Maurizio ^c   D'uva, Lorenzo ^d   Rosskopf, Carmen M ^d   Vergari, Francesca ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES PARTHENOPE   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MOLISE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Badlands; Digital photogrammetry; Erosion rates; Italy; Quantitative geomorphology

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; CONSERVATION; ECONOMICS; LAND USE; LANDFORMS; PHOTOGRAMMETRY; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; RUNOFF;

BADLANDS; DIGITAL PHOTOGRAMMETRY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS; EROSION RATES; ITALY; MULTI-TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENTS; SPATIAL-TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION;

EROSION;

BADLANDS; CATCHMENT; DENUDATION; DIGITAL PHOTOGRAMMETRY; EROSION RATE; GEOMORPHOLOGY; LANDSLIDE; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SLOPE; SOIL EROSION; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ITALY; ORCIA VALLEY; TUSCANY;

EID: 84966589327     PISSN: 10853278     EISSN: 1099145X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ldr.2324     Document Type: Article

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