The abrupt development of remote sensing and GIS mainly in 1990s brought new
opportunities to develop improved tools for erosion assessment and advanced methods for
mapping of eroded soils. This paper provides methodological achievements enabling the
identification of erosion from remote sensing data reached in Slovakia. The erosion patterns
occurring at test site in Rišňovce area were detected from aerial photographs and SPOT
PAN image, using three different approaches. Computer-aided visual interpretation of aerial …

Highly eroded relatively infertile soils are common in hilly agricultural areas of Slovakia.
Detail soil map that identifies these eroded soils is needed for land management, land use
planning, land evaluation and for the determination of taxes and commercial land prices. An
attempts to map these soils done several decades ago using existing technology brought an
inadequate results. With the introduction of remote sensing to the market new opportunities
came to develop improved resources planning and assessment tools. This paper describes …