Accessing the soil erosion rate based on RUSLE model for sustainable land use management: A case study of the Kotmale watershed, Sri Lanka

D Dissanayake, T Morimoto, M Ranagalage - Modeling Earth Systems …, 2019 - Springer
Water based soil erosion is a serious socio-economic and environmental problem across
the world especially in the tropical region. Assessing the soil erosion quantitatively and …

Impact of land use change on erosion risk: an integrated remote sensing, geographic information system and modeling methodology

M Leh, S Bajwa, I Chaubey - Land Degradation & …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
The objective of this study was to evaluate the impact of rapidly changing land use on
erosion and sedimentation in a mixed land use watershed in the Ozark Highlands of the …

Global analysis of support practices in USLE-based soil erosion modeling

M Xiong, R Sun, L Chen - Progress in Physical Geography …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Support practices (SPs) influence the magnitude of soil loss and can be readily influenced
by human interventions to mitigate soil loss. The SPs factor is expressed as the P-factor in …

Evaluating hydrologic responses to soil characteristics using SWAT model in a paired-watersheds in the Upper Blue Nile Basin

AW Worqlul, EK Ayana, H Yen, J Jeong, C MacAlister… - Catena, 2018 - Elsevier
Watershed responses are affected by the watershed characteristics and rainfall events. The
characteristics of soil layers are among the fundamental characteristics of a watershed and …

Remote sensing of selected water-quality indicators with the hyperspectral imager for the coastal ocean (HICO) sensor

DJ Keith, BA Schaeffer, RS Lunetta… - … Journal of Remote …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
The Hyperspectral Imager for the Coastal Ocean (HICO) offers the coastal environmental
monitoring community an unprecedented opportunity to observe changes in coastal and …

The combined RUSLE/SDR approach integrated with GIS and geostatistics to estimate annual sediment flux rates in the semi-arid catchment, Turkey

SD Saygın, AU Ozcan, M Basaran, OB Timur… - Environmental Earth …, 2014 - Springer
Quantitative evaluation of the spatial distribution of the erosion risk in any watershed or
ecosystem is one of the most important tools for environmentalists, conservationists and …

Predicting soil erosion with RUSLE in Mediterranean agricultural systems at catchment scale

M López-Vicente, A Navas - Soil science, 2009 - journals.lww.com
Accurate assessment of soil loss is essential for sustainable agricultural production,
management, and conservation planning, especially in productive rain-fed agroecosystems …

Assessing the potential effect of different land cover management practices on sediment yield from an abandoned farmland catchment in the Spanish Pyrenees

M López-Vicente, N Lana-Renault… - Journal of Soils and …, 2011 - Springer
Purpose Sediment delivery from headwater catchments to reservoirs is a serious threat to
reservoir sustainability and is a critical issue in Mediterranean environments where water …

Soil erosion and sediment fluxes analysis: a watershed study of the Ni Reservoir, Spotsylvania County, VA, USA

IC Pope, BK Odhiambo - Environmental monitoring and assessment, 2014 - Springer
Anthropogenic forces that alter the physical landscape are known to cause significant soil
erosion, which has negative impact on surface water bodies, such as rivers, lakes/reservoirs …

Spatial assessment of land degradation risk for the Okavango River catchment, Southern Africa

T Weinzierl, J Wehberg, J Böhner… - Land Degradation & …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The Okavango catchment in southern Africa is subject to environmental as well as socio‐
economic transformation processes such as population growth and climate change. The …