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Mapping the source of soil erosion

Last update on May 21, 2014.

Mapping the source of soil erosion

Predicting soil erosion

Conventional soil erosion models are generally based on the Universal Soil Loss Equation (USLE), or a revised (RUSLE) or modified (Williams and Berndt (1977)) version of the USLE. Betrie et al (2011) used the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT), which uses MUSLE to compute soil erosion, to model sediment transport in ...

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