Estimating Soil Erosion to Highlight Potential Areas for Conservation Priority in Rukarara Catchment, South-western Rwanda

USLE-Based Assessment of Soil Erosion by Water in the Nyabarongo River Catchment, Rwanda

Soil erosion has become a serious problem in recent decades due to unhalted trends of unsustainable land use practices. Assessment of soil erosion is a prominent tool in planning and conservation of soil and water resource ecosystems. The Universal Soil Loss Equation (USLE) was applied to Nyabarongo River Catchment that drains about 8413.75 km² (33%) of the total Rwanda coverage and a small par...

Soil Erosion and Conservation

Estimating vegetation parameter for soil erosion assessment in an alpine catchment by means of QuickBird imagery

Soil erosion rates in alpine regions are related to high spatial variability complicating assessment of risk and damages. A crucial parameter triggering soil erosion that can be derived from satellite imagery is fractional vegetation cover (FVC). The objective of this study is to assess the applicability of normalized differenced vegetation index (NDVI), linear spectral unmixing (LSU) andmixtur...

Compare the MPSIAC and EPM Models for Estimating Erosion and Sediment in poorahmadi catchment

to estimating erosion and sediment in the Poorahmadi watershed basin, MPSIAC and EPM models was used and compared.  Part of Required data about natural characteristics of studing watershed basin provided from comprehensive studies of Watershed Basin and the other part prepared through digital image processing and preparing required maps  using RS and GIS joint capabilities.  With calculating th...

Uncertainties of Two Methods in Selecting Priority Areas for Protecting Soil Conservation Service at Regional Scale

Soil conservation (SC) is an important ecosystem regulating service. At present, methods for SC mapping to identify priority areas are primarily based on empirical soil erosion models, such as the RUSLE (Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation) based model. However, the parameters of the empirical soil conservation model are based on long-term observations of field experiments at small spatial sca...