The main objective of this study is to evaluate the land-use change and its relationship with its driving factors in the loess hilly region. In this study, a case study was carried out in Pengyang County. We set two land-use demand scenarios (a baseline scenario (scenario 1) and a real land-use requirement scenario (scenario 2)) during year 2001-2005 via assuming the effect of driving factors o...

The objective of this research was to assess vulnerable soil erosion risk with qualitative approach using GIS in Ankara-Guvenc Basin. The study area is located about 44 km north of Ankara and covers 17.5 km2. The selected theme layers of this model include topographic factor, soil factors (depth, texture, impermeable horizon) and land use. Slope layer and land use-land cover data were prepared ...

Hari Shanker Gupta Department of Geography University College, M.D. University Rohtak PIN-124001 (Haryana) INDIA PHONE : ++91-1262-59076 ® ++91-1262-74955 (O) FAX : ++91-1262 –74640 E-MAIL:[email protected] / ABSTRACT Geographic Information System (GIS) coupled with Remote Sensing has proved as a powerful tool in the field of land evaluation and managem...

[1] A local formulation of the sediment flux on a hillslope describes the flux as a unique function of local hillslope conditions at any contour position x, whereas a nonlocal formulation must take into account nonlocal (upslope or downslope) conditions that influence the flux at x. Local formulations are reasonable when particle motions involve small length scales associated with localized bio...

[1] In soil‐mantled steeplands, soil motions associated with creep, ravel, rain splash, soil slips, tree throw, and rodent activity are patchy and intermittent and involve widely varying travel distances. To describe the collective effect of these motions, we formulate a nonlocal expression for the soil flux. This probabilistic formulation involves upslope and downslope convolutions of land sur...

The shallow landslides affect most of the hillslopes in the Prahova Subcarpathians and are mainly caused by the agriculture practices. Though, these processes do not imply immediately losses for human activity, the landslide susceptibility assessment is necessary to prevent terrain degradation. The evaluation of landslide susceptibility requires understanding of spatial distribution of the fact...