Land degradation has become one of the major threats throughout globe, affecting about 2.6 billion people in more than 100 countries. The highest rate land is Asia, followed by Africa and Europe. Climate change coupled with anthropogenic activities have accelerated developing nations. In India, affected 105.48 million hectares. Thus, modeling mapping soil loss, assessing vulnerability threat ac...

Soil erosion is a severe and continuous environmental problem caused mainly by natural factors, which can be enhanced anthropogenic activities. The morphological relief with relatively steep slopes, the dense drainage network, Mediterranean climate are some of factors that render Paleochora region (South Chania, Crete, Greece) particularly prone to soil in cases intense rainfall events. In this...

Agricultural Disaster Management System (ADMS) has become an important tool and technology in modern agricultural production. In this paper, we present a new method for the design and implementation of ADMS. This method is based on a new layered architecture model, which integrates flexibly GIS, simulation models and expert system in ADMS and simplifies its design and implementation. This syste...

ABSTRACT Globally, soil degradation by water erosion has become one of the major environmental problems in tropical regions, especially under severe conditions Andes. This study aims to detail risk a producer basin located Tropical Colombian Andes (Combeima River basin), applying RUSLE model, discussing how minimize processes its (steep slope, climatic variability, classes and properties divers...

Zoning strategic agricultural land for protection has become important in reducing agricultural land loss in rapidly growing areas. In this paper, a constrained CA model based on the integration of remote sensing, GIs, and cellular automata (CA) techniques was developed to overcome the limitations of the existing methods commonly used b y planners in zoning land for agricultural protection. Rem...

Local bioenergy will play a crucial role in national and regional sustainable energy strategies. Effective siting and feedstock procurement strategies are critical to the development and implementation of bioenergy systems. This paper aims to improve spatial decision-support in this domain by shifting focus from homogenous (forestry or agricultural) regions toward heterogeneous regions—i.e., ar...

Soil erosion is one of the major environmental problems in tropical ecosystems; however, lack information on amount eroded soils Rwandan mountainous watersheds hinders effective decision-making toward sustainable soil management. This study aimed at predicting Rukarara River watershed, Rwanda, and identifying potential areas high risk using revised universal loss equation (RUSLE) implemented a ...

In the Shatt Al-Arab basin, soil erosion is a major problem due to steepness of terrain and significant difference in altitude between upstream downstream parts basin. Vast quantities are moved annually, resulting massive repercussions including degradation, structural damage, biodiversity loss, productivity reduction catchment area, huge sediment load, pollution streams rivers. Consequently, a...