Assessment of Soil Loss from Land Cover Changes in the Nan River Basin, Thailand
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Study Area
2.2. Rainfall Data
2.3. Soil Data
2.4. Topography Data
2.5. Land Cover Data
2.6. Method of Estimating Soil Loss
3. Results
3.1. USLE Factor Estimation Results
3.2. Soil Loss Estimation Result and Its Change between 2001 to 2019
3.3. Soil Loss Estimation Result Relation to Elevation and Slope
3.4. Soil Loss Estimation Result Relation to Land Cover Change and Land Cover Type
4. Discussions
5. Conclusions
Funding
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Land Cover Type | C-Factor | P-Factor |
---|---|---|
Water | 0.01 | 1.0 |
Evergreen Forest | 0.001 | 1.0 |
Deciduous Forest | 0.01 | 1.0 |
Shrubland | 0.014 | 1.0 |
Agriculture | 0.5 | 0.5 |
Paddy | 0.1 | 0.5 |
Urban | 0.1 | 1.0 |
Barren | 0.35 | 1.0 |
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Chicago/Turabian StylePakoksung, Kwanchai. 2024. "Assessment of Soil Loss from Land Cover Changes in the Nan River Basin, Thailand" GeoHazards 5, no. 1: 1-21. https://doi.org/10.3390/geohazards5010001