Analysis of the Effect of Environmental Variables on the Soil Erodibility Estimation (K Factor)
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https://doi.org/10.5944/etfvi.11.2018.20187Keywords:
Erosion, Soil, SlopeAbstract
The main goal of this work is to determine and analyze the influence of environmental variables on the changes of two erodibility methods, through the application of three estimation algorithms of K Factor. The analysis of this information allows knowing the significance of the input data to the models in the erodibility estimation, and likewise the consequence of the algorithm selected for the estimation of K Factor. The results show that the slopes, as well as the vegetation index (NDVI) and the mineralogical composition index (IOI), generated both by remote sensing techniques, have shown the highest values of association between methods.Downloads
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