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  Using Soil Erosion Modeling for Improved Conservation Planning: 
A GIS-based Tutorial

Modeling erosion at multiple scales: tasks, data, processes and models

Data

Regional/installation
~1000 sq km
Data spatially averaged for hydrologic units
Standard 100-30m USGS raster

 

 Landscape/training area
~100 sq km
1:10000 vector data converted to 10m raster
USGS or custom 10m raster
Field/small watershed
~1-10 sq km,
1:2000 vector data converted to 2m raster
1-3m resolution raster(LIDAR, field survey)

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