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

References

Links

Estimating Soil Erosion Using RUSLE (Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation) Using ArcView

Danish Hydrologic Institute MIKE system

ECI Land Degradation and Rehabilitation Programme: Home Page

Environmental Modeling Research Laboratory - hydrologic models GMS, SMS, WMS linked to ArcView

Environmental Protection Agency BASIN-2, watershed and water quality analysis models integrated within an ArcView GIS environment.

Geographic Modeling Systems Laboratory

GRASS: Geographic Resources Analysis System

Hydrologic modeling integrated with GIS at EMGIS Laboratory, University of Oklahoma

Hydrologic models linked to GIS

USLE/RUSLE official web site at the USDA National Sedimenttion Laboratory

LTHIA - on-line, long term hydrologic impact assessment

TOPOG

SWAT: Soil and Water Assessment Tool

Streambank Restoration

Sedspec: Sediment and Erosion Control Planning, Design and SPECification Information and Guidance Tool

Grassed Waterway 412

Conservation Programs Offered by the Twin Platte Natural Resources District

ABSTRACT: Effectiveness of terraces/grassed waterway systems for soil and water conservation: A field evaluation.

Conservation Reserve Program $ Buffers - Practice Requirements and Planning Aids

Install grassed waterways

MMS Welcome Page

STARTING THE HUNT: Guide to Mostly On-line and Mostly Free U.S. Geospatial and Attribute Data

Watershed management models (relevant are ANSWERS, AGNPS, WEPP, ...:
http://web.aces.uiuc.edu/watershed/model/models_index.htm

WEPP

Papers and Books

Dabney, S.M. (1999) Lanscape Benching from Tillage Erosion Between Grass Hedges. Proceedings from ISCO Conference, CDROM, Lafayette: Purdue University.

Desmet, P. J. J., and G. Govers (1996) A GIS procedure for automatically calculating the USLE LS factor on topographically complex landscape units, J. Soil and Water Cons., 51(5), 427-433.

Favis-Mortlock D., Boardman J., Parsons, T., Lascelles, B. (1998) Emergence and erosion: a model for rill initiation and development. Proceedings of the 3rd conference on GeoComputation (CDROM), University of Bristol, UK.

Flanagan, D. C., and M. A. Nearing (eds.) (1995) USDA-Water Erosion Prediction Project, NSERL, report no. 10, pp. 1.1- A.1, National Soil Erosion Lab., USDA ARS, Laffayette, IN.

Foster, G. R., and L. D. Meyer, (1972) A closed-form erosion equation for upland areas, in Sedimentation: Symposium to Honor Prof. H.A. Einstein, edited by H. W. Shen, pp. 12.1-12.19, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, CO.

Foster, G.R., and Wischmeier, W.H. (1974) Evaluating irregular slopes for soil loss prediction. Transactions of the ASAE, 12, 305-309.

Foster, G. R. (1990) Process-based modelling of soil erosion by water on agricultural land, in Soil Erosion on Agricultural Land, edited by J. Boardman, I. D. L. Foster and J. A. Dearing, John Wiley & Sons Ltd, pp. 429-445.

Haan, C. T., B. J. Barfield, and J. C. Hayes, (1994) Design Hydrology and Sedimentology for Small Catchments, pp. 242-243, Academic Press.

Harmon R. S. and Doe, W. W. (2001) Landscape Erosion and Evolution Modeling. Plenum Pub Corp.

Holland J and Goran W (2000) Development of a Land management system in support of natural resources management. Proceedings of 4th conference on Environmental modeling and GIS, CDROM, Banff, Canada.

Johnston, D.M. and Srivastava, A. (1999) Decision Support Systems for Design and Planning: The Development of HydroPEDDS (Hydrologic Performance Evaluation and Design Decision Support ) System for Urban Watershed Planning, 6th International Conference on Computers in Urban Pl anning and Urban Management (CUPUMS'99), Venice, Italy

Julien, P.Y. and Simons, D.B. (1985) Sediment transport capacity of overland flow. Transactions of the ASAE, 28, 755-762.

Krcho, J. (1991) Georelief as a subsystem of landscape and the influence of morphometric parameters of georelief on spatial differentiation of landscape-ecological processes: Ecology /CSFR/, v.10, p.115-157.

Mitas, L., Mitasova, H. (1999) Spatial Interpolation. In: P.Longley, M.F. Goodchild, D.J. Maguire, D.W.Rhind (Eds.), Geographical Information Systems: Principles, Techniques, Management and Applications, GeoInformation International, Wiley, 481-492.

Mitas, L. and Mitasova, H. (1998) Distributed erosion modeling for effective erosion prevention. Water Resources Research, 34, 505-516.

Mitas, L., Brown, W. M., Mitasova, H. (1997) Role of dynamic cartography in simulations of landscape processes based on multi-variate fields. Computers and Geosciences, 23, 437-446 http://www2.gis.uiuc.edu:2280/modviz/lcgfin/cg-mitas.html

Mitasova, H., and Mitas, L. (2001) Modeling Physical Systems, In: Geographic Information Systems and Environmental Modeling, Parks B., Crane M. and Clarke, K eds., Prentice Hall, 189-210.

Mitasova, H., Mitas, L. (2001) Multiscale soil erosion simulations for land use management, In: Landscape erosion and landscape evolution modeling, Harmon R. S., and Doe W. W., eds., Plenum Publishers.

Mitasova, H., Mitas, L., Brown, W. M., Johnston, D. (1999) Terrain modeling and Soil Erosion Simulations for Fort Hood and Fort Polk test areas. Report for USA CERL. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL.

Mitasova, H., J. Hofierka, M. Zlocha, and R. L. Iverson, (1996) Modeling topographic potential for erosion and deposition using GIS, Int. Journal of Geographical Information Science, 10(5), 629-641.
(reply to a comment to this paper appears in 1997 in Int. Journal of Geographical Information Science, Vol. 11, No. 6)
 
Mitasova, H., L. Mitas, B.M. Brown, D.P. Gerdes, I. Kosinovsky (1995) Modeling spatially and temporally distributed phenomena: New methods and tools for GRASS GIS. International Journal of GIS, 9 , 443-446.

Mitasova, H., and Mitas, L. (1993) Interpolation by Regularized Spline with Tension: I. Theory and implementation. Mathematical Geology, 25, 641-655.

Mitasova, H., and Hofierka, J. (1993) Interpolation by Regularized Spline with Tension: II. Application to terrain modeling and surface geometry analysis. Mathematical Geology , 25, 657-669.

Moore, I.D., and Burch, G.J. (1986a) Physical basis of the length-slope factor in the Universal Soil Loss Equation. Soil Sciences Society America Journal, 50, 1294-1298.

Moore I.D., Burch G.J. (1986b) Sediment transport capacity of sheet and rill flow: Application of unit stream power theory, Water Resources Research, v.22, p.1350-1360.

Moore I.D., and Burch G.J. (1986c) Modeling erosion and deposition: Topographic effects. Transactions ASAE, 29, 1624-1640.

Renard G.K., Foster G.R., Weesies G.A., Porter J.P. (1991) RUSLE - Revised universal soil loss equation. Journal of Soil and Water Conservation, v. 46, p.30-33.

Westervelt, J, and Shapiro, M. (1992) R.MAPCALC, an algebra for GIS and Image processing. US Army Corps of
Engineers, Construction Engineering Research Laboratories, Champaign, Illinois, 422-425

Wischmeier, W.H., and Smith, D.D. (1978) Predicting rainfall erosion losses, a guide to conservation planning. Agriculture Handbook No. 537, US Department of Agriculture, Washington D.C.

Warren, S.D., Diersing, V.E., Thompson, P.J., and Goran, W.D., (1989) An erosion-based land classification system for military installations. Environmental Management, 13, 251-257.

Tucker, G., Gasparini, N., Bras, R., and Rybarczyk, P. (1999) An object-oriented framework for distributed hydrologic and geomorphic modeling using triangulated irregular networks. 4th International Conference on GeoComputation Fredericksburg: Mary Washington College

Lars Arge , L., Jeffrey S. Chase , Patrick Halpin  , Laura Toma , Jeffrey S. Vitter , Dean Urban  , Rajiv Wickremesinghe
Flow Computation on Massive Grid Terrains. Geoinformatika. (submitted).

 

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