Kaushik Ghosal

A review of rusle model

• Authors Details :  
• Kaushik Ghosal,  
• Santasmita Das Bhattacharya

Journal title : Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing

Publisher : Springer Science and Business Media LLC

Online ISSN : 0974-3006

Page Number : 689-707

Journal volume : 48

Journal issue : 4

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In this paper, we attempted to review the soil erosion studies conducted throughout the globe using Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation (RUSLE). We searched the SCI, Scopus, Web of Science, Google Scholar database and various theses for this study. Though RUSLE is the most widely used model for estimation of soil erosion, the factors, namely rainfall erosivity, soil erodibility, slope length and steepness, cover management and conservation practice; vary greatly over different climatic zones, soil properties, slope, land cover and crop phase, respectively. Depending upon those variations, researchers have developed various sets of equations for different factors of RUSLE. These equations can be useful to map soil loss for many places on this planet.

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DOI : https://doi.org/10.1007/s12524-019-01097-0

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• Engineering
• Interdisciplinary science

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• Conservation practice factor (P)
• Cover management factor (C)
• Rainfall erosivity factor (R)
• RUSLE for soil erosion
• Slope length and steepness factor (LS)
• Soil erodibility factor (K)

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