Spatio-temporal assessment of soil erosion at Kuala Lumpur metropolitan city using remote sensing data and GIS

The main purpose of this paper is to assess and predict soil erosion and its dynamism observation at Kuala Lumpur metropolitan city using universal soil loss equation (USLE). To acquire USLE factors, multi-source datasets such as rainfall data of the past 20 years, DEM map, SPOT5 image and geologica...

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Main Authors: Maryam Khosrokhani, Biswajeet Pradhan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2014-07-01
Series:Geomatics, Natural Hazards & Risk
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19475705.2013.794164