EDAFOLOGÍA

Publicada por la Sociedad Española de la Ciencia del Suelo

 

Volumen 8-2. Agosto 2001. pág 57-66.

 

 

ESTUDIO COMPARATIVO DE DIFERENTES MÉTODOS DE CÁLCULO DEL FACTOR LS PARA LA ESTIMACIÓN DE PÉRDIDAS DE SUELO POR EROSIÓN HÍDRICA

 

J.M.GISBERT BLANQUER, S. IBÁ&Ñtilde;EZ ASENSIO, G. ANDRÉS AZNAR, A. MARQUÉS MATEU

 

Departamento de Producción Vegetal, Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros Agrónomos, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia. jgisbert@prv.upv.es

 

Abstract. The great incidence of on soil degradation makes interesting to measure its effects and to predict losses under the circumstances. At present, introduction of digital cartographic representation thecnics demands a review of traditional methods and the most complicated estimates or calculation in erosion models is the topographic factor LS. This report is a comparative study of a few usual methodologies for the determination of this factor. All of which use the same equations of the USLE method, the most used tool in such studies, but with different procedure in the accessories factors calculation.

Key words: LS factor, comparative study, estimate erosion models

 

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