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Soil erosion is currently one of the main research topics of environment change, and it has affected the human survival and sustainable development. In this paper, Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation (RUSLE) based on RS/GIS technology was used to estimate soil erosion in years of 2001, 2007 and 2013 in the Ninghua County Fujian Province incorporating spatial analysis method based on GIS, temporal and spatial dynamic changes. For analyzing the temporal variation of soil erosion intensity in different periods in the study area, we investigated the variation tendency of soil erosion intensity each of the land use classes, topographic factors (elevation and slope) and vegetation coverage factors. The results indicated that RUSLE model based on RS/GIS technology could be extended to estimate regional soil erosion, and provided effective technological means for quantitative analysis of regional soil erosion.
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The study was supported by the National Science Foundation of China (No. 41171232) and the National Science Foundation of Fujian Province (No. 2014J01149).
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Yu, M., Huang, Y., Sun, C., Wu, Y. (2017). Spatial-Temporal Analysis of Soil Erosion in Ninghua County Based on the RUSLE. In: Yuan, H., Geng, J., Bian, F. (eds) Geo-Spatial Knowledge and Intelligence. GRMSE 2016. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 698. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3966-9_61
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