Journal
WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT
Volume 22, Issue 12, Pages 1783-1798Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11269-008-9253-9
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Soil erosion assessment; GIS; RS; USLE; Hilly catchment
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- Department of Secondary and Higher Education, Ministry of Human Resources Development, Government of India, New Delhi (India)
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In the present study, soil erosion assessment of Dikrong river basin of Arunachal Pradesh (India) was carried out. The river basin was divided into 200x200 m grid cells. The Arc Info 7.2 GIS software and RS (ERDAS IMAGINE 8.4 image processing software) provided spatial input data and the USLE was used to predict the spatial distribution of the average annual soil loss on grid basis. The average rainfall erositivity factor (R) for Dikrong river basin was found to be 1,894.6 MJ mm ha(-1) h(-1) year(-1). The soil erodibility factor (K) with a magnitude of 0.055 t ha h ha(-1) MJ(-1) mm(-1) is the highest, with 0.039 t ha h ha(-1) MJ(-1) mm(-1) is the least for the watershed. The highest and lowest value of slope length factor (LS) is 53.5 and 5.39 respectively for the watershed. The highest and lowest values of crop management factor (C) were found out to be 0.004 and 1.0 respectively for the watershed. The highest and lowest value of conservation factor (P) were found to be 1 and 0.28 respectively for the watershed. The average annual soil loss of the Dikrong river basin is 51 t ha(-1) year(-1). About 25.61% of the watershed area is found out to be under slight erosion class. Areas covered by moderate, high, very high, severe and very severe erosion potential zones are 26.51%, 17.87%, 13.74%, 2.39% and 13.88% respectively. Therefore, these areas need immediate attention from soil conservation point of view.
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