Assessment of erosion hazard with the USLE and GIS: A case study of the Upper Ewaso Ng'iro North basin of Kenya

Designing regional pattern for ecosystem restoration: A case study

“…As we can predict the future ecosystem pattern through our designing method, another problem is worth considering that how to estimate the ecological effect changing with the new spatial pattern. In the arid valley of our study area, as the main purpose of ecological restoration is to control soil and water erosion by accelerating vegetation restoration, the effect of the new restoration pattern on soil and water conservation should be assessed with abundant models of soil erosion at regional scale, say the USLE and WEPP models with GIS [19,20] . By doing so, the designed restoration pattern can be further adjusted according to the predicting ecological effects.…”

Spatial data utilization of the agricultural sector for the purposes of agricultural land use change in the case of a selected nature protection area in Slovenia

“…Prav tako so znanja s področja geografskih informacijskih sistemov uporabna v okviru prostorskega načrtovanja, katerega glavni namen je določiti zasnovo organizacije prostora (Slonep, 2011) in pri tem med seboj uskladiti interese vseh uporabnikov prostora. V splošnem je uporaba tehnologij GIS z uporabo satelitskih ali letalskih posnetkov v kmetijstvu široko zastopana, kar dokazujejo številne raziskave s področja razpršenega onesnaženja vodnih virov z nitrati iz kmetijstva (Giupponi in Vladimirova, 2005), ocenjevanja potencialne ogroženosti kmetijskih površin za erozijo tal (Mati et al, 2000) in biomasnega potenciala energetskih rastlin (Fiorese in Guariso, 2010), določitve primernosti tal za kmetijsko pridelavo (Kalogirou, 2002), vpeljave preciznega kmetovanja na ravni kmetijskega gospodarstva (Zhang et al, 1999) ter ekološko-ekonomskega modeliranja za vrednotenje učinkovitosti kmetijskih politik (Carey et al, 2002;Lant et al, 2005). V zadnjem času pridobivajo prostorske analize v kmetijstvu vse bolj na pomenu tako v svetu kot pri nas, saj lahko prostorska predstavnost omogoča hiter prikaz rabe kmetijskih zemljišč tudi za posamezno zemljiško parcelo ob pogoju, da so podatki o rabi in zemljiških parcelah kakovostni.…”

Geo-Spatial Technologies for Carbon Sequestration Monitoring and Management

“…The integrated RS-GIS approach is well explored and studied in precision farming (Liaghat and Balasundram, 2010;Fitzgerald et al, 2006;Seelan et al, 2003), aquaculture (Nath et al, 2000), crop cultivation (Lopez-Lozano et al, 2010), plant nutrient management (Goel et al, 2003), forest inventory (Kohl et al, 2006), erosion control (Mati et al, 2000;Ramos et al, 2007), mountain survey (Mulders, 2001), township planning, hydromorphological studies (Chandra and Ghosh, 2006), coastal zone management and assessment of biomass potential from agricultural wastes (Voivontas et al, 2001). In Malaysia, the integrated RS-GIS approach has been employed for evaluation of oil palm crop performance indicators such as inventory of trees phenology, macro-nutrient assessment and replanting (Loh et al, 2009).…”