Soil Erosion Modelling for Sustainable Environmental Management in Sebeya Catchment, Rwanda

Majoro, Félicien; Wali, Umaru Garba; Munyaneza, Omar; Naramabuye, François Xavier; Nsengiyumva, Philibert; Mukamwambali, Concilie

doi:10.4236/jwarp.2020.1212062

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“…Soil erosion destroys land resources, causes pollution, disturbs the utilization and recycling of water resources, deteriorates the environment, and results in natural disasters ( Sun et al., 2020 ). Hence soil Erosion modelling has been important for sustainable environmental management ( Majoro et al., 2020 ).…”

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Soil erosion risk assessment and treatment priority classification: A case study on guder watersheds, Abay river basin, Oromia, Ethiopia

Duguma¹

2022

Heliyon

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Soil erosion risk assessment and treatment priority classification: A case study on guder watersheds, Abay river basin, Oromia, Ethiopia

Duguma¹

2022

Heliyon

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Evaluation of soil loss severity and ecological restoration approach for sustainable agriculture in the Hindu Kush, Karakoram and Himalaya region

Ashraf,

Ahmad

2024

J. Mt. Sci.

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Relation between the soil erosion cover management factor and vegetation index in semi-arid basins

Mahgoub,

Elalfy,

Soussa

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Environ Earth Sci

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The cover management factor is one of the main five factors that is used within the universal soil loss equation to reflect the effect of cropping and management practices on soil erosion rates. It is determined through tables and equations derived in tropical and European conditions, which are not suitable for semi-arid regions with different climate, topography, and soil characteristics. Therefore, this study considers al-Arish basin in Sinai Peninsula, Egypt as a semi-arid study area to generate a cover management factor’s equation in terms of the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index using hydrological modeling and satellite images processing. To verify the proposed equation, it was applied to the Derna catchment in Libya and compared with European and tropical ones with respect to the hydrological outputs. Statistical analysis indicates that the proposed equation determines the cover management factor more accurately than those developed for tropical or European regions, as the correlation coefficient between the cover management factor and the hydrological results was 0.71, while it was about 0.20 for the European and tropical, equations, also the degree of agreement between the proposed equation’s results and the hydrological simulation was 0.768 while it was 0.001 and 0.02 for the tropical and European equations respectively. By utilizing the newly developed equation, the soil erosion can be estimated more accurately for the semi-arid regions, and a better understanding of the relation between the vegetation cover and soil erosion can be drawn.

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Soil Erosion Modelling for Sustainable Environmental Management in Sebeya Catchment, Rwanda

Cited by 6 publications

References 28 publications

Soil erosion risk assessment and treatment priority classification: A case study on guder watersheds, Abay river basin, Oromia, Ethiopia

Soil erosion risk assessment and treatment priority classification: A case study on guder watersheds, Abay river basin, Oromia, Ethiopia

Evaluation of soil loss severity and ecological restoration approach for sustainable agriculture in the Hindu Kush, Karakoram and Himalaya region

Relation between the soil erosion cover management factor and vegetation index in semi-arid basins

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