Publication Date:
2019-07-13
Description:
Formerly covered by a tropical forest, the study area was deforested in the early 40's for coffee plantation and cattle raising, which caused intense gully erosion problems. To develop a method to analyze the relationship between land use and soil erosion, visual interpretations of aerial photographs (scale 1:25.000), MSS-LANDSAT imagery (scale 1:250,000), as well as automatic interpretation of computer compatible tapes by IMAGE-100 system were carried out. From visual interpretation the following data were obtained: land use and cover tapes, slope classes, ravine frequency, and a texture sketch map. During field work, soil samples were collected for texture and X-ray analysis. The texture sketch map indicate that the areas with higher slope angles have a higher susceptibilty to the development of gullies. Also, the over carriage of pastureland, together with very friable lithologies (mainly sandstone) occuring in that area, seem to be the main factors influencing the catastrophic extension of ravines in the study site.
Keywords:
EARTH RESOURCES AND REMOTE SENSING
Type:
E81-10121
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NASA-CR-164375
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INPE-1965-RPE/276
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Intern. Symp. on Erosion and Sediment Transport Meas.; Jun 22, 1981 - Jun 25, 1981; Firenzi; Italy
Format:
application/pdf
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