Methodology update for determination of the erosion coefficient(Z)

Abstract

The research and mapping the intensity of mechanical water erosion that have begun with the empirical methodology of S. Gavrilović during the mid-twentieth century last, by various intensity, until the present time. A many decades work on the research of these issues pointed to some shortcomings of the existing methodology, and thus the need for its innovation. In this sense, R. Lazarević made certain adjustments of the empirical methodology of S. Gavrilović by changing the tables for determination of the coefficients Φ, X and Y, that is, the tables for determining the mean erosion coefficient (Z). The main objective of this paper is to update the existing methodology for determining the erosion coefficient (Z) with the empirical methodology of S. Gavrilović and amendments made by R. Lazarević (1985), but also with better adjustments to the information technologies and the needs of modern society. The proposed procedure, that is, the model to determine the erosion coefficient (Z) in this paper is the result of ten years of scientific research and project work in mapping the intensity of mechanical water erosion and its modeling using various models of erosion in the Republic of Srpska and Serbia. By analyzing the correlation of results obtained by regression models and results obtained during the mapping of erosion on the territory of the Republic of Srpska, a high degree of correlation (R² = 0.9963) was established, which is essentially a good assessment of the proposed models.

Keywords

• soil erosion
• erosion mapping
• erosion coefficient (Z)
• type of erosion coefficient (Φ)
• regression models