Assessment soil erosion using RUSLE model and identification the most effective factor in Dekhan watershed basin of southern Kerman

Abstract

The soil is one of the most important factors of production that has a great influence on human economic and social life. The surface of the earth is generally covered by soil and other surface deposits. Soil erosion is one of the most important problems and problems we face today. Increasing exploitation and lack of proper human management of the natural environment have a great effect on the intensification of soil degradation and erosion processes. In this research, the effective parameters analysis of erosion and sediment production in Dakehah basin with a total area of 9923.2 ha in southern Kerman province was studied using the Revised Universal Soil Erosion Model (RUSLE). Data and tools used in the research include data from meteorological stations, digital elevation model (DEM), ETM 2015 satellite imagery, GIS and remote sensing (RS) It should be. By studying the effective factors in this model, which includes rainfall erosivity factor, soil erodibility factor, topographic factor, and vegetation, the purpose of this study is to estimate the annual soil erosion in the study area. The erosion rate of the basin is estimated. Accordingly, annual soil erosion in the whole study area is estimated at 67 tons per hectare per year. The results of this study show that the highest effect on the estimation of erosion, a topographic factor with the highest coefficient of explanation was 92.6 In this research, the effectiveness of RUSLE technologies of annual soil erosion is confirmed by the new model of GIS and remote sensing for quantitative estimation of soil erosion values.

Keywords

• soil erosion
• rusle
• topography
• erosion
• gis
• southern kerman