GPS Helps Locate Soil Erosion Pathways.
Researchers use terrain attributes to identify ephemeral gully erosion in agricultural fields.Tom Mueller, associate professor in the University of Kentucky (UK), College of Agriculture, guided Adam Pike, UK graduate student, on a project that examined whether reliable prediction models could be created to identify eroded waterways from digital terrain information such as landscape curvature and estimates of water flow from upslope areas. Read more