Soil Erosion and Land Degradation in Rural Environment: A Preliminary GIS and Remote-Sensed Approach

Cillis, Giuseppe; Nolè, Gabriele; Lanorte, Antonio; Santarsiero, Valentina; Tucci, Biagio; Scorza, Francesco; Murgante, Beniamino

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-86979-3_48

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“…Although the estimated rate of soil erosion has not been validated, the range of average soil erosion rates estimated by this study is under the range of previous field-measured soil erosion rates in different parts of Nepal (Gardner et al, 2003;Nakarmi et al, 1999). Abandonment of marginal areas of agricultural land is because of the past degradation of marginal land and farmers abandoned marginal areas first and vegetation regeneration on the abandoned land protecting land surface by vegetation cover (Cillis et al, 2021). Thus, soil erosion has decreased more in marginal areas like high-altitude regions, and steeper slopes.…”

Section: Amount Of Soil Lossmentioning

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Agricultural land abandonment and its impact on soil erosion in the Madi Watershed, Gandaki Province, Nepal

Sitaula,

Sharma,

Chidi

2024

Geog. J. Nepal

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Agricultural land abandonment is the crucial issue of land use /land cover change in many parts of the world and it is directly related to soil erosion in the mountain areas. Nepal has also faced heavy agricultural land abandonment from the mountain regions in the last two decades. This study is concerned with agricultural land abandonment and its impact on soil erosion in the Madi Watershed, Gandaki Province of Nepal. This study used high-resolution aerial photography and Google Earth images to map cultivated land and its abandonment in 1995 and 2020. The Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation (RUSLE) model has been used to estimate soil erosion. Studies revealed that more than 40% of the agricultural land was abandoned from 1995 to 2020 and there is higher spatial variability of abandonment intensity. High altitude and steeper slope areas have a higher intensity of abandonment than in lower altitude and lower slope gradients. There is a significant impact of abandonment of agricultural land on reducing soil erosion from 1995 to 2020. The average rate of soil erosion was quite high in 1995 but decreased to 51.5 percent in 2020. There are higher rates of reduction in soil erosion at higher altitudes and marginal lands like steeper slopes and the areas having lower solar radiation because of the higher proportion of agricultural land abandonment. Thus, it can be concluded that agricultural land abandonment during the last 25 years significantly impacts soil erosion control in the study area.

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Section: Amount Of Soil Lossmentioning

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Agricultural land abandonment and its impact on soil erosion in the Madi Watershed, Gandaki Province, Nepal

Sitaula,

Sharma,

Chidi

2024

Geog. J. Nepal

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“…The relationships between spatial dynamics related to land use change and erosion were investigated. In addition, it was possible to estimate any existing connections between the age of agricultural abandonment of arable land and current erosion rates [15,16,24].…”

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“…[10,11]. These degradation processes involve different types of environmental risks such as hydrogeological instability, soil erosion, salinization, loss of organic matter [7,[12][13][14][15].…”

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Land Use Change Evaluation in an Open-Source GIS Environment: A Case Study of the Basilicata Region (Southern Italy)

Santarsiero

Lanorte²,

Nolè³

et al. 2022

Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2022

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Soil is an essential, non-renewable natural resource that provides vital goods and services for ecosystems, human life, and the production of crops and fuels. The phenomena of land consumption and land use change have a considerable impact on ecosystems. In addition, the poor and confusing regulatory framework contributes to the spread of processes related to soil sealing, such as the wild installation of wind farms, resulting in an increasing fragmentation of the territory with related phenomena of soil degradation.The research work has proposed an innovative methodological approach on issues related to land consumption and land use change, based on a robust territorial and landscape study. The whole research has been focused on the use and integration between geographic information systems and remote sensing techniques for the study of the territory. The increasing availability of cartographic data and the evolution of satellite data is the basis of a system that provides a continuous phase of analysis of the phenomenon. The work defines the picture of the phenomenon in Basilicata, investigating various aspects of land consumption, going into specific detail of some sample areas. The objective was the application of remote sensing techniques and change detection analysis for the qualitative and quantitative estimation of land take related to degradation phenomena. The methodologies and data developed in this work, could be the basis for the creation of a regional database on soil consumption, which could be made up of a robust infrastructure of spatial data and could provide a service and a system of data collection and collect data and reports from citizens, companies, institutions, research organizations, would support public bodies in the definition of policies, strategies and actions aimed at the containment of the phenomenon and would implement, in addition, measures of limitation, prevention, monitoring and mitigation of the same.

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“…Land degradation is a complex phenomenon that describes the degradation of soil quality due to which agricultural land in particular is unproductive as a consequence of the loss of ability to produce crops and biomass caused by multiple factors that limit or inhibit the productive, regulatory and utilitarian functions as well as eco-system services that a natural soil can offer can offer [1][2][3][4]. The causes are diverse, including some agricultural practices that have particularly influenced the degradation process.…”

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“…Short and intense rainfall affects soils without vegetation cover, the resulting runoff removes the surface layer rich in organic matter from the soil. Arid, semi-arid and subhumid areas with sunny exposures are generally more at risk because they are often affected by this type of rainfall that triggers erosion processes [3,4].…”

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Towards Quantifying Rural Environment Soil Erosion: RUSLE Model and Remote Sensing Based Approach in Basilicata (Southern Italy)

Santarsiero

Nolè

Lanorte

et al. 2022

Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems

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The series "Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems" publishes the latest developments in Networks and Systems-quickly, informally and with high quality. Original research reported in proceedings and post-proceedings represents the core of LNNS.Volumes published in LNNS embrace all aspects and subfields of, as well as new challenges in, Networks and Systems.The series contains proceedings and edited volumes in systems and networks, spanning the areas of Cyber-

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Soil Erosion and Land Degradation in Rural Environment: A Preliminary GIS and Remote-Sensed Approach

Cited by 7 publications

References 21 publications

Agricultural land abandonment and its impact on soil erosion in the Madi Watershed, Gandaki Province, Nepal

Agricultural land abandonment and its impact on soil erosion in the Madi Watershed, Gandaki Province, Nepal

Land Use Change Evaluation in an Open-Source GIS Environment: A Case Study of the Basilicata Region (Southern Italy)

Towards Quantifying Rural Environment Soil Erosion: RUSLE Model and Remote Sensing Based Approach in Basilicata (Southern Italy)

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