Specifications and Product Details:

This technology is designed to monitor the risk of accelerated soil erosion and for selecting the optimal erosion control measures at the level of detailed specific agricultural fields.

Advantages

- A detailed account of the differentiation of water flow on the earth’s surface;

- Possibility of selecting appropriate soil conservation measures against erosion;

- Easy to use;

- Reliability of results is guaranteed even under typical conditions of information uncertainty.

Potential avenues of integration

Market and sell services on soil protection project appraisal systems in the form of a mapping software, that provide:

- Electronic topographic maps with a scale of 1:10,000, tied to a specific map projection in MapInfo;

- Project land with a detailed legend;

- Crop rotation scheme;

- Parameters of grooves and ridges (width and depth);

- GPS vertex of erosion furrows, which may arise in target areas after heavy rain fall.

Main Features

The erosion risk assessment and anti-erosion zoning are evaluated and depicted on erosion-safe maps that illustrate secure land for crops. The effect is achieved through the proper distribution of crops on the land. Land is deemed erosion-safe if its index is less than 1.0.

Assessment is carried out by an erosion hazard index - the ratio of the prospective rate of water flow to the eroding speed. The calculation of this index does not require long-term observations of soil erosion. The model parameters are easily calibrated on the spot.

Our technology is especially relevant to vineyards, and row crop cultivation