Monthly soil erosion risk maps for Swiss permanent grassland, with average soil loss in tons/(ha*month), October

Monthly soil erosion risk maps for Swiss permanent grassland with a spatial resolution of 100m. The maps show the average soil loss in tons per hectare and month. Shades of green, yellow and red mean a low, average and high risk of erosion, respectively.The monthly soil erosion risk maps were calculated using the Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation (RUSLE). For this RUSLE application, the monthly dynamic of the rainfall erosivity factor (R-factor) and cover and management factor (C-factor) was considered as follows: A(month)= R(month)*K*C(month)*L*S*P where A(month) is the soil loss in tons per hectare and month and R(month) and C(month) are the monthly R-factor (MJ mm ha⁻¹ h⁻¹ month⁻¹) and C-factor (dimensionless). The other erosion factors are soil erodibility (K-factor), slope length (L-factor), slope steepness (S-factor) and support practices (P-factor). The RUSLE factors were tailored to the specific environmental conditions of Swiss permanent grassland. The P-factor was included in the calculation as a constant with value 1 due to a lack of spatial information on grazing management and its effect on soil erosion.

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Alternate title

Erosion risk permanent grassland Oct.

Date (Creation)
2019-04-01
Date (Revision)
2019-06-27
Identifier
ch.bafu.erosion-gruenland_bodenabtrag_okt

Status
Completed
Spatial representation type
Grid

Spatial resolution

Equivalent scale

Denominator
25000
Topic category
  • F Geoscientific information

Extent

Extent

Description

Switzerland

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Maintenance and update frequency
As needed
Duration of Conservation
100
Appraisal of Archival Value
A
Reason for Archiving Value
Evidence of business practice
Comment on Archival Value

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Title

GeoTIFF (GEOTIFF)

Date
GEMET

  • erosion

  • erosion control

  • soil erosion

  • soil

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

  • Human health and safety

  • Atmospheric conditions

geocat.ch

  • FSDI Federal Spatial Data Infrastructure

geocat.ch

  • Conservation and archiving planning AAP - Confederation

  • e-geo.ch

  • opendata.swiss

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Opendata OPEN: Open use.

Associated resource

Title

Monthly soil erosion risk maps for Swiss permanent grassland

Association Type
Reference to a master resource of which this one is a part
Language
Deutsch
Subtopic Category
F2 Soils
Basic Geodata
false
Basic Geodata Legal Level
Federal
Distribution format

  • ESRI Personal Geodatabase (Personal-GDB)

  • ESRI File Geodatabase FileGDB (GDB)

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WMS-FSDI service, layer "Erosion risk permanent grassland Oct."

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WMTS-FSDI service, layer "Erosion risk permanent grassland Oct."

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Monthly RUSLE soil erosion risk of Swiss grasslands

Link to description

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BAFU Website

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Fachportal BAFU

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Reference system identifier
CH1903_LV03

Metadata

Metadata identifier
256be392-6fa9-4595-b0a3-9390c039bb80

Language
Deutsch
Character encoding
UTF8
Language
Français
Character encoding
UTF8
Language
Italiano
Character encoding
UTF8
Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8
Language
Rumantsch
Character encoding
UTF8

Distributor

Federal Office for the Environment - BAFU Boden und Biotechnologie (Soil and Biotechnology Division)
Bern
3003
CH
https://www.bafu.admin.ch/en/soil-and-biotechnology-division

Type of resource

Resource scope
Dataset
Metadata linkage

https://www.geocat.ch/geonetwork/srv/api/records/256be392-6fa9-4595-b0a3-9390c039bb80

Date info (Creation)
2019-09-15T19:57:07Z
Date info (Revision)
2026-04-13T09:38:25.722532Z

Metadata standard

Title

eCH-0271

 
 

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Keywords

GEMET

erosion erosion control soil soil erosion
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Atmospheric conditions Human health and safety
geocat.ch

Conservation and archiving planning AAP - Confederation FSDI Federal Spatial Data Infrastructure e-geo.ch opendata.swiss


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