Quantifying Soil Erosion in Drought-Impacted Central Odisha, India, through Geospatial Mapping with RUSLE

<table class="table-group" id="tab1"><tr><td><table class="table"><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="3"><hr/></td></tr><tr class="thead"><td class="align_left">Input data</td><td class="align_center">Scale</td><td class="align_center">Uses</td></tr><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="3"><hr/></td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Rainfall, temp. (Source: POWER NASA)</td><td class="align_center">1990–2021</td><td class="align_center">Rainfall distribution map</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Soil data (Source: Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO))</td><td class="align_center">1 : 25000</td><td class="align_center">Soil textural map</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Landsat-9 (Source: United States Geological Survey (USGS), 2021)</td><td class="align_center">30 m spatial resolution</td><td class="align_center">Land use/land cover mapping</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">DEM (Source: United States Geological Survey (USGS), 2021)</td><td class="align_center">30 m spatial resolution</td><td class="align_center">Slope map and flow accumulation map</td></tr><tr class="table-tr"><td colspan="3"><hr class="tbody-hr"/></td></tr></table></td></tr></table>

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Table 1: Quantifying Soil Erosion in Drought-Impacted Central Odisha, India, through Geospatial Mapping with RUSLE 