(Erosion Prediction in Ungauged Basins: Integrating Methods and Techniques (Proceedings of Symposium HS01 held during IUGG2003 at Sapporo, July 2003), IAHS Publication No. 279, 2003, pp. 224–233).
The Gavrilovic method has been widely used for the prediction of soil erosion and sediment yield on the basin scale in Slovenia and Croatia in the last 30 years. The method has been developed for management practices in erosion protection, mainly in forest management and torrent control. The Gavrilovic method involves a parametric distributed model, and is used for predicting annual soil erosion rates and annual sediment yield. It uses empirical coefficients (erodibility coefficient, protection coefficient, erosion coefficient) and a matrix of physical characteristics of basin sub units. To evaluate its applicability we analysed erosional processes in two neighbouring drainage basins, the Dragonja River basin in Slovenia and the Botonega River basin in Croatia. The results of this study show that GIS techniques can be successfully incorporated into the Gavrilovic method.
Erosion, Sediment yield, Dragonja river, Botonega river, Gavrilovic
