Water and Energy Abstracts
  • Year: 2004
  • Volume: 14
  • Issue: 2

147. Development of an Interactive Embeddable Geographic Information System (E-GIS) for Soil Erosion Prediction

  • Author:
  • Ahmad Munir, Muh. Nurdin Abdullah

(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. 171–179).

Abstract

Erosion is a critical and dynamic aspect of any water resources project. A computer model was developed for simulating the dynamic aspects of erosion.The computer model is named E-GIS (Embeddable Geographic Information System), and is specially designed for soil erosion prediction. It consists of six sub-models. The first sub-model (BASIS DATA) is used for managing data for the model. The second sub-model (AKUISISI) deals with data acquisition. The third sub-model is RAMAL. It deals with forecasting erodibility and crop factor coefficients. The fourth sub-model is SIMULASI. Its main function is erosion simulation, and it is the core of the model. The fifth sub-model (SIG) deals with spatial erosion simulation, and the sixth sub-model (LAPORAN) handles the spatial presentation of erosion variables. The model was tested and validated using recorded data from the Jeneberang drainage basin, South Sulawesi, Indonesia.

Keywords

E-GIS, Erosion, Indonesia, Jeneberang basin, Simulation and computer model