Modelling Land Susceptibility to Wind Erosion Sensitivity (LaSWE)
Fenta et al. (2020) modified RWEQ to compute the Index of Land Susceptibility to Wind Erosion (ILSWE) at a regional scale. The fuzzified factors namely Climate Erosivity, Erodible Fraction, Soil Crust, Vegetation Sensitivity and Surface Roughness are intergrated in a multiplication logic as shown in the equation below.
Where * CE Climatic Erosivity Factor * EF Erodibility Factor Factor * SC Soil Crust Factor * VC Fractional Vegetation Cover Factor * K Soil Roughness Factor
The flow chart that summarises the methodology is as illustrated below.
Users can follow a manual to compute the final index (LaSWE) using QGIS plugin This is the Wind Erosion manual and QGIS Plugin is here.
The user can download the plugin, install as illustrated in the manual, and follow the manual to compute all the factors.
