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This research selected water soil erosion indicators (land cover, vegetation cover, slope) to assess the risk of soil erosion, ARCMAP GIS ver.9.0 environments and ERDAS ver.9.0 were used to manage and process satellite images and thematic tabular data. Landsat TM images in 2003 were used to produce land/cover maps of the study area based on visual interpreting method and derived vegetation cover maps, and the relief map at the scale of 1:50,000 to calculate the slope gradient maps. The area of water soil erosion was classified into six grades by an integration of slope gradients, land cover types, and vegetation cover fraction. All the data were integrated into a cross-tabular format to carry out the grid-based analysis of soil erosion risk. Results showed that the upper basin of Miyun Reservoir, in general, is exposed to a moderate risk of soil erosion, there is 715,848 ha of land suffered from water soil erosion in 2003, occupied 46.62% of total area, and most of the soil erosion area is on the slight and moderate risk, occupied 45.60 and 47.58% of soil erosion area, respectively.
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This work was funded by the Knowledge Innovation Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. KZCX1-YW-08-03) and The Monitoring Program of Water and Soil Conservation in Miyun Reservoir Supported by Haihe River Water Conservancy Commission, The Ministry of Water Resources, People’s Republic of China (Grant No. HX020014). Special thanks to the anonymous referees for their constructive comments on the manuscript.
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Tian, Y.C., Zhou, Y.M., Wu, B.F. et al. Risk assessment of water soil erosion in upper basin of Miyun Reservoir, Beijing, China. Environ Geol 57, 937–942 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00254-008-1376-z
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