Erosion prerequisites

Calculates and writes capped slopes, L- and RUSLE S-factors (equations for summer conditions and slopes \(\geq\) 15 ft) to disk.

# S4 method for class 'RPhosFate'
erosionPrerequisites(x)

Arguments

x

An S4 RPhosFate river catchment object.

Value

An S4 RPhosFate river catchment object and side effects in the form of raster files.

References

Desmet, P.J.J., Govers, G., 1996. A GIS procedure for automatically calculating the USLE LS factor on topographically complex landscape units. Journal of Soil and Water Conservation 51, 427–433.

Renard, K.G., Foster, G.R., Weesies, G.A., McCool, D.K., Yoder, D.C., 1997. Predicting soil erosion by water: a guide to conservation planning with the Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation (RUSLE), Agriculture Handbook. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

See also

firstRun, subsequentRun

Examples

# \donttest{
# temporary demonstration project copy
cv_dir <- demoProject()
#> Warning: A folder called "demoProject" already exists and is left as is.
# load temporary demonstration project
x <- RPhosFate(
  cv_dir = cv_dir,
  ls_ini = TRUE
)

x <- erosionPrerequisites(x)# }