erosionSuit: Assessing erosion risk for certain crops and trees

In soilassessment: Soil Health Assessment Models for Assessing Soil Conditions and Suitability

Assessing erosion risk for certain crops and trees

Description

This function determines risk classes for erosion tolerance for selected agricultural crops and forest trees

Usage

erosionSuit(value, crop)

Arguments

value	Input erosion risk in ton/ha.
crop	The crop of interest for which erosion risk class is sought.

Details

The input value can be map or just a numerical entry of erosion risk in g/cm3

Value

The output is erosion risk class for the crop. The output is integer value for suitability class: 1- high; 2 - moderate; 3 - low; 4 - very low

Note

Should the input value be raster map, then the output will also be a raster map of erosion risk class for the crop of interest

Author(s)

Christian Thine Omuto

References

Sys, C., Van Ranst, E., Debaveye, J. and Beerneaert, F.1993. Land evaluation: Part III: Crop requirements. Development Cooperation, Belgium.

Naidu, L.G.K., Ramamurthy, V., Challa O., Hegde, R. and Krishnan, P. 2006. Manual, Soil-site Suitability Criteria for Major Crops, National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning, ICAR, Nagpur, India

FAO Crop Suitability Requirements: http://ecocrop.fao.org/ecocrop/srv/en/home

See Also

suitability, PHSuit, fertilitySuit

Examples

erosionSuit(1.78,"cotton")

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