Datasets of past two decades of water and wind erosion in Australia published

Zhang, M., Viscarra Rossel, R. A., Zhu, Q., Leys, J., Gray, J. M., Yu, Q., & Yang, X. (2022). Dynamic modelling of water and wind erosion in Australia over the past two decades. Remote Sensing, 14(21), 5437.

We applied the Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation (RUSLE) and the Revised Wind Erosion Equation (RWEQ) to simulate water and wind erosion dynamics.
With the emerging earth observation big data, we estimated the monthly and annual water erosion (with a resolution of 90 m) and wind erosion (at 1 km) from 2001 to 2020.
We evaluated the performance of three gridded precipitation products (SILO, GPM, and TRMM) for monthly rainfall erosivity estimation using ground-based rainfall.
For model validation, water erosion products were compared with existing products and wind erosion results were verified with observations.
The datasets we developed are particularly useful for identifying finer-scale erosion dynamics, where more sustainable land management practices should be encouraged.

Erosion Dataset

The dataset generated in this research project is available at Zenodo. It contains spatiotemporal data encompassing soil erosion, vegetation cover, RUSLE factors. The dataset can be accessed and downloaded using the following link: Dataset at Zenodo