Mainguet M. & Dumay F., 2011. Fighting wind erosion. one aspect of the combat against desertification. Les dossiers thématiques du CSFD. N°3. January 2011. CSFD/Agropolis International, Montpellier, France. 44 pp.
Wind erosion—alone or combined with other...
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Mainguet M. & Dumay F., 2011. Fighting wind erosion. one aspect of the combat against desertification. Les dossiers thématiques du CSFD. N°3. January 2011. CSFD/Agropolis International, Montpellier, France. 44 pp.
Wind erosion—alone or combined with other physical or socioeconomic causes—is a
mechanism that may induce desertification, i.e. severe or irreversible degradation of
water and soil resources. Now that this phenomenon is better understood, the model
of the 1970s based on three distinct stages (causes, mechanisms, consequences) has
been discarded, in view of the many feedbacks and insidious links generated by wind
erosion. Timely detection of wind erosion onset thresholds with remote sensing tools
(satellite images and aerial photographs), and spatial delimitation and positioning of
the phenomena observed are essential to be able to efficiently combat the damaging
effects of wind erosion. No field operations can be effective without prior knowledge of
wind erosion mechanisms a
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