Progress Report: Visualization of Sheet and Rill Erosion on US Cropland

Abstract

National Resource Inventory (NRI) is a longitudinal survey which monitors national resources on non-federal US land. It provides annual national and state-level estimates of average water erosion on cropland. Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) did some primitive attempt to visualize sheet and rill erosion rates on US cropland every 5 years. Their maps represent a surface model based on a neighbor interpolation of all NRI sample sites. We'd like to improve on their work by producing annual maps with a predictive model based on data from NRI Pointgen, USGS Land Cover, and National Cooperative Soil Survey. The project is in progress and I'll show some of our experimental results.

Date
Feb 13, 2019 12:10 PM — 1:00 PM
Location
Ames, Iowa
Annie Lyu
Annie Lyu
Principal Data Scientist

rstats, dataviz, she/her