Abstract:
Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation (RUSLE) is a standard for estimating soil loss
caused by rainfall and overland flow. The current software tool that implements this
standard is RUSLE 1.06b, which is a stand-alone DOS application. In this project, we
converted the DOS application to a Web application, which we call Web-based RUSLE
(WebRUSLE).
WebRUSLE stores the data for fields, climate, soil types, cover-managements, and
support practices in a relational database. The data stored in the database can be
accessed with Web forms. Furthermore, the user can specify the location of a field on
an interactive map so that the soil types and the area of the field can be automatically
determined. The result of the calculation is displayed on Web pages as a graph as well
as in text.
