fda9bf5b-2a47-4bf4-a1b0-dc27799be998 eng Mr. Kabir Uddin ICIMOD GIS and Remote Sensing Specialist Kabir.Uddin@icimod.org 2025-07-07T10:14:22 North American Profile of ISO 19115:2003 WGS 1984 Transverse Mercator Soil loss in Nepal 1990 2019-06-26 Mr. Kabir Uddin ICIMOD GIS and Remote Sensing Specialist 977-1-5003222 Nepal Kabir.Uddin@icimod.org Land cover change is a critical driver for enhancing the soil erosion risk in Nepal. Losing of the topsoil has a direct and indirect effect on human life and livelihoods. The present study provides an assessment of the decadal land use and land cover (LULC) change and consequent changes in the distribution of soil erosion risk for the year of 1990, 2000 and 2010 for the entire country of Nepal. The study attempted to understand how different land cover types change over the three decades and how it has changed the distribution of soil erosion risks in Nepal that would help in development of soil conservation priority. The land cover maps were produced using Geographic object-based image analysis (GEOBIA) using Landsat images. Soil erosion patterns were assessed using the revised universal soil loss equation (RUSLE) with the land cover as input. The study shows that the forest cover is the most dominant land cover in Nepal that comprises about 62 hundred thousand ha. The estimated annual erosion was 129.30 million tons in 1990 and 110.53 million tons in 2010. The assessment of soil erosion dynamics presented at the national, provincial and district level. District wise analysis revealed that Gulmi, Parbat, Syangja and Tanahu district required priority for soil conservation This study aims to help fill this gap by describing a relatively simple method for estimating the spatial distribution and total value of soil erosion across the whole Nepal. This dataset has been developed by SERVIR Hindu Kush-Himalaya. SERVIR is a joint USAID-NASA project. For more information on SERVIR, visit http://www.servirglobal.net. For references, use: International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), SERVIR Hindu Kush-Himalaya. http://rds.icimod.org:8080/geonetwork/srv/eng/resources.get?uuid=fda9bf5b-2a47-4bf4-a1b0-dc27799be998&fname=Soil_erosion_map_of_Nepal_1990_s.png thumbnail png http://rds.icimod.org:8080/geonetwork/srv/eng/resources.get?uuid=fda9bf5b-2a47-4bf4-a1b0-dc27799be998&fname=Soil_erosion_map_of_Nepal_1990.png large_thumbnail png Soil Erosion Soil Loss Landsat Rulse icimod-servir servircat GEOSS THEME Geo-Group on Earth Observation Nepal secretariat@geosec.org http://www.earthobservations.org/index.shtml WWW:LINK-1.0-http--related Earth Observation Nepal HKH geossDataCore The SERVIR Project, NASA, USAID and ICIMOD make no express or implied warranty of this data as to the merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. Neither the US Government nor its contractors shall be liable for special, consequential or incidental damages attributed to this data. Users are permitted to copy, use, adapt, and redistribute SERVIR data without limitations. SERVIR encourages users to keep any adapted or redistributed versions of this data freely available for public use. Citation: Uddin, K., Abdul Matin, M., & Maharjan, S. (2018). Assessment of Land Cover Change and Its Impact on Changes in Soil Erosion Risk in Nepal. Sustainability, 10(12), 4715 100000 eng geoscientificInformation 79.98869 88.335946 26.326993 30.467731 ICIMOD Regional Database Initiative 977-1-5003222 metadata@icimod.org