PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Daniel Yoder
AU  - Joel Lown
TI  - The future of RUSLE: Inside the new Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation
DP  - 1995 Sep 01
TA  - Journal of Soil and Water Conservation
PG  - 484--489
VI  - 50
IP  - 5
4099  - http://www.jswconline.org/content/50/5/484.short
4100  - http://www.jswconline.org/content/50/5/484.full
AB  - The Universal Soil Loss Equation (USLE) has been the tool of choice for erosion prediction and conservation planning, but is being replaced by a more accurate and flexible USDA-ARS Revised USLE (RUSLE). This technology is available as RUSLE 1.04 software from the Soil and Water Conservation Society. RUSLE 1.04 has weaknesses, primarily related to its USLE-like structure. A new version (RUSLE 2) corrects these and provides a friendlier state-of-the-art interface. This allows better erosion science, permits faster calculations, and lets users with diferent languages and measurement units share billslope descriptions. A first release is planned for mid-1996.