Estimating potential soil sheet Erosion in a Brazilian semiarid county using USLE, GIS, and remote sensing data.

The present study aimed to estimate soil erosion in Machados County, Brazil. Rainfall erosivity was calculated using monthly and annual precipitation averages over a 30-year interval, soil erodibility was obtained with a granularity-based equation, and topography and land cover were obtained from DEM data and Sentinel - 2B imagery, respectively. A GIS interface was used to spatialize parameter results and for topography and land cover analysis.