Morphological Characteristics of the Gully Head in Dry-hot Valley Based on the RTK-GPS Technology
Morphological Characteristics of the Gully Head in Dry-hot Valley Based on the RTK-GPS Technology
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2014
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L. Jiaji
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L. Jiaji
The Dry-hot Valley of Jinsha River has lots of gullies,and it suffers serious soil erosion. To carry out the study of gully head,especially its morphological characteristics,is the premise and foundation of further study on gully erosion. In this paper,the high precision real-time kinematical GPS( RTK-GPS) was used to measure the gully morphology in Yuanmou Dry-hot Valley,and the morphological parameters of 36 gully heads were obtained.Furthermore,this paper discussed the morphological characteristic differences of different type of active gully head,and analyzed the relationship between the vegetation coverage of catchments area gully bed and morphological characteristics separately. The results showed that:( 1) Among different active gully head types,both its backward step difference and gully bed slope difference are most significant,they could be regarded as the main index of distinguishing gully head activity type; the difference of furrow bank slope and the difference of width-depth ratio are more significant,they could also attribute the gully head activity to some extent.( 2) There was a strong correlation between the gully bed vegetation coverage and the morphological parameters,indicating that the gully bed vegetation coverage could serve as the alternative indicator of morphological parameters. Among gully heads that were in the same activity type,its backward step and gully bed slope had a significant negative correlation with the gully bed vegetation coverage,indicating that when the gully bed vegetation coverage increase( or decrease),the backward step and gully bed slope values showed a decrease( or increase) trend.( 3) The correlation between catchments vegetation coverage and morphological parameters was not significant,indicating that catchments vegetation coverage made a limited contribution to the development of gully head.