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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Dec 6.
Published in final edited form as: Sci Total Environ. 2020 Jul 17;745:140972. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.140972

Table 1.

RUSLE factors and data sources

Factor Input data sources
R PRISM Climate Group precipitation (Daly and Taylor, 2002)
K SSURGO/STATSGO2
LS USGS 3D Elevation Program
C MODIS NDVI; 2011 National Land Cover Database (NLCD)
P Not applicable
SDR USGS 3D Elevation Program; National Hydrography Dataset Plus Version 2 (NHDPlusV2)