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Desertification Indicator System for Mediterranean Europe
 

Expert system for evaluating the Environmental Sensitivity Index (ESI) of a local area
ESI Version date: 16 January 2005

Author:  Agostino Ferrara, University of Basilicata - Italy <ferrara@unibas.it>

Environmental sensitivity is a composite index which can be used to gain an understanding of factors causing desertification risk within a land unit.
The diagram shows which indicators are used to calculate it

        











 
Complete the table and the System will analyse the Environmental Sensitivity to desertification of your local area
Vegetation           

Climate        

 
 Vegetation type 
  

 Mean annual rainfall

 Plant cover    Slope aspect
Soil      Aridity index

 Soil Depth

   Management  
 Slope Gradient
 

 Land use intensity

 Texture

   Policy enforcement
 Parent Material
      
 Drainage
      

 Rock Fragments

    
 

  Quality class Critical factors, %  Quality score
       
  Vegetation quality         
  Soil quality         
  Climate quality         
  Management quality         
  Sensitivity class  Sensitivity index   Sensitivity score  
       
  ES Index to desertification           
 





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