I am working on Suitability of Fractional Erosion Collecting Devices and Soil Loss under Vertiver Grass Alleys, it would be of interest as this forms part of my research work
Chapter Impact of Rainfall Microstructure on Erosivity and Splash So...
Caution. A stick inserted in the ground meaures not only the effects of soil splash but also the effects of (a) soil slumping (e.g. re-compaction of tilled soil by rainfall), and (b) soil wash (i.e. removal of soil by surface flow of runoff water as opposed to removal of soil by splash).
At the University of Ibadan we used steel rods to measure drop in soil surface level (due to splash + slumping + surface wash), and we used filter funnels a few mm above the soil surface to compare soil splash amongst different treatments. I can provide more information and an article on our experiments if you are interested.
Thank you Boris & Vine. Dear Vine (Great UIte), it might interest you to know that this work is UI based, but it is conducted on acid sand. Please i welcomed every input & articles
I also think pins are too inaccurate. Cheat are splash-cups and splash traps.
Geißler, C., Kühn, P., Böhnke, M., Bruelheide, H., Shi, X., Scholten, T. (2012): Measuring splash erosion potential under vegetation using sand-filled splash cups. Catena 91, 85-93. doi:10.1016/j.catena.2010.10.009
you could fill in your soil material into them...
Some ideas about splash traps are found (i think so) here: DESIR, G. (1993) Erosion processes on gypsiferous slopes (Mediana de Aragón). En: GUTIERREZ, M.; SANCHO, C. y BENITO, G. (Eds.) Second European Intensive Course on Applied Geomorphology: Arid Regions. 193-197, Zaragoza.
Another idea could be rainfall simulations for comparision of soil types and surfaces:
Iserloh, T., W. Fister, M. Seeger, H. Willger, and J. B. Ries (2012), A small portable rainfall simulator for reproducible experiments on soil erosion, Soil and Tillage Research, 124(0), 131–137, doi:10.1016/j.still.2012.05.016.
there will be soon a special issue in Zeitschrift für Geomorphologie devoted entirely to small scale field rainfall simulations.
@Bita in your above info.meaning of last lines .... rain fall simulator no? which always tested for different slopes and sol type with artificial rain intensity