I'm not sure, but i would say R is not the answer you are looking for. Soil or particle systems can be simulated with a pysical model called DEM. Google for LIGGGHTS, EDEM or PFC3D to get more information about the common simulation software. R could probably handle only a statistic approach but not a physical model of the gravel particles.

I'm not sure, but i would say R is not the answer you are looking for. Soil or particle systems can be simulated with a pysical model called DEM. Google for LIGGGHTS, EDEM or PFC3D to get more information about the common simulation software. R could probably handle only a statistic approach but not a physical model of the gravel particles.

Thank you for directing the question to me. This is not my area of specialty. Best regards

There is a 2015 paper in the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing titled Characterisation of Soil Erosion Indicators Using Hyper spectral Data From a Mediterranean Rained Cultivated Region by Thomas Schmidt, Manuel Rodríguez-Rastrero, Paula Escribano, Alicia Palacios-Orueta, Ella Ben-Dor, Antonio Plaza, Robert Milewski, Margarita Huesca, Ashley Bracken, Víctor Ticuéndez, Marta Pelayo and Sabine Chabrillat (available at http://www.umbc.edu/rssipl/people/aplaza/Papers/Journals/2015.JSTARS.Soil.pdf) which uses a couple of R packages for the spatial mapping of soil erosion. The authors might be a good place to begin.

Hi, I would suggest the following:

1) Look at EcoHydrology and related packages (SWATmodel provides an implementation of the SWAT model. See http://swat.tamu.edu/ for more information about the SWAT model.)

https://r-forge.r-project.org/R/?group_id=956 | List of all packages provided by project EcoHydrology

2) Look in the Soil Science section of the CRAN Environmetrics Task View

https://cloud.r-project.org/web/views/Environmetrics.html | Soil Science section (search for it)

3) Check out the R-SWAT-FME package

http://lca.usgs.gov/lca/nasabioenergy/links.php | R-SWAT-FME

4) Try aqp | https://cloud.r-project.org/web/packages/aqp/index.html

5) Try apsimr | https://cloud.r-project.org/web/packages/apsimr/index.html (agricultural-based systems)

6) Search for key terms at https://www.rdocumentation.org | RDocumentation

Thank you.

Irucka Embry, E.I.T.

https://www.rdocumentation.org

https://cloud.r-project.org/web/packages/apsimr/index.html

https://cloud.r-project.org/web/packages/aqp/index.html

http://lca.usgs.gov/lca/nasabioenergy/links.php

https://cloud.r-project.org/web/views/Environmetrics.html

https://r-forge.r-project.org/R/?group_id=956

Hi, I ran across this post again today and I wanted to share the following 2 resources in addition to what I have previously shared:

https://envirometrix.github.io/PredictiveSoilMapping/

Predictive Soil Mapping with R by Tomislav Hengl

https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/DMMF/

DMMF: Daily Based Morgan-Morgan-Finney (DMMF) Soil Erosion Model

Thank you.

Irucka

Thanks for sharing irucka I was looking for such package few months back.

Ya, you can try this https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364815214001145

Distributed sediment yield modelling: Importance of initial sediment ...

http://www.hydrology.nl/ihppublications/251-modelling-erosion-sediment-transport-and-sediment-yield.html

Modelling erosion, sediment transport and sediment yield ...

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/hyp.6003

Sediment yield prediction and modelling - Wiley Online Library

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/269846034_Runoff_and_sediment_yield_modeling_in_a_medium-size_mediterranean_watershed

(PDF) Runoff and sediment yield modeling in a medium-size ...

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10333-009-0149-y

Sediment yield modelling of an agricultural watershed using MUSLE ...

http://www.gwsp.org/fileadmin/downloads/Publications/Bhunya__2010_-_A_simple_model_of_sediment_yield.pdf

A Simple Conceptual Model of Sediment Yield - GWSP

https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/rwqcb6/water_issues/programs/swamp/docs/2_sedtmdl_comparisons.pdf

Comparison of Sediment Load Models in Predicting Sediment ...

http://www.wrc.org.za/Knowledge%20Hub%20Documents/Research%20Documents/2243-1-15.pdf

Sediment yield modelling in the Mzimvubu River Catchment - Water ...

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09715010.2008.10514895

SOIL EROSION AND SEDIMENT YIELD MODELLING: ISH Journal ...

https://res.mdpi.com/sustainability/sustainability-08-01133/article_deploy/sustainability-08-01133.pdf?filename=&attachment=1

Simulation of Sediment Yield in a Semi-Arid River ... - Versione online

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