Houay Pano (M-Tropics)

Houay Pano (M-Tropics)

Houay Pano catchment

Tropical ecosystems are impacted by the increase in human population and are associated with rapid changes in climate and land use, leading to the degradation of water and soil resources in these regions. Multiscale TROPIcal CatchmentS (M-TROPICS) observatory aims to quantify the matter balance of a range of river basins of contrasting and complementary vegetation cover and land use in Cameroon, India and Southeast Asia.

In Southeast Asia, the erosion generated by land use changes in a mountainous area is studied in 3 experimental basins under humid climate: Houay Pano (0.60 km²), North Laos, which is the most instrumented site, Huay Ma Nai (0.93 km²), North Thailand, and Dong Cao (0.47 km²), North Vietnam. The H+ database contains hydrogeophysical data from the Houay Pano catchment.

More information can be found on the M-TROPICS observatory website. Additional hydrogeophysical data are available for sites in India (Berambadi and Mule Hole) and Cameroun (Nsimi).

Houay Pano catchment: (a) Location in northern Lao PDR, (b) Altitudes (m a.s.l.) and monitoring stations, (c) Land use in 2012, and (d) Soil types. Source: https://mtropics.obs-mip.fr/natural-environment/site-laos/

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The viewer below offers a comprehensive site visualization and information on available hydrogeophysical data, including geophysical maps and cross-sections. This interface also provides details on the types, numbers, and dates of measurements, as well as precise site locations and data providers information.

To visualize the data in the Google Earth software, you can download the following KMZ file: Houay-Pano.kmz

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