Evaluation of Different Methods for Soil Classifications by Using Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing

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Article 10, Volume 10, Issue 3 - Serial Number 27, October 2012, Pages 11-18

Document Type: Research Article

DOI: 10.22067/gsc.v10i3.17807

Authors

S. H Sanaeinejad^* ; A Astaraei; M Ghaemi; P Mirhoseini; H Zareh

Abstract

Soil salinity is an important factor that affects plant growth and reduces production of plantat different growth stages Remote sensing technology and GIS have a great potential for monitoring dynamic soil processes such as salinity. In the present study the efficiency of remote sensing technology and its integration with GIS was examined to estimate soil salinity for Neyshabour basin. Different classification methods for soil salinity were also investigated. We used 6 bands of LandSat ETM+ for this study. Classification results obtained from applying mathematical models for the images were compared with different band combinations results. The area of saline and non saline soil classes were identified in the study area based on the both methods and also based on the combination of the two methods. The results showed that the best method for soil classification was using of the two methods in the first stage to separate two classes of saline and non saline soils and then classifying the non saline soils in the second stage. As the variation in the numerical values of the image for different soil salinity in the study area was small, it was concluded that there is a limit potential of LandSat ETM+ images for identifying and classification of soil salinity in such an area.

Keywords

Sensing; Image processing; Image classification; Soil salinity; LandSat ETM+; GIS