Beta
39787

Soil Suitability Assessment Using MicroLEIS Model: A Case Study in Wadi El Heriga, North Western Coast Zone, Egypt.

Article

Last updated: 01 Jan 2025

Subjects

-

Tags

-

Abstract

T he aim of this work was to investigate land capability and soil suitability of Wadi El Heriga, north western coast zone (NWCZ) of Egypt using the Microcomputer Land Elevation Information system (MicroLEIS).To achieve this objective,a digital elevation model (DEM) and Landsat 8 image were usedto extract the landform units of the investigated area. Eighteen soil profiles were dug to represent different landforms.Soil samples were collected and prepared for laboratory analysis. The correlation between landforms and soil data was carried out and then the soil map was compiled using Arc-GIS 10.3. Results showed that the investigated area include five landforms, i. e.,peneplain, foot slope, back slope, tablelandand undulating. The main sub great groups of the investigated soils are TypicHaplocalcids, TypicTorripasamments and TypicTorriorthents with the TypicTorripasammentswas the most common one. The investigated soils were categorized into three capability classes; (S2) good (50%), (S3) moderate (45.5%) and (N) marginal (4.5%).Rustles of soil suitability showed that about 20% of the studied area is suitable (S2) for fruit crops (olive, peach and citrus). About 25% of the area is suitable (S2) for watermelon, alfalfa, sugar beet, sunflower, cotton and soybean. Nearly, 49, 37 and 44% of the area is moderately suitable (S3) for wheat, maize and potato, respectively. The most limiting factors for crop cultivation are texture, soil depth, drainage and excess of CaCO3 content.

DOI

10.21608/ejss.2019.12598.1272

Keywords

Suitability, MicroLEIS, Almagra Model, Wadi Heriga, Egypt

Authors

First Name

Ibraheem

Last Name

Yousif

MiddleName

Atya Hussien

Affiliation

Soil Science Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Cairo University

Email

ibraheemyousif@agr.cu.edu.eg

City

Giza

Orcid

0000-0003-2001-6264

Volume

59

Article Issue

3

Related Issue

7377

Issue Date

2019-09-01

Receive Date

2019-05-08

Publish Date

2019-09-01

Page Start

209

Page End

221

Print ISSN

0302-6701

Online ISSN

2357-0369

Link

https://ejss.journals.ekb.eg/article_39787.html

Detail API

https://ejss.journals.ekb.eg/service?article_code=39787

Order

1

Type

Original Article

Type Code

19

Publication Type

Journal

Publication Title

Egyptian Journal of Soil Science

Publication Link

https://ejss.journals.ekb.eg/

MainTitle

Soil Suitability Assessment Using MicroLEIS Model: A Case Study in Wadi El Heriga, North Western Coast Zone, Egypt.

Details

Type

Article

Created At

22 Jan 2023