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Soil quality indices for agricultural potentiality in shalateen area- Egypt- using remote sensing and GIS

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Last updated: 28 Dec 2024

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Agro-Ecosystem and Environment Sciences

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Shalateen is considered one of the strategic areas for the security of Egypt from the south-eastern side which requires agricultural development. The objective of this study is to evaluate the soil quality using the integration of remote sensing and GIS. Thus, geopedological soil map was generated including the required soil characteristics. Twenty-six soil profiles were selected to represent the different mapping units. Assessment of soil quality is based on three main quality indices, chemical index (CI), physical index (PI), and fertility index (FI). The results revealed that chemical quality ranges from high to low quality, where most of the study area has a moderate quality. Physical quality varies from high to moderate, where most of the study area is classified as high quality. Fertility index in the study area fell into moderate and low classes. Finally, integration of the three indices showed that the study area is classified as a moderate soil quality. These results can be utilised to plan for the agriculture development taking into consideration the limiting factors and the potential use of the entire area.

DOI

10.21608/fjard.2022.240949

Keywords

Soil Quality, Remote Sensing (RS), geographic information systems (GIS), Shalateen, Egypt

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Rehab

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Mohamed

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Soils and Water Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Fayoum University, Fayoum 63514, Egypt

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M.

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Shendi

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Soils and Water Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Fayoum University, Fayoum 63514, Egypt

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Belal

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National Authority for Remote Sensing and Space Sciences (NARSS), 1564 Alf-Maskan, Cairo, Egypt

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Mahmoud

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Abdelfattah

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Soils and Water Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Fayoum University, Fayoum 63514, Egypt

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Volume

36

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1

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34133

Issue Date

2022-01-01

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2022-06-01

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2022-01-01

Page Start

96

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109

Print ISSN

1110-7790

Online ISSN

2805-2528

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https://fjard.journals.ekb.eg/article_240949.html

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Research articles.

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1,920

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Fayoum Journal of Agricultural Research and Development

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https://fjard.journals.ekb.eg/

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Soil quality indices for agricultural potentiality in shalateen area- Egypt- using remote sensing and GIS

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23 Jan 2023