Soil salinity mapping by remote sensing south of Urmia Lake, Iran

• Published in: Geoderma Regional Vol. 22; p. e00317
• Main Authors: Delavar, Mohammad Amir, Naderi, Arman, Ghorbani, Yousef, Mehrpouyan, Ahmad, Bakhshi, Ali
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier B.V 01.09.2020
• Subjects: algorithms; halophytes; Iran; lakes; Middle East; Mineral Processing; Mineralteknik; normalized difference vegetation index; Puffy soil; remote sensing; roughness; salinity; Salinity ratio index; satellites; sodium; soil salinity; Solonchaks; Supervised classification; time series analysis; Middle East; Iran; Salinity ratio index; Solonchaks; Puffy soil; Supervised classification

Urmia Lake is a shallow terminal Lake located in northwest Iran and it is one of the largest permanent Lakes in the Middle East. In this study, the changes in soil salinity at Urmia Lake were investigated using satellite images and the oldest salinity map of the area over a period of 45 years from 1...