Dimensionality-Transformed Remote Sensing Data Application to Map Soil Salinization at Lowlands of the Syr Darya River
Samarkhanov K. Abuduwaili J. Samat A. Ge Y. Liu W. Ma L. Smanov Z. Adamin G. Yershibul A. Sadykov Z.
December 2022MDPI
Sustainability (Switzerland)
2022#14Issue 24
The problem of saving soil resources and their reclamation measures under current climate change conditions attracts the world community’s close attention. It is relevant in the Syr Darya River’s lowlands, where the secondary soil salinization processes have intensified. The demand for robust methods to assess soil salinity is high, and the primary purpose of this study was to develop a quantitative analysis method for soil salinity estimation. We found a correspondence between the sum of salts in a topsoil layer to the Landsat 8 data in the Tasseled cap transformation of the image values. After testing several methods, we built a prediction model. The K-nearest neighborhood (KNN) model with a coefficient of determination equal to 0.96 using selected predictors proved to be the most appropriate for soil salinity assessment. We also performed a quantitative assessment of soil salinity. A significant increase in a salt-affected area and the mean soil sum expressing an intensification of secondary soil salinization from 2018 to 2021 was found. The increasing temperature values, decreasing soil moisture, and agricultural use affect the extension of salt-affected ground areas in the study area. Thus, the soil moisture trend in the Qazaly irrigation zone is negative and declining, with the highest peaks in early spring. The maximum temperature has a mean value of 15.6 °C (minimum = −15.1 °C, maximum = 37.4 °C) with an increasing trend. These parameters are evidence of climate change that also affects soil salinization. PCA transformation of the Landsat-8 satellite images helped to remove redundant spectral information from multiband datasets and map soil salinity more precisely. This approach simultaneously extends mapping opportunities involving visible and invisible bands and results in a smaller dataset.
aridization , climate change , heating , prediction , secondary salinization , soil moisture , soil salinity , temperature , trend
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State Key Laboratory of Desert and Oasis Ecology, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi, 830011, China
Research Center for Ecology and Environment of Central Asia, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi, 830011, China
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
U.U.Uspanov Kazakh Research Institute of Soil Science and Agrochemistry, Almaty, 050060, Kazakhstan
Social Work and Tourism Department, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Department of Postgraduate Education, Esil University, Nur-Sultan, 010005, Kazakhstan
State Key Laboratory of Desert and Oasis Ecology
Research Center for Ecology and Environment of Central Asia
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
U.U.Uspanov Kazakh Research Institute of Soil Science and Agrochemistry
Social Work and Tourism Department
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