Assessment of soil quality in arid zones using principal component analysis and GIS-based modeling

• Mohamed S. Shokr ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: mohamed_shokr@agr.tanta.edu.eg

  Affiliation Soil and Water Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Tanta University, Tanta, Egypt

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0328-7679

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• Mohamed E. M. Jalhoum,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation National Authority for Remote Sensing and Space Sciences, Cairo, Egypt

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• Ahmed S. A. Sayed,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Resources

  Affiliation Pedology Department, Water Resources and Desert Soils Division, Desert Research Center, Cairo, Egypt

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• Mohammed Saeed,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Software

  Affiliation Soils and Water Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt

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• Nazih Y. Rebouh,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Environmental Engineering, RUDN University, Moscow, Russia

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• Elsayed Said Mohamed,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations National Authority for Remote Sensing and Space Sciences, Cairo, Egypt, Institute of Environmental Engineering, RUDN University, Moscow, Russia

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• Ibraheem A. H. Yousif,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Soil Science Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt

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• Hend H. Abdelhameed

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Soil and Water Department, Faculty of Environmental Agricultural Science, Arish University, Arish, Egypt

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