Fig 1.
The studied area map and locations of sampled soils.
Table 1.
The input variables for deriving different types of models are used to predict soil salinity.
Fig 2.
Soil texture classes of sampled soils according to the USDA classification.
Fig 3.
Soil salinity in the studied area: variogram (a) and map (b).
Table 2.
The descriptive statistics for soil properties.
Table 3.
The properties of EC (dS m-1) measured value at different land use types.
Fig 4.
Changes in spectral reflectance for different types of land use.
Table 4.
Derived predictive models to predict soil salinity by using whole measured data.
Table 5.
Derived predictive models for estimating soil salinity under different land use types.