Fig 1.
Location of the study area.
Fig 2.
Climatological data of the investigated area (2005 to 2020) referred to Matrouh station–Egypt.
Fig 3.
Geomorphology map and location of the represented soil profiles.
Table 1.
Rating of soil properties in each soil index (chemical, physical, and fertility).
Table 2.
Soil productivity classes.
Fig 4.
Spatial model structure for assessing land productivity index.
Table 3.
Legend of the physiographic soil map of the study area.
Table 4.
Soil physical and chemical properties of the investigated soils.
Table 5.
Descriptive statistics of the investigated soils.
Table 6.
Correlation coefficients of soil properties in the studied soil profiles.
Fig 5.
Spatial distribution of soil chemical index.
Table 7.
Rating of the soil properties used in calculating quality indicators.
Fig 6.
Spatial distribution of soil physical index.
Fig 7.
Spatial distribution of soil fertility index.
Fig 8.
Spatial distribution of soil depth map.
Table 8.
Distribution of soil depth classes areas in various landforms.
Fig 9.
Spatial distribution of slope gradient map.
Table 9.
Distribution of slope classes areas in various landforms.
Table 10.
Current and potential land productivity indices of the studied soils.
Fig 10.
Spatial distribution of the current land productivity index.
Table 11.
Areas in hectare of the current land productivity grades.
Fig 11.
Spatial distribution of potential land productivity index.
Table 12.
Areas in hectare of potential land productivity index.
Table 13.
Areas in hectare of actual and potential productivity classes in study area.