Sustainable Land Management Using Spatial Analyst in North Nile Delta soil, Egypt
Saad Moghanm, F., Darwish, A., El wakeel, E., Elshahawy, M., Shalaby, A. (2018). Sustainable Land Management Using Spatial Analyst in North Nile Delta soil, Egypt. EKB Journal Management System, 58(4), 435-442. doi: 10.21608/ejss.2018.5378.1210
Farahat Saad Moghanm; Ahmed Darwish; Ekhlase El wakeel; Mohamed Elshahawy; Adel Shalaby. "Sustainable Land Management Using Spatial Analyst in North Nile Delta soil, Egypt". EKB Journal Management System, 58, 4, 2018, 435-442. doi: 10.21608/ejss.2018.5378.1210
Saad Moghanm, F., Darwish, A., El wakeel, E., Elshahawy, M., Shalaby, A. (2018). 'Sustainable Land Management Using Spatial Analyst in North Nile Delta soil, Egypt', EKB Journal Management System, 58(4), pp. 435-442. doi: 10.21608/ejss.2018.5378.1210
Saad Moghanm, F., Darwish, A., El wakeel, E., Elshahawy, M., Shalaby, A. Sustainable Land Management Using Spatial Analyst in North Nile Delta soil, Egypt. EKB Journal Management System, 2018; 58(4): 435-442. doi: 10.21608/ejss.2018.5378.1210

Sustainable Land Management Using Spatial Analyst in North Nile Delta soil, Egypt

Egyptian Journal of Soil Science
Article 4, Volume 58, Issue 4, December 2018, Page 435-442  XML PDF (1.53 MB)
Document Type: Original Article
DOI: 10.21608/ejss.2018.5378.1210
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Authors
Farahat Saad Moghanm1; Ahmed Darwish email 1; Ekhlase El wakeel1; Mohamed Elshahawy2; Adel Shalaby3
1Soil and Water Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Kafrelsheikh University, 33516, Egypt
23Soil, Water and Environment Institute, Agriculture Research Center, Kafr El-Sheikh, Egypt
3National Authority for Remote Sensing and Space Sciences
Abstract
Sustainable land management (SLM) in agriculture is a complex topic that incorporates many features, including biophysical, socioeconomic and environmental factors. To integrate land productivity, security, protection, economic viability and social acceptability indices, spatial analysis (ordinary kriging) functions in a geographic information system (GIS) were employed to estimate the sustainability index. A SLM model was designed in ArcGIS to evaluate SLM, promote production services (productivity), reduce production risks (security), reduce the pressure on natural resources and protects soil and water degradation (protection). The model was designed to be economically viable (feasibility) and to be acceptable (susceptibility).
This study aimed to evaluate sustainable agricultural land in Desouk district, north Nile Delta, Egypt, through a combination of five indices. The sustainability index data indicate that the area can be classified into three classes i.e., low and high class II areas above the threshold of sustainability and class III areas below the threshold of sustainability, representing 64%, 34% and 2% of the investigated area, respectively. It was found that most of the agricultural land in the study area tends to be marginally higher than the threshold for sustainability.
Keywords
GIS; Remote Sensing; Soil; sustainable land management
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