CLASSIFICATION AND LAND CAPABILITY OF SOME SOILS AT EL-MOGHRA DEPRESSION, EGYPT
ElKady, M., Abdelsalam, A. (2018). CLASSIFICATION AND LAND CAPABILITY OF SOME SOILS AT EL-MOGHRA DEPRESSION, EGYPT. EKB Journal Management System, 68(2), 243-258. doi: 10.21608/ejdr.2019.7065.1019
Moamen Mohamed ElKady; Al-Sayed Fathy Abdelsalam. "CLASSIFICATION AND LAND CAPABILITY OF SOME SOILS AT EL-MOGHRA DEPRESSION, EGYPT". EKB Journal Management System, 68, 2, 2018, 243-258. doi: 10.21608/ejdr.2019.7065.1019
ElKady, M., Abdelsalam, A. (2018). 'CLASSIFICATION AND LAND CAPABILITY OF SOME SOILS AT EL-MOGHRA DEPRESSION, EGYPT', EKB Journal Management System, 68(2), pp. 243-258. doi: 10.21608/ejdr.2019.7065.1019
ElKady, M., Abdelsalam, A. CLASSIFICATION AND LAND CAPABILITY OF SOME SOILS AT EL-MOGHRA DEPRESSION, EGYPT. EKB Journal Management System, 2018; 68(2): 243-258. doi: 10.21608/ejdr.2019.7065.1019

CLASSIFICATION AND LAND CAPABILITY OF SOME SOILS AT EL-MOGHRA DEPRESSION, EGYPT

Egyptian Journal of Desert Research
Article 7, Volume 68, Issue 2, December 2018, Page 243-258  XML PDF (756.7 K)
Document Type: Original Article
DOI: 10.21608/ejdr.2019.7065.1019
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Authors
Moamen Mohamed ElKady email 1; Al-Sayed Fathy Abdelsalam2
1Pedology, Water Resources and Desert Soils Division, Desert Research Centre, Cairo Egypt
2Soils and Water Dept., National Research Centre (NRC), Egypt
Abstract
The article provides valuable information about some arid soils in El-Moghra depression, western desert between 28°33'00"E to 28°38'12"E, and 30°05'30"N to 30°09'05"N; with an area of about 6541 hectares. It is one of the portions that included in the land-use planning development programs of the Egyptian government forexpanding the limited arable lands. The goal of the study is to investigate the spatial distribution of soil characteristics, classification and capability assessment for land-use management.  The recent technologies of remote sensing and GIS were employed in this work on basis difference of landforms. The obtained results indicate that the study area could be classified into Entisolsand Aridisols  orders including (1) very deep coarse-textured soils; Typic Torripsammentsthat characterized by capabilityclass III  (3195 hectares), (2) very deep coarse to moderately coarse-textured soils; Typic Torripsamments, which correlated to capability class III (1391hectares), and (3) very deep medium to moderately-fine textured soils; Typic Haplogypsidsand/or Gypsic Haplosalidsassociated  with capabilityclass II (1955 hectares). Therefore, soils of the study area can be used for conditioned agriculture with availability of irrigation water in terms of quality and quantity.  
Keywords
Aridisols; Entisols; El-Moghra; Land-use; Remote Sensing; GIS; Taxonomy; desert
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