Evaluation of soil salinity level through using Landsat-8 OLI in Central Fergana valley, Uzbekistan

¹ Tashkent Institute of Irrigation and Agricultural Mechanization Engineers, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
² “Soil composition and Repository, Quality analysis centre” The State Unitary Enterprise (SCRQAC SUE), Tashkent, Uzbekistan
³ National University of Uzbekistan Named after Mirzo Ulugbek, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
⁴ Tashkent State Agrarian University, University str., 2, Tashkent province, Uzbekistan

^* Corresponding author: ilhomaslanov@tiiame.uz, ilhomaslanov@gmail.com

Abstract

Soil salinity is a major concern in the Uzbekistan. Fergana valleys agricultural lands, it negatively affects plant growth, crop yields, whereas in central part of the valley is semi-desert and desert affects agricultural areas due to subsidence, corrosion and ground water quality, leading to further soil erosion and land degradation. Traditional soil salinity assessments have been doing by collecting of soil samples and laboratory analyzing of collected samples for determining totally dissolved soils (TDS) and electro conductivity, but, Geo-informatic systems (GIS) and Remote Sensing (RS) technologies provides more efficient, economic and rapid tools and techniques for soil salinity assessment and soil salinity mapping. Main goals of this research are to map soil salinity of Fergana valley, to show relation of its result with traditional analysing and analysing withGIS technology As a source of satellite images has been used Landsat-8 OLI. Research areas every arable land validity point of different locations were measured by Traditional soil salinity assessments by Soil composition and Repository, Quality analysis center was compared to our research conducted on satellite sensor and it can be said that the study have done correctly.