Challenges and Opportunities in Remote Sensing for Soil Salinization Mapping and Monitoring: A Review

Meeting current needs without compromising future generations’ ability to meet theirs is the only path toward achieving environmental sustainability. As the most valuable natural resource, soil faces global, regional, and local challenges, from quality degradation to mass losses brought on by salini...

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Published in:Remote sensing (Basel, Switzerland) Vol. 15; no. 10; p. 2540
Main Authors: Sahbeni, Ghada, Ngabire, Maurice, Musyimi, Peter K., Székely, Balázs
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Basel MDPI AG 12.05.2023
Subjects:
Agricultural production
agricultural productivity
Arid regions
Arid zones
climate
Climate change
Climate variability
Comparative analysis
Data processing
Decision making
Distribution
Ecological balance
Ecology
environmental sustainability
Food security
Information retrieval
Laboratories
Land surveys
Land use planning
Machine learning
Mapping
Measurement
Moisture content
monitoring
Natural resources
Radiation
Regression analysis
Remote monitoring
Remote sensing
Remote sensing systems
Researchers
Resource management
Reviews
Salinity
Salinization
salinization mapping
Sensors
soil
Soil mapping
soil resource management
Soil salinity
soil salinization
Soils
Soils, Salts in
Sustainability
Sustainable agriculture
Topography
Vegetation
Hungary
Iraq
ISSN:2072-4292, 2072-4292
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Summary:Meeting current needs without compromising future generations’ ability to meet theirs is the only path toward achieving environmental sustainability. As the most valuable natural resource, soil faces global, regional, and local challenges, from quality degradation to mass losses brought on by salinization. These issues affect agricultural productivity and ecological balance, undermining sustainability and food security. Therefore, timely monitoring and accurate mapping of salinization processes are crucial, especially in semi-arid and arid regions where climate variability impacts have already reached alarming levels. Salt-affected soil mapping has enormous potential thanks to recent progress in remote sensing. This paper comprehensively reviews the potential of remote sensing to assess soil salinization. The review demonstrates that large-scale soil salinity estimation based on remote sensing tools remains a significant challenge, primarily due to data resolution and acquisition costs. Fundamental trade-offs constrain practical remote sensing applications in salinization mapping between data resolution, spatial and temporal coverage, acquisition costs, and high accuracy expectations. This article provides an overview of research work related to soil salinization mapping and monitoring using remote sensing. By synthesizing recent research and highlighting areas where further investigation is needed, this review helps to steer future efforts, provides insight for decision-making on environmental sustainability and soil resource management, and promotes interdisciplinary collaboration.
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ISSN:2072-4292
2072-4292
DOI:10.3390/rs15102540