Features:
Presents land degradation problems by salinization;
Evaluates the advantages and disadvantages of currently available remote sensing platforms;
Provides salinization cases from different countries;
Includes color images on CD;
Summary;
Recognized and advocated as a powerful tool, the role of remote sensing in identifying, mapping, and monitoring soil salinity and salinization will continue to expand. Remote Sensing of Soil Salinization: Impact on Land Management delineates how to combine science and geospatial technologies for smart environmental management. An overview of soil salinity assessment using remote sensing technologies, the book describes a variety of sensors, ranging from ground-based to airborne and satellite-borne, and their use in a diversity of geographical regions and environmental settings from coastal to inland saline areas. It provides guidance on how to identify and choose the right remote sensing tools and data sets required based on the purpose of the study and the environmental setting. Organized into three sections, the book covers:

Section I: Soil Salinity and Remote Sensing: The Object and the Tool — Focuses on the relationships between the landscape-object salinity and the remote sensing tools

Section II: Trends in Mapping Soil Salinity and Monitoring Salinization Using Remote and Proximal Sensing — Provides a variety of case studies dealing with soil salinity mapping and monitoring the process of salinization

Section III: Diversity of Approaches to Modeling Soil Salinity and Salinization — Demonstrates the diversity of approaches used in modeling soil salinity and salinization in space and time

Combines Fundamentals, the Latest Technology, and Practical Examples.

Ch. 1. Soil Salinity and Salinization Hazard / J. Alfred Zinck and Graciela Metternicht
Ch. 2. Spectral Behavior of Salt Types / Graciela Metternicht and J. Alfred Zinck
Ch. 3. Review of Remote Sensing-Based Methods to Assess Soil Salinity / Eyal Ben-Dar, Graciela Metternicht, Naftaly Goldshleger, Eshel Mar, Vladimir Mirlas and Uri Basson
Ch. 4. Mapping Areas Susceptible to Soil Salinity in the Irrigation Region of Southern New South Wales, Australia / David Fraser
Ch. 5. Generation of Farm-Level Information on Salt-Affected Soils Using IKONOS-II Multispectral Data / Ravi Shankar Dwivedi, Ramana Yenkata Kothapalli and Amarendra Narayana Singh
Ch. 6. Suitability of Airborne Hyperspectral Imagery for Mapping Surface Indicators of Salinity in Dryland Farming Areas / Anna Dutkiewicz, Megan Lewis and Bertram Ostendorf
Ch. 7. Applications of Hyperspectral Imagery to Soil Salinity Mapping / Thomas Schmid, Magaly Koch and Jose Gumuzzio
Ch. 8. Characterization of Salt-Crust Build-Up and Soil Salinization in the United Arab Emirates by Means of Field and Remote Sensing Techniques / Fares M. Howari and Philip C. Goodell
Ch. 9. Assessment of Salt-Affected Soils Using Multisensor Radar Data: A Case Study from Northeastern Patagonia (Argentina) / Hector F. del Valle, Paula D. Blanco, Walter Sione, Cesar M. Rostagno and Nestor O. Elissalde
Ch. 10. Application of Landsat and ERS Imagery to the Study of Saline Wetlands in Semiarid Agricultural Areas of Northeast Spain / Carmen Castaneda and Juan Herrero
Ch. 11. Mapping Soil Salinity Using Ground-Based Electromagnetic Induction Technique / Florence Cassel S., Dave Goorahoo, David Zoldoske and Diganta Adhikari
Ch. 12. Combined Active and Passive Remote Sensing Methods for Assessing Soil Salinity: A Case Study from Jezre'el Valley, Northern Israel / Eyal Ben-Dor, Naftaly Goldshleger, Eshel Mor, Vladimir Mirlas and Uri Basson
Ch. 13. Mapping Salinity Hazard: An Integrated Application of Remote Sensing and Modeling-Based Techniques / Dhruba Pikha Shrestha and Abbas Farshad
Ch. 14. Stochastic Approaches for Space-Time Modeling and Interpolation of Soil Salinity / Ahmed Douaik, Marc Van Meirvenne and Tibor Toth
Ch. 15. Mapping Soil Salinity from Sample Data and Remote Sensing in the Former Lake Texcoco, Central Mexico / Norma Fernandez Buces, Christina Siebe, Jose Luis Palacio Prieto and Richard Webster
Ch. 16. Model-Based Integrated Methods for Quantitative Estimation of Soil Salinity from Hyperspectral Remote Sensing Data / Jamshid Farifteh
Ch. 17. Data Mining for Soil Salinity Modeling / Peter Eklund and Stephen D. Kirkby.

The book includes analyses of basic issues of remote detection, such as the spectral behavior of salt types and vegetation influence, and evaluations of currently available remote sensing platforms delineating their advantages and disadvantages. The accompanying CD-ROM provides color images that enhance the material discussed in the text. The mixture of fundamental concepts, latest technological reviews, and practical application examples makes this an ideal resource for environmental assessment and decision making.