ORIGINAL RESEARCH
Determining Salinity and Ion Soil Using Satellite
Image Processing
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Facultad de Ingeniería Mochis, Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa, Fuente de Poseidón y Ángel Flores s/n,
Jiquilpan, Los Mochis, Sinaloa, México
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Escuela de Ciencias Económicas y Administrativas, Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa,
San Joachín, Guasave, Sinaloa, México
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Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada, Baja California (CICESE),
Ensenada, México
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Escuela de Biología, Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa, Culiacán Sinaloa
Submission date: 2017-11-13
Final revision date: 2017-12-29
Acceptance date: 2018-01-02
Online publication date: 2018-12-12
Publication date: 2019-02-18
Corresponding author
Víctor Manuel Peinado Guevara
Escuela de Ciencias Económicas y Administrativas, Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa, San Juachín, Guasave, 81049 Guasave, Mexico
Pol. J. Environ. Stud. 2019;28(3):1549-1560
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ABSTRACT
Arid and semi-arid zones frequently present salinity problems in soils. The agriculture of
the municipality of Ahome, Sinaloa has an agricultural region where its soils are characterized
by problems of salinity and sodicity – conditions that reduce production. Salinity can be detected
by implementing remote sensing techniques; there are ways to enhance the detection of satellite
salinity through the use of diverse quantitative models, using the spectral signature of each of the
components of the study area through algorithms named indices. For this study we used the normalized
differential salinity index (NDSI) from a Landsat OLI image for the southern area of the city, which is
related to the electrical conductivity (EC) of the soils (R = 0.90). At the same time, it is related to some
anions and cations. As a result, it is possible to determine since the NDSI, the anion Cl– and Cations
Na+, Ca++, and Mg++. We found a relationship between EC - Cl– (R = 0.94), EC - Na+ (R = 0.84),
EC - Ca++ (R = 0.85), and EC-Mg++ (R = 0.86). The electrical conductivity in the field and laboratory,
anions, cations, and NDSI index were filtered with the Kalman filter obtaining better fitter, eliminating
dispersivity in the variable relations.