Polad Nagiyev Y.¹, Rukhangiz Geydarova M.², and Naida Asadova M.¹

1. Department of Research of Earth Surface Dynamic Processes, Institute for Space Research of Natural Resources named after acad. T. K. Ismayilov, National Aerospace Agency, Baku, Azerbaijan

2. Institute of Geography after G.A.Aliyev of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, Baku, Azerbaijan

 

 

Abstract: The article discusses the mapping of the soil salinisation in the Kur-Araz lowland developed on the basis of the electronic maps of agricultural land according to the results of the digital processing of satellite images from the satellite LANDSAT-TM” in 1998 and “Landsat-8” in 2014, using the contact method. The shown measures and ways of fighting against salinisation of soils are agromeliorative actions. It was determined that over the past 16 years from 1998 to 2014, as a result of the poor state of the collector-drainage network, the area of medium saline soils increased by 33.2 thousand hectares, and highly saline and saline by 41 thousand hectares in the investigated area.

 

Key words: Kur-Araz lowland, salinisation, agricultural lands, collector-drainage network, agromeliorative measures, satellite images, digital processing, the satellite LANDSAT-TM and Landsat-8”.