The thermal band of the Landsat TM has shown to be significant in contributing to the separability of soil categories through its ability to characterize the clay, organic matter, and iron-oxide content of the soil. Can anyone help me with deriving soil parameters such as moisture content, clay content or any other such parameters from Landsat or other satellite images in ArcGIS. Any help is greatly appreciated.
@Manoj,
Your question has attracted my attention because, it is very questions which I also have asked differently and want a clear answer.
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Can_anyone_recommend_methodologies_for_how_to_use_remote_sensing_in_hydrologic_soil_groups_mapping?_tpcectx=profile_questions
@ Mohammad Firoz Khan
Thank you for your response. Actually I am doing a project on Soil Mapping and was interested in deriving soil parameters directly from Satellite Images using GIS software. Of all the information I have collected so far methodologies are not very clear, so I wanted a lead or a literature that can be of help.
Regards.
@Manoj,
Response of James and link of paper given by him exactly provide a sound methodological basis that can be used for your purpose as hydrological soils are determined on the basis of proportion clay, silt and sand particles. Otherwise at ResearchGate publications find out papers on remote sensing of clay or using some other appropriate keywords, you can certainly download important methodological papers of your interest.
Dear Manoj,
Regarding to the soil moisture estimation, I hope this paper in the link below could help.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/259972513_Subcanopy_soil_moisture_modeling_in_n-dimensional_spectral_feature_space?ev=prf_pub
and this paper below is about the soil sand content estimation by thermal infrared spectra, you might be interested in:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/263273802_Estimating_soil_sand_content_using_thermal_infrared_spectra_in_arid_lands?ev=prf_pub
Article Sub-canopy Soil Moisture Modeling in n-Dimensional Spectral ...
Article Estimating soil sand content using thermal infrared spectra ...
I think ArcGIS is not the best software for performing such kind of task. You need something more specific like ENVI, Erdas or other image processing software. ArcGis has the image processing extension but I am not so confident in that kind of add-ons
@ Gabriel Asato
We are using Erdas Imagine as well but we have just started using it. Could you please be a little more specific regarding the use of Erdas for mapping soil properties using Landsat images.
Thank you for responding.
Hi,
I think ArcGis is not the best classifier too. Try Erdas or Envi. There are free sotwares like Spring (http://www.dpi.inpe.br/spring/) and gvSIG (http://www.gvsig.org/web/projects/gvsig-desktop/official/gvsig-1.10/descargas). Have a good job.
Hi,
I am working on soil mapping, and I found that Imaging spectroscopy is a powerful and promising tool in soil mapping. You can find more details in the following papers:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0034425709000753
Best wishes
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