Remote Sensing Monitoring of Changes in Soil Salinity A Case Study in Inner Mongolia, China 英文参考文献.docVIP

Sensors 2008, 8, 7035-7049; DOI: 10.3390/s8117035 OPEN ACCESS sensors ISSN 1424-8220 /journal/sensors Article Remote Sensing Monitoring of Changes in Soil Salinity: A Case Study in Inner Mongolia, China Jingwei Wu 1,*, Bernard Vincent 2, Jinzhong Yang 1, Sami Bouarfa 3 and Alain Vidal 3 1 State Key Laboratory of Water Resource and Hydropower Engineering Science, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, P.R. China. E-Mail: jzyang@ 2 Cemagref, BP 44, 92163 Antony Cedex, France. E-Mail: bernard.vincent@cemagref.fr 3 Cemagref, 361 rue Jean-Fran?ois Breton, BP 5095, 34196 Montpellier Cedex 5, France. E-Mails: sami.bouarfa@cemagref.fr; alain.vidal@cemagref.fr * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: jingweifr@ Received: 18 September 2008; in revised form: 29 October 2008 / Accepted: 4 November 2008 / Published: 7 November 2008 Abstract: This study used archived remote sensing images to depict the history of changes in soil salinity in the Hetao Irrigation District in Inner Mongolia, China, with the purpose of linking these changes with land and water management practices and to draw lessons for salinity control. Most data came from LANDSAT satellite images taken in 1973, 1977, 1988, 1991, 1996, 2001, and 2006. In these years salt-affected areas were detected using a normal supervised classification method. Corresponding cropped areas were detected from NVDI (Normalized Difference Vegetation Index) values using an unsupervised method. Field samples and agricultural statistics were used to estimate the accuracy of the classification. Historical data concerning irrigation/drainage and the groundwater table were used to analyze the relation between changes in soil salinity and land and water management practices. Results showed that: (1) the overall accuracy of remote sensing in detecting soil salinity was 90.2%, and in detecting cropped area, 98%; (2) the installation/inno