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Assessment of land suitability and capability by integrating
remote sensing and GIS for agriculture in Chamarajanagar
district, Karnataka, India
Mohamed A.E. AbdelRahman a, *, A. Natarajan b , Rajendra Hegde b
Abstrac

Abstract To reduce the human influence on natural resources and to identify an

appropriate land use, it is essential to carry out scientific land evaluations. Such kind of
analysis allows identifying the main limiting factors for the agricultural production and
enables decision makers to develop crop managements able to increase the land
productivity. Objectives of this study were to develop a GIS based approach for land use
suitability assessment which will assist land managers and land use planners to identify
areas with physical constraints for a range of nominated land uses. Georeferenced soil
survey data and field work observations have been integrated in a GIS based land use
suitability assessment for agricultural planning in Chamarajanagar district, Karnataka,
India. Also,
GIS has been used to match the suitability for main crops based on the requirements of
the crops and the quality and characteristics of land. Different land quality parameters,
viz. soil texture, depth, erosion, slope, flooding and coarse fragments under various land
units were evaluated for the crops. Subsequently all of them were integrated using a
sequence of logical operations to generate land suitability and capability maps.
Suitability and capability maps for each land use were developed to illustrate these
suitability degrees and display the spatial representation of soils suitable for agriculture.
It was also found that better land use options could be implemented in different land
units as the conventional land evaluation methods suffer from limitation of spatial
analysis for the suitability of various crops.
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KEYWORDS

Capability evaluation; Geographic information system (GIS); Remote sensing;

Suitability evaluation
NOTAS DE INTERES
Land suitability assessment for agriculture is very important
for agriculture development and future planning. Based on
that, a land suitability assessment for agriculture purpose has
been conducted in order to help decision makers and agriculture
development planners. The results showed the suitability
of the district for deferent crops in the study area. A suitability
map for each land use was developed to illustrate the various
degrees of suitability and their spatial representation in the
area. (PP -134)
5. Conclusion
Based on the capability or limitations, the lands are grouped
into eight classes; Class I occupied 10.53%, Class II occupied
3.4%, Class III occupied 51.4%, Class IV occupied 11.77%,
Class V occupied 0.43%, Class VI occupied 2.31%, Class
VII occupied 8.81%, and Class VIII (Rock land) occupied
11.34% of the total area. According to FAO (1976, 1983,
1985 and 2007) soils of the study area could be classified from
the suitability view point to highly suitable class occupying
10.53%, moderately suitable class 3.40%, marginally suitable
class 62.52%, currently not suitable class 11.77, permanently
not suitable class occupying 0.43%, and rock land 11.34%
of the total area in the district. The physiographic units of
study area matched with the suitability for crops and orchards.
The lowlands were moderately suitable for crops, whereas the
upland were moderately suitable due to slope factor. The areas
marginally suitable were due to limitations of slope and
organic carbon. The midlands were moderately suitable,
because of limitations in organic carbon and moderate drainage.

Hence judicious use of organic manures in combination

with inorganic fertilizers not only paves the way to achieve sustainable
yields and also maintains the soil health without deterioration
of future generations.
The study reveals that there is a close relationship between
physiography and soils. The formation of the diverse group of
soils can be attributed to the variation in topography, causing
erosion, leaching, sedimentation and other pedogenic processes
modified by water table.
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