Description

This book is details of field data collection and soil analysis followed by land suitability analysis in GIS/RS software environment was carried out for “Land Suitability Study of Soil Morphological Pattern for Sustainable Crops using GIS/RS in Nalgonda, Telangana”. The Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) technique coupled with GIS/RS environment was found to be a unique tool for better land suitability studies for existing crops such as: rice, potato, jute and lentil etc in the study area. The cropping area was selected through remote sensing based NDVI analysis for an area covering nearly 300ha. Soil nutrient-based land suitability analysis was carried out using randomly selected fifty plot-based soil samples for three soil morphological layers (top 0-15cm, shallow 15-30cm and deep 30-45cm layers).