IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/taf/tjomxx/v15y2019i2p122-130.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Land Capability for Agriculture, Hermel District, Lebanon

Author

Listed:
  • Sandra Abou-Najem
  • Guillermo Palacios-Rodríguez
  • Talal Darwish
  • Ghaleb Faour
  • Salim Kattar
  • Inmaculada Clavero Rumbao
  • Rafael Mª Navarro-Cerrillo

Abstract

For the purpose of mapping land capability by United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) criteria, this paper presents a validated model to map land capability at a scale of 1:20,000 using a digital elevation model and the available soil information for Hermel District (525.6 km2) in Lebanon. The model was validated through fieldwork and it indicates a good overall accuracy of 89% and the significance of the model for mapping land capability at a district level. The study shows that 11.5 km2 (2.2%), 284.6 km2 (54.2%), 66.8 km2 (12.7%), 147.9 km2 (28.1%) and 14.9 km2 (2.8%) of the region were categorized in I, II, III, IV, and V land classes respectively. The comparison between the zoning map already produced for Hermel city and the land capability map demonstrates that the land use patterns need to be modified according to identified land capability classes to sustain the remaining productive lands for future generations.

Suggested Citation

  • Sandra Abou-Najem & Guillermo Palacios-Rodríguez & Talal Darwish & Ghaleb Faour & Salim Kattar & Inmaculada Clavero Rumbao & Rafael Mª Navarro-Cerrillo, 2019. "Land Capability for Agriculture, Hermel District, Lebanon," Journal of Maps, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 15(2), pages 122-130, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:tjomxx:v:15:y:2019:i:2:p:122-130
    DOI: 10.1080/17445647.2018.1561532
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/17445647.2018.1561532
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1080/17445647.2018.1561532?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Sarfaraz Hashemkhani Zolfani & Seyed Mostafa Hedayatnezhad Kashi & Saba Baharvandi, 2022. "The Assessment of Ecological Livability for Agricultural, Pasture, Forestry, Residential, and Tourism Activities; Study Area: North of Iran," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(19), pages 1-26, October.
    2. Shouqiang Yin & Jing Li & Jiaxin Liang & Kejing Jia & Zhen Yang & Yuan Wang, 2020. "Optimization of the Weighted Linear Combination Method for Agricultural Land Suitability Evaluation Considering Current Land Use and Regional Differences," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(23), pages 1-25, December.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:taf:tjomxx:v:15:y:2019:i:2:p:122-130. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Chris Longhurst (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.tandfonline.com/tjom20 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.