![]() Recent developments in advanced remote sensing methods have improved the efficacy of mapping and monitoring saline soils. Mapping and monitoring saline soils is an important management tool, aimed at determining the extent and severity of salinization processes. Over time, the extent of saline, sodic, and saline-sodic croplands has increased, resulting in accelerated land degradation and desertification, decreased agricultural productivity, and consequently jeopardizing environmental and food security. The objective of this study was to thoroughly review this topic, while highlighting the major challenges and related opportunities. While natural causes include factors such as climate, lithology, topography, and pedology, human causes are mostly related to agricultural land-use, and specifically, to irrigated agriculture. These processes can be attributed either to natural conditions or anthropogenic activities. Soil salinization and sodification are common processes that particularly characterize drylands. 4Department of Agriculture and Forest Sciences (DAFNE), University of Tuscia, Viterbo, Italy.3Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), Bonn, Germany.2Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Eilat Campus, Israel.1Dead Sea and Arava Science Center, Jerusalem, Israel.Ilan Stavi 1,2*, Niels Thevs 3 and Simone Priori 4 ![]()
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