Alaa Khallouf *(1)Reem Abdul Hamid (2) Waseem Almesaber(3)
(1) .Department of Natural Resources Research – General Commission for scientific Agricultural Research
(2) .Department of Horticulture Research – General Commission for scientific Agricultural Research
(3) .Department of Soil Science – Faculty of Agriculture – University of Damascus
(*Corrsponding author: Alaa Khallouf. E-Mail:alaakhallouf@gmail.com).
Received: 04/05/2019 Accepted:25 /06/2019
Abstract
The research was conducted to study the spatial suitability of olive cultivation at Misayaf area, Hamah governorate. Two types of parametric methods were used: Storie and Square Root. Results were compared with the simple limitation approach. Land was divided according to Zinck in to: level plains unit (PL1, PL2, PL3), unit of valleys and depressions (LD1, LD2, LD3, LV, LF), the hills land unit (Hil2, Hil3, Hilns) and the slope and steeply land unit (Slg2, Slg3, Sm2, Sm3, St). The results of the evaluation showed that the plains of the PL1 deep plains unit, the deep depressions unit of LD1 and the LV sediment were moderately suitable S2 according to the simple constraint method and the Square Root method, while the suitability class was reduced to marginal suitability using Storie method. As for the moderately deep flat plains, low depression LD2, hills Hil2, and foot slops land LF were according to the Simple Constraints and Square Root methods with a marginal suitability S3 and N with Storie method. While the rest of the units were not suitable for using all three methods. When testing the best way to evaluate land by comparing parametric methods with the simple limitation method, correlation results showed that the best method was the Square Root method with a significant correlation coefficient r = 0.903 at 1% confidence level.
Key words: Square root, Land units, Simple limitations, spatial suitability and Olive.
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