ANBAR JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES

Abstract

The study area is located in Iraqi Mesopotamain plain in the Western of Falluja city between longitude 43 36 to 43 50 East and latitude 33 16 to 33 38 North. Assessing the plant cover degradation and related it to soil salinity. Three landsat7 image were taken by (ETM+) during 2003, and 2008, and 2012. NDVI Index and Four type of Salinity indices were used in this study. The study included some representative pedon and located using GPS during fieldwork. The samples were brought to the lab to measurement of EC and ESP. The results indicated that the bare soil has created an average about (121.18 ha./year) nearly 1.5% at year, and the correlation between the NDVI and Salinity indices(SI1,SI4)were(-0.58),(-0.79) respectively, and the correlation between EC and salinity indices (SI1,SI4) showed highest correlation (0.38,0.35) respectively