Application of remote sensing technique in the study of distribution of micronutrients in relation to landforms in the Sahibi river basin of Haryana

A study on the profile distribution of DTPA extractable iron, manganese, copper and zinc and physicochemical properties in ten delineated landforms of the Sahibi river basin of Haryana was underaken. Mean values for available Fe, Mn, Cu and Zn were 9.0, 11.6, 2.3 and 0.35 ppm, respectively. The soils of this area are potentially deficient in zinc. The soils of various landforms were adequately supplied with available Fe, Mn and Cu at present. In most of the soil pedons distribution of micronutrients did not follow any typical pattern neither with depth nor with landforms perhaps due to their weak pedogenic manifestation. Based on multiple regression analysis 68, 70, 71 and 16% of the variations in contents of available Fe, Mn, Cu and Zn, respectively were accountable to the simultaneous influence of various soil parameters studied.