Five Geostatistical Models to Predict Soil Salinity from Electromagnetic Induction Data Across Irrigated Cotton

Various approaches have been used to estimate soil salinity (EC e ) at unsampled locations. Some of these approaches are briefly discussed. Of these, geostatistical methods such as ordinary kriging (OK1 and OK2), regression kriging (RK), three-dimensional kriging (3-DK), and cokriging (Co-K), provide best linear unbiased estimates (BLUE). These methods were tested with a raw electromagnetic induction instrument (Type EM38) in a soil electrical conductivity (EC, ) survey, and calibrated EC, data were obtained from an irrigated cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.)-growing area in the Edgeroi district of the lower Namoi valley, northern New South Wales, Australia. We compared these methods, on the basis of precision and bias of estimation, and found that RK was the best performer. This is because of the incorporation of regression residuals within the kriging system. Mean and standard deviation of ranks (SDR) showed that Co-K performed best against these criteria.

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