Analysis of the Spatial Variation of Soil Salinity and Its Causal Factors in China's Minqin Oasis

The authors would like to thank International Platform for Dryland Research and Education, Tottori University, for financial support; Professor Xue Xian, Professor Wang Ninglian, Dr. Huang Cuihua, Dr. Liao Jie, and Dr. Luo Jun from Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, CAS, for providing them with the equipment and the assistance in the field; the Minqin Bureaus of Water Resources Management for providing hydrological data; Professor Kitamura Yoshinobu and Professor Fujimaki Haruyuki from Tottori University for the useful advices and equipment; Geoff Hart for helpful advice on early version of this paper. The Landsat dataset is provided by Environmental and Ecological Science Data Center for West China, National Natural Science Foundation of China (http://westdc.westgis.ac.cn).