The publication of this Handbook was supported by the Russian Federation

S.A. Safarli, F.N. Salimov and I.A. Talibov (Azerbaijan)
This paper describes the results of  mapping soil cover and soil salinity within the Kurdamir District, 
Azerbaijan, with the use of  computer analysis of  high-resolution images provided by a WorldView 
satellite sensor. The scientific basis of  this study is outlined in several publications [1, 3, 4, 6, 15].
The Kurdamir District is located to the north-west of  Baku, in Shirvan region of  Azerbaijan (Fig. 
D.1). The Kurdamir District has a total area of  1.63 thousand km2 with arable lands, pastures and 
other types of  land use (Table D.1).