| The objective of this study was to find out a promising area for agricultural development in Red Sea Governorate using remote sensing data. The study area is covering 745113.9 ha including lowland aligning the coastal zone and highlands of rock structures. Remote sensing data of Landsat-8 OLI 2022 were manipulated for delineating the physiographic units and soil taxa. In these physiographic units but out of the dissected high rock structures, the associated soil taxonomic units are Typic Haplocacides, loamy skeletal, mixed, hyperthermic in bajadas.; Typic Haplocacides sandy skeletal, hyperthermic in alluvial terraces; Typic Haplcalcids, coarse loamy, mixed, hyperthermic in deltaic alluvial plain; Typic Torrifluvents, sandy skeletal, mixed (calcareous), hyperthermic in wadis and Gypsic Aquisalids, sandy mixed, hyperthermic in sabkhas. Land suitability assessment for certain land utilization types (LUTs) were conditioned to be under drip irrigation. The selected crops are cabbage, canola, carrot, citrus, date palm, green pepper, guava, jojoba, maize, mango, potato, sunflower and tomato. About 392891.4 ha are suitable for agricultural land use. The main limiting factors are calcareousness, coarse texture, coarse fragments, and salinity. The supreme land suitability can be managed by alternatives of cultivating a specific crop in a certain physiographic unit and improving salinity and fertility problems. On other hand, water resources can be maximized by managing the hydraulic actions within the delineated watershed areas to be a base for allocating water harvesting sites of micro dams. The case is required to maximize water storage inland and minimize the runoff eastwards to the shoreline |
