Dataset used in "Comment on "Soil salinity assessment by using near-infrared channel and Vegetation Soil Salinity Index derived from Landsat 8 OLI data: a case study in the Tra Vinh Province, Mekong Delta, Vietnam" by Kim-Anh Nguyen, Yuei-An Liou, Ha-Phuong Tran, Phi-Phung Hoang and Thanh-Hung Nguyen"

The Excel file provides all the data included in Tab.4 of Nguyen et al. 2020 plus reflectances extracted from the Landsat 8 OLI image acquired on 14 February 2017 and downloaded from the USGS Earth Explorer website. Observations on the number of pixels falling of water, land and mixed water/land surfaces are provided as well as water percentage cover estimated using regular spaced points. 

The dataset includes vector files (kml format) of the grids corresponding to the selected L8 pixels as well as the regularly spaced points generated within the selected pixels. These files can be imported in QGIS, Google Earth Pro and other free GIS software.