Using an ensemble learning approach in digital soil mapping of soil pH for the Thompson-Okanagan region of British Columbia

J Zhang, MG Schmidt, B Heung… - Canadian Journal of …, 2022 - cdnsciencepub.com
Information on the spatial distribution of soil pH is essential for assessing soil quality and soil
productivity. Digital soil mapping (DSM) is commonly used to predict soil characteristics over …

Selecting appropriate machine learning methods for digital soil mapping

Y Khaledian, BA Miller - Applied Mathematical Modelling, 2020 - Elsevier
Digital soil mapping (DSM) increasingly makes use of machine learning algorithms to
identify relationships between soil properties and multiple covariates that can be detected …

Incorporating spatial uncertainty maps into soil sampling improves digital soil mapping classification accuracy in Ontario, Canada

C Blackford, B Heung, KL Webster - Geoderma Regional, 2022 - Elsevier
Digital soil mapping combines soil plot data with environmental datasets to model variation
in soil properties across a landscape. The quality of a digital soil map depends on both the …

Digital mapping of GlobalSoilMap soil properties at a broad scale: A review

S Chen, D Arrouays, VL Mulder, L Poggio, B Minasny… - Geoderma, 2022 - Elsevier
Soils are essential for supporting food production and providing ecosystem services but are
under pressure due to population growth, higher food demand, and land use competition …

[HTML][HTML] A framework for optimizing environmental covariates to support model interpretability in digital soil mapping

B Kasraei, MG Schmidt, J Zhang, CE Bulmer… - Geoderma, 2024 - Elsevier
A common practice in digital soil mapping (DSM) is to incorporate many environmental
covariates into a machine-learning algorithm to predict the spatial patterns of soil attributes …

[PDF][PDF] Digital soil mapping: approaches to integrate sensing techniques to the prediction of key soil properties

U Werban, H Bartholomeus, P Dietrich… - Vadose Zone …, 2013 - academia.edu
Knowledge about soil properties and their variation in space and time is a key challenge for
understanding processes in the vadose zone. As we consider more complex models …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluating the extrapolation potential of random forest digital soil mapping

F Hateffard, L Steinbuch, GBM Heuvelink - Geoderma, 2024 - Elsevier
Spatial soil information is essential for informed decision-making in a wide range of fields.
Digital soil mapping (DSM) using machine learning algorithms has become a popular …

Provincial-scale digital soil mapping using a random forest approach for British Columbia

B Heung, CE Bulmer, MG Schmidt… - Canadian Journal of …, 2022 - cdnsciencepub.com
Although British Columbia (BC), Canada, has a rich history of producing conventional soil
maps (CSMs) between 1925 and 2000, the province still lacks a detailed soil map with a …

Machine learning for digital soil mapping: Applications, challenges and suggested solutions

AMJC Wadoux, B Minasny, AB McBratney - Earth-Science Reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
The uptake of machine learning (ML) algorithms in digital soil mapping (DSM) is
transforming the way soil scientists produce their maps. Within the past two decades, soil …

Enhancing the accuracy of machine learning models using the super learner technique in digital soil mapping

R Taghizadeh-Mehrjardi, N Hamzehpour… - Geoderma, 2021 - Elsevier
Digital soil mapping approaches predict soil properties based on the relationships between
soil observations and related environmental covariates using techniques such as machine …