Soil Organic Carbon Content Prediction Using Soil-Reflected Spectra: A Comparison of Two Regression Methods

Author:

Ribeiro Sharon GomesORCID,Teixeira Adunias dos SantosORCID,de Oliveira Marcio Regys RabeloORCID,Costa Mirian Cristina GomesORCID,Araújo Isabel Cristina da Silva,Moreira Luis Clenio Jario,Lopes Fernando Bezerra

Abstract

Quantifying the organic carbon content of soil over large areas is essential for characterising the soil and the effects of its management. However, analytical methods can be laborious and costly. Reflectance spectroscopy is a well-established and widespread method for estimating the chemical-element content of soils. The aim of this study was to estimate the soil organic carbon (SOC) content using hyperspectral remote sensing. The data were from soils from two localities in the semi-arid region of Brazil. The spectral reflectance factors of the collected soil samples were recorded at wavelengths ranging from 350–2500 nm. Pre-processing techniques were employed, including normalisation, Savitzky–Golay smoothing and first-order derivative analysis. The data (n = 65) were examined both jointly and by soil class, and subdivided into calibration and validation to independently assess the performance of the linear methods. Two multivariate models were calibrated using the SOC content estimated in the laboratory by principal component regression (PCR) and partial least squares regression (PLSR). The study showed significant success in predicting the SOC with transformed and untransformed data, yielding acceptable-to-excellent predictions (with the performance-to-deviation ratio ranging from 1.40–3.38). In general, the spectral reflectance factors of the soils decreased with the increasing levels of SOC. PLSR was considered more robust than PCR, whose wavelengths from 354 to 380 nm, 1685, 1718, 1757, 1840, 1876, 1880, 2018, 2037, 2042, and 2057 nm showed outstanding absorption characteristics between the predicted models. The results found here are of significant practical value for estimating SOC in Neosols and Cambisols in the semi-arid region of Brazil using VIS-NIR-SWIR spectroscopy.

Publisher

MDPI AG

Subject

General Earth and Planetary Sciences

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